About
Operator. Strategist. Building infrastructure for smallholder supply chains.
I'm Nikhil Pradhan. I build operational infrastructure for places spreadsheets forgot.
Since 2020 I've been CEO of ApiCare, an agri-tech venture operating in Sikkim — India's only fully organic state. We work with 125+ smallholder beekeepers and farmers across three Himalayan districts under a World Bank RAMP partnership with the Government of Sikkim. Our supply chain has cleared three KPMG audit cycles with zero findings and we are building toward an EU export pipeline.
In 2025 I joined the Erasmus Mundus MBA program in Impact Entrepreneurship (EMMIE) — a fellowship that's taken me from Zagreb to Vilnius and, in September 2026, on to Liège. I graduate in December 2026.
Alongside the MBA, I'm building FarmLedger — a WhatsApp-native AI traceability and credit-profile platform for the world's smallest farms. Multimodal AI extracts data from farmer-submitted photos to generate credit profiles a bank can underwrite against. The work sits at the intersection of traceability infrastructure, smallholder finance, and the kind of supply-chain transparency that EUDR will require by 2027. FarmLedger closed its first $15K seed round in 2026.
What's next
I'm moving toward Strategy & Operations roles at platform companies in Europe — marketplaces, fintech, and logistics platforms where the work is dense and the problems are operational at scale. I want to bring five years of operator instinct to teams building products that survive contact with reality. Graduating December 2026, EU work-eligible, open to conversations now.