Why uplifting the lives of farmers in Indonesia goes beyond farmer apps with Elevarm co-founder and CTO Febi Agil Ifdillah and CPO Bayu Adi Persada (Call #130)

On Call with Insignia Ventures

In this call, ⁠Febi Agil Ifdillah⁠ (co-founder and CTO) and ⁠Bayu Adi Persada (CPO) dial in from Indonesia. They are tech leaders at Elevarm, a digitally-enabled ecosystem to uplift the lives of 15 million smallholder farmers in their country's fragmented agriculture industry and ultimately contribute to the world's food and environmental sustainability. Their call with Paulo comes as they just launched their first sustainability and impact report⁠, which is a great introduction not just to Elevarm, but also Indonesian agriculture.

Timestamps

(01:15) Introducing Elevarm and our guests;

(02:56) How a tech founder and a seasoned unicorn senior product manager found their mission in agriculture;

(10:13) Elevarm’s outside-in, holistic ecosystem approach to uplifting farmers;

(22:43) Launching Elevarm’s first sustainability and impact report and key insights into Indonesian agriculture;

About our guests

Febi Agil Ifdillah is co-founder and CTO of Elevarm. Growing up in a remote village in Bogor, Indonesia, Febi is a first-generation college graduate. He studied under full scholarship from the Indonesian Government to pursue a degree of Bachelor of Science in Computer Science/Informatics from (ITB) Bandung Institute of Technology’s School of Electrical Engineering and Informatics. He was a Machine Learning engineer before jumping into the agritech space.

Bayu Adi Persada is CPO of Elevarm. He has had more than seven years as a product manager, head of product, and CPO for several companies in Indonesia, including Bukalapak and Grab. He received his Bachelors' from the Bandung Institute of Technology in Informatics Engineering and his Masters in ICTs for Development from The University of Manchester.

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