Swapnil Jadhav

Founder and CEO Map My Crop

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Swapnil Jadhav, who uses the name Neil Jadhav publicly and in most company material, is the founder and chief executive of Map My Crop, a precision-agriculture platform that applies satellite imagery and machine learning to crop monitoring. The business trades as Map My Crop and is operated by Hardcastle Agrotech Solutions Inc., headquartered in New York with further offices internationally. Its proposition is to replace periodic, manual field scouting with continuous remote observation: the platform reads soil health, water stress, growth stage and disease signals from orbital imagery, then translates those signals into agronomic recommendations for individual farmers and for agribusinesses managing large supplier networks. Jadhav came to the problem from the satellite and geospatial side rather than from farming, and the company’s positioning reflects that — it is built as a data and AI infrastructure layer for agriculture rather than as a farm-management app.

Career Highlights

• Founder and CEO of Map My Crop, the satellite-and-AI agriculture platform operated by Hardcastle Agrotech Solutions Inc.
• More than fourteen years of experience across satellite, artificial intelligence and space technology.
• Founded and successfully exited an earlier geospatial venture before Map My Crop.
• Author of papers on agriculture and artificial intelligence, and a recipient of entrepreneurship awards.
• Speaker in the Start-Up Arena at the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in San Francisco, in the scale-up case studies session on AI, data science and biotechnology.
• Map My Crop is backed by Startup Wise Guys and YourNest Venture Capital alongside angel investors.

Professional Journey

Jadhav’s working life has been spent in satellite and geospatial technology rather than in agriculture proper, and Map My Crop is the product of applying the first field to the second. By his own account and that of the conference programmes that have hosted him, he has more than fourteen years in satellite imagery, artificial intelligence and space technology — a span that puts the start of his career in the early 2010s, when commercial satellite imagery was becoming cheap and frequent enough to support continuous monitoring rather than occasional survey work.

His first venture was a geospatial information systems business, Hardcastle GIS, which he founded and later exited. The Hardcastle name carried forward: the company behind Map My Crop is incorporated as Hardcastle Agrotech Solutions Inc., which suggests continuity of ownership and branding between the two ventures rather than a clean break.

Map My Crop itself is built around a straightforward premise — that satellite data, processed by models trained on crop-specific signatures, can tell a grower more about a field more often than a person walking it can. The company reports supporting hundreds of crop types across more than eighty countries, with automated farm-boundary detection, irrigation modelling, soil-health indices and disease detection among the outputs. These are the company’s own figures and should be read as such; secondary listings quote materially lower numbers for the same metrics. Investors include the accelerator-backed fund Startup Wise Guys and YourNest Venture Capital, with angel participation alongside.

Alongside running the company, Jadhav has taken a public-facing role in the agritech field: he has authored papers on agriculture and AI, appeared on international broadcast and trade media on the subject, and been selected to present in the start-up track at the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in San Francisco. He leads a team that includes chief operating officer Rajesh Shirole, chief product and technology officer Ranjeet Shetye and a director of agronomy and product, Dr Bhushan Gosavi — a structure that pairs the satellite and AI engineering with resident agronomic expertise.

Education

Symbiosis International University

MSc, Geoinformatics

Jadhav also holds a BCA (Bachelor of Computer Applications). The awarding institution for that degree is not named in any source located, and the university recorded above for the MSc is carried forward from an earlier record rather than independently confirmed; the degree itself is confirmed by his published conference biography.