Indian Startups That are Rising to the Climate Challenge
One of the perks of leading EDF’s Innovation Fund is getting a sneak peek at some of the people, corporations and start-up companies that are developing innovative climate solutions – from big-data analytics that optimize energy use to hardware that can remove carbon from the sky.
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India has different emission challenges and opportunities than many developed countries. In particular, freight, waste management, agriculture/food and construction represent the sectors where innovative technology can have the biggest and quickest impact in reducing the country’s emissions. And a growing stable of entrepreneurs is rising up to find innovative solutions in these critical areas.
Curated by local partners working in India, following are just a few climate-focused startups that are worth a deeper dive.
Sustainable Freight
- Freight Fox: Reducing costs and emissions in industrial freight and logistics operations through data, technology and efficient ground operations.
Waste Management
- Ecowrap: Solution for waste segregation, collection, tracking, recycling and up-cycling
- Lucro: Recycling waste into high-quality packaging products through blockchain solution to track the waste pickup up to recycled product.
- Ace Recycling: Company with a unique technology that can recycle batteries at room temperature, significantly reducing carbon footprint.
- Recykal: Digital platform for transactions between waste generators and recyclers, tracking targets and AI-driven optimization of operations.
- Lohum Cleantech: Recycling and repurposing lithium-ion battery packs at commercial scale with proprietary closed-loop technology.
- APChemi: Converting waste to green petrochemical through proprietary chemical recycling technology.
Agriculture/Food Systems
- String Bio: Uses methane to manufacture raw materials for animal nutrition, agriculture, human nutrition and personal care sectors.
- FIB-SOL Life Technologies: Commercializing nano-fiber and gel-based bio agri-inputs to improve soil health.
- Brisil Technologies: Converting biomass (rice husk ash and others) into raw material for products like tires, footwear, paint etc.
- A2P Energy: Converts paddy straw to manufacturing pellets for energy, soil conditioners, etc. plus reducing crop stubble burning.
- Absolute Foods: AI-driven Universal Farm Operating System that optimizes farmer productivity and enables farming without using synthetic enzymes.
Sustainable Construction
- Smart Joules: Eliminating energy waste through efficient equipment with a technology stack that offers cooling-as-a-service.
- Smarter Dharma: Software platform for sustainable resource planning throughout the lifecycle of real-estate development