Colagen

What Colagen does

Colagen is an Indian precision agriculture and surveillance company founded in 2018 and headquartered in Pimpalgaon, Maharashtra. It is a privately held, founder-led entity that has operated without disclosed outside funding. The company's customers are primarily Indian smallholder farmers and ag-businesses, with adjacent public-sector and insurance clients served through its surveillance offerings.

The company's flagship product, FarmArm, is a precision agriculture platform that delivers more than 20 features across 37 real-time farm parameters. It is built on a multi-source data stack combining satellite imagery, IoT sensors, and drone-based capture. Complementing the platform, Colagen has developed a portfolio of 24+ residue-free agricultural input products split across dedicated Consumer and Business lines, placing it across both the agritech software and ag-input value chain. The company has also repurposed its sensing stack into forest, water, and insurance surveillance services.

Colagen's go-to-market combines direct-to-consumer sales of its residue-free input products with service-oriented contracts in precision agriculture, surveillance, and contract farming. Sales are conducted through contact-based channels with no public pricing or enterprise reference customers disclosed. The website copyright sits at 2020, and no headcount, leadership team, partners, or funding rounds are disclosed — together suggesting a small, bootstrapped operation with limited recent external validation.

Name

Colagen

Legal name

Colagen

Website

https://colagen.co.in

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Colagen is an Indian precision agriculture and surveillance company that operates the FarmArm platform — combining satellite, IoT, and drone data across 37 real-time parameters — alongside 24+ residue-free agricultural inputs sold direct-to-consumer and to ag-businesses.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Agricultural Technology

NAICS

Pesticide and Other Agricultural Chemical Manufacturing (32532), Pesticide, Fertilizer, and Other Agricultural Chemical Manufacturing (3253)

SIC

Industrial Instruments For Measurement, Display, And Control (3823), Agricultural Production-Crops (100)

akta.pro primary industry

Farm Management Information Systems (FMIS) & Digital Recordkeeping (AFABAMAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Farm Data Management & Decision Support Services (FMIS Setup, Data Integration, Analytics) (AFACACAC), Decision Support & Agronomic Modeling (Yield, Irrigation, Pest/Disease Forecasting) (AFAAAFAF), Pest/Disease/Weed Detection & Forecasting Analytics (AFABAMAI)

Keywords

• Precision agriculture systems
• Agricultural input products
• Farm surveillance technology
• Crop protection inputs
• Farm management software

Headquarters

HQ city

Pimpalgaon (B)

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Operations, Personnel, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Agricultural Input Products: Sale of residue-free agricultural input products including Yuta (root growth stimulant), Kaika (flower booster), Glance (plant strengthener), Wiser PP (size enhancer), Lipot (potassium and lignin supplement), and business products like Silon, Vergo, Zeri, Kazur, Hawk, Kusa, Senite, Fout, BIPYC, CYKIN, Natod, Trefar, and Levia.
2. FarmArm Precision Agriculture System: Sale and deployment of FarmArm precision agriculture system with subscription or licensing for farm surveillance and guidance services including software (ERP), satellite data, drone imaging, and sensor integration.
3. Contract Farming Services: Contract farming operations dealing with quality crops for global export markets.
4. Surveillance Services: Forest surveillance, water surveillance, and insurance surveillance services providing information to insurance sector and banks about assets, disasters, and impacts.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Colagen develops and sells FarmArm, a precision agriculture system combining satellite data, IoT sensors, and drone imaging to deliver 37 real-time parameters for farm surveillance and guidance. The company also manufactures and sells 24+ residue-free agricultural input products including growth stimulants, crop protection inputs, pest control formulations, and spreaders across consumer and business product lines, and provides surveillance services for forest, water, and insurance sectors.

Product overview

Colagen operates as a precision agriculture and surveillance technology company. The core product is FarmArm, a precision agriculture system providing farm surveillance and guidance using satellite-based data and farm sensors including drones. The company also offers a comprehensive portfolio of 24+ residue-free agricultural input products organized into two categories: Consumer Products (Yuta, Kaika, Glance, Wiser PP, Lipot) focused on home/garden use for plant growth stimulation, flowering, strength, and size enhancement; and Business Products (Silon, Vergo, Zeri, Kazur, Hawk, Kusa, Senite, Fout, BIPYC, CYKIN, Natod, Trefar, Levia) designed for commercial agriculture including crop protection, pest control, fungicides, nematicides, and growth enhancement. The company also provides FarmArm ERP software for farm management including financials, fertigation schedules, supply chain, and human resources. Colagen serves industries in agriculture and surveillance/space applications including forest monitoring, water resource management, and insurance sector asset verification.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• FarmArm Precision agriculture system providing farm surveillance and guidance. Uses satellite-based farm data and farm sensors including drones to provide 37 real-time and near real-time parameters to farmers for accurate, profitable, and sustainable farming.
• Contract Farming Services Contract farming operations dealing with quality crops for global export markets. The company caters to the global demand for quality foods and agricultural supplies by managing contract farming for valuable crops.
• Forest Surveillance Satellite and drone imaging-based forest surveillance service to help control fires, detect illegal logging, address lack of supervision, and support forest area management.
• Water Surveillance IoT and big data image processing-based water resource surveillance service for efficient identification, preservation, mapping, distribution, and utilization of water resources.
• Insurance Surveillance Surveillance service providing accurate information to insurance sector and banks about assets like agricultural land, with near real-time updates about disasters and their impacts for better planning and execution of funds.
• Yuta Combination of rare herb nutrients, chelated water soluble vitamins, and high quality marine proteins. High energy product that enhances plant root development and overall uniformity for higher crop output. Category: Root Growth Stimulant.
• Kaika Unique soya extract and concentrate with instant flower boosting metabolites in active form. Safe and eco-friendly alternative for harmful carcinogens like nitrobenzene, rapidly starting plant flower development for higher crop output. Category: Flower Booster.
• Glance Increases chlorophyll A and B in 72 hours and enhances lycopene and other carotene pigments. Contains rapidly available nitrogenous peptides for fast absorption in plants, promoting healthy leaves for best photosynthesis and high yield. Category: Greenery and Plant Strengthener.
• Wiser PP Contains natural secretion by every plant that acts on metabolically important kinase domains for overall growth. Unique capsule designed for per pump application. Category: Rapid Size Enhancer Capsule.
• Lipot Combination of lignin extract from multiple Neem, Sesame, and Guggul woody plants. Power of lignin with anti-root rot activity for effective water stress management by roots on drenching. Category: Potassium and Lignin Supplement.
• Silon Novel liquid silicon with potash combo designed for nutrient mobility and phloem function. Used for plant stem, internode, and branch strength across all crops.
• Vergo Specialized formulation designed for vegetable growth needs. Balances growth and quality in low dosage organically, increasing yield and keeping quality for all vegetables.
• Zeri Dual action single product for seed treatment and immunity booster. Provides seed germination with fungal immunity; seeds should be soaked for 30 minutes for better action.
• Kazur Organic miticide that creates Cysteine rich peptides to develop plant immunity against sucking action of pests like Mites and Jassids. Suitable for vegetables, fruits, flowers, and greenhouse crops.
• Hawk Creates Terpenoid with HMGR enzyme synthesis in lamina to immunize against larval stage. Used for leaf miner and small larva control.
• Kusa Increases fluroquinoline and group of metabolites to naturally repel stabilizing insects with healthy leaves. Acts as immunizer against Thrips and Whitefly for vegetables, fruits, flowers, and greenhouse crops.
• Senite BEC 1045 protein binder that inhibits broad spectrum fungal entry and spread. Acts as organic fungicide against Downey, wilt, Powdery mildew, and blight for fruits, vegetables, flowers, and greenhouse crops.
• Fout Increases protective sulfur in plants resulting in tough cellulose and disease resistance. Provides immunity against mealybug and stem borer for vegetables, fruit crops, and woody plants.
• BIPYC Creates immunity and spread of plant viruses through plant sap. Features capsid attacking protein effective against Leaf curl, mosaic, Panama, and Gemini viruses for vegetables, fruits, flowering, and polyhouse-based crops.
• CYKIN Peptidoglycan breaker with nutritive action. Effective organic bactericide against bacteria including oily spot, for fruits, vegetables, flowering, and polyhouse crops.
• Natod Organic nematicide effective against root knot, citrus, cyst, and ring nematodes. Suitable for fruits, cotton, nuts, rice, vegetables, cereals, and beans.
• Trefar Uses pheromones to attract insects and trap them to remove from fields. Completely non-invasive solution for controlling flying insects.
• Levia Unique nonionic silicon spreader that spreads, sticks, and absorbs effective ingredients very fast. Used as spreader, sticker, and adjuvant for all crops.

Quantifiable outcome

• More than 24 residue-free highly effective input products created
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Regional players

• Aries Agro: Indian manufacturer of plant nutrition, specialty fertilizers, and micronutrient products. Comparable regional player in agri-inputs with similar SMB-farmer distribution focus to Colagen.

Broad incumbents

• UPL Limited: Large Indian-headquartered crop protection and specialty agri-inputs company. Comparable to Colagen on the agricultural input side, especially the business-products portfolio of biopesticides and crop protection SKUs.
• Syngenta (Crop Protection): Global agrichemical major producing seeds, crop protection, and increasingly digital agronomy tools. Overlaps with Colagen on the residue-free / sustainable inputs and farm-data positioning.
• Trimble Agriculture: Established provider of precision agriculture hardware, GNSS guidance, sensors, and farm management software. Competes with FarmArm on sensor-to-software integration for commercial growers.
• Climate FieldView (Bayer): Bayer-owned digital agriculture platform combining satellite imagery, field data, and analytics at global scale. Broad incumbent offering overlapping capabilities with FarmArm's precision farming stack.

Emerging players

• Satellogic: Earth-observation satellite operator providing high-resolution imagery that powers precision agriculture, forestry, and water-monitoring use cases — the same upstream data layer FarmArm and Colagen's surveillance services rely on.

Direct peers

• CropX: Israel-based precision agriculture platform combining soil sensors, satellite data, and farm management analytics. Directly comparable to Colagen's FarmArm in offering IoT + satellite-based decision support for farmers.
• CropIn: Indian farm management and decision-support SaaS provider covering plot-level traceability, agronomy, and supply chain. Directly comparable to Colagen's FarmArm ERP and farm-management software layer.
• Taranis: AI-powered precision agriculture platform leveraging aerial imaging (drones/satellites) and leaf-level analytics. Comparable to Colagen FarmArm on drone/satellite imagery-driven farm surveillance.
• Fasal: Indian precision agriculture startup using IoT sensors, satellite, and weather data to deliver farm-level advisories. Closely overlaps Colagen's FarmArm value proposition in the same India SMB-farmer market.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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