EM3 AgriServices brings expensive farming technology to farmers on a pay-for-use basis helping small-scale farmers keep up with globalization and advances in agriculture tech. It does so through its farming-as-a-service platform, Samadhan, which deploys an app, physical call centers, and human representatives that interact with its largely offline consumer base. Each center is equipped to handle a comprehensive suite of basic and precision farm operations throughout the entire crop production cycle: land preparation, sowing/transplanting, crop management, harvesting, and post-harvest farm management. Farmers can easily reach EM3 to book their services, monitor the work being done on their fields, and manage all transactions through Samadhan. EM3’s is expanding to more provinces in India, and it has also partnered with local governments and leading Indian and global equipment manufacturers.
Location: India, Delhi, New Delhi
Total raised: $13.3M
Investors 3
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 09.08.2017 | - | $10M | - |
| 03.06.2015 | - | $3.3M | LGT Lights... |
Mentions in press and media 6
| Date | Title | Description |
| 24.01.2018 | Aspada invests Rs 20 cr in EM3 AgriServices | Aspada Investment Company, a venture capital firm that provides early-stage risk capital, has made a commitment of Rs 20 crore ($3.3 million) to Delhi-based EM3 AgriServices Pvt Ltd. EM3 provides pay-per-use agricultural machines and servic... |
| 15.08.2017 | In India, an Uber for farm machinery aims to make a difference in rural areas | Uber has inspired countless businesses to adopt its asset-light and on-demand approach to their industries. The examples are countless. Food delivery, dry cleaning, jet planes, home services rental bikes, or even phone chargers to name but ... |
| 09.08.2017 | Agritech startup EM3 AgriServices secures $10 Mn from Global Innovation Fund, others | Delhi-NCR-based EM3 AgriServices Pvt Ltd has raised $10 million in its series B round led by Global Innovation Fund, while existing investors Soros Development Fund and Aspada Investment also participated in it. EM3 AgriServices, which prov... |
| 06.02.2017 | Five Trends in Agritech Innovation in India to Watch Out for in 2017 | Editor’s Note: Hemendra Mathur is agribusiness investment lead and venture partner at Bharat Innovations Fund, a new $150 million early stage fund with a focus on agtech, cleantech, health-tech and enterprise-tech ventures. Mathur previousl... |
| 17.08.2015 | Part Two: Is Indian Agriculture Ready for “Gadgetization”? | Editor’s note: Raghavan Sampathkumar is founder and principal of boutique research and consultancy firm SMARTAgBiz, based in Singapore. He has experience across different subsectors of food & agribusiness in Asia-Pacific countries. In p... |
| 03.06.2015 | Aspada Invests $3.3M in Indian Farming-as-a-Service (FAAS) Provider EM3 AgriServices | Indian investment and holding company Aspada recently announced a $3.3M Series A investment in Delhi-based EM3 AgriServices. EM3 represents one of the first private sector ventures to tackle the field of farm mechanization and technology se... |