{"id":716,"date":"2026-04-09T11:15:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/india-marketing.jp\/india-news\/kisaansay-d2c-food\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T01:16:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T16:16:54","slug":"kisaansay-d2c-food","status":"publish","type":"india-news","link":"https:\/\/india-marketing.jp\/en\/india-news\/kisaansay-d2c-food\/","title":{"rendered":"KisaanSay raises \u20b934 crore, leading India's farm-direct D2C food market \u2014 the \"co-brand, co-profit\" model with 50,000 farmers points to a new consumption trend"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Connecting farmers and consumers directly \u2014 the \"transparent table\" KisaanSay is aiming for<\/h2>\n\n

On April 7, 2026, Indian D2C food brand KisaanSay<\/strong> brought in NABVENTURES' AgriSURF fund as lead investor and, in a Series A round, raised \u20b934 crore (about \u00a5570 million)<\/strong> in funding. It's a high-profile round for an agricultural startup within India, but what stands out about this funding is less the amount than the new paradigm shift in the D2C food market that the company embodies.<\/p>\n\n

If you had to sum up KisaanSay's business model in a phrase, it would be \"farm-direct \u00d7 co-brand\" \u2014 not simply intermediating agricultural produce, but building a new supply chain in which farmers and consumers both share in the benefit.<\/p>\n\n

What the \"Co-Brand, Co-Profit\" model actually looks like<\/h2>\n\n

Unlike a typical organic food brand that sources raw materials from farmers and then processes and sells them, KisaanSay has signed formal brand co-ownership agreements with 25 farmer companies (Farmer Producer Companies, FPCs)<\/strong> spanning 9 states across India. About 50,000 farmers<\/strong> are positioned as \"co-owners\" of the KisaanSay brand, in a structure where a share of product profits flows directly back to the farmer collectives.<\/p>\n\n

This structure carries real value from the consumer's perspective too. Product packaging carries information on the place of production, the farmer company's name, and the harvest batch, and scanning the QR code lets a customer confirm exactly which village in India, and who, grew the rice they bought. For today's Indian consumers, who demand transparency and traceability, this becomes a powerful purchasing motivator.<\/p>\n\n

What 100 SKUs across 12 categories reveal about the \"return to raw ingredients\" trend<\/h2>\n\n

The product lineup KisaanSay currently offers spans over 100 SKUs<\/strong>, covering 12 categories including rice, ghee (Indian-style clarified butter), cooking oil, spices, dried fruit, and grains. Every product is \"single-origin\" \u2014 produced only from a specific place of origin and a specific farmer company, with no blending or centralized factory processing.<\/p>\n\n

This approach resonates strongly with the shift in Indian consumer awareness. In a 2026 survey of India's D2C food market, 67% of consumers said they trust D2C brands more than conventional food companies when it comes to ingredient quality and origin. Rising health consciousness accelerated since the pandemic, distrust following food scandals, and Gen Z's appetite for information \u2014 wanting to know what they're eating \u2014 are all tailwinds for farm-direct brands.<\/p>\n\n

A multichannel strategy of quick commerce \u00d7 D2C<\/h2>\n\n

The company has stated four uses for the funds raised: (1) supply chain efficiency, (2) marketing and brand building, (3) hiring, and (4) building full-stack technology infrastructure. What especially stands out is that, alongside its physical-store rollout in the Delhi NCR area, KisaanSay is actively pushing to supply its products to quick-commerce platforms such as Blinkit, Zepto, and Swiggy Instamart<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n

India's quick-commerce market has continued to grow rapidly in 2026, and it has become normal for consumers to receive fresh produce and groceries within 10 to 30 minutes. By tapping into this infrastructure, \"high-value-added D2C food\" like KisaanSay's can reach busy urban dual-income households that conventional organic specialty stores never managed to reach.<\/p>\n\n

In the existing Indian D2C food market, established players like Anveshan and The Whole Truth Foods have grown in the context of direct farmer connections and clean labels, but KisaanSay has its own differentiating axis: a co-brand with formal farmer organizations (FPCs). Anveshan pushes ahead with a large funding round from overseas VCs<\/a>\u2014 even as that happens, KisaanSay, by teaming up with agricultural-infrastructure investor NABVENTURES, has achieved a capital structure with strong affinity to the policy context of rural finance and farmer support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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