Koltiva
Enterprise supply-chain traceability for cocoa, coffee and palm oil
Overview
Koltiva (KoltiTrace) gives food and commodity brands farm-to-factory traceability, geolocation mapping and ESG/deforestation compliance reporting across smallholder supply chains, now piloting AI-automated sourcing checks.
What you can produce with Koltiva
- KoltiTrace farm-to-factory traceability and geolocation mapping
- ESG and deforestation-compliance reporting
- AI-assisted anomaly detection and sourcing-data validation (pilot)
- Farmer registration and supply-chain digitization
- KoltiPay and KoltiTrade supply-chain finance and trade tools
- Dedicated enterprise client portals (e.g. Nestlé cocoa MIS)
ASEAN Perspective
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Koltiva has been at this longer than most, traceability software since 2013, now covering 1.19 million-plus producers and 8,500 businesses across 94 countries, with dedicated deployments for major buyers like Nestlé. The regulatory push behind EU deforestation rules and tightening ESG reporting requirements gives KoltiTrace real, immediate demand: brands need geolocation and chain-of-custody data whether or not the tooling is exciting. The February 2026 AI pilot with AI Singapore and coffee/cocoa supplier SUGATA, automating anomaly detection and ESG report generation in Aceh, is early-stage, not a shipped product feature yet. Worth flagging: Glassdoor reviews from Koltiva employees describe a difficult internal culture and complaints that products are oversold relative to what they deliver, worth weighing against the polished case-study material. A solid pick for brands needing supply-chain compliance infrastructure; treat the AI-specific claims as pilot-stage until there's a broader rollout.
What people say
Koltiva is the most established of this batch, a Swiss-Indonesian company running agricultural traceability software since 2013, well before agritech AI became a pitch-deck line. Its KoltiTrace platform combines geolocation mapping, supply-chain data collection and compliance reporting, and the company says it now supports more than 1.19 million producers and 8,500 businesses across 94 countries. Nestlé runs a dedicated KoltiTrace deployment, visible as a branded MIS portal for its cocoa sourcing, which is about as concrete a client reference as this category gets.
In February 2026, Koltiva launched an AI-powered traceability pilot with AI Singapore's AIAP for Industry programme and SUGATA, a coffee and cocoa supplier operating in Aceh, Indonesia. The stated goal is automating ESG reporting and using predictive analytics to flag anomalies in sourcing data, positioned explicitly as a response to tightening rules like the EU's deforestation-free supply chain requirement. SUGATA's role is full-farm mapping and grower training; as of mid-2026 this reads as a pilot with one named partner, not a general product release.
The less flattering signal comes from Glassdoor, where Koltiva holds a 2.6-out-of-5 employee rating across 47 reviews, about 30% below the agriculture-industry average, with only 32% of reviewers saying they'd recommend working there. Recurring complaints describe a culture built around blame rather than support, employees pushed to face clients for problems caused by leadership or product failures, products and services described as constantly oversold relative to performance, and late or unpredictable salary and reimbursement payments. That's employee sentiment rather than customer feedback, but it's a relevant data point for enterprise buyers evaluating delivery risk on a long-term traceability contract.
There's no public G2 or Capterra listing for KoltiTrace; it sells enterprise contracts to brands and traders rather than through a self-serve motion, so pricing is custom and not published.
Koltiva also runs KoltiTrace IoT, KoltiSkill training tools, and KoltiPay/KoltiTrade for supply-chain finance and trade as adjacent modules, so the AI pilot with SUGATA sits inside a wider product ecosystem rather than replacing any of those existing tools. Whether the pilot's ESG-automation approach eventually rolls into the flagship KoltiTrace product isn't yet public.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
About this listing
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