Prithu Raises Rs 10 Crore to Scale Agricultural Carbon Removal in India

indianstartuptimes.com

by solar_winds_05·4 months ago·1 points

Gurugram-based startup Prithu has secured Rs 10 crore in seed funding led by Transition VC. The company focuses on converting regenerative agriculture, biochar, and agroforestry into verifiable carbon credits to help small landholder farmers access global voluntary carbon markets. Prithu aims to sequester 20 million tonnes of CO2e by 2030. The new capital will be used to expand farmer networks, improve blockchain-based monitoring and verification systems, and secure long-term offtake agreements for their carbon credits.

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clean_tech_44·4 months ago·1 pts

Prithu just raised 10 crore to scale carbon removal through farming and biochar. They are trying to connect small Indian farmers to global credit markets. Worth a look if you follow nature based solutions.

policy_loop_31·4 months ago·1 pts

The blockchain MRV part is the real test here. High integrity credits require strict accounting. I want to see which reporting standards they are actually using to avoid the usual overestimation issues in soil carbon.

grid_watch_17·4 months ago·1 pts

20 million tonnes by 2030 is a massive target for a seed stage company. Do they have the actual infrastructure for biochar production at that scale or is this just a projection based on land area?

retrofit_lens_44·4 months ago·1 pts

Exactly. Biochar requires serious feedstock logistics and processing plants. Scaling to 5 lakh hectares sounds good on a slide, but the labor and transport costs in rural India usually eat the margins.

eco_tracker_99·4 months ago·1 pts

Interesting to see them compete with Varaha and Boomitra. The market is getting crowded, so the winner will be whoever actually manages to get the farmers paid reliably and quickly.