A data-monopoly business,
with a drone wedge.
AGRIDRONE flies DGCA-certified agri-drones by the acre. Launch hub Tumkur, Karnataka, Q3 2026. Five spokes across Karnataka follow through 2027. The fleet sprays pesticide, fertilizer, scares birds, and maps fields — and on every flight, captures the highest-fidelity agricultural ground-truth dataset in India, licensed to crop insurers and reinsurers.
A founder who has priced risk and walked Bharat.
- DATAQuant + FactSet
Option-pricing research scholar · 4 publications forthcoming in risk modeling. 1 year inside FactSet — knows how Bloomberg-class data buyers procure.
- DISTRIBUTIONAlphaQuantix Analytics
Operating B2B/B2C digital agency. 15+ active clients ranking #1 on Google for buyer-intent keywords.
- GROUNDBharat ground truth
18 Indian states · 3 months · March–June 2025. Walked, eaten with, and sold to the actual farmer.
- SALESIndustrial B2B (Co-founder)
Co-founder Sumit Pillai leads APAC B2B sales at a supply-chain SaaS company. Licensed photography-drone pilot, RPTO upgrade scheduled. Full-time on AGRIDRONE post-first-cheque.
“I price risk for a living. Agricultural risk is the largest unpriced asset class on Earth. AGRIDRONE creates the data to price it. — Sumin Pillai, Founder.”
The go-to-market half of the team.
- SALESAPAC B2B sales lead
Leads B2B sales across Asia Pacific at a supply-chain SaaS company. RFP-heavy, multi-country, enterprise procurement — the same motion as FPO and government tenders.
- PILOTLicensed drone pilot
Licensed photography-drone pilot. RPTO commercial upgrade scheduled — will fly the first AGRIDRONE sorties himself.
“Sumin builds the data. I build the route to the farmer.” — Sumit Pillai, Co-founder.
Before we built the company,
we walked the country.
Farmer pays ₹2,000 for manual spray, gets ₹500 of net value. Margins evaporating in plain sight.
80% of farmers met had no working crop-insurance product. The product exists; procurement is broken.
FPOs are the real buying unit, not individual farmers. Sell to 1 FPO president, you've sold to 200 farms.
Pesticide drift onto roads, water, school yards. Manual spray is a public-health problem, not just a cost problem.
No agri-drone operator we met had scaled past a single state.