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Forbes India 13th Anniversary: Rewind of Key Milestones of India's Corporates and Startups
A rewind of the key milestones in India's corporates and startups, through the lens of 13 years of Forbes India
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Rising temperatures, and tides: Inside our Climate Special
This fortnight's climate special takes a 360-degree view of the climate crisis, from manufacturers like GE that are adapting to the need for a decarbonised world, to startups working on tech innovations, and investors and philanthropists backing for-profit and not-for-profit models
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I want to help bring Indian athletes to NBA: Basketball champion Dwight Howard
The NBA champion who was in the country as the brand ambassador of social media platform Pixstory, talks about building a platform that is transparent, scouting for talent in India, and the importance of taking a stand on social issues
2022 Climate Special
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How GE plans to pitch a tent in India's renewables story
India's climate goals for 2030 and 2070 will need a significant ramping up of renewable power and GE wants to play a central role in it
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Pi Green Innovations: Filtering air without a filter
Pi Green's 'Filterless' solution ensures that PM is captured consistently without significant deterioration in the efficiency throughout the product life cycle. The idea is to capture PM and reuse the soot in various other applications
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CarbonCraft Design: Turning tyres into tiles and homes
The startup has developed the first-of-its-kind CarbonCraft Tile from upcycled carbon that is collected from waste carbon streams with the aim to make carbon neutral homes
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Banyan Nation: Recycling at scale
In the past 12 months, over 300 million FMCG bottles have been produced from Banyan's recycled plastic for clients that include Hindustan Unilever, Reckitt, Shell and HPCL
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Capital: The missing piece of climate action in India
Climate tech startups are gaining momentum, but still constitute only nine percent of the total investment deals among all impact-oriented sectors in India, Ramraj Pai, CEO, and Deepanshi Balooni, manager, at Impact Investors Council, write
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Lack of affordability and not innovation is a challenge for climate solutions in India
Asset financing structures for energy efficiency, alternative heating and cooling solutions, and decarbonised industrial processes can go a long way towards helping scale climate adoption, Climake founders Shravan Shankar and Simmi Sareen write
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It's time to build a resilient green economy that is diverse and inclusive
Jui Joshi, partner at Climate Collective Foundation, and the lead of Women in Climate Entrepreneurship Initiative, writes on the importance of moving beyond a gender-blind approach
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Who is crafting the Green New Deal?
Climate issues will rise to the top of the political agenda if they help win elections. And all of us will have to figure out a way to influence it, Anshuman Bapna, the cofounder and CEO of Terra.do, writes
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Why philanthropy needs to include a climate lens
Domestic philanthropy has a vital role to play in building the capacity of on-ground organisations to respond to climate impacts, Shloka Nath, acting CEO, India Climate Collaborative, writes
