2022 Climate Special
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How Eki Energy is helping companies meet climate neutrality goals
Over a decade ago, was facilitating carbon credits trading and management when few were talking about it in India. Today the Eki CMD and CEO Manish Dabkara and his 200-strong team helps 2,500 customers meet carbon offset standards, comply with renewable energy requirements, take steps towards carbon neutrality, and use nature based solutions
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Climate change is here. And so are green education and jobs
Indian companies are increasingly recruiting a workforce skilled in climate action, with young professionals wanting to build a sustainable future. And education institutes are aiding this by introducing courses on the subject
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Put women entrepreneurs at the forefront to help the climate challenge: Climate Collective's Pratap Raju
Climate Collective's mandate is noteworthy in that one of its specific aims is to support women entrepreneurs in the area of climate change, with the funding platform including an equity crowdfunding network
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Channel capital into companies with huge potential impact on society, environment: Blue Ashva Capital's Satya Bansal
Today, Blue Ashva has backed startups such as Bambrew, developing sustainable packaging, Devic Earth, which off ers an air pollution control technology, and Greenjoules, a biofuels venture
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Want to back companies building the technologies of tomorrow: Speciale Invest's Vishesh Rajaram and Arjun Rao
Speciale Invest has gone from one investment in an electric motorcycle company to an electric plane company to satellite and rocket makers to renewable water and probably, very soon, a hydrogen technologies startup
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Need to encourage science-based startups to make India a superpower: Ankur Capital's Ritu Verma
Ankur Capital is attempting to solve some hard problems in the country including in areas including agriculture, manufacturing, and bringing internet to the masses in their language
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Climate finance is the biggest opportunity of our times: Climake's Simmi Sareen
Since its inception, Climake has helped some 50 climate tech- and sustainability-focussed startups source $30 million in debt financing and more than $30 million in equity investment. It has also helped 15 B2B climate tech startups find long-term customers and provided venture advisory to over 100 startups
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Graviky Labs: Turning air pollution into everyday use products
It is impossible to address climate change without making everyday consumption more sustainable, Nikhil Kaushik, CEO, Graviky Labs believes
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Earth Tatva: Recreating from ceramic waste
Archaeology has shown that ceramics don't biodegrade for centuries, however, production rejects end up in landfills over decades. Earth Tatva procures them from industries and turns them into reusable material
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India has to create its own climate solutions: Better Capital's Vaibhav Domkundwar
As of this decade, there will be a lot of investments for SaaS and fintech, but we also want to find something truly different," the CEO of Better Capital VC, which is striving the fill the pre-seed gap in climate funding, says
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Indra Water: Treating wastewater efficiently
Compared to conventional solutions, Indra's technology requires 25 percent less energy to operate, saves 40 percent operating cost, and requires 85 percent less manpower to recover 99 percent wastewater