Untold Seed Stories: First 500 Days of Ninjacart with Thirukumaran - SEED TO SCALE INSIGHTS #57

Podcasts have been one of the ways we try to bring out untold stories of startup founders. Continuing with this tradition, we at Accel are excited to introduce our new podcast mini-series: Untold Seed Stories. Sometimes we forget that businesses that are big today have had their share of early-stage challenges they had to overcome. This new show aims to unravel the first 500 days of our founders’ startup journey - ranging from how they first conceived the idea and met their co-founders, to details of how they secured their first funding and challenges along the way. The purpose and our hope for this podcast is that early-stage founders are able to see themselves in these stories and perhaps draw inspiration while they continue to build sustainable, large businesses.
We kickstart this series with Thirukumaran Nagarajan, Co-Founder, and CEO of Ninjacart (leveraging technology to reimagine the fresh farm produce supply chain). Today Ninjacart delivers over 1500 tonnes of vegetables and fruits to thousands of shops and retailers across multiple cities in India while raising the income of the 20,000+ farmers on its platform through fair prices. Ninjacart’s constant innovations in the supply chain were pivotal in ensuring a steady supply of fruits and vegetables during the nationwide lockdown to combat the coronavirus.
Podcast Summary
2:55: Early Life jobs and reflection on life
7:45: Learnings from Taxi For Sure work experience
16:30 - Building the founding team
26:00- First meeting with Subrata, Accel at his home
36:26 - The major pivot to the business model
42:32 - Rapid fire round
The music used in the podcast is Ragabop - composed by Prasanna. We thank Prasanna and team for providing the necessary permissions to use their track.
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[@anandsinghthakur1152]

Journey is more beautiful than destination ❤️❤️

[@BigDataLogin]

inspiring to hear Thiru's journey and challenges - and the Accel team also is so cheerful and down-to-earth... its heartening and encouraging..

[@BigDataLogin]

Thanks Accel & Thiru for this rich content...Huge learnings for us... and Thiru's humble & no nonsense questions & answers will help us in our journey .... I would always say this too... that the journey IS the destination 😇 -

[@juliemakay5917]

thank you for sharing , i am a young farmer and soon to be owner of a agritech business and this was very inspiring

[@prakashlawankar1027]

This is true startup story'. Thank you Subbrato and Tiru.

[@BigDataLogin]

Wow, first time am hearing Thiru, its rich in experience

[@alibinakram2213]

I have started the same thing in Pakistan i was growing vegetables now I am also supplying and retailing vegetables directly to consumer and it is very easy

[@jayanthg1239]

All the best with your start up

[@gowthamkannanks]

Thiru machi... sema

[@prasathkarupu3287]

@anand thank you. I will meet you soon.

[@BigDataLogin]

cool

[@akashpawar8535]

Nice sir

[@anilbangera1]

Super

[@Ashley427]

Soon it will become a huge corporate like Amazon

[@neilatsterling7412]

Interesting. It would've been helpful to have captions, the accent sometimes is a bit hard to follow.

[@Ashley427]

It has huge scale scope

[@mangeshjagtap7783]

I wanted to be the member of this group