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UrbanKisaan

UrbanKisaan is an AI-for-plant-biology company. We build foundation models and the physical infrastructure that trains them. Shipping a single new seed variety takes about ten+ years. Two on germplasm, three on crosses and selection, three or four on field trials, one on regulatory. Inside that decade, prediction and experiment never properly meet. DNA is abundant, phenotype data is scarce and unpaired, and the cycle never trains itself. We closed that loop. Three foundation models cover the ups

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UrbanKisaan is an AI-for-plant-biology company. We build foundation models and the physical infrastructure that trains them. Shipping a single new seed variety takes about ten+ years. Two on germplasm, three on crosses and selection, three or four on field trials, one on regulatory. Inside that decade, prediction and experiment never properly meet. DNA is abundant, phenotype data is scarce and unpaired, and the cycle never trains itself. We closed that loop. Three foundation models cover the ups

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