Saharsa Fresh is built on the easiest kind of trust to find — and the hardest to fake: four years in the same hostel room.
This company started where most things at IIT Bombay start — over chai, in a hostel room, late at night. Two Chemical Engineering students from the 2025 batch, who'd lived in the same room for over four years, kept circling back to the same question:
The answer wasn't romantic. India's food supply chains had grown longer, more abstract, more anonymous. Milk pooled across districts. "Pure" ghee with palm oil snuck in. Vegetables that travelled for days before they reached a kitchen. The price you paid wasn't really for the food — it was for the chain.
So we shortened the chain. We started a small dairy in Saharsa, Bihar. Native breed cows on land we farm ourselves. 200 litres of milk, hand-delivered, every morning. No middlemen, no fillers, no shortcuts.
That was step one. The plan, all along, has been bigger.
Same batch. Same hostel. Same hostel room. Different superpowers.
Co-founder · Brand & growth
Chemical Engineer from IIT Bombay's 2025 batch. Builder by instinct — currently also building SwapSo on the technology side. At Saharsa Fresh, Karan runs brand, growth, and the on-ground farm operations.
Co-founder · Operations & supply
Chemical Engineer from IIT Bombay's 2025 batch. Former Department General Secretary, Chemical Engineering at IIT Bombay — a job that meant running a department of hundreds. Currently serving as an officer at Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL). At Saharsa Fresh, Amrit anchors operations, sourcing, and the supply chain — bringing the rigour of a national PSU to a small farm.
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What's next:
Saharsa was the seed. The plan is to take Saharsa Fresh from one district in Bihar to the entire country — not by stretching ourselves thin, but by replicating what works, one product and one farmer network at a time.
Honest sourcing scales when the trust is verifiable. That's why every product line ships with proof — QR codes for ghee, named-farmer sourcing for edamame, hyperlocal delivery for milk. As we grow, the proof grows with us. Pan-India distribution, but the farm-to-family promise stays the same.
India deserves food it can trace — and small farmers deserve a brand that fights for them.
Every product is traceable to a specific farm or farmer. If we can't tell you where it came from, we don't sell it.
We pay farmers what their produce is worth — not the leftover after a chain of middlemen takes its cut.
Whatever's on the label is what's in the bottle, the jar, or the packet. Period.
We're early — and that's the best time to join. Order milk in Saharsa, get on the ghee or edamame waitlist, or just leave us a note.