WayCool

AgriTech · Chennai, IN

Agritech company running a soil-to-sale food production and distribution supply chain.

Founders

Karthik Jayaraman (India · ♂) — An IIT-Madras engineer and ex-McKinsey/automotive executive who partnered with Sanjay Dasari to build WayCool, applying supply-chain rigor to India's fragmented farm-to-fork agri supply chains.
Sanjay Dasari (India · ♂) — A Babson entrepreneurship grad and ex-BCG consultant whose passion for solving agricultural problems drove him to co-found WayCool with Karthik Jayaraman, to whom his father (an Ashok Leyland MD) introduced him.
Vignesh Kumar Manogaran (India · ♂) — A co-founder of WayCool Foods, helping build out the agri supply-chain operations from Chennai.
Sendhil Kumar Natarajan (India · ♂) — A co-founder of WayCool Foods, contributing to the company's operations and supply-chain build.

Shares the most investors with (number = shared investors):

Date	Round	Amount
Mar 2026	Funding round WayCool raised ₹210 Cr (~$22.7M) in a round led by Lightrock India according to MCA filings.	$22.7M
Jul 2022	Debt Agritech startup WayCool raised INR 50 Cr in debt funding from Stride Ventures.	$6.1M
Jun 2022	Series D Plus Agritech startup WayCool raised $40M in a strategic round led by global investment firm 57 Stars.	$40M
Jan 2022	Series D Plus Fresh produce startup WayCool raised $117M in a Series D from LightRock, LightBox, FMO, IFC and others, India's biggest agritech round at the time.	$117M
Dec 2020	Debt Chennai-based agritech WayCool Foods raised $7.8 Mn in debt from Samunnati, RBL Bank and InnoVen Capital.	$7.8M
Jun 2020	Growth WayCool raised $5.5 Mn.	$5.5M

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