Climate-tech founders need more than a promising prototype: they need deep industry knowledge, customer traction, financial discipline, and the grit to build for the long term.
At SRM’s TerraNext panel, I argued that universities and corporates must do more to turn student innovations into real pilots and first customers.
Here’s what I shared about investment readiness, the funding gap, and why students should start experimenting now.
As India prepares to operationalise compliance carbon trading in October 2026, global and domestic tailwinds are creating opportunities across carbon management, decarbonisation, removal, circularity and market infrastructure. EcoHQ’s Carbon Industry Map helps distinguish these fundamentally different businesses.
At CLiMAFiX 2026, founders, investors and industry leaders kept returning to the same challenge: how does a climate tech startup survive long enough for its solution to be adopted at scale? From the first paid customer to long sales cycles, corporate trust and patient capital, the discussions showed how much work lies between proving a technology and building a business.
From September 27 to October 4, 2026, Climate Week India will bring together 100+ events, 200+ organisations, and close to 100 individuals across India's tier 1, tier 2, and tier 3 cities and towns. EcoHQ is a proud partner of Climate Week India 2026.
Behind the scenes of AndPurpose Forums Hyderabad 2026, and what it takes to turn a conference into lasting collaboration
Why startup outcomes depend on the founder, the market, and the systems surrounding both.
A strong founder can improve a product, recruit a team and manage capital with discipline. But no founder can single handedly create customer readiness, infrastructure, supply chains, regulation and patient capital at the same speed.
How a side event for a handful of students outgrew its own room at T-Hub, Hyderabad - AndPurpose FutureMaker Labs! 2026: From 30 to Nearly 200
Nepal is right to demand compensation, not aid. But holding India and China accountable for today's choices doesn't let colonial powers off the hook for yesterday's.
Circularity is much bigger than waste management. This India-first Circularity Industry Map looks at the entire resource lifecycle, from circular design and product life extension to recovery, secondary materials and regeneration, along with the technologies and infrastructure cutting across them. Built for startups and investors, it offers a framework to benchmark solutions, understand adjacent competition, assess market maturity and uncover opportunities that are often missed when circularity is treated as a single sector.
The energy transition alone spans critical minerals, AI data centres, nuclear energy, storage, grids, carbon management, energy security, industrial competitiveness, cooling infrastructure, and about a hundred other rabbit holes. This is no longer a conversation happening inside environmental circles. It is becoming a conversation about how economies, industries, and societies function.