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Crop nutrition with a climate dividend
Patent-pending. Already selling. 64% gross margin at pilot scale. Raising pre-seed to prove it in the field.
- gross margin, pilot scale
- 64%gross margin, pilot scale
- COGS per litre, falling at 100 L/day
- ₹90→60COGS per litre, falling at 100 L/day
- average selling price
- ₹250/Laverage selling price
- reproducible batches
- 20 Lreproducible batches
- provisional patent, India
- Filedprovisional patent, India
- chemist founders + ICAR mentor
- 2 + 1chemist founders + ICAR mentor
- incorporated, Bengaluru
- Oct 2024incorporated, Bengaluru
- self-funded to date
- Pre-seedself-funded to date
Voxelta Private Limited, CIN U62099KA2024PTC193931
Why it wins
- 58.6%of Indian soils short of sulphur, and 51.2% short of zinc
- 4 in 1Zn, Mg, S, K in one patent-pending product
- 273×N₂O warming power: a climate story buyers and funders value
- 38.8 Mturea a year in India; crops use only 30–35% of its nitrogen
Market size
- India fertiliser$10.8B
- Slow-release$1.2–1.5B
- Micronutrients$810M
- Biostimulants$250M
Zinc is the fastest-growing micronutrient, at 8.24% a year.
Mordor Intelligence 2025 · MRFR
Unit economics
Cost per litre today
- Salts and alkali₹65
- Packaging, filtration₹15
- Spinach₹10
On an average ₹250 per litre selling price
Gross margin by channel
- Home garden, ₹500/L65%
- Small farmer, ₹350/L50%
- Commercial, ₹200/L40%
- Bulk and tender, ₹150/L30%
Built. Now. Next.
Self-funded to a selling product. The next 12 months turn it into field data and distribution.
Oct 2024 to today
Built
- Stable pH 7 colloid
- Provisional patent filed
- No burn at field strength
- Water-stable reserve
- 20 L batches reproduced
- First nursery sales
Now · Aug–Sep 2026
Proof of value
- 50 farmer pilots: free samples, paid repeats
- 1–4% dose-finding trials
- 250 ml home-garden bottle launch
- 2
Oct–Nov 2026
Scale distribution
- 50 agri-dealers across 3 districts
- 20 L/day production with batch SOPs
- Online store and marketplace listings
- 3
Dec 2026–Mar 2027
Institutional traction
- Estate trials in grapes, tea and spices
- Registration dossier with a registration partner
- Distributor and FPO federation agreements
- 4
Apr–Jul 2027
Validation and cost-down
- Replicated plots against ZnSO₄ and Zn-EDTA
- NABL chemistry and multi-location bio-efficacy data
- COGS from ₹90 to ₹60 per litre at 100 L/day
Risks, handled
Risk
FCO registration
Schedule VI dossier with a registration partner
Risk
Field evidence
Multi-location replicated trials, claims kept to data
Risk
Scale-up
20 L to 100 L a day, same chemistry
Risk
Seasonality
Nursery, dealer, FPO, online and tender channels
Risk
IP
Complete specification budgeted this year
Meet the founders
- DKDinesh KFounder, product lead and R&D
- SHSwetha HCo-founder, quality and operations
- KGDr. K. GiridharMentor, ICAR-NIANP