Prime Minister Narendra Modi lauded Founder and CEO Atul Patidar and Farmkart for transforming the lives of thousands of rural farmers via innovative tech-solutions and exemplary work during the Covid-19 lockdown.
We had no choice.
So we built everything.
Rural India teaches you something fast: if you need it and it doesn’t exist, you build it yourself. That conviction has never left us.
Our Story
Built in rural India.
Built for the world.
The energy grid didn’t reach us. The water treatment plant was never built. The supply chain ended two towns over. Growing up in rural Madhya Pradesh, you learn fast: if you need it and it doesn’t exist, you build it yourself. That lesson became a company.
In 2017, Atul Patidar returned home after years of research abroad to convince like-minded people to join something bigger. What started in a Toronto apartment with five people became a conviction: food, water, energy, and health are still not guaranteed for millions. We could change that.
R-Solar brought clean, affordable energy to rural homes and farms. Not just to power appliances — to power the rest of the ecosystem. Solar powers the pump. The pump powers the water. The water grows the crop.
Shubham India and Imemflo built the water treatment and filtration systems that communities needed and governments hadn’t yet provided. Water safe to drink. Water that made agriculture possible.
Farmkart connected farmers directly to markets — no middlemen, better prices, access to the best inputs. Reva Flora added the biology, growing tissue-cultured crops that produce more and resist more. No Brands brought uncompromising quality to every input in the chain.
When we saw that the people we were building for needed more than food to thrive, we built Synervion — functional nutrition and nutraceuticals for communities that deserve the best. Today, Farmkart Group is an ecosystem. Every company feeds the next. None of it works alone.
Mission &
Vision
Mission
To build the infrastructure of life — food, water, energy, and health — in the markets where access to any one of them is still not guaranteed.
Vision
A world where no community has to figure out food, clean water, reliable energy, or basic health on its own — because someone already built it.
Our Core Values
Sustainability
We build things that last. Not products — infrastructure. The kind that outlives the moment it was needed and becomes part of how a community runs itself.
Innovation
We don't innovate for its own sake. We build new things because old things weren't reaching the people who needed them. Necessity is still our best brief.
Transparency
We operate in places where trust is earned, not assumed. Every farmer, partner, and customer we work with knows exactly what they're getting and why.
Empowerment
We exist to give farmers and communities the tools to run their own futures. Not dependence on us — capability that belongs to them.
Our Approach
to Sustainability
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Our Leadership
Atul Patidar
Chief Executive Officer & Founder
Stephane Pastor
Chief Operating Officer
Diksha Pai
Head, Strategy & Business Innovation
Atul Kapile
Chief Strategy Officer
Kym Derrick Uy
Chief Technology Officer
Rony Stephen
Chief Experience Officer
Shanil Shah
Head, Strategy & Business Innovation
Akash Kandhari
Lead, Growth & Partnerships
Shreesha Jagadeesh
Chief Data Officer
Achievements & Recognition
Farmkart secured a place among the Top 50 global innovative startups by Startup Grind, powered by Google for Entrepreneurs. Farmkart was chosen from a pool of more than 7,000 startups across 130 countries.
In 2018, Farmkart was recognized by the Government of India, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Ministry of Commerce and Industry and secured a place among the elite start-ups in the Startup India movement.
Life at Farmkart
