About us

A cold storage family, building apps for India's cold chain

ColdKonnect Tech Solutions Pvt Ltd is based in Hyderabad. We make two apps: Cold Konnect for farmers and traders, and Cold Konnect Partner for cold storages, trucks and suppliers.

Kisaan Veer asks where to store his harvest; Vyapaar Veer answers that his cold storage is on Cold Konnect and can be booked in the app — The farmer's sideThe partner's side

The problem

A large share of India's fruit and vegetables never reaches a plate in good condition, because there is no cold storage or truck nearby when it is needed. Farmers also often sell in a hurry, without knowing the price in the next mandi.

Our model

Farmers and traders use the Cold Konnect app for free.
Cold storages, truck owners and suppliers pay a yearly plan for the Partner app, from ₹25,000 a year for a cold storage.
No commission on deals. People agree rates and pay each other directly.

See partner pricing →

Where we are

2Apps live on Android and iPhone

As of 29 September 2026.

Our story

Three generations of one family, working for farmers since 1970.

P. Sudhakar Rao

Horticulture adviser, 1970 to 2022

Advised fruit farmers in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka for five decades, and helped bring the Ganesh pomegranate to drought-hit Anantapur.

Dr. P. Upender Rao

Founder, Coldcare Services

Began building cold storages in 1998 and incorporated Coldcare Services (P) Ltd in 2000. The family has built and run cold storages ever since.

Koundinya Pochampally

Founder, Cold Konnect

Came home in 2022 after his Masters in London and started building Cold Konnect: one app that puts prices, storage and trucks in a farmer’s hand.

Read the original letters and news reports in our legacy archive →

On the record

Our family's work for farmers, in the original documents

Before Cold Konnect, P. Sudhakar Rao, Koundinya's grandfather, spent five decades advising fruit farmers. Letters and news reports from that time are kept in our archive.

NHB
ICAR-IIHR
MIDH

“…the district has emerged as fruit bowl of Andhra Pradesh.”
N. Raghuveera Reddy, Minister for Agriculture, Andhra Pradesh, 2010, on P. Sudhakar Rao's work in Anantapur. Read the letter (PDF)

See the original documents