Business Wire India · May 2025
PMI featured Vihari Kanukollu on The Shift Code podcast about hydroponics, scaling agri-tech, and food-security challenges.
Reimagining Food through Farming
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
Hyderabad-based agritech company focused on hydroponic/vertical farming, plant-biology R&D, and home-growing kits for pesticide-free produce. Public sources disagree on some details (notably founding year, total employee count, and CTO title), so the profile below uses the strongest current public evidence and leaves unsupported items null or empty.
Primary product
Hydroponic vertical farming systems and home-growing kits
Founded
2019
Headquarters
4th Floor, 36 Urban Center, Rd. 36, CBI Colony, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad 500033, India
Team size
30-40
Industry
Agritech
Sub-industry
Hydroponic and vertical farming / agricultural intelligence
Offices
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Bangalore, India
Business model
Direct-to-consumer produce sales
Home hydroponic kits
Turnkey hydroponic farm deployments
Franchise/retail store sales
App and website sales
Technology deployment to farmers and FPOs
Funding
Stage
Series A
Total raised
$10.5M
Latest round
Series A · Aug 2024
Latest amount
$2.5M
People & investors
Leadership
CEO and Co-Founder
Co-Founder, Chief Scientific Officer
Chief Technology Officer
Chief Business Officer
Chief AI Scientist
Head - R&D Operations
Founders
Co-Founder & COO
Work & culture
Product & market
Pricing
D2C produce sales plus subscription/on-demand delivery, home kits priced in the low tens of thousands of INR, and B2B turnkey farm or technology deployment pricing
Differentiators
- —Hydroponic systems optimized for tropical climates
- —AI/IoT monitoring and geospatial analytics
- —Less water and land usage than conventional farming
- —Pesticide-free produce
- —Combined seed-science, software, and physical infrastructure stack
- —Turnkey farms plus home kits
Technology
Spring
Spring Boot
Java
GraphQL
React
Docker
IoT sensors
computer vision
machine learning
satellite geospatial analytics
hydroponics
vertical farming
foundation models for plant biology
genotype-to-phenotype modeling
controlled-environment chambers
Customers
Urban consumers buying produce online or in stores
Households buying home-growing kits
Restaurants and food businesses
Farmers and FPOs adopting hydroponic systems
Government/public-sector partners
Competitors
Eeki
Nutrifresh Farms
AeroFarms
iFarm
Fork Farms
Barton Breeze
City Greens
Future Farms
LandCraft Retail
Dream Harvest Farming Company
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
USD 1M-$10M
Estimated monthly visits
12.4K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
Marico Innovation Foundation · Apr 2025
UrbanKisaan was among the Scale-Up participants showcased at InnoWin Day for investor and partner meetings.
Bollywood Hungama · Mar 2025
A public feature highlighted Samantha Ruth Prabhu's investments and said UrbanKisaan had secured major funding.
Businessday NG · Mar 2025
PMI announced The Shift Code and said Vihari Kanukollu would discuss sustainable urban farming and scaling.
Bahamas Government
The Bahamas government said it signed an MoU with UrbanKisaan and Sustainable Technology Limited for a nationwide hydroponic-farm initiative.
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