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Aditya Agarwalla is a social entrepreneur and co-founder of Kisan Network. He grew up in New Dehli, India and currently resides there. From 2012-2015, Agarwalla attended Princeton University, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering as well as a Computer Science degree. He has worked as a software engineering intern, a computer science lab teaching assistant, and is a Thiel Fellow for the Thiel Foundation.
Agarwalla co-founded Kisan Network in 2015. Backed by the Thiel Fellowship and Y Combinator, Kisan Network is an online marketplace for small-scale farmers in India. A smartphone acts as a middleman, facilitating sales between the farmers and institutional buyers lowering costs on the buyers' end and securing better deals for the farmers. In less than a year, more than 1 million pounds of crops have been moved through his platform.
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