Milestones
2019
2019
- Setup 3-acre Green Lab autonomous farming incubator in Udumalpet, Tamilnadu in partnership with AvaniJal, Black & Decker, Kritsnam and Nile Automation.
- Successful pilot of the Bloom Box irrigation automation controller during the Kari season at the incubator.
- Bloom Box product launch on October 2nd, 2019.
- November 2019 - Bloom deployments cross 100acres, in 22 farms, across three districts.
- Bloom FarmView & Bloom Mobile in pilot in 7 farms.
2018
2018
- Incorporation of ExoCortex Systems Pvt. Ltd.
- Raised first seed round from early investors to develop the Bloom platform.
2017
2017
Exploratory Pilots
Exploratory Pilots
- Partnered with Avanijal to augment their current customer, in Karnataka, deployments with Ceres in Q2 2018.
Platform Development
Platform Development
- Ceres Operating System - Although the company was incorporated in June 2017, several activities were initiated as early as 2015. The principals of ExoCortex has already contributed over 30+ man years of software to open-source. This does not include 40+ man years of proprietary software that is not in the public domain.
- OEM Partnerships – We have formed an alliance with Avanijal a Bangalore based NASSCOM incubated startup that develops low-cost automated irrigation systems that will be integrated into our cloud-based precision farming infrastructure.
Community Development
Community Development
- Academic Partnerships – Our collaborative research grant pipeline, currently under review, includes 3.5crores of funding with our alliances with IIT-Kanpur, IIT-Madras, University of Technology Sydney, Tamilnadu Agriculture University, Kerala Agriculture University.
- Governmental Partnerships – Our engagement with IIT-Kanpur's UBA program under the Ministry of HRD, enables us to engage directly with Kanpur's local governing & NGO bodies, open up the UBA model villages for pilot deployments.
- Industry Partnerships – Actively engaged as one of the four founders of the 'Neofarming Consortium on Water Conservation'. The nascent consortium is already in early talks with leadership in Mahindra & Mahindra and Jain irrigation to formalize the relationship into an industrial consortium.