ThinkAg – WE ACCELERATE INNOVATIONS & INVESTMENTS IN INDIAN FOOD & AGRICULTURE

We Accelerate Innovations &
Investments In Indian Food & Agriculture

About ThinkAg

We accelerate AgFoodTech innovation and adoption.

ThinkAg drives the rapid adoption of market-ready AgFoodTech solutions across India and global markets. By aligning technical expertise, financial strategy, and policy initiatives through a climate-resilient lens, we transform outcomes across the entire agricultural value chain.

We bridge critical gaps between startups, investors, corporates, research institutions, and policymakers to unlock scalable partnerships and achieve orbit-shifting growth.

For nearly a decade, ThinkAg has shaped the ecosystem through four core pillars:

Rigorous Research – Delivering data-driven insights to guide industry strategy.
Ecosystem Convenings – Facilitating high-impact forums that spark collaboration.
Startup Interventions – Accelerating high-potential ventures with targeted scaling support.
Capacity Building – Strengthening institutional readiness and sector capability.

Mission

To unlock strategic partnerships and accelerate the scale-up of transformative AgFoodTech innovations that drive sustainable, inclusive, and technology-led growth across the agri-food ecosystem.

Drive Sustainable Growth: Advance innovation, climate resilience, and resource efficiency across agriculture and allied sectors.
Scale Market-Ready Innovations: Promote commercialisation and scale of viable and impactful AgFoodTech solutions, domestically and globally.
Strengthen the Stakeholders: Support them through data-driven research, advisory services, capacity building, and knowledge-sharing.
Unlock Capital & Partnerships: Facilitate investor engagement, strategic financing, and global collaborations to fuel enterprise growth.
Elevate Livelihoods: Maximize farmer incomes and market access through inclusive, gender-smart, and ESG-led value chain development.

Knowledge Series

Platform for thematic dialogue on the opportunities and challenges facing the agri-food ecosystem as well as practitioner-informed insights and knowledge sharing.

Curated Partnerships

Facilitated engagement between AgFoodTech startups and corporates, financial institutions & public sector entities through pilots, knowledge-exchanges and commercial partnerships.

Research Reports

Quantitative & qualitative analysis of the sector featuring innovation & investment trends afoot, expert insights and on-ground voices, perspectives on the sector’s evolution, an outlook for its future.

Ecosystem Connect

Event series assembling diverse members of the ecosystem and featuring topical discussions, stakeholder-specific roundtables and curated networking opportunities.

Leadership

Pallavi Tak | Co-Founder

A development practitioner at heart, Pallavi brings a rare combination of deep academic rigor and practical venture experience to the agricultural ecosystem. After earning her PhD in urban sustainability and spending over a decade in academia, she dedicated the next ten years to the startup space—shaping business strategies, product design, and inclusive innovation models. Her career is built on a foundation of diverse collaborations with global multilaterals, incubators, foundations, and grassroots communities. As a Co-Founder at ThinkAg, Pallavi guides our insights and acceleration initiatives, both domestic and global. She applies a multi-disciplinary approach to complex sector challenges, focusing on the practical, on-field adoption of technology, financial integration, and systemic sustainability. For Pallavi, true impact cannot be decoupled from inclusion and scale. Grounded in a people-centric philosophy, she relies on active dialogue and shared learning to build the relationships that drive meaningful, sector-wide change.

Abhijit Goswami I Co-Founder

Abhijit brings nearly two decades of experience across agriculture, innovation, finance, sustainability, and rural development. His work spans agri-value chains, policy and government advisory, rural and agri-finance, microfinance, warehousing, commodity procurement, agri-infrastructure, and sustainable livelihoods. Over the years, he has worked across both public and private sectors, including with the Government of Andhra Pradesh, EY, NAFA, Spandana, YES Bank, Axis Bank, SSL, and NBHC. This extensive cross-sector and on-ground experience has shaped his multidisciplinary approach to building resilient, inclusive, and future-ready agri-food systems.

A graduate in Agricultural Science from Assam Agricultural University and a postgraduate in Agri-Warehousing and Supply Chain Management from National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE), Abhijit brings strong expertise in regenerative and climate-smart agriculture, ESG adoption and reporting, food safety and quality assurance, agri-insurance, export-oriented agribusiness, and agricultural risk management. At ThinkAg, he focuses on strengthening startup and innovation ecosystems, enabling cross-border collaborations and strategic partnerships, and fostering multi-stakeholder engagement across startups, corporates, governments, investors, and development institutions to advance inclusive, regenerative, and climate-resilient agricultural growth.

Ram Kaundinya | Co-Founder & Advisor

Ram Kaundinya has 36 years of operating experience in the Agri Input industry, the last assignment being as the Global CEO of Advanta Seeds. He is a thought leader in the seed and biotech industry. An Advisor and Consultant for the last 12 years, he works closely with Agri Entrepreneurship Development programs and funds. He is an author and teaches Strategy to MBA students. He was the Director General, Federation of Seed Industry of India. He is a Management graduate from IIM Ahmedabad.

Raman Ahuja | Co-Founder & Advisor

Raman Ahuja is an independent consultant in food & agriculture working to influence the ecosystem for improved outcomes for businesses and producers Clients include technology startups, owners of Small & Medium Enterprises, The World Bank Group, International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN, etc. Prior to that Raman’s work experience spans agribusiness value chains, consumer products, and ingredients industries, operating in Indian and International markets.

Hemendra Mathur | Co-Founder & Advisor

Hemendra Mathur is a seasoned investor, advisor, and ecosystem builder with nearly three decades of experience across venture capital, private equity, investment banking, management consulting, and policy advisory. He has played a pioneering role in shaping India’s agritech and food systems innovation ecosystem, investing in and mentoring multiple early-stage and growth-stage deep-tech and agritech startups. He brings deep expertise across the full investment lifecycle—from fund formation and deal origination to portfolio scaling and exits—with a strong focus on climate-smart agriculture, digital public infrastructure, and technology-led transformation. He actively advises governments, multilaterals, and industry bodies in India and internationally. An early evangelist of the AgriStack vision, he continues to work closely with policymakers, startups, and global development organisations to accelerate adoption of innovation at scale. Hemendra is widely regarded as a bridge between policy, capital, and on-ground implementation in agriculture and allied sectors. He is an agricultural engineering graduate from Rajasthan Agricultural University and has done his management education at IIM Ahmedabad.

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Partner with ThinkAg

We invite corporations, financial institutions, startups, global trade missions, development organisations, industry bodies, research institutions, and government agencies to collaborate with us as project partners across our strategic initiatives.

Partners can engage with ThinkAg through tailored participation models, including:

Innovation Programs & Startup Interventions – Co-designing accelerators and scaling market-ready ventures.

Knowledge Initiatives & Research – Generating data-driven insights and sector intelligence.

Industry Convenings & Ecosystem Engagements – Co-hosting and sponsoring high-impact forums.

Strategic Collaborations – Building long-term alliances to tackle sector-wide challenges.

For partnership inquiries, please contact abhijit@thinkag.co.in or pallavi@thinkag.co.in

Project Partners

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Convenings & Events

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Startup network

500 +

Social Media Followers

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The Platform

ThinkAg aims to enable rapid scale up of AgFoodFin innovations by building a multi-stakeholder network, nurturing partnerships and creating knowledge, that will accelerate investments and adoption of technology in the sector. The platform is connected with over 2500 active AgFoodFin Tech startups and scale-ups in India ecosystem and overseas, and also supports cross-border expansion of innovations.