Abhimanyu Rathi

Abhimanyu Rathi

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Founder & CEO, RenewCred Carbon Credits Standard & Registry
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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  • RenewCred
    Founder & CEO
    RenewCred
    Mar 2024 - Current (2 years 7 months)
    RenewCred (Net Zero Initiative Private Limited) is a Global South-led carbon credits standard and registry building trust infrastructure for the voluntary carbon market. We develop rigorous climate methodologies, operate a transparent registry, and use proprietary digital systems to enable faster, data-backed assurance and issuance of carbon credits.

    Focused on engineered and technology-enabled climate projects, RenewCred supports project developers with methodology, monitoring, registry, and market-readiness infrastructure, while enabling buyers to access credible credits backed by strong scientific review, continuous project data, and transparent governance. With a community of 100+ scientists, RenewCred is building a more rigo
  • Sustainable Livelihood Initiative India SLII Private Limited
    Co-founder & Chief of Science
    Sustainable Livelihood Initiative India SLII Private Limited
    Jul 2015 - Current (11 years 3 months)
    SLII is accelerating the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs) and augmenting livelihoods by leveraging innovation. SLII is a Government recognized and awarded social startup enterprise, creating a bright, healthy and sustainable future for all. For us, ‘livelihood‘ is not just the means of earning money but also includes the means of providing better access to the basic needs of life which include clean drinking water, sustainable energy, appropriate healthcare, dignified jobs, eliminating inequalities and mitigating climate change. We are the inventors of the world's most affordable and sustainable water purifier - 'Vardan'.
  • Seedstars
    Entrepreneur in Residence & Mentor
    Seedstars
    Mar 2025 - Aug 2025 (6 months)
    CTCN Youth Climate Innovation Program, 2025
  • Antler
    Entrepreneur in Residence
    Antler
    Feb 2024 - Jun 2024 (5 months)
  • Build
    Director, Venture Builder (Institutional Angel Investing & Support)
    Build
    Mar 2022 - Apr 2024 (2 years 2 months)
    build3 is a startup studio that builds impact-oriented startups that better the mind, body and the earth. We work with Founders as their institutional co-founder until their venture is a self-sufficient organization and ready to scale. But we are not advisors, mentors, investors, incubators or accelerators - we are all of these! We are always co-building with the Founder, creatively, conscientiously, through the power of communities.

    We run five programs to directly support impact founders. All programs offer founders our venture-building capabilities and high-quality curated community experience -
    1. build3 impact accelerator for technology and services startups where we invest up to $250k (INR 2 Crores) per startup
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  • National Law University Delhi
    Post Graduate Diploma (PGD, Environmental Law and Policy (ELP)
    National Law University Delhi
    Jan 2019 - Jan 2020 (1 year 1 month)
    Salutatorian. Joint Program by World Wide Fund for Nature India (WWF-India) & National Law University, Delhi (NLUD).
  • Sarvajanik College of Engineering  Technology
    Bachelor of Engineering (B.E, Chemical Engineering
    Sarvajanik College of Engineering Technology
    Jan 2011 - Jan 2015 (4 years 1 month)
    Valedictorian. Awarded Kanchanlal Bhaidas Marfatia Family Gold Medal for Overall Outstanding Student of College as well as Sarvajanik 'Vidhyasadhak' (Best Student) Award for Overall Excellence amongst all colleges and institutions of the Sarvajanik Education Society, Gujarat (http://ses-surat.org/)
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    Water Purification for Rural Areas
    Jan 2015 - Current (11 years 9 months)
    • Developed a water purification system for rural and underprivileged communities who do not have access to pure drinking water and where conventional systems like RO won’t work.
    • Improved the efficiency of traditional slow sand filtration systems by modifying the design and constituents. Used cheap and indigenously available materials to keep the costs low.
    • Reduced the per liter water filtration cost down to 8 paisa (0.13 US cents), 65% less than the nearest competitors at the same time keeping the water standards under permissible limits.
    • Started a maker space called ‘Green Lab’ within the college premises for motivating students and promoting the need for such frugal innovations.
    • Print and electronic media cove
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    Dye Sensitised Solar Cells (DSSC)
    Jun 2014 - Current (12 years 4 months)
    • Created photovoltaic panels (termed as DSSC Cells) at laboratory scale from e-waste.
    • Worked on cheaper methods for the production of Titanium Dioxide, Photosensitive Dyes and Electrolytes and used them for improving the efficiency of the panels.
    • These lab-based photovoltaic panels can be used for basic day-to-day needs at only 10% of the cost compared to the conventionally available cells.
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    Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Water Award
    Issued by UAE Water Aid Foundation Suqia UAE an entity under the umbrella of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives foundation
    The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Water Award supports research and development of new and innovative technologies that produce, distribute, store, monitor, desalinate and purify water using renewable energy to support the global position of the UAE in developing solutions for challenges that are faced by poverty- and disaster-stricken communities worldwide.

    The biennial Award encourages leading corporations, research centres, institutions, the youth and innovators from across the world to compete in finding sustainable and innovative solutions to the problem of water scarcity. Until today and in two cycles, we awarded bright minds from around the world for their pioneering in water desalination and purification systems t
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    Best Social Enterprise Award
    Issued by Action For India is association with Government of Telangana
    The Best Social Enterprise Award was given to Sustainable Livelihood Initiative India Pvt. Ltd. for the extraordinary effort deployed in creating a social impact and transforming the lives of the people living at the bottom of the pyramid. Abhimanyu Rathi was selected as one of India's Top 10 Social Entrepreneurs (https://www.actionforindia.org/AFIForum2019-Top10SocialEntrepreneurs.html)
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    Low Cost Efficacious Solar Water Heater from Recycled Components
    International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology IJRASET Mar
    A solar water heater made from waste plastic bottles is based on the thermosyphon technology. Each row of bottles consists of PVC pipes coated with black mate paint at the centre of bottles. These bottles act as glazing and pipes coated with paint as heat absorber. It is supported with aluminium sheet. This aluminium sheet acts as a casing and reflector for plastic bottles. The main aim of this research work is to prepare best out of waste. This would reduce the wastes of plastic bottles and can be used for preparation of low cost solar water heater. In summer this solar water heater heats the water to 65 ℃. The solar radiation varies as per seasons and so variation in thermal efficiency is observed. This research paper involves the study
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