World Environment Day: A Green Step towards a Greener Future

According to the Managing Director, McDonald’s India - North and East, Rajeev Ranjan, “Sustainability is central to McDonald’s in fostering robust and resilient food systems. Whether it is using sustainably sourced ingredients for our products and packaging material or reducing carbon footprint using renewable energy at our restaurants."

On this Environment Day, let’s celebrate the glorious victory of the young startups which are profoundly producing environment-friendly services and materials and pushing the nation towards the real ‘Achhe Din’.

Oorjan: Solar Energy for your Home & Business

•Headquarter: Mumbai, Maharashtra

•Key Persons: Gautam Das, Manjesh Nayak, and Rishi Deshpande

•Industry: Renewable Energy (Cleantech)

Oorjan is one of the leading cleantech startup brands offering a wide platform for rooftop solar cell installation. They are delivering turnkey solutions of solar rooftop and rendering a seamless adoption of solar energy. The company is using IoT tech stack for solar monitoring, so that, the customers can keep an eye on their system’s performance. Also they will get notification from time to time for regular maintenance.

They want to foster the process of using clean and green energy in India by providing high-quality solar products and services, hassle-free installations, and maintenance. They use complex algorithm which is driven by geospatial info, weather APIs, solar irradiation data, and customer electricity consumption. The cleantech platform has bagged a total funding of $655K over 3 rounds.

As per the report of Tracxn, the valuation of the company is $5.96 million. Globevestor is the largest institutional investor in Oorjan.

Ather Energy: All Brain. All Power. All Electric.

•Headquarter: Bengaluru, Karnataka

•Key Persons: Tarun Mehta, Swapnil Jain

•Industry: Electric Automobile

The invention of electric vehicle is the harbinger of sustainable living. A survey report revealed that, carbon monoxide, 80% of nitrogen oxides, and 35% of particulate matter comes from the toxic fumes left out by the vehicles. Ather Energy has opened two new experience stores in Mumbai. In the initial stage, they started with lithium-ion batteries which can refurbish ageing EVs.

During, 2013 they introduced their first EV two-wheeler model. That time, there was a dire need of alternative source of green energy to move from any place to another, because the market was flooded with cheap quality Chinese EVs.

Powering with technology Ather energy is proudly competing with top-rated bikes and scooters in the market,and keeping the environment toxin free. In their last funding round, they have raised $128 million which is around Rs.991 crore from National Investment and Infrastructure Fund Limited's (NIIFL), Strategic Opportunities Fund (SOF), and Hero MotoCorp along with additional investor.