India is emerging as a huge market for climate investments, be it renewables or solar energy or battery storage or EVs or green hydrogen. Many large companies want to come forward to solve the climate problems, but they may not have the perfect solution for it. Here innovative startups stand a chance to showcase and get recognised in the field of green revolution. A list of 5 venture capitals to look out in sustainability space are mentioned below :
Green Frontier Capital – Green Frontier Capital (GFC) is New York based India’s first climate-tech focused VC founded in 2020 by Sandiip Bhammer, having made investments in industry-leaders across renewable energy, food and agri tech, electric mobility, and consumer lifestyle, among others. GFC’s founding team brings decades of experience to work closely with portfolio companies in providing strategic support, policy guidance, customer access, strategic partnerships, and raising financing. Privileged deal flow and the ability to secure attractive investment terms with best-in-class green companies makes GFC’s award-winning portfolio companies trailblazers in their respective sectors. One of the only climate-tech investors in India measuring their monthly SDG impact, GFC has emerged as a vital part of the early-stage climate investing landscape in India.
Titan Capital – The founders of the Titan Capital ecosystem are a tight knit community that help each other for anything that a startup needs from hiring, investor introductions, service provider references, technology choices, among others. Their portfolio includes companies spread worldwide across consumer internet, direct to consumer brands, SaaS, and Fintech.
Blume Ventures – Blume is an early stage venture fund that backs startups with both funding as well as active mentoring. We typically invest in tech-led startups, led by founders who are obsessed with solving hard problems, uniquely Indian in nature, and impacting large markets. Blume backs entrepreneurs either building to solve large impactful Indian problems or taking the best of Indian innovation to global markets. The diverse mandate extends from edtech, fintech, health, commerce and consumer internet in the former to robotics and AI to SaaS and enterprise software in the latter category
Kalaari Capital – Kalaari Capital is an early-stage, technology-focused venture capital firm. Kalaari is a $160 million venture capital fund with a strong advisory team in Bangalore investing in early-stage, technology-oriented companies in India. Kalaari Capital invests in the unknown Indian entrepreneur who is poised to become tomorrow’s global leader. They are India’s leading investor in early-stage businesses, nurturing them through every aspect of growth on the transformative journey toward success.
The Rise Fund – The Rise Fund is committed to achieving social and environmental impact alongside financial returns. We seek to partner with creative entrepreneurs and build successful businesses that drive meaningful, measurable positive change.The Rise Fund will focus on investments in seven sectors in which independent research has shown that impact is both achievable and measurable in quantitative terms: education, energy, food and agriculture, financial services, healthcare, information, and communication technology, and industrials and infrastructure.
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