Madhur Jain

Madhur is the CEO and Co-Founder at Varaha ClimateAg, where he's building the world's largest smallholder-focused tech platform for high-quality, nature-based carbon credits. Madhur leads a team of 80+ to develop regenerative agriculture, agroforestry, enhanced rock weathering and biochar projects, already covering 800,000+ acres across India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Kenya. Prior to co-founding Varaha, Madhur served as the 'Digital Business Lead' for the South Asia arm of a major AgriTech startup where he built three distinct business verticals and a multi-functional team of 85+ members from scratch. He also served as the first ‘India Country Director’ for a global social enterprise - PxD, which was co-founded by Economics Nobel prize laureate (2019) Michael Kremer. During his time, Madhur grew the smallholder farmer user base from 5,000 to 700,000+ farmers across 60+ districts in 6 states, and also expanded the team from 15 to 170+. Before this, Madhur successfully led supply chain and procurement projects for Godrej Agrovet in rural India. Madhur has a background in Engineering and an MBA from Indian Institute of Management – Ahmedabad. He hails from the Himalayas and is an avid wildlife photographer.

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