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.
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Behind the scenes of AndPurpose Forums Hyderabad 2026, and what it takes to turn a conference into lasting collaboration
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
I attended Let's Talk Climate expecting a conversation about climate action and storytelling. Instead, an interactive mock trial led me back to memories from hospital wards, conversations with patients and caregivers, and lessons that have stayed with me for years. The experience was a reminder that climate change is not only about emissions, policies, and science. It is also about people, communities, health, dignity, and the stories we carry long after the headlines fade.
A three-hour Climate Party conversation with ProClime unexpectedly became a deep dive into invasive alien species, biochar economics, carbon market realities, ecosystem services, and the hidden operational complexity behind “high-integrity” climate projects. From tiger habitats threatened by Lantana camara to the infrastructure-heavy reality of biomass carbon credits, the discussion revealed how climate work is rarely just about carbon — it is about ecology, livelihoods, governance, biodiversity, finance, and the invisible systems connecting all of them together.
What does it really take to build a venture-scale company in a world that refuses to stay predictable?
In a three-hour fireside chat with Karthik B. Reddy, the discussion moved beyond frameworks and into the lived realities of founders and investors, covering everything from market sizing and team dynamics to climate tech, capital flows, and the long game of building.
Reflections from leading an SDG- and sustainability-lens Business Model session at KSR Engineering College during Marabanu’s FoundR Sprint 1.0. I was invited to conduct a workshop on the Business Model Canvas through a UN SDG lens and a sustainability lens…
What a closed-door gathering on February 11 for the Karotimam Environmental Stewardship Award on International Day of Women and Girls in Science taught me about building leadership that lasts.
The AndPurpose Forum, Mumbai brought climate conversations out of abstraction and into execution.
Across clean energy, resilience, finance, and circularity, the focus shifted from intent to systems readiness.
This reflection captures what it will take for India’s climate ambition to translate into real-world delivery.