The team · Chapter three
Two co-founders.
One mission.
Sara and M.M. — Columbia SIPA — building Clean Crop with India's leading rice scientists, agricultural officials and impact investors.
Sara and M.M. — Columbia SIPA — building Clean Crop with India's leading rice scientists, agricultural officials and impact investors.
Two of us. Backgrounds in agri-tech engineering, agriculture policy and climate. We write our own software, run our own field trials, and meet our farmers in person.
If the change costs the farmer a single bad season, we've failed. Transition capital, not transition risk.
Every emissions number we publish is field-measured or satellite-corroborated. Numbers come from the paddy, not the pitch deck.
We optimise for boring operational discipline over story. A 1% drop in pump-hours beats a 10% better deck.
Decisions about a paddy in Bihar should be informed in Bihar. We hire there first and headquarter there second.
"The first time I watched a farmer drain her paddy on day six and the rice kept growing — that was the morning I quit my job. If the agronomy works, the rest is logistics."
Policymakers, agronomists, climate scientists and impact investors — the people who built the institutions we work with day to day.
We're a two-person founding team operating remotely between India and New York. We're not hiring full-time roles yet — but we partner with field officers, agronomists, FPO coordinators and engineers on a project basis. If that's you, send a note.
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