Making Sense of Manam Chocolate's Fundraise

Will AI learn to cut mangos well? Indian housewife Nagireddy Sriramyachandra wears a smartphone on her head as she records her actions through motion capture while slicing mangoes at her home in Chennai (R.Satish BABU) Credits: R.Satish BABU/AFP/AFP

State of Agritech - 17th June 2026

In Today’s Edition:

1/ Making Sense of Manam Chocolate’s Fundraise

There are two ways to build a chocolate brand on Indian cacao. Manam wants to scale from three experiential retail stores to eighteen. Can craft chocolate thrive using the rocket fuel of VC funding without losing its essential identity?

2/ Decoding PerPlant’s Digital Ag Moat

PerPlant is attempting to make the existing tractor-sprayer stack intelligent in an European context. When camera is getting commoditized, can crop-protection workflows become a stronger moat?

3/ ONO Ag takes A Fintech Turn

Can ONO.Ag convert mandi players workflows into credit intelligence in an Indian context?

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