GreenPod Labs™

Introducing Freshpods: GreenPod Labs™ spent more than 8 months of research in the banana export supply chain to build a revolutionary product to delay the ripening of bananas during long-distance exports. After collecting more than 200k data points built a product that can delay the ripening for 60+ days at 13*C. Several top banana exporters have already successfully shipped more than 500+ banana containers in the last few months. The volumes are increasing month on month. The execution and learning through this project gave very different perspective for me and the team. #greenpodlabs #banana #spoilage #exports #innovation

We are expanding our team at GreenPod Labs™ We're actively looking for multiple roles. If you are keen to work in a startup environment and grow alongside, this is the right opportunity to join our team. If you have any questions, please reach out to info@greenpodlabs.com Check out all the available openings and apply here: https://lnkd.in/gsNMXpaw Business Development Associate:  The role expects candidates to be a self-starter and able to drive sales growth and responsibilities include developing marketing strategies, establishing networks with industries, maintaining valued customer relationships, and identifying and capitalizing on business opportunities. Admin:   We’re looking for a highly organized and proactive office administrator to help us manage the office's daily operations, track expenses, and process invoices by collaborating with all the departments. And also coordinating office activities and operations to secure efficiency and compliance with company policies Operations Intern:  This role is expected to bring strong technical skills and agility to handle multiple tasks and deliver with quality. Support the operations team with the production process, quality control, cross-functionality with the other teams, and ensure safety protocol compliance. R&D Intern: This role is expected to bring in a strong scientific background to closely work with the analytical team in the R&D. Support the analytical team in chemical analysis of the product samples, data interpretation, and quality control procedures for the product samples on a daily basis. #greenpodlabs #newopenings #careeropportunities #startup #businessdevelopment #operations #Research #adminroles

GreenPod Labs Market Insights: The more time we spend on the field understanding the crop variabilities, farm practices, inherent fruit quality, etc. - we build more refined insights about various challenges in fresh produce supply chain. Within the banana export supply chain, crop procurement is happening across multiple locations such as Tembhurni (Maharashtra), Tadipathri (Andhra Pradesh), etc. The fruit quality and spoilage across these different locations are significantly different. To get deeper into this hypothesis our team collected water samples from the banana wash station to quantify the microbial load across two different locations. The samples were analyzed from more than 10+ farms combined. The results showed that the microbial load in Andhra Pradesh is 2 to 4 times higher compared to Maharashtra. There might be multiple reasons for this such as atmospheric conditions, fruit care, farm maintenance, etc. Building a product that acknowledges these inherent differences is critical to provide long-term value addition. As we get more data points, we keep working on improving our product to facilitate these variabilities. Gayathri Saivenkatesh Tharshini Venkatesh #microbialload #bananafarm_location #greenpodlabs

GreenPod Labs Market Insights: While working on any fresh produce supply chain. The question we always dabble around is should we evaluate crop quality using subjective data (flavor, taste, color, cosmetic look) or objective data (firmness, brix, maturity)? From a B2B customer point of view, subjective data is what matters from a product development/ R&D point of view - objective data is more critical. For the last few months, we have started building a bridge between subjective data and objective data. This has helped us communicate better with our customer and build products accurately that fit their needs. For example, the color of the crop is mapped with the brix of the crop - this builds the correlation between what happens outside to what is happening inside. Even though this requires more upfront cost and time - this saves a ton of time and money long term. #greenpodlabs #cropquality #subjective #objective

GreenPod Labs Insights: While working on the Banana supply chain understanding we collected several crop data points to understand the crop quality variations across different farms. One data point we tracked was the respiration rate of bananas (without any treatment) from different farms over 20 to 25 days using our tools. We did these exercises across 7- 10 farms. We ensured the bananas had the same maturity across all these farms The outcome was fascinating, for the first week we didn't see any significant difference in the respiration rate across different farms but over the shelf life, this difference was significant. The image below shows amount of variability across different farms in the respiration rate. Multiple variables contribute to these variabilities such as heat, light exposure, agri inputs, farm management, soil type, rain exposure, etc. This helped us understand the depth of the problem and the need for a robust solution. Jaganivash B Chakravarthy M #greenpodlabs #banana #respirationrate #cropquality