Gates-Backed Agritech Startup Raises Fresh Funding From Google

Agriculture technology provider Cropin Technology Solutions Pvt. raised 1.13 billion rupees ($14 million) from investors including Alphabet Inc.’s Google, defying a strained funding climate globally.

The Indian startup, which has built a cloud-computing service for farmers and other agriculture stakeholders, said in a statement Monday that Japan’s JSR Corp. also joined as a new backer. Existing investors including ABC Impact and Chiratae Ventures participated in the pre-Series D funding round too.

Cropin will use the funds to expand its cloud platform as demand increases for predictive intelligence in agriculture. Agritech startups are starting to garner investor attention as population ...