The Climate Collective is a non-profit focused on unleashing the innovation and entrepreneurial talents of people to solve the myriad environmental challenges that we face in South Asia. For this, the Collective is building local climate entrepreneurship ecosystems throughout South Asia through a regional partnership model to execute programs across the Subcontinent.
The Collective focuses three areas, or “circularities“, where there is a lack of ecological balance — Climate Change, Pollution, and Consumption.
What we do
To solve these problems and strengthen these circularities, the Collective is building an integrated set of platforms and tools ( Startup ) to support climate entrepreneurship holistically throughout early stages of the Startup Journey.
In addition, to strengthen the ecosystem holistically, the Collective is developing educational platforms ( School ) to increase the skills and knowledge of soon-to-be climate entrepreneurs, funding platforms ( Capital ) direct early-stage capital to promising startups, and research programs ( Think ) to provide all stakeholders with research and tools to build a sustainable world through well-developed innovation roadmaps. As well, to increase networking, knowledge sharing, and collaboration, the Collective is working on community solutions ( Presence ) to build online and offline platforms among all stakeholders in climate entrepreneurship.
May Peace radiate there in the whole sky as well as in the vast ethereal space everywhere. May Peace reign all over this earth, in water and in all herbs, trees and creepers. May Peace flow over the whole universe.
The Collective looks at supporting solutions in three imbalances that are contributing to extreme stress on our society and on our planet, and where we need to strength “circularities”…
The most sustainable way is to not make things. The second most sustainable way is to make something very useful, to solve a problem that hasn’t been solved.
The heart of the Collective is the set of startup programs to support climate entrepreneurs. And as climate entrepreneurship is in a nascent stage in South Asia, the Collective is focusing on building an holistic set of platforms across the early-stage startup journey of entrepreneurs, from supporting the imagination of new ideas and innovation to the first commercial pilot or early sales.
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Without a supporting ecosystem, the potential for climate entrepreneurship in South Asia will be significantly limited.
The Collective is supporting climate entrepreneurship ecosystems in three key ways:
Let us live together; Let us be nourished together; Let us be able to do great deeds together; Let us be brilliant together in our study; Let us be loving; Peace, peace, peace.
Although startup and ecosystem programs and tools are necessary, a thriving community of climate startups need platforms and venue to network, share knowledge, and collaborate. The Collective is launching online and offline platforms to strengthen the community:
In addition, the Collective is working on meetups, festivals, job and internship postings, and other community platforms to bring the climate entrepreneurs and other stakeholders together. Please look at Presence for more info.
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
If you are looking to for tools to develop corporate innovation programs focused on sustainability, the Climate Collective can work with you in several ways.
If your organization is committed to a strong sustainability goal and needa a comprehensive solution to get there, the Climate Collective can bring a consortium of leading players together to work with you to achieve taat goal
The Climate Collective Network is an association of climate and cleantech partners throughout South Asia and beyond coming together to build and execute programs to promote climate entrepreneurship locally throughout the region.
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The Collective has partnered with leading global partners who have significant experience in supporting climate entrepreneurship.
The Climate Collective has been running ClimateLaunchpad in India since 2017, growing now as well to Sri Lanka, Maldives, and the UAE.
The Climate Collective has partnered with Nexus to set up New Energy Nexus India.
The Incubation Network, or TIN, is a leading ecosystem building in South and Southeast Asia focused on the menace of plastic pollution. Supported by the Circular Initiative, an initiative of Circulate Capital, and in partnership with Second Muse, the goal of TIN is to support the emergence of a successful startup ecosystem in plastic waste.
The Climate Collective is a member of the Network aiming to support plastic waste startups in India.
The idea of the Climate Collective came from the Founders of Climate Studio who developed solar and wind projects across India, Asia, and Africa, pivoting to support startups as they saw the need to leverage innovation to accelerate the transition to a greener plane.t
Pratap has been in the climate and cleantech space since 2009. From being one of the pioneers in solar in the early days of the National Solar Mission (24MW commissioned), he has know pivoted to supporting climate and cleantech startups throughout South Asia as one of the necessary and key enablers or a transition to a truly sustainable world. From founding the Climate Collective, he leads, among other things, the Climate Launchpad program in India as well as Nexus South Asia.
He has degrees from Harvard and Oxford.
Pramod Raju has been advising Indian Companies since 2000 as an Investment Banker with UBS Warburg and Goldman Sachs. He has worked with India’s leading infrastructure companies, giving him a deep understanding of the Indian Energy Sector. He founded PR Group, an investment advisory for the infrastructure sector which grew into renewable energy as well as cleantech incubation. Pramod has a B.A. from UPenn and a M.D. from NYU School of Medicine.