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Koltiva
The Swiss-Indonesian company making agricultural supply chains traceable, inclusive and climate-smart - from a single farm plot to the shelf.
The Swiss-Indonesian company making agricultural supply chains traceable, inclusive and climate-smart - from a single farm plot to the shelf.
Most of the world's coffee, chocolate and palm oil begins on farms that are, on paper, invisible. A smallholder in Sulawesi or Ivory Coast may grow the raw material for a global brand and yet never appear in any record the brand can audit. No plot boundary. No proof of origin. No leverage. Koltiva was built to close that gap.
Founded in Indonesia in 2013 as a cocoa-tracing tool called CocoaTrace, the company has grown into a Swiss-Indonesian agritech that describes itself as "triple tech" - agritech, fintech and climate tech woven together. Its bet is simple: give every farm plot an identity and a data trail, and the whole chain above it becomes accountable.
Today that trail stretches across more than 60 commodities, from the familiar - cocoa, coffee, rubber, palm oil - to the less obvious, including seaweed, tuna and shrimp. The company reports over two million registered producers and thousands of business customers spanning more than 90 countries.
The engine is a platform called KoltiTrace, which knits together the alphabet soup of enterprise systems - MIS, ERP, CRM, GIS, IoT and digital finance - into one place a brand can watch its supply chain move. But software alone rarely reaches a remote farm. So Koltiva pairs it with KoltiSkills: agronomists and field teams who profile producers, map plots, run training and collect the ground-truth data the software depends on.
That combination - code plus boots on the ground - is the detail that separates Koltiva from a pure-software competitor. It is slower and harder to scale. It is also why the data holds up when a regulator or a brand asks where, exactly, a bag of cocoa came from.
"By providing comprehensive seed-to-table traceability, Koltiva empowers corporations to navigate evolving regulations while enhancing smallholder producers' livelihoods."
- Manfred Borer, Co-Founder & CEOKoltiva's stack is modular. Brands can start with traceability and add finance, compliance or field services as the pressure - regulatory or commercial - grows.
Digital seed-to-table traceability integrating MIS, ERP, CRM, GIS and IoT - with ESG monitoring, deforestation and land-use-change mapping, and climate-impact tracking on web and mobile.
Agronomists and project teams handling producer profiling, plot mapping, risk and impact assessments, and training - the human layer that makes the data trustworthy.
Purpose-built for the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR): geolocation, due diligence and deforestation-risk verification for cocoa, coffee, rubber and palm oil.
Commodity procurement and trading support connecting producers, cooperatives and buyers within a single traceable network.
Digital finance for farmers - e-wallet, cashless and traceable premium payments, and micro-insurance that extend inclusion down to the plot.
Agricultural GHG and Scope 3 assessments, carbon monitoring, and impact measurement and reporting for sustainability programs.
Koltiva's footprint is anchored in Indonesia - roughly half its smallholder network - and spread across the Americas, EMEA and the rest of APAC. The bars below are an illustrative read of that regional distribution, not audited figures.
Supply-chain traceability is a crowded and fast-moving field. Analysts frame it as part of a supply-chain-management market measured in the tens of billions of dollars. Competitors such as Farmforce, Geora and CurubaTech attack pieces of it - farm management, blockchain provenance, environmental monitoring.
Koltiva's differentiation is breadth plus presence. It spans many commodities rather than one, it operates its own field workforce rather than relying purely on partners, and it layers finance and compliance on top of raw traceability.
"Koltiva exemplifies how modern tech can reshape conventional industries."
- Helen Wong, Managing Partner, AC VenturesPT Koltiva launches CocoaTrace to digitize smallholder cocoa farmers.
Koltiva AG is set up in Switzerland; the company expands into palm oil.
Seaweed (Seascape) is added and the first multi-commodity traceability platform launches.
Traceability, extension services and digital finance are integrated into one ecosystem.
A seven-figure Series A led by AC Ventures closes; the platform passes one million registered producers.
KoltiVerify launches for EU deforestation compliance; a Colombian entity is added.
An AI traceability initiative with AI Singapore and SUGATA aims to automate ESG data collection.
In September 2023 Koltiva closed a seven-figure Series A - modest by headline-chasing standards, but backed by the traction of a network already past a million producers.
Koltiva provides software and field services that make agricultural supply chains traceable, inclusive and climate-smart - mapping smallholder farms, tracking commodities from seed to table, and helping brands meet sustainability and deforestation regulations.
It was founded in 2013 in Indonesia. Co-founder and CEO Manfred Borer previously worked on agricultural projects with the Swiss non-profit Swisscontact.
The company employs roughly 490 people and reports over 2 million registered producers and thousands of business customers across more than 90 countries.
A B2B model: SaaS subscriptions to KoltiTrace plus paid professional services (KoltiSkills) such as farm mapping, training, compliance and impact measurement, with added digital-finance features.
A compliance product launched in 2024 that helps companies meet the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) by verifying geolocation and deforestation-risk data for commodities like cocoa, coffee, rubber and palm oil.