This woman entrepreneur’s agritech startup aims to make food on your plate safe, one ingredient at a time Manasa Gonchigar is the Founder and CEO of PureScan AI — an agritech startup — whose product AflaScan, an optical device, does rapid aflatoxin assessment in maize and peanuts. 0 claps Manasa Gonchigar’s thoughts and veer her towards entrepreneurship. “The first was with MARS International, where I understood the issues of aflatoxin (a fungal carcinogen), and its detection in maize. With my training in applied optics, I could easily place the solution together in my mind. But, this did not mean much before I met with ICRISAT scientists,” she explains.