Climate-Linked Entrepreneurship
This category features solutions that enable entrepreneurs to build enterprises that are climate-resilient and environmentally sustainable. These models support livelihoods through clean energy, circular economy approaches, green jobs, and climate adaptation tools — creating economic opportunity while addressing climate risks.
Solutions
Solution Provider: SELCO Foundation
Provides 175+ solar-powered business templates (cold storage, sewing, milk chillers, etc.), along with business and financing support to enable renewable energy-powered enterprises.
Impact Delivered: 25,000+ solar livelihood solutions deployed, 60%+ to women; scalable to 200,000+ enterprises.
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Solution Providers: Carbon Masters
Deploys agri-entrepreneurs to process municipal waste into bio-gas and organic fertilizers; enables women to earn via distribution and application of Carbonlites.
Impact Delivered: Reduced 1M+ tCO₂e emissions, supported 100+ enterprises, operates across 30+ Indian cities, and diverts large volumes of organic waste from landfills through circular economy solutions.
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Solution Providers: ATREE
Supports sustainable livelihoods via agroforestry-based income opportunities while ensuring forest conservation; includes capacity-building and branding support.
Impact Delivered: 30+ years of environmental research and practice; operations across 20+ states; 1,000+ research and policy outputs; 1M+ people engaged in climate resilience, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable livelihood initiatives; active policy advisory role at state and national levels.
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Solution Provider: Villgro
Incubator that supports early-stage, impact-focused ventures through incubation, seed capital, mentoring, market linkages, and ecosystem partnerships, with a strong focus on enterprises serving low-income and underserved populations.
Impact Delivered: 300+ social enterprises incubated since inception; ₹300+ crore capital catalysed (grants + investments); enterprises supported have impacted 20+ million lives across sectors such as healthcare, climate resilience, agriculture, and livelihoods.
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Solution Provider: Global Synergizers
A project-based ecosystem development organisation that designs and implements multi-stakeholder programmes across solar power and decentralised renewable energy (DRE), MSME competitiveness, and cluster and value-chain strengthening, working with governments, donors, industry bodies, and local institutions to enable clean-energy entrepreneurship, market access, and sustainable enterprise
Impact Delivered: Implements multiple donor- and government-supported projects across solar and DRE market development, MSME and cluster strengthening, women’s entrepreneurship, and agri-allied value chains, with direct engagement of DRE entrepreneurs, MSMEs, clusters, and ecosystem actors to strengthen local clean-energy and enterprise ecosystems.
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Solution Provider: Gangpur Ventures Private Limited
An impact-driven rural enterprise addressing Eastern India’s fodder deficit by organising tribal farmers into Producer Groups to grow maize, purchasing it on pre-agreed terms, and converting it into baled silage for commercial dairy farms. The end-to-end model provides agronomy support and assured offtake to farmers, operates decentralised silage units, and supplies year-round, high-quality fodder to dairies, stabilising milk production while creating climate-resilient, remunerative livelihoods.
Impact Delivered: As of 2024, Gangpur works with 80–90+ tribal farmers organised into Producer Groups and supplies baled silage to at least 13 commercial dairy farms in Eastern India. A recent impact note reports a 2.7× increase in rural incomes for 350+ farmers by converting under-utilised kharif land into maize for silage, while ensuring reliable fodder for dairies amid climate variability, with the model now being prepared for scale-up across low-income states
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Solution Provider: Cibos Techno Solutions Private Limited
Gujarat-based clean-tech startup developing low-voltage DC, battery-operated heating and cooling boxes that can be charged via solar, enabling off-grid or weak-grid food vendors to keep products chilled or hot safely through the day. Solutions are integrated into smart street-food carts and portable boxes, reducing dependence on diesel/ice and making compliant cold chain and hot-holding viable for nano and micro food businesses while cutting emissions.
Impact Delivered: Featured by PDEU Innovation & Incubation Centre and climate and cleantech platforms for empowering women foodpreneurs with clean-tech carts, the model enables safer, more hygienic food vending, reduces fossil-fuel-based cooling and heating at the last mile, and improves incomes by allowing micro-entrepreneurs to operate longer hours and sell higher-value products.
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Solution Provider: Green & Grains (Green and Grains)
A Bhopal-based farm-to-kitchen startup that partners with organic and natural farmers to supply pesticide-free vegetables, fruits, cereals, pulses, spices, and select processed foods directly to urban households through subscription and home delivery. Using a farm-to-fork model, it trains and works with farmers on production practices, aggregates produce, and delivers “safe food at fair prices” to around 2,000 families in Bhopal and Itarsi via online and phone orders and regular delivery routes.
Impact Delivered: Serves ~2,000 families in the Bhopal region with regular organic food deliveries, improving consumer access while ensuring reliable markets and better prices for local farmers; recognised by platforms such as IIMCIP and SmartFifty.
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Solution Provider: Win Win Bites LLP
A Pune-based food startup producing vacuum-fried, millet-based chips and traditional Indian snacks positioned as “Healthy Bites with Happiness.” Using ancient grains such as jowar and vacuum-frying technology, it delivers lighter, less oily, clean-label snacks designed for guilt-free, health- and climate-conscious consumers.
Impact Delivered: Registered as a Startup India food and beverages LLP in in 2025, the venture is building its brand through retail and social media and is active in ecosystem conversations such as the^delta’s India foodpreneur networks—on scaling barriers for small food brands, with potential to create decentralised manufacturing and distribution opportunities for women and small units across millet value chains.
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Solution Provider: Beyond Purpose Social Ventures Pvt Ltd
A Bengaluru-based social enterprise that co-designs and implements clean-energy and climate-resilient livelihood solutions with grassroots partners in underserved regions such as the North-East and Himalayan states. It works with organisations including SESTA (Assam) and YouthNet (Nagaland) to pilot solar-powered appliances for rural livelihoods and essential services, demonstrating how decentralised clean energy can improve incomes, resilience, and quality of life in remote communities.
Impact Delivered: Early pilots in Assam and Nagaland are testing solar appliances with local partners to generate evidence on income gains and resilience for rural households. The company positions itself as a bridge between climate-tech innovators and grassroots organisations, adapting and scaling solutions for challenging terrains and vulnerable communities.
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Solution Providers: SURE – Sakhi Unique Resource Enterprise (Sakhi Unique Rural Enterprise Pvt Ltd)
For-profit social enterprise spun out of SSP that mobilises and trains rural women “Sakhis” as micro-entrepreneurs who market and sell clean energy, climate-smart agriculture and essential household products door to door in their own villages. SURE’s Sakhi Advocacy Model uses trusted local women to create awareness, demonstrate products (solar dryers, solar fridges, improved cookstoves, water purifiers, nutrition products, etc.), and manage last-mile inventory, marketing and basic servicing for partner brands and programmes.
Impact Delivered: In its earlier phase, SURE’s clean-energy distribution work in Maharashtra created livelihoods for 800+ women and reached over 100,000 rural households with products such as clean cookstoves, solar lanterns, and BoP appliances. Since 2024, it has built a network of 2,000+ Sakhis across 500 villages in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, and Bihar, promoting solutions like solar dryers, solar refrigerators, and hydroponic fodder units, with a goal to train 5,000 women entrepreneurs and impact 500,000 households by 2030.
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Solution Provider: Indijan Activated Agrifood Pvt. Ltd
A Begusarai-based food startup behind IndiJan, positioned as India’s first functional “vita food” multigrain superfood atta, made from 11–13 ingredients with ~35% millets and other superfoods such as quinoa, flax, and moringa. Sourced directly from the Ganga and Kosi basins and minimally processed, the atta is naturally fortified (with no synthetic additives), high in protein and fibre, diabetic-friendly, low in net carbs, and formulated to deliver five macro- and fifteen micro-nutrients, meeting ~50% of daily RDA per serving while fitting traditional roti-based diets.
Impact Delivered: An early-stage agrifood brand with a growing online presence across its own website and marketplaces, positioned around rural livelihood generation through sourcing from small farmers in eastern India and creating value-added products from climate-resilient millets and grains. Founded in 2022 in Begusarai, it is supported by startup platforms and directories and aims to shift mainstream consumers toward healthier grain mixes while improving farmer incomes.
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Solution Provider: Jovaki Agro Food India Private Limited
A Udaipur-based food processing company founded in 2017, building end-to-end value chains for underutilised minor forest produce (MFP) such as custard apple, jamun, amla, mahua, wood apple, and other wild fruits. Jovaki organises tribal women into groups, trains them—alongside partners like MPUAT and ICICI Foundation—in scientific harvesting, grading, and storage, operates village-level processing units for deseeding and pulping, and markets frozen and dried pulps and powders to B2B buyers and consumers under its own brand.
Impact Delivered: Jovaki employs around 150 tribal women at its processing plant and engages ~435 women fruit collectors across 12 villages in Udaipur district, directly linking 450+ women to the custard apple and jamun value chain. In a recent season, it processed ~20 tonnes of custard apple pulp and ~8 tonnes of jamun pulp, with a long-term vision to connect 100,000 tribal women and become India’s largest non-timber forest produce brand while improving incomes and strengthening forest conservation incentives.
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Solution Provider: VKS AGRITECH (Viksit Kisaan)
VKS AGRITECH (Viksit Kisaan) is a mushroom-focused agritech and circular-economy venture operating Mushroom Farms and Mushroom Kothi models that use agri-waste as substrate and convert spent mushroom waste into compost and other value-added products. It also runs the ProteinWaale brand, sourcing from farmers to produce premium pickles, spices, and seasonings—including mushroom, jackfruit, mango, and karela pickles—linking climate-smart production with higher-margin branded foods for urban markets.
Impact Delivered: VKS AGRITECH reports a strong footprint in Bundelkhand and Madhya Pradesh, impacting 5,000+ people through mushroom-based livelihoods, waste-to-wealth, and rural development initiatives. Its women-focused, gender-inclusive models, use of agri-waste to reduce environmental degradation, and market linkages to national and international buyers position it as a climate-linked enterprise improving incomes while addressing climate and waste challenges.
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