Krishna Kumar is the founder and CEO of Cropin, the agtech pioneer and the world's most advanced AI platform for food and agriculture. Krishna founded Cropin in 2010, long before the terms “agritech” or “agtech” became fashionable or were widely understood. Over the last 14 years, Krishna has been pioneering the development and adoption of digital technologies and predictive intelligence to transform the agriculture ecosystem through their enterprise customers worldwide. With Cropin’s field-tested farm-to-fork automation and AI-powered solutions portfolio that are crop and location-agnostic, Krishna and his team have so far digitized over 30 million acres of farmland, enriching the lives and improving the livelihoods of nearly 7 million farmers, across 103 countries.

Before co-founding Cropin, Krishna was associated with General Electric, where he moved from a technology role into a leadership role as part of their Information Management Leadership Program and worked in GE Appliances, GE Industrial and GE Energy during this stint. Krishna serves as a non-official member of the National Startup Advisory Council set up by the Government of India. When he is not solving planet-scale problems at Cropin, Krishna loves traveling and reading.