United States | Crop health using AI

2026 Top Agri-food Pioneers: Rudrojas Kunvar

Rudrojas Kunvar is the 16-year-old founder of Evion, an AI crop health platform that replaces expensive multispectral sensors with standard RGB cameras. This innovation makes precision agriculture accessible to smallholder farmers who are historically priced out of the technology. Distributed through NGO, nonprofit and industry partnerships spanning more than 50,000 farmers and growers across the United States and Asia, the platform is also expanding into large-scale forestry, working with state agencies and timber operators to bring previously inaccessible drone-based monitoring to American working forests. What sets Kunvar apart is his unwavering commitment to his mission. When offered $300,000 to drop out of school and scale the platform, he declined because accepting would have shifted Evion’s focus toward large industrial farms. Relocating to San Francisco alone at age 15, he built his startup in a professional environment alongside adult founders. Inspired by his family’s roots in rural India, Kunvar represents exactly what agri-food innovation needs by building for the people the industry has traditionally ignored.