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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 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...

The man propelling the bio-energy movement in India Welcoming Lt Col Monish Ahuja to CLIMAFIX SUMMIT 2022 - the 1st summit for Indian climate tech startups. I'm sure you have heard the saying, "Water, water everywhere, not a drop to drink" That applies quite well to the Indian agricultural residues...

IIT Madras Career Opportunities Project Co-ordinator/lead for national college sustainability contest I'm assisting Prof Indumathi M. Nambi of Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in putting together the Carbon Zero Challenge, an annual pan-India cleantech contest for college students and college-based startups held by IITM. We are looking for a project...

The Indian Middle Class Rooftop  Earlier today, I had to be on the rooftop of an acquaintance for a religious function, located in a typical Chennai middle class neighbourhood. I was left alone for about fifteen minutes, and after a few moments wondering what to do, I started looking around....

Business case for Indian corporates to invest in third gen biodiesel India is a diesel country. Surprisingly, very few in the mainstream sector know this because they mostly use petrol (gasoline) for their cars and bikes. About 75% of all transport fuels consumed in India is diesel. From a CO2...

The bio-economy startups in India fighting climate change The startup ecosystem in India is agog. And why not. GoI estimates suggest that there are close to 75,000 "recognized" startups in the country - there could be over 100,000 if someone searched with a fine-tooth comb. Whew! While until now, the...

India's bio-economy likely to touch $300 billion by 2030 That was surely eye popping for me $300 billion by 2030, that would be more than the individual GDP of 75% of the world's nations by then. (Even at its current about $100 billion, India's bio-economy is a pretty hefty market)...

Emerging Opportunities in Biofuels in India Just thought I'd put down some thoughts on the diverse and fast growing opportunities in the Indian biofuels sector, as there have been quite a few enquiries regarding this to our consulting division in the past few weeks. The limelight for biofuels currently is...