CityMandi

Citymandi is a unique AI powered B2B venture which connects large number of micro-entrepreneurs (Street cart vendors) directly with farmers through end to end logistics and supply chain solution which is powered by deep technology platform. This venture is founded by two IIT Kanpur graduates, Niraj Srivastava and Srinivas Padmanabhuni. Niraj has been built multiple companies and has been a global leader for large MNCs like TCS, IBM and Accenture and is a supply chain expert. Dr. Srinivas Padmanabhuni is and ex-infosian and a global leader in AI/ML space with 7 granted patents and 15 filed patents. Bhomesh Sharma from IIT Kharagpur runs strategy. Manu Lavanya from IIT Kanpur is in process of joining our management team. Citymandi is addressing a Trillion dollar opportunity. There is a large gap between farmer's sales price and end consumer price. Disorganized, opaque and inefficient farm to fork supply chain has been able to keep producer price low and consumer price high. Current non-inclusive existing solutions, remove livelihood and increase poverty by removing small unorganized players from the chain. We are disrupting this whole trend and empowering lives of micro-entrepreneurs and increasing livelihood significantly while bringing fresh and quality product to consumers at better prices. Our venture is powered by AI. We have unique AI enabled weighing scale and our custom designed electric cart. We are poised to grow our cart partners in Uber model and significantly enhance their lives. We also started contact program with FPOs and we have 398 FPOs and about 70000 farmers registered with us. Our vision is to empower more than 100,000 small cart entrepreneurs in next 5 years.