Exclusive: Ayekart raises $6.5M in debt from Swiss Impact investor Symbiotics Investment
Ayekart, the agri-food startup, will use the funds to scale operations, strengthen market linkages, and expand retail distribution capacity.
Ayekart, an integrated agri-food network, on Thursday said it raised $6.5 million in debt from Swiss impact investor Symbiotics Investments to accelerate its expansion and support more farmer-producer organisations (FPOs) and retailers across India.
“The debt capital from Symbiotics comes at the right stage of our scale-up. It gives us the ability to widen operations, strengthen market linkages for a large base of FPOs, and expand our retail distribution network with intent,” Debarshi Dutta, Co-founder and CEO of Ayekart, told YourStory.
He added, “Four years in the field have given us a precise understanding of the bottlenecks, and this infusion allows us to move faster on the areas that matter. It stays true to our purpose of organising the unorganised.”
Alongside the debt raise, the Mumbai-based firm unveiled Aantriva, an AI-enabled platform designed to integrate India’s fragmented agri-food value chain.
The company plans to drive Rs 30,000 crore in throughput on the platform over the next three years, targeting farmers, FPOs, processors, FMCG brands, and financial institutions.
Aantriva aims to offer end-to-end visibility across sourcing, processing, distribution, and finance. It includes tools for market linkage, price discovery, crop intelligence using GIS and weather data, demand forecasting, inventory planning, and credit-worthiness assessment through verifiable transaction trails. Ayekart said it will also enable factoring for the first time on a unified agri-food platform.
“Aantriva is the next step in that journey. By bringing farmers, buyers, aggregators, and financial institutions onto one connected platform, we’re addressing the structural issues around access, liquidity, and trust that slow the agri-food value chain,” Dutta said.
“The platform is built with a clear ambition to drive 30,000 crore in throughput, backed by data, technology, transparency, and a team committed to delivering at scale.”
Ayekart currently works with more than 3 lakh farmers, over 530 FPOs, and 30,000 retailers. The company said the new platform will help reduce inefficiencies, strengthen supply predictability, and improve access to formal financial services across the sector.
Edited by Suman Singh