konektAgri

About us

Company

An Agtech company with the purpose of improving agricultural productivity in Cambodia. Our solutions leverage data analytics to enable, educate, and encourage farmers to use technology to improve their yield and livelihoods.

Our mission

Improving farmer’s lives by powering prosperous agricultural communities

Our vision

Innovating for the farming community to transform their decision-making process

Our value

  • Integrity: Walk the talk!
  • Innovation: Celebrate failure!
  • Leadership: Own your work!

Founding story

Founders

Carl and Perwez met at IMD Business School in Switzerland, where they discovered a shared passion for using technology as an equalizer in society. Their interest in Cambodian agriculture is attributed to Carl's familial ties and the potential to make a significant impact on people's lives, as farming contributes to more than one-fifth of Cambodia's GDP.
konektAgri was thus born, keeping the farmer at its core. While researching the Cambodian market, they met Sokkim, a 20-year-old AgTech entrepreneur whose work has impacted hundreds of Cambodian farmer households and Janmejaya whose technology company has worked to build credit solutions for underserved families in India.
Together, they diagnosed and developed the idea of agriKredit to solve the problem of high credit costs, so that farmers can concentrate on their job – feeding the world!

Meet our team

Carl Huang

Carl Chih-Chieh Huang

Co-Founder

MBA - IMD, Switzerland Founder of a beverage bottling company in Myanmar. 10+ year in S.E Asia as Head of Sales, General Manger in manufacturing

Pervez

Pervez Akhtar

Co-Founder

MBA - IMD, Switzerland; MS - Univ. of Michigan, USA strategy consultant and startup advisor. 10+ year in the US, ASIA&Europe in consulting & engineering

Sokkim

Sokkim Neak

head of operation

B tech, Information Technology - Cambodia. Founder of CHALATEX, Cambodia (SInce 2021) Featured by Impact hub & IFAD (United Nations)

Janmejay

Janmejay Mohapatra

Head of Technology

B tech, Computer Science - India. Founder of Ajatus software, India ($7 m) that specialize in Web, Mobile apps, and analytic platform design

Nouen Thanong

Nouen Thanong

Admin and Finance

Kean Youhorng

Kean Youhorng

Geospatial Data Analyst

Ten Vattana

Ten Vattana

Geospatial Data Analyst

Pungmonyratanak

Khun Pungmonyratanak

Business Analyst

Advisory team

Chao-ching Huang

Market

Chao-ching Huang

Chairman, TCM Eng., Cambodia

Dr. Sophea Nhean

Agronomy

Dr. Sophea Nhean

Ministry of Culture, Vice Dean of Royal University of Agriculture, Cambodia

Jagriti De

Technology

Jagriti De

Senior Director, DHL Digital Business, USA

Takashi Tsushima

Agricultural finance

Takashi Tsushima

CEO, Khemrak Machinery (Microfinance), Cambodia

Dr. Christian Kingombe

Impact investment

Dr. Christian Kingombe

Managing Partner, 4IP group (Impact Investing Group), Switzerland