Climate tech startups in Bengaluru

Awais Ahmed & Kshitij Khandelwal

Founded 2019 by two BITS-Pilani grads; building a constellation of hyperspectral earth-observation satellites for agriculture, mining and climate. A flagship of India's private spacetech, backed by Google.

Founded 2017, Bengaluru-HQ'd utility-scale renewables developer building wind, solar, hybrid and round-the-clock green-storage plants across India; backed by NIIF/British International Investment. Multi-GW p...

D.V. Manjunatha

Founded 1992. One of India's largest solar PV module + cell manufacturers, HQ in Bengaluru with ~7.8 GW module capacity (2025) and major capacity expansion underway. Long-standing Bengaluru renewable-energy ...

Arun Vinayak & Sanjay Byalal Jagannath

Founded 2020 by ex-Ather executives. Full-stack rapid-charging energy stack delivering a 15-minute full charge on regular Li-ion cells with a 3,000-cycle warranty for commercial EVs. Raised ~$68M total; late...

IndianOil + SUN Mobility JV

Bengaluru-HQ'd JV between IndianOil and SUN Mobility delivering EV battery-swapping and Battery-as-a-Service (BaaS) for electric two- and three-wheelers across India's energy-as-a-service network.

Prasanta Sarkar & Rochan Sinha

Green-hydrogen deep-tech. Its 'Voltagen' coated cathode drops into existing alkaline electrolysers and cuts hydrogen specific-energy consumption by up to 9.5 kWh/kg without platinum-group metals. Raised ~$12...

Harish Hande & Neville Williams

Founded 1995. Pioneering for-profit solar social enterprise providing solar home systems and clean-energy solutions to underserved rural Karnataka households. Founder Harish Hande won the 2011 Ramon Magsaysa...

Ezhil Subbian & Vinod Kumar

Founded 2013 (operations moved to Bangalore 2014). Industrial biotech using synthetic biology to convert methane/greenhouse gases into protein, agri-biostimulants and specialty ingredients via its String Int...

K R Hari Narayan

Founded 2010. Solar EPC and clean-energy developer; 250+ projects executed and ~160 MW of solar assets installed across India. Bengaluru-HQ'd C&I/utility solar player.

Supreeth Rao, Satish Ramchandani, Mithun Suvarna & Sangat Babu

Climate/ESG SaaS for sustainability reporting, net-zero and emissions tracking, climate-risk analysis and supplier assessment. Bengaluru-based; serves enterprises managing ESG disclosures and decarbonization...

Madhur Jain, Vishal Kuchanur, Ankita Garg

Founded 2022. Climate-tech: nature-based carbon-removal (biochar, enhanced rock weathering, regenerative agriculture) generating verified carbon credits. Notable for Asia-first ERW credit issuance.

Shrey & Sparsh Agarwal

Carbon-removal (CDR) startup using Enhanced Rock Weathering — spreading crushed basalt on Darjeeling tea estates to pull CO2 from air into soil while improving yields. First India-HQ'd company to win a Front...

Climate/air-quality deeptech: IoT environmental sensors with AI-driven pollution prediction. Raised ~₹25 Cr (~$3M) pre-Series A (late 2025) led by Rainmatter Capital and Unicorn India Ventures.

Sebastian C. Peter

JNCASR-incubated carbon-utilization deep-tech converting anthropogenic CO2 (from power, steel, cement, chemicals) into chemicals and fuels like methanol. Spun out of award-winning IISc/JNCASR research on CO2...

Ankit Alok Bagaria & Abhi Gawri

Founded 2019 by IIT-Roorkee grads. Insect-biosciences / circular-economy: rears silkworms and processes them into sustainable protein and fat for aquafeed, poultry and pet food; building toward recombinant p...

Shubham Vishvakarma, Manikumar Uppala & Saurav Goyal

Founded Oct 2021. Lithium-ion battery recycling using a proprietary 'Integrated Carbothermal Reduction' process to recover high-purity metals at high yield. Raised ~$2.8M seed from Peak XV's Surge, Speciale ...

Darshan Virupaksha & Prodip Chatterjee

Reuses discarded EV/used Li-ion batteries to give them a second life for energy access in rural and low-income areas. Indo-German non-profit-linked venture; supported by Karnataka govt grants, TERI and SELCO...

Suruchi Rao, Shanta Rao & Kamar Suhail Basha

Founded 2017. Green hydrogen from first principles: an AI-powered bioreactor (OB HydraCel) that takes carbon from industrial wastewater and produces on-site, on-demand green hydrogen. Raised ~$2.4M pre-Serie...

Wilma Rodrigues

Circular-economy enterprise spun out in 2013 from the non-profit Saahas (founded 2001). End-to-end waste management and resource recovery for large clients (Microsoft, GE, Shell, TI, IIM-B). Operates in Beng...

Swapnil Shrivastav, Venkatesh R, Govinda Balaji & team

Founded 2019. Atmospheric-water-generation: desiccant-based thermal systems that pump air through sorbents to extract moisture and produce drinking water, powered by renewable energy. Raised ~$4.3M; position...