1970
First generation
P. Sudhakar Rao
Visionary horticultural consultant
Serving India's farmers since 1970 · Now in your pocket
Three generations. One promise: India's farmers.
Cold Konnect is the third chapter of a 56-year family mission to lift India's farmers — counsel in 1970, cold-chain construction in 1998, and today, India's first cold-chain super-app.
56 years of serving farmers
Lakhs of farmers counselled
5 Indian languages
9:41
Discover
Cold storage
near you
near you
Hyderabad, Telangana5km
Sangam Cold Store
1,200 MT · −2°C
Krishna Reefers
8 trucks · Live GPS
Maharaja Storage
4,500 bags · +4°C
Today's mandi
₹2,450 / qtl
Tomato · Kolar
▲ 4.2%
Trusted by growers, partners and corporates across India
Sangam Cold Storage
Krishna Reefers
Maharaja Storage
GreenLeaf Farms
Anand Logistics
Sai AgriTech
Pravin Refrigeration
Deccan Cold Chain
Maitri Cold Stores
TruckBuddy India
Sangam Cold Storage
Krishna Reefers
Maharaja Storage
GreenLeaf Farms
Anand Logistics
Sai AgriTech
Pravin Refrigeration
Deccan Cold Chain
Maitri Cold Stores
TruckBuddy India
Since 1970 · 56 years of service
Not a startup born in a garage. A mission, three generations old.
For 56 years, one family from Andhra Pradesh has worked to lift India's farmers. First with counsel. Then with cold storages. Now with a super-app that brings every part of the cold chain into one place.
1998
Second generation
Dr. P. Upender Rao
Cold-chain expert & founder, Coldcare Services
2022
Third generation
Koundinya Pochampally
Founder, Cold Konnect
When Koundinya Pochampally returned from London in 2022 — days after his grandfather's passing — he didn't set out to launch a startup. He set out to honour a 50-year promise and put every tool a farmer needs into one app.
By the numbers
A legacy you can measure.
From a single horticulturist counselling pomegranate growers in Anantapur, to a network spanning every Indian state — the numbers tell the story.
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Years of farmer service · since 1970
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Verified marketplace subcategories
Live route intelligence
Watch every reefer move in real time.
Live GPS + reefer setpoint + geofence breach — all in your pocket. Partners get cargo proof; shippers get peace of mind.
- Live ETA · pings every 30 seconds
- Reefer setpoint with breach alerts
- Geofence exits push to WhatsApp
- Cargo proof shareable as PDF
Live route previewRatnagiri → New Delhi · 1,478 km
ETA
21h 14m
Speed
64 km/h
Cargo
12 MT mango
Two apps · one networkTwo sides of the cold chain.
Two sides of the cold chain.
One unified platform.
Cold Konnect
For Users
Farmers, traders, corporates — discover, monitor, decide.
- Find nearest cold storage by capacity, unit & temperature
- Compare reefer + dry truck cost estimates before contacting
- AI plant-disease scan + crop advisory (95%+ accuracy)
- Source fertilisers, pesticides, seeds & equipment
- Live mandi rates from Agmarknet + IMD weather
- Community Q&A and produce buy/sell in 5 languages
Explore the user appFree for 90 days · then ₹499/yr
Cold Konnect Partner
For Partners
Cold storage owners, fleet operators & marketplace vendors.
- IoT telemetry — chamber temp, humidity, door open, RTC
- Live GPS + geofence for every reefer / dry truck
- Inventory + customer-wise reports as shareable PDFs
- B2B procurement — source packaging, machinery, raw inputs
- List in 92 vendor subcategories · Consultants → Manufacturers
- Per-listing subscriptions — pay only for what you list
Become a partnerFrom ₹3,000 / truck / year
Marketplace · both directions
A marketplace that works for both ends of the field.
Farmers source inputs · partners source operations. One catalog, two sides, ninety-two verified subcategories.
For farmers · in the User app
Find every input your crop needs.
Browse verified suppliers of fertilisers, pesticides, seeds, drip systems and farm equipment — searchable by district, crop and brand. Direct phone or WhatsApp contact, no middlemen.
Fertilisers
Pesticides & nutrients
Seeds & saplings
Farm equipment
For partners · in the Partner app
B2B procurement, made operational.
Cold-storage operators and fleet owners source packaging, pallets, refrigerants, spares, sensors and machinery from verified manufacturers and suppliers. One marketplace — both ends of the chain.
Packaging & crates
Refrigerants & coils
Construction & EPC
IoT & sensors
4 main categories · 92 subcategories — Consultants (10) · Contractors (20) · Suppliers (46) · Manufacturers (16) — all KYC-verified before listing.
Community feed
A village square, in your pocket.
The Cold Konnect community lets farmers post photos of an affected crop and get answers from fellow growers and verified experts — or list a fresh harvest for sale and find a buyer next district over.
- Buy & sell produce directly with other farmers
- Post a plant photo, get a diagnosis from peers + experts
- Crop-specific channels — mango, pomegranate, tomato, banana
- Language-localised: Hindi · Telugu · Marathi · Punjabi · English
- Moderated by domain experts · verified badges · zero spam
Ramana K. · Anantapur, AP
2h · #pomegranate · selling
Fresh Ganesh pomegranates — 2 tonnes, picked yesterday. Looking for traders in Bengaluru or Hyderabad. ₹110/kg, negotiable on bulk. Pickup or transport, either works.
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Pooja S. · Pune, MH
5h · #tomato · help
Yellow spots spreading on tomato leaves over the last 3 days. Have we seen this? Plant.id says “early blight” — confirming with the community.
Dr. NagarajExpert
Confirmed — early blight. Copper-based fungicide, 7-day cycle. Remove infected leaves first.
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Faces from the field
Every screen you see is someone's livelihood.
Built alongside growers across Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra — the same states Sudhakar Rao garu walked for five decades.
Ramana K. · Anantapur, AP
“My grandfather worked with Sudhakar Rao garu in the 80s. Now Cold Konnect is in my pocket. Full circle.”
Anand · Kolar, KA
Booked a reefer in 8 minutes
Pooja S. · Pune, MH
Caught early blight in 4 seconds
Inside Cold Konnect
Four superpowers, one app.
Every capability below was demanded by a real farmer, trader or partner — most of them more than once. Some of these requests sit in our grandfather's field notebooks from the 1980s.
01 · Discover
Every cold storage and truck in India, on one map.
PostGIS-indexed listings of verified cold storages and refrigerated/dry trucks — sortable by distance, capacity unit and temperature setpoint. Live IoT data on every cold-storage card means you know what you walk into before you make the call.
Mixed-unit chambers
Filter by MT, bags, pallets or sq ft — depending on what you store.
Reefer & dry, side-by-side
Live GPS, reefer setpoint, geofence breach alerts, ETA pings.
Live temp on every listing
See the chamber temperature before you ever pick up the phone.
KYC verified
Aadhaar, PAN, FSSAI/GST and ownership proof, before listing goes live.
Hyderabad · 5 km
12 nearbySangam Cold Store
1,200 MT · −2°C
Krishna Reefers
8 trucks · Live GPS
Maharaja Storage
4,500 bags · +4°C
Filter: MT · Bags · Pallets · Sq ft
Cost estimator±15% indicative
Hyderabad → Mumbai · 712 km
Reefer
₹52,340
~₹73 / km
Dry
₹38,120
~₹54 / km
Fuel · diesel @ ₹91/L₹12,950
Tolls · NHAI data₹2,492
Reefer unit fuel · 5h × 3 L/h₹1,365
02 · Estimate
Know the cost before you pick up the phone.
India's first transparent truck cost estimator — side-by-side reefer vs dry breakdown using current diesel prices, NHAI toll rates, mileage curves and driver day rates. Sources are cited inline; the ±15% range is declared.
Every line item, transparently
- Fuel · live diesel rate
- NHAI tolls · per highway
- Driver day-rate · ₹1.5–1.8K
- Maintenance · ₹2.5–3.5/km
- Reefer unit fuel (reefer only)
- Operator margin · ~17–18%
Built from Sudhakar Rao's 1987 advisory: “Always show the farmer the full cost before he commits.”
03 · Diagnose
A horticulturist in your back pocket.
Point your camera at an affected leaf — get a disease diagnosis in seconds, confidence score, recommended treatment cycle and dosage, in your language. Powered by Plant.id v1 at launch; on-track for a custom in-house model trained on user-collected data.
95%+ accuracy on common diseases
Mango, tomato, pomegranate, banana, citrus — the crops India grows the most of.
Treatment plans in 5 languages
English, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Punjabi — human-translated by ag-domain experts.
Save history & share
Every scan is saved to your phone. One tap to share the report on WhatsApp.
Community fallback
Low-confidence scans escalate to the community feed for human experts to confirm.
Plant scan · result96% match
Early blight
Solanum lycopersicum · Tomato
Treatment: Copper-based fungicide, 7-day cycle. Remove infected leaves first.
Treatment in Telugu, Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi
Today's mandi · BowenpallyUpdated 11:08 AM
Tomato
₹2,450/qtl
+4.2%
Onion
₹1,820
▼ −1.4%
Banana
₹1,150
▲ +0.8%
Mango
₹4,200
▲ +2.1%
District forecast — Hyderabad 32°C · 68% RH
04 · Decide
Mandi rates, weather and forecasts. All before sunrise.
Daily mandi prices from Agmarknet across 500+ commodities. District-level weather from OpenWeather + IMD. Price-move alerts to push and WhatsApp. Every rate is timestamped so you know exactly how fresh it is.
500+
Commodities tracked
742
Districts of weather data
7 days
IMD forecast horizon
- "Last updated" timestamp on every rate — trust the data
- Price-spike alerts · opt-in by commodity, district, threshold
- Trend sparklines · 30/90/365-day comparisons
- Weather warnings push + WhatsApp before adverse events
For partners
Two more, exclusive to the Partner app.
IoT telemetry
Every chamber, every reefer. Live.
AWS IoT Core MQTT pipeline · 99.7% uptime · sub-second temperature, humidity, door-open and RTC alerts. Cargo proof for shippers, peace of mind for owners.
Chamber A · liveHealthy
2.4°C
Temperature
85%
Humidity
0
Door opens
Last 24 hMQTT · AWS IoT Core
Customer-wise reports
Inward, outward, commodity. In one PDF.
Per-customer history, monthly volume bars, commodity breakdowns and average storage duration. Export to PDF and share on WhatsApp — your accountant will love you.
Customer report · September
Vikram Traders
22 lots · 5,200 bags
MTWTFSS
Avg storage
12.4 days
Outward this month
2,820 bags
Plus seven more, baked in.
The platform basics — non-negotiables that don't need their own marketing copy, but matter on day one.
Two-sided marketplace
Farmers buy inputs · partners do B2B procurement.
Community feed
Buy/sell, ask experts, all in 5 Indian languages.
KYC verification
Aadhaar, PAN, FSSAI/GST, ownership proof.
5 Indian languages
English, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Punjabi.
Offline-first
Works on 2G. Drafts sync when signal returns.
Inventory & gatepasses
Lots, tags and gatepass PDFs in seconds.
Smart renewal reminders
Day-70/75/80/85/89 cadence via push + WhatsApp + email.
Multi-user partner accounts
Manager, supervisor, gate-clerk roles with per-permission scopes.
Razorpay subscriptions
UPI mandates · per-listing billing · GST invoices.
How it works
From install to deal in under 90 seconds.
Step
01
Install & verify
Phone OTP via MSG91. No passwords. No friction.
Step
02
Discover near you
Map-first listings indexed by PostGIS — under 200ms.
Step
03
Estimate cost
Live truck cost estimator before contacting any partner.
Step
04
Contact & close
Direct phone or WhatsApp deep-link — no in-app payment.
Pan-India from day one
A network as wide as the subcontinent.
Every listing is geo-indexed with PostGIS. Whether you're in Anantapur or Amritsar, the nearest cold storage is one tap away.
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Active partner network · updated in real time
What the field says
The people who feed India love Cold Konnect.
“My grandfather worked with Sudhakar Rao garu in the 80s. To see his grandson build something this useful for our crops — it's a full circle moment.”
Ravi C.
Pomegranate grower · Anantapur
“Our cold storage was sitting at 40% utilization. After listing on Cold Konnect we hit 88% in two months. Subscription paid for itself.”
Anjali P.
Storage owner · Telangana
“The plant scan caught early blight on my tomatoes before I could see it. Treatment plan was in Telugu. That alone is worth the app.”
Ramana K.
Farmer · Andhra Pradesh
Available now on iOS & AndroidCold Konnect,
Cold Konnect,
in your pocket.
Two free apps — for users and partners. Free for the first 90 days. No credit card required. No spam. Cancel anytime.
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