# UrbanKisaan

> UrbanKisaan is an AI company for plant biology, founded in Hyderabad, India in 2020 and backed by Y Combinator, BASF Venture Capital and Titan Capital. It builds foundation models that read plant DNA, rooms that grow and measure plants all year, and the seed and crop nutrition that come out of them. Customers are seed companies, research institutes, governments and farm operators across India, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Central Asia.

Legal entity: UrbanKisaan Farms Private Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of UrbanKisaan Inc. (Delaware). Contact: hello@urbankisaan.com.

## Models

- [Aadi](https://urbankisaan.com/aadi): plant genomic foundation model, reads up to a million bases of plant DNA and predicts how each allele changes gene expression.
- [Jeeva](https://urbankisaan.com/jeeva): genotype by environment model, predicts how a variety will yield in a given place.

## Infrastructure

- [GeneRush](https://urbankisaan.com/generush): speed-breeding rooms that deliver 4 to 6 crop generations a year instead of 1 or 2 in a field, so a new variety takes about 2 years instead of 10.
- [GrowRush](https://urbankisaan.com/growrush): sealed indoor farms from a 42 m² container to a campus of halls, 12 harvests a year in any climate.

## Software

- [FarmOS](https://urbankisaan.com/farmos): collects readings from sensors, cameras and scales on every plant and shows which treatment is working while a trial is still running.

## Inputs

- [Seed Genetics](https://urbankisaan.com/seed-genetics): 25 varieties bred in our rooms, including a high-protein rice.
- [Crop Nutrition](https://urbankisaan.com/crop-nutrition): liquid feeds for polyhouses and indoor farms.

## Research

- [Research](https://urbankisaan.com/research): peer-reviewed papers with IIT Madras, ICAR-NBPGR and other partners, each with a plain-language summary.

## Company

- [About](https://urbankisaan.com/about): founders, journey, backers.
- [Press](https://urbankisaan.com/press): facts to print, logos, coverage.
- [Contact](https://urbankisaan.com/contact)
- [Privacy Policy](https://urbankisaan.com/PrivacyPolicy), [Commercial Terms of Service](https://urbankisaan.com/terms-conditions-of-service), [Terms and Conditions of Sale](https://urbankisaan.com/terms-conditions-of-sale)