Jayant Sinha is a distinguished Indian policymaker and investor having chaired the Finance Committee in Parliament (2019–2024) and served as Minister of State for Finance and Civil Aviation (2014–2019). His policy achievements include developing Indias bankruptcy code,architecting the tax code for Alternative Investment Funds,establishing Indias National Investment and Infrastructure Fund and Higher Education Financing Agency,launching the UDAN and DigiYatra schemes and helping privatize Air India. Sinha has also led many climate policy initiatives, such as introducing Indias first net zero bill in Parliament. As a venture capitalist he hasthree unicorns to his credit and is widely recognized as one of the key shapers of Indias startup ecosystem. Previously he held leadership roles at Omidyar Network and McKinsey and Company. Sinha holds degrees from IIT Delhi,the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Business School. Sandiip Bhammer is the founder and managing partner of Green Frontier Capital a leading India-focused climate-tech venture firm. With over 30 years of global finance experience he has held prominent investment roles at DA Capital,Balyasny Asset Management and the Amaranth Group,as well as senior investment banking positions at Citigroup,HSBC and CLSA. As an adjunct professor of Finance at UMass Amherst’s Isenberg School of Management he taught sustainability focused startup investing. He continues to mentor and serve on several startup boards across India and the USA. Sandiip holds an MBA from Cornell Universitys Johnson Graduate School of Management,an MSc in Finance and a BSc in Business Administration from Boston Colleges Carroll School of Management. He was awarded the 2022 Meaningful Business 100 Award
<p>An EV battery innovator. An e-bike manufacturer. A real estate carbon emissions tracker. A tech company that makes plastic substitutes with seaweed. A ride-hailing service with a fleet of e-cars. An eco friendly agribusiness. A producer of animal-free milk. What do they have in common?They are all startups helmed by enterprising entrepreneurs who have used cutting edge technology and visionary climate tech to kickstart green businesses in India. In this new in-depth book, Jayant Sinha and Sandiip Bhammer tell Indias green business story through fourteen pioneers in the field. Through interviews with the founders, this book takes us along the path that Indias green startups are paving for themselves and others who will follow in their wake. Inventive,brave and unafraid of seemingly insurmountable challenges,the startups profiled here are likely to be talked about for years to come as creators of a new era of green businesses in India. For the very first time founders of companies like BluSmart Mobility, Accacia, RevFin,EMotorad,KisanKonnect,CHUPPS, NeoCell Industries,Zero Cow Factory,Log9 Materials,ElectricPe,Newtrace,Zerocircle,Battery Smart and Nutrifresh speak their minds and share their vision for a more sustainable future. From implications of climate change to a practical roadmap to starting up,India’s Green Startups is the one-stop guide to green businesses in India today.</p>
