Brainwave Nextgen Technologies
AI-native intelligence for the rice value chain

Transparency and predictive intelligence for the rice value chain.

We are building a platform to give corporate buyers better visibility while sourcing rice - using AI, traceability, and quality-linked intelligence to predict where to buy, how much to buy, when to buy, and at what risk band.

Why now

The cost of fragmented decisions shows up as measurable losses and systemic risk.

4‑6%

Estimated harvest and post-harvest cereal losses in India

89.4%

Agricultural households owning under 2 hectares

800-5000L

Water used per kg of rice depending on region and practice

What Brainwave creates

An AI-backed procurement intelligence layer

From field signals and quality proof to traceability, supplier risk, and procurement timing.

Transparency for corporate buying

We give buyers clearer visibility into origin, crop stage, expected arrivals, quality signals, and lot-level traceability before procurement decisions are made.

Predictive procurement intelligence

AI helps answer where to buy, how much to buy, when to buy, and at what risk band across regions, suppliers, and crop windows.

Better price realization through proof

Quality evidence plus traceability can help credible suppliers and farmer networks reduce disputes and access stronger buyer realization.

How it comes together

A connected intelligence layer across the rice journey

We combine field data, satellite and weather signals, quality events, and workflow signals into an AI-backed crop and lot timeline that helps predict availability, assess procurement risk, and improve sourcing transparency.

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Seed to field events

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Crop health and risk signals

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Harvest readiness

4

Drying and storage coordination

5

Quality and traceability pack

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Procurement and dispatch visibility

About Brainwave

Built by founders who understand both agriculture and data systems

Brainwave is being built by founders who understand both the data systems behind modern supply chains and the lived economics of agricultural businesses.

Company address

Brainwave Nextgen Technologies Pvt Ltd

Phoenix Avance Business Hub, Hi Tech City

Hyderabad, Telangana 500081, India

Krishna Prajeeth Damera, Co-Founder and CEO of Brainwave

Founder

Krishna Prajeeth Damera

Co-Founder & CEO

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Prajeeth brings a global, systems-oriented lens shaped by life across 11 cities, engineering at Manipal, Deloitte, Carnegie Mellon, and AI program leadership across Canada. Brainwave is his way of bringing better tools back to the agricultural realities he saw growing up in his grandparents' village and rice mill ecosystem in Srikakulam.

Venkata Sarath Chelikani, Co-Founder and CTO of Brainwave

Founder

Venkata Sarath Chelikani

Co-Founder & CTO

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Sarath is a backend-heavy systems engineer with roots in Andhra Pradesh, degrees from GITAM and Indiana University Bloomington, and experience across LLM work at App Orchid and high-performance enterprise data infrastructure at Stackbox. Brainwave brings together his software depth with the agricultural instincts he grew up around in his family's rice bran oil business.

Brainwave Nextgen Technologies

Building transparent, AI-enabled procurement for agriculture.

If you are an FPO, miller, exporter, brand, or procurement partner, we would love to hear from you.