Krishna Kumar

Founder & CEO @ Cropin

About

I’m the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cropin, the world's most advanced AI platform for Food and Agriculture. I am on a mission to build a sustainable future for Food and Agriculture by decoding its past and present in a changing climate. Today, Cropin is revolutionizing global agriculture, delivering cutting-edge AI-powered solutions that enhance predictability, sustainability, and traceability across over 5% of the world’s cultivable land. Cropin is not just a participant in the 'Ag-intelligence' movement—we are leading it. Through strategic partnerships with more than 250 B2B customers, Cropin has digitized 30 million acres of farmland, positively impacting over 7 million farmers worldwide. Our extensive crop knowledge graph, covering 500 crops and 10,000 varieties across 103 countries, powers the Cropin Cloud, delivering predictive intelligence for over 1 billion acres of farmland globally. Cropin is credited with many cutting-edge innovations for global food systems, including the industry’s first and most comprehensive cloud for agriculture — Cropin Cloud, the world’s first real-time Gen AI-powered agri-intelligence platform — Cropin Sage, and the sector's first purpose-built open-source Micro Language Model (µ-LM) for climate-smart agriculture, among others.

Country

United States

City

Palo Alto

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

New Business Development, Brand Development, Business Strategy, Oracle, Databases, Infrastructure, Product Management, Software Project Management, Team Management, Six Sigma, Vendor Management, ERP, Product Development, Start-ups, Business Intelligence, Business Development, Business Analysis, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Project Management, Cloud Computing

Experience

Founder & CEO

Cropin

2010-8 - Present · 16 yrs 2 mos

Bengaluru Area, India

Founded in 2010, Cropin is the world’s leading AI platform for food and agriculture, driving innovations such as the first enterprise grade real-time Gen AI-powered agri-intelligence platform, a Micro Language Model (µ-LM) for Climate-Smart Agriculture, and the world’s first industry cloud for agriculture. Cropin’s AI-powered platform, Cropin Sage, provides actionable insights by decoding the past, present, and future of crops. By analyzing historical yields, current weather and soil conditions, and future yield predictions, Cropin Sage enables agri-food leaders to make informed decisions on production, sourcing, and supply chains, driving sustainability and profitability. Cropin collaborates with global leaders in CPG, food retail, finance, and government to tackle challenges like food insecurity, climate change impacts, and supply chain disruptions. As a pioneer in the Ag-Intelligence movement, Cropin has partnered with over 100 B2B customers, digitizing 30 million acres of farmland and positively impacting more than 7 million farmers worldwide. Its crop knowledge graph, covering 350 crops and 10,000 varieties across 103 countries, powers the Cropin Cloud. With intelligence built around over 1 billion acres of the world’s cultivable land, Cropin continues to lead the transformation of global food systems.

Information Management Leadership Program

2006-2 - 2010-7 · 4 yrs 6 mos

Bangalore

I played various role during my stint at GE (Appliance, Industrial and Energy) including Graduate Engineer Trainee, Programmer and Senior Programmer before joining the Information Management Leadership Program for a leadership role.