Agritech startup Pehle Jaisa has raised $300,000 in a pre-Series A funding round led by Pantnagar Capital and Climate Angels, as it looks to scale its decentralized rural waste-to-fertilizer model across Indian villages.<\/p>\n
The Gurugram-based startup, which was founded in 2022, had previously secured $169,000 in a seed round. With the latest infusion, it plans to expand its network of local waste processing centers that convert agricultural and organic waste into bio-stimulants, soil conditioners, and organic fertilizers for farmers.<\/p>\n
The startup\u2019s model is based on hyperlocal production: waste is collected and processed in the same village where it is generated. This eliminates the need for long-distance transportation, allowing Pehle Jaisa to supply affordable inputs directly to farmers while reducing carbon footprint.<\/p>\n
Pehle Jaisa was co-founded by Pankaj Pandey, Ehtesham Farooqui, Shabih Abbas, Sumit Suman, Wasim Akhtar, and Mantosh Kumar. The startup is pursuing a broader vision of self-reliant rural economies, where villages generate their own gas, electricity, and fertilizer using local waste streams.<\/p>\n
In just eight months of operations, the startup sold over 500 metric tonnes of fertilizer in FY24. In FY25, it sold over 1,500 MT of value-added fertilizers and earned over Rs 2.5 crore in revenue. It now aims to cross Rs 100 crore in revenue over the coming years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Agritech startup Pehle Jaisa has raised $300,000 in a pre-Series A funding round led by Pantnagar Capital and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3094],"tags":[28342,51,3134,5036,77413,1197,16220,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-188574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-agritech","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-entrepreneurship","11":"tag-funding","12":"tag-gurugram","13":"tag-investment","14":"tag-investors","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114692220731158182","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}