{"id":164535,"date":"2025-09-23T19:46:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T19:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/164535\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T19:46:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T19:46:16","slug":"climate-tech-startup-equilibrium-secures-3-million-from-kalaari-peak-xv-in-maiden-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/164535\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate tech startup Equilibrium secures $3 million from Kalaari, Peak XV in maiden round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Climate-tech startup <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/equilibrium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Equilibrium<\/a> has raised $3 million in its maiden <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/funding-round\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">funding round<\/a> from early-stage venture capital firms <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/kalaari-capital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kalaari Capital<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/avaana-capital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Avaana Capital<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/peak-xv-partners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Peak XV Partners<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>According to founder Siddhanth <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/jayaram\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jayaram<\/a>, the company will use the funds to strengthen the company\u2019s technology platform, accelerate its eight ongoing projects, and expand operations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re strengthening agri-supply chains against climate-related disasters while simultaneously reducing and removing greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere,&#8221; Jayaram told ET.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2024, the Bengaluru-based company offers full-stack carbon removal solutions for clients aiming to achieve net-zero emissions. Its initiatives span agroforestry, regenerative farming, planting mangroves, and biochar projects, reaching more than 60,000 farmers and coastal communities. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur operations team handles the planting and management of the plantations, while our technology tracks their progress. Once the carbon credits are generated, we sell the carbon-removal units to major customers. Our clients range from project financiers who support carbon-removal initiatives to large tech firms and oil companies with net-zero targets,\u201d said Jayaram.<\/p>\n<p>The company provides solutions that remove carbon, increase farmer income, and turn <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/agricultural-and-biomass-waste\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">agricultural and biomass waste<\/a> into usable products. It has a pipeline of projects expected to achieve over 20 million tonnes of long-term CO2 removal.<\/p>\n<p>Climate change is putting India\u2019s food security at risk, with higher temperatures, irregular rainfall, and increasingly severe weather reducing crop yields, the company said. According to Jayaram, the carbon market could exceed $50 billion by 2040.<\/p>\n<p>The company is currently operating in nine states, including Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, and Gujarat. &#8220;We want to double down in India and possibly expand into south Asian countries such as Nepal or Sri Lanka over the next two to three quarters\u2019\u2019, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the investment, Sampath P, partner, Kalaari Capital said, &#8220;It pairs deep agricultural and carbon science with a digitally-enabled operating system that makes on-ground implementation partners effective at scale. We see Equilibrium as a climate-resilience-first blueprint for strengthening nature-based solutions that carbon (credit) buyers can rely on for durable outcomes\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Climate-tech startup Equilibrium has raised $3 million in its maiden funding round from early-stage venture capital firms Kalaari&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[85123,85125,45,49,48,137,85122,27260,85127,85124,85126],"class_list":{"0":"post-164535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-agricultural-and-biomass-waste","9":"tag-avaana-capital","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-entrepreneurship","14":"tag-equilibrium","15":"tag-funding-round","16":"tag-jayaram","17":"tag-kalaari-capital","18":"tag-peak-xv-partners"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}