Milestones
From one farm in Satara to 350+ across India
The Kryzen journey in our own photos: from a self-funded farm and a few friends in 2019 to our own factory, technology and teams across India.
- 350+Farms built across India
- 100+ acresDeveloped so far
- 55,000+Learners in our farming community
- 112+People in the Kryzen team
2019: A farm, a dream and a few friends
Sudhir Devkar starts a hydroponic farm in Satara, self-funded and built with friends, to learn modern farming first-hand.
- June: our first hydroponic farm goes up in Satara
- Our first nursery batch of seedlings
- September: the first harvest
- November: BigBasket’s purchase manager visits the farm from Pune
- December: our basil starts going to BigBasket
- We film every step and share it, the start of our learning community
2020: Farming by the numbers
We turn the farm into a test lab, build our own tools to plan crops and track prices, and keep BigBasket supplied.
- Our nutrient calculator, built one plant at a time
- More technology on the farm, from January
- Price Watcher grows from an Excel sheet (first built in Bengaluru in 2018) into full software
- Output Manager and an output tracker for better crop planning
- Lot after lot of basil to BigBasket, more than one person could harvest
- Dharmendra Rai of the Association for Vertical Farming visits, and later becomes our mentor
- Our first home kit prototype, and the first Kryzen board
2021: Learning in public
Through the pandemic we kept farming, filming and teaching, and our community kept growing.
- Hydroponic Masterclass grows on YouTube, then on Udemy
- Vikrant Chaudhry starts building Kryzen’s technology
- Early prototypes of our farm management system
- We dispatch our first home hydroponic kit
2022: Engineering, consulting and a first office
We bring engineering in-house, from circuit boards to CAD, and start building farms for others.
- July: Hydroponic Masterclass gets its own website
- hydroBUILD automation designed in-house, from chip and circuit board to software
- August: the first hydroBUILD units are ready to ship
- hydroBUILD goes to early-adopter clients as a closed system (2022 to 2024)
- All designs move to CAD with technical specifications
- September: we start hydroponic consulting
- October: our first rented office in Pune, one cabin for three people
2023: Taking it to farmers, and to Shark Tank
We take hydroponics on the road, show our systems at exhibitions and pitch Kryzen on national television.
- February: consultancy meetups, with a team of five
- March: our first farmer conference outside Maharashtra
- A dehydration unit for value-added produce
- Our own A-frame and flat-bed systems are made and quality-checked in-house
- August: our first experience centre opens to the public in Satara
- We start showing our systems at exhibitions
- November: Hydroponic Masterclass batch 2
- We shoot Shark Tank India and meet Peyush Bansal
- December: a home kit trial in an enclosed balcony
2024: The country meets Kryzen
Shark Tank India airs, our team and farms grow, we move into our own office and our work is recognised.
- January: we test our own task management system
- 1 March: our Shark Tank India episode airs
- March: a panel on Pune’s entrepreneur ecosystem
- May: farmer training programmes and project consulting in Dubai
- We buy our own office, Office 505
- June: our own farms expand
- August: Maharashtra Udyog Puraskar
- In-house manufacturing begins, with quality checks on every item
- December: hydroBUILD public launch at an exhibition
2025: Our own factory
We open our manufacturing unit in Satara and expand our offices and farms.
- May: we buy our first drill machine
- July: guest session on entrepreneurship at DPU
- September: our manufacturing factory starts in Satara
- November: in-house MS fabrication
- Our office grows, and so do our own farms
2026: Built to scale
A bigger factory set-up, uniformed construction teams and our second experience centre, in Pune.
- February: factory storage and racking
- March: GI pipes stocked at our factory
- August: our construction teams get their uniforms
- Work starts on our second experience centre, in Baner, Pune
- Our own podcast and shooting studio
Our websites
One website at a time, as Kryzen grew
Each new website marks a new way we started helping farmers, by the date its domain was registered.
- 22 Mar 2020hydroponicmasterclass.comHydroponic Masterclass, our training course
- 21 Aug 2020kryzen.comOur main website
- 20 Feb 2024alpha.kryzen.comEarly-access software for clients
- 14 Jan 2026eatpuregreens.comPure Greens, our fresh produce brand
- 26 Jan 2026webinar.kryzen.comFree webinars on hydroponic farming
- 15 Apr 2026hydroponics.kryzen.comHydroponics guides and resources
- 27 Sep 2026hydroponicsfarmtraining.comHands-on hydroponic farm training
- 28 Sep 2026polyhouseconstructions.comPolyhouse construction services
Life at Kryzen
The people behind the scenes
Festivals, team lunches and late-night shoots: we work to the farm’s clock, and we celebrate together.
Diwali 2024 
Independence Day at the office 
Lunch with our ground team 
Team dinner after buying our office 
Ganesh puja at the new office 
Shooting reels after office hours
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