Arya is India’s leading Agritech startup with a focus on integrated post-harvest services. Driving technology through a human-centred approach, Arya offers storage, warehouse management, embedded finance and market linkages to agricultural producers and buyers across India through its digital collaborator platform, a2zgodaam.com.

Through its profitable business model with over 2.5 million tonnes of storage capacity across 1,500 warehouses in 20 Indian states, Arya helps farmers, aggregators, Farmer Producer Organisations, food processors and end-user corporates avoid post-harvest losses. Arya’s NBFC subsidiary, Aryadhan Financial Solutions assists sellers of agri- commodities avoid distress sale of produce by extending post-harvest credit. It has completed loan disbursements of over Rs 250 Crores.

Arya has a team of over 1400 members spread across 20 states in India. The company has a networth of more than Rs.160 crores and is funded by the prestigious PE fund, LGT Lightstone Aspada, Omnivore and most recently Quona Capital.

The disruption of the pandemic helped us realise the importance of digital markets and  electronification of agricultural commodity markets. The launch of A2Z was most timely and essential with the sudden fall of prices as high as 30%. Through A2Zgodaam.com Arya could offer the farmers comprehensive solutions – get commodities, aggregate it, store, avail a finance and even sell, when prices improved. More than 1500 dispersed warehouse owners listed their warehouses on the platform, a2zgodaam. The company was further able to connect FPOs and smaller aggregators with buyers through the platform. Arya also helped sellers of agri-commodities avoid distress liquidation of stock by disbursing over INR 100 Crores of credit through its NBFC subsidiary, Aryadhan Financial Solutions, during this period.

Arya’s ability to use technology to create a transparent digital platform and AI for quality assurance with a 24-48 hour turnaround time for warehousing and finance has been beneficial to everyone in the value chain. 

Arya endeavour to impact the lives of 3 million farmers, facilitate warehousing in more than 50% of the agricultural warehouses in the country, enabling finance of over a Billion dollars. The solutions being developed by Arya have a global relevance. 

“We will continue to strengthen our work on use of AI on quality and establish a nationwide quality standard for agricultural commodities. We are already working on a data driven machine learning tool for price mitigation for smallholder farmers and we hope to strengthen it for everyone’s benefit”, adds Prasanna Rao, Co-founder of Arya.