Experience First
Experience Before Software.
Founder & CEO Mahadev Murkute worked within the sugar industry as an officer and as part of transporter groups. This first-hand experience revealed the risks hidden inside the advance-driven labour and transport network—without a shared, trusted record.
“Gangmen was not conceived in a boardroom. It was shaped in fields, factory offices, transport yards and villages.”
Field Research Across India
Maharashtra • Karnataka • Chhattisgarh Jharkhand • Madhya Pradesh • Gujarat
Our Story
Born from the Industry. Built for Its People.
Long before Gangmen became a technology platform, it began with six years of listening, learning and validating real problems at ground level.
Field Experience
Learning how the system works
Worked inside sugar-industry operations and transporter networks.
Multi-State Research
Village-to-factory discovery
Visited districts, sub-districts and villages across six key sugar-producing states.
Listened to Every Role
Mapping real pain points
Workers, contractors, transporters, farmers and factory officers shaped the solution.
Industry Co-Creation
Validated with sector leaders
Shaped with close to 100 sugar factory CEOs and industry professionals.
THE INDUSTRY CHALLENGE
An Advance-Driven System with Hidden, Cascading Risk
In sugarcane harvesting, money moves through the entire chain months before the work begins—making trust, verification and visibility essential.
HOW THE ADVANCE CHAIN WORKS
Responsibility and capital flow from factory to field.
WHY RISK MULTIPLIES
Money Moves First. Work Happens Months Later.
Unlike most industries, harvesting labour and transport are financed well before work begins. When records remain disconnected, the same person can make commitments to multiple parties—and losses cascade.
DUPLICATE ADVANCES
One person can accept money from multiple parties without visibility.
NO SHARED VERIFICATION
Agreements stay scattered across villages, districts and states.
CASCADE OF LIABILITY
A failed worker commitment becomes a contractor and transporter loss.
LATE DISCOVERY
Fraud or default is often visible only when the season is about to begin.
THE CORE PROBLEM
The absence of one centralized trust network.
The Gangmen Solution
One Verified Identity. One Connected Industry Network.
Gangmen brings registration, verification, advances, agreements, work records, and accountability into one role-based digital ecosystem.
Centralized Trust Layer
Verify before money moves.
The Gangmen App transforms fragmented, paper-based relationships into one centralized digital network. Every stakeholder is registered once and connected to a unique, verifiable profile.
The platform is designed to flag duplicate or conflicting registrations before an advance is recorded. Authorized users can then follow agreements, payments, attendance, work, and balances in one place.
Unique Registration
One profile for each stakeholder across the connected network.
Duplicate-Risk Alerts
Potential conflicts can be flagged before money is advanced.
Digital Records
Advances, agreements and work history stay connected.
Role-Based Access
Each role sees the information required for its responsibility.
Gangmen App Features
Four Roles. One App. Complete Operational Control.
From labour advances to factory dashboards, Gangmen turns daily sugar‑industry operations into accurate, connected digital records.
Operations in One App
Track Every Rupee. Every Worker. Every Day.
For labour teams and contractors, Gangmen records advances, daily attendance, completed work, earnings, commitments, and outstanding balances—without maintaining multiple manual registers.
For transporters, the app connects vehicle assignments, diesel and fuel expenses, driver activity, transport income and contractor accounts.
For Groupmen and factories, authorized dashboards show who received money, when it was issued, and how much work remains.
Labour & Attendance
Worker profiles, daily presence, work completed and balances.
Contractor Ledger
Advances, commissions, team accounts and settlements.
Transport Cost Control
Fuel, vehicle driver, transport income and profitability.
Factory Visibility
Terms, agreements advances, progress and exceptions.
Sugar Factory Digitalisation
Less Paper. Faster Decisions. Complete Factory Visibility.
Gangmen connects field activity, transport, weighment, workforce and payments so factory teams can operate from one accurate digital record.
Operational Benefits
Digitize the routine. Focus officers on decisions.
Less Paper
Digital allos & records.
Faster Work
Search & process quickly
Lover Admin
Fewer manual handoffs
Accurate Data
Seversible & traceable
Smart Factory Operations
From Paper-Heavy Processes to Real-Time Control.
Gangmen replaces repeated paper slips, disconnected registers and manual handoffs with accurate, connected digital records.The Digital Last Slip lets authorized users view the latest cane receipt without depending on another printed copy. Weighbridge, workforce, transport and payment data remain available through one platform.
Digital Last Slip
View the latest cane receipt without repeated printing.
Weighbridge & Loads
Connected weight, vehicle and load information.
Workforce Attendance
Daily presence and team deployment records.
Payments & Billing
Track payment records, balances and settlement status.
Our Leadership
Leadership shaped by field experience and shared purpose.
Meet the people turning first-hand industry understanding into a trusted, technology-led sugar ecosystem.
Vanita Tai Khedgi
Angel Investor & Legal Advisor
Provides legal guidance, investor perspective and strategic direction to Gangmen Technologies' leadership.
Vijay Kumar Dodmani
Strategic Advisor & Angel Investor
Supports strategy formation, business thinking and long-term growth decisions as an angel investor.
Vishal Chougule
Angel Investor & Business Advisor
A well-educated business professional contributing investor perspective and practical small-business insight.
Sabir Hakim
Real Estate Expert & Angel Investor
Brings real-estate business expertise, entrepreneurial experience and small-business investment perspective.
Mahadev Murkute
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Founded Gangmen after years of ground-level research, persistence and product-building focused on the sugar industry.
Rama Chole
Co-Founder & Director / Angel Investor
Co-founder and director who has invested personally in the company & contributes to its entrepreneurial growth journey.
Asha Bikkad
Co-Founder
Technology architecture and platform engineering. Brings industry expertise, family-business understanding, business research and functionality development.
Priyanka Bhosale
Angel Investor & Business Advisor
A well-educated business professional contributing investor perspective & practical small-business insight.
INVESTORS & STRATEGIC ADVISORS
Capital guided by conviction. Partnership grounded in experience.
Our backers did not invest in a theory—they supported a solution shaped by real industry pain, field research, and urgent need.
Investor 01
Vanita Tai Khedgi
ANGEL INVESTOR & LEGAL ADVISOR
Legal guidance • Governance
Investor 02
Vijay Kumar Dodmani
STRATEGIC ADVISOR & ANGEL INVESTOR
Strategy • Business growth
Investor 03
Vishal Chougule
SMALL BUSINESS ANGEL INVESTOR
Business insight • Investor perspective
Investor 04
Sabir Hakim
REAL ESTATE EXPERT & ANGEL INVESTOR
Entrepreneurship • Commercial experience
WHY THEY BELIEVED
They had already seen the cost of the problem.
Many of our investors and advisors are connected to the sugar ecosystem. They have personally seen farmers, labor contractors, and transporters face heavy losses when advances, agreements, and operational records are fragmented.
That first-hand understanding created confidence in Gangmen—not only as software but as essential digital infrastructure for transparency, accountability, and safer decisions across the industry.
“They invested because they understood the problem before they evaluated the opportunity.”
SUPPORT THAT GOES BEYOND CAPITAL
INDUSTRY CONVICTION
Direct understanding of financial and field risk.
LEGAL & GOVERNANCE
Guidance for responsible, compliant growth.
GROWTH STRATEGY
Sharper direction, priorities and market readiness.
INDUSTRY ACCESS
Credibility, relationships and customer trust.
Ready to Digitize Your Sugarcane Operations?
Whether you're looking for a product demonstration, implementation support, or simply want to learn more about Gangmen, our team is ready to help.