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While researching many successful Indian climate tech startups for our upcoming CLIMAFIX India Climate Startup Summit (Nov 25/26, 2022, Chennai, 200+ climate tech startups expected, organized along with IIT Madras – https://lnkd.in/gNnGzhG5), I also came across stories of dozens of startups shutting shop in the past five years (estimates suggest...

Are VCs short-sighted in their climate tech startup valuations? A few days back I had written a brief post on how even in today’s situation where climate tech is red hot, the valuations of climate tech firms appear to be mediocre compared to their mass market cousins (TikTok, Shein…) –...

Welcoming Suhas Baxi of Biofuel Circle to CLIMAFIX Summit 2022, India’s largest climate startup summit, 200+ startups, Nov 25 & 26, Chennai – https://lnkd.in/gNnGzhG5 . Co-organized with Energy Consortium – IIT Madras. Solar and wind power are the cynosure of all eyes in the renewable energy energy, but neither can...

It has been contended that humans have a tendency to over-value short term gains and severely underestimate long term potential. Climate tech firms have come some distance given their deplorable status during their first avatar – when they were called cleantech firms (which makes me wonder if they should have...

Cutting your AC carbon footprint using digital Welcoming Rohith Pallerla of Zodhya to the CLIMAFIX Summit 2022, India’s largest climate startup summit – https://lnkd.in/gNnGzhG5 In most countries (including India), buildings consume 30-40% of all electricity generated. And within buildings, ACs are the single largest consumer of power. So if one...

Welcoming Sidharth Arora of Fermentech Labs to CLIMAFIX Summit 2022, India’s largest summit for climate tech startups, 200+ startups – https://lnkd.in/gNnGzhG5 The true value of biomass – be it the main crop or the so called agricultural waste – is slowly but steadily being deciphered. And what is being realized...

Welcoming Sivaram Pillai of Proklean to the CLIMAFIX SUMMIT 2022, Nov 25 & 26, Chennai – https://lnkd.in/gNnGzhG5 Globally, the chemicals industry is a sizable contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, and so it is in India too. But the chemicals sector is complex, not just from technology and process perspectives, but...

When Harvey Met Doerr What happens when a policy expert meets a veteran venture capitalist over the topic of climate change and climate action? One of two things could happen: They get deep into specifics, with the audience drowning in complex concepts and possibly the attendant jargons. Or, they could...

A youngster pioneering algae-based high value products in India Welcoming Yashraj Jariwala of Shaivaa Algaetech to CLIMAFIX SUMMIT 2022 – the 1st summit for Indian climate tech startups https://lnkd.in/gNnGzhG5 What if I told you that you can extract products from biomass that are worth $100 a Kg? You might be...

10 X – The associate at the prominent silicon valley venture capital firm once again looked at the visitor who had just come in, a cold call. His face was familiar. He had definitely seen him somewhere, perhaps even at many places. He will know soon. “What can I do...