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Women-led impact & climate startups in India

Sustainability, climate and social-impact companies built by women founders.

75 women-led companies · 2 with a full founder story · Last updated 14 August 2026

Impact and climate companies carry a double burden: they have to work as businesses and matter as missions, and falling short on either undermines the other. The women-led companies in this facet are building in sustainability, climate and social impact, where the unit economics are often harder precisely because the problem is real.

This is also the cluster the brief would file ClimateTech under. The founders here have chosen problems that resist quick wins. Browse by stage and city, and read the founder stories where they exist to see how mission and margin actually get reconciled.

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200 Million Artisans

Priya Krishnamoorthy

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Founded: 2020

Aangan

Suparna Gupta

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Founded: 2002

Annapurna Pariwar

Medha Purao Samant

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Pune, Maharashtra
Founded: 1993

Antarang Foundation

Priya Agrawal

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Founded: 2013

Aspire For Her

Madhura DasGupta Sinha

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Founded: 2020

Avani Kumaon

Rashmi Bharti

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Berinag, Uttarakhand
Founded: 1997

Bare NecessitiesVerified

Sahar Mansoor

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka
Founded: 2016

Read our story →

Bookworm

Sujata Noronha & Elaine Mendonsa

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Panaji, Goa
Founded: 2005

Boondh

Bharti Kannan & Sonal Jain

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka
Founded: 2016

Breakthrough

Mallika Dutt

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: New Delhi, Delhi
Founded: 2000

Cafe ICanFlyy

Preeyam Budhia

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Kolkata, West Bengal
Founded: 2017

Carragreen

Surabhi Shah, Chetna Shah

Seed

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Indore, Madhya Pradesh
Founded: 2018

Craftroots

Anar Patel

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Founded: 2001

Daily Dump

Poonam Bir Kasturi

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka
Founded: 2006

Doorstep School

Rajani Paranjpe & Bina Lashkari

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Founded: 1989

Dwaraka

Anita Reddy

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka
Founded: 1999

Eco Femme

Kathy Walkling & Jessamijn Miedema

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Auroville, Tamil Nadu
Founded: 2009

econscious

Sonal Shukla & Vaibhav Verma

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: New Delhi, Delhi
Founded: 2020

Ecoware

Rhea Mazumdar Singhal

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh
Founded: 2010

Educate Girls

Safeena Husain

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Founded: 2007

Elrhino

Nisha Bora

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Guwahati, Assam
Founded: 2014

Exotic Echo Society

Sonnie Kath

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Dimapur, Nagaland
Founded: 2008

Going to School

Lisa Heydlauff

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: New Delhi, Delhi
Founded: 2003

Goli Soda

Sruti Harihara Subramanian

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Founded: 2013

Greenway Grameen Infra

Neha Juneja

Series B

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Founded: 2011

Hasiru Dala

Nalini Shekar

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka
Founded: 2011

Hey Deedee

Revathi Roy

Seed

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Founded: 2016

iHeal HealthTech

Romita Ghosh

Pre-Seed

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Shimla, Himachal Pradesh
Founded: 2018

Industree Foundation

Neelam Chhiber

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka
Founded: 2000

Iro Iro

Bhaavya Goenka

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Jaipur, Rajasthan
Founded: 2017

Jagori

Abha Bhaiya & Kamla Bhasin

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: New Delhi, Delhi
Founded: 1984

Katha

Geeta Dharmarajan

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: New Delhi, Delhi
Founded: 1988

Kranti

Robin Chaurasiya

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Founded: 2010

LabourNet

Gayathri Vasudevan

Series A

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka
Founded: 2008

LedBy Foundation

Ruha Shadab

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Noida, Uttar Pradesh
Founded: 2019

Mann Deshi

Chetna Gala Sinha

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Mhaswad, Maharashtra
Founded: 1997

Masoom

Nikita Ketkar

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Founded: 2008

Muktangan

Elizabeth Mehta

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Founded: 2003

Myna Mahila Foundation

Suhani Jalota

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Founded: 2015

Naireeta Services

Trupti Jain

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Founded: 2011

North East Network

Monisha Behal

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Guwahati, Assam
Founded: 1995

One Future Collective

Vandita Morarka

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Founded: 2017

Panchachuli Women Weavers

Mukti Datta

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Almora, Uttarakhand
Founded: 1995

Paterson Energy

Vidya Amarnath

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Founded: 2016

Point of View

Bishakha Datta

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Founded: 1997

Protsahan

Sonal Kapoor

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: New Delhi, Delhi
Founded: 2010

Rangsutra

Sumita Ghose

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Bikaner, Rajasthan
Founded: 2006

Recity

Deepshika Jain & Meha Lahiri

Seed

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Founded: 2016

Rehwa Society

Sally Holkar

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Maheshwar, Madhya Pradesh
Founded: 1979

REVY Environmental Solutions

Dr. Vanita Prasad

Seed

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Vadodara, Gujarat
Founded: 2017

Rimagined

Shailaja Rangarajan

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka
Founded: 2016

Saahas Zero Waste

Wilma Rodrigues

Series A

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka
Founded: 2013

Safecity

ElsaMarie D'Silva

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Founded: 2012

Saheli Women

Madhu Vaishnav

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Jodhpur, Rajasthan
Founded: 2015

Sakha Consulting Wings

Meenu Vadera

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: New Delhi, Delhi
Founded: 2008

Shrujan

Chanda Shroff

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Bhuj, Gujarat
Founded: 1969

Silpakarman

Akshya Shree

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Agartala, Tripura
Founded: 2017

Sirohi

Gauri Malik

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: New Delhi, Delhi
Founded: 2019

Slam Out Loud

Jigyasa Labroo

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: New Delhi, Delhi
Founded: 2017

SolarSquare

Shreya Mishra, Neeraj Jain

Series C

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Founded: 2015

Stonesoup

Malini Parmar & Smita Kulkarni

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka
Founded: 2015

Swajal Water

Dr. Vibha Tripathi

Series A

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Gurugram, Haryana
Founded: 2014

Swayam

Anuradha Kapoor

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Kolkata, West Bengal
Founded: 1995

The Apprentice Project

Monica Pesswani

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Founded: 2016

The Disposal Company

Bhagyashree Bhansali Jain

Seed

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Founded: 2020

Twirl.store

Sujata Chatterjee

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Kolkata, West Bengal
Founded: 2017

Uger

Lakshmi Murthy

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Udaipur, Rajasthan
Founded: 2012

Under the Mango Tree

Vijaya Pastala

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Founded: 2009

Vacha

Sonal Shukla

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Founded: 1987

Vardhman Recycling

Nikeeta Jaiin

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: New Delhi, Delhi
Founded: 2020

VIDYA

Rashmi Misra

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Gurugram, Haryana
Founded: 1985

White PrintVerified

Upasana Makati

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Founded: 2013

Read our story →

WomenWeave

Sally Holkar

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Maheshwar, Madhya Pradesh
Founded: 2002

Woven Tales of North East

Paulmie Gogoi

Bootstrapped

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Guwahati, Assam
Founded: 2020

Zerocircle

Neha Jain

Pre-Series A

Industry: Impact / Social
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra
Founded: 2020


200 Million ArtisansPriya Krishnamoorthy	Impact / Social	Mumbai, Maharashtra	Bootstrapped	2020
AanganSuparna Gupta	Impact / Social	Mumbai, Maharashtra	Bootstrapped	2002
Annapurna PariwarMedha Purao Samant	Impact / Social	Pune, Maharashtra	Bootstrapped	1993
Antarang FoundationPriya Agrawal	Impact / Social	Mumbai, Maharashtra	Bootstrapped	2013
Aspire For HerMadhura DasGupta Sinha	Impact / Social	Mumbai, Maharashtra	Bootstrapped	2020
Avani KumaonRashmi Bharti	Impact / Social	Berinag, Uttarakhand	Bootstrapped	1997
Bare NecessitiesVerifiedSahar MansoorRead our story →	Impact / Social	Bengaluru, Karnataka	Bootstrapped	2016
BookwormSujata Noronha & Elaine Mendonsa	Impact / Social	Panaji, Goa	Bootstrapped	2005
BoondhBharti Kannan & Sonal Jain	Impact / Social	Bengaluru, Karnataka	Bootstrapped	2016
BreakthroughMallika Dutt	Impact / Social	New Delhi, Delhi	Bootstrapped	2000
Cafe ICanFlyyPreeyam Budhia	Impact / Social	Kolkata, West Bengal	Bootstrapped	2017
CarragreenSurabhi Shah, Chetna Shah	Impact / Social	Indore, Madhya Pradesh	Seed	2018
CraftrootsAnar Patel	Impact / Social	Ahmedabad, Gujarat	Bootstrapped	2001
Daily DumpPoonam Bir Kasturi	Impact / Social	Bengaluru, Karnataka	Bootstrapped	2006
Doorstep SchoolRajani Paranjpe & Bina Lashkari	Impact / Social	Mumbai, Maharashtra	Bootstrapped	1989
DwarakaAnita Reddy	Impact / Social	Bengaluru, Karnataka	Bootstrapped	1999
Eco FemmeKathy Walkling & Jessamijn Miedema	Impact / Social	Auroville, Tamil Nadu	Bootstrapped	2009
econsciousSonal Shukla & Vaibhav Verma	Impact / Social	New Delhi, Delhi	Bootstrapped	2020
EcowareRhea Mazumdar Singhal	Impact / Social	Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh	Bootstrapped	2010
Educate GirlsSafeena Husain	Impact / Social	Mumbai, Maharashtra	Bootstrapped	2007
ElrhinoNisha Bora	Impact / Social	Guwahati, Assam	Bootstrapped	2014
Exotic Echo SocietySonnie Kath	Impact / Social	Dimapur, Nagaland	Bootstrapped	2008
Going to SchoolLisa Heydlauff	Impact / Social	New Delhi, Delhi	Bootstrapped	2003
Goli SodaSruti Harihara Subramanian	Impact / Social	Chennai, Tamil Nadu	Bootstrapped	2013
Greenway Grameen InfraNeha Juneja	Impact / Social	Mumbai, Maharashtra	Series B	2011
Hasiru DalaNalini Shekar	Impact / Social	Bengaluru, Karnataka	Bootstrapped	2011
Hey DeedeeRevathi Roy	Impact / Social	Mumbai, Maharashtra	Seed	2016
iHeal HealthTechRomita Ghosh	Impact / Social	Shimla, Himachal Pradesh	Pre-Seed	2018
Industree FoundationNeelam Chhiber	Impact / Social	Bengaluru, Karnataka	Bootstrapped	2000
Iro IroBhaavya Goenka	Impact / Social	Jaipur, Rajasthan	Bootstrapped	2017
JagoriAbha Bhaiya & Kamla Bhasin	Impact / Social	New Delhi, Delhi	Bootstrapped	1984
KathaGeeta Dharmarajan	Impact / Social	New Delhi, Delhi	Bootstrapped	1988
KrantiRobin Chaurasiya	Impact / Social	Mumbai, Maharashtra	Bootstrapped	2010
LabourNetGayathri Vasudevan	Impact / Social	Bengaluru, Karnataka	Series A	2008
LedBy FoundationRuha Shadab	Impact / Social	Noida, Uttar Pradesh	Bootstrapped	2019
Mann DeshiChetna Gala Sinha	Impact / Social	Mhaswad, Maharashtra	Bootstrapped	1997
MasoomNikita Ketkar	Impact / Social	Mumbai, Maharashtra	Bootstrapped	2008
MuktanganElizabeth Mehta	Impact / Social	Mumbai, Maharashtra	Bootstrapped	2003
Myna Mahila FoundationSuhani Jalota	Impact / Social	Mumbai, Maharashtra	Bootstrapped	2015
Naireeta ServicesTrupti Jain	Impact / Social	Ahmedabad, Gujarat	Bootstrapped	2011
North East NetworkMonisha Behal	Impact / Social	Guwahati, Assam	Bootstrapped	1995
One Future CollectiveVandita Morarka	Impact / Social	Mumbai, Maharashtra	Bootstrapped	2017
Panchachuli Women WeaversMukti Datta	Impact / Social	Almora, Uttarakhand	Bootstrapped	1995
Paterson EnergyVidya Amarnath	Impact / Social	Chennai, Tamil Nadu	Bootstrapped	2016
Point of ViewBishakha Datta	Impact / Social	Mumbai, Maharashtra	Bootstrapped	1997
ProtsahanSonal Kapoor	Impact / Social	New Delhi, Delhi	Bootstrapped	2010
RangsutraSumita Ghose	Impact / Social	Bikaner, Rajasthan	Bootstrapped	2006
RecityDeepshika Jain & Meha Lahiri	Impact / Social	Mumbai, Maharashtra	Seed	2016
Rehwa SocietySally Holkar	Impact / Social	Maheshwar, Madhya Pradesh	Bootstrapped	1979
REVY Environmental SolutionsDr. Vanita Prasad	Impact / Social	Vadodara, Gujarat	Seed	2017
RimaginedShailaja Rangarajan	Impact / Social	Bengaluru, Karnataka	Bootstrapped	2016
Saahas Zero WasteWilma Rodrigues	Impact / Social	Bengaluru, Karnataka	Series A	2013
SafecityElsaMarie D'Silva	Impact / Social	Mumbai, Maharashtra	Bootstrapped	2012
Saheli WomenMadhu Vaishnav	Impact / Social	Jodhpur, Rajasthan	Bootstrapped	2015
Sakha Consulting WingsMeenu Vadera	Impact / Social	New Delhi, Delhi	Bootstrapped	2008
ShrujanChanda Shroff	Impact / Social	Bhuj, Gujarat	Bootstrapped	1969
SilpakarmanAkshya Shree	Impact / Social	Agartala, Tripura	Bootstrapped	2017
SirohiGauri Malik	Impact / Social	New Delhi, Delhi	Bootstrapped	2019
Slam Out LoudJigyasa Labroo	Impact / Social	New Delhi, Delhi	Bootstrapped	2017
SolarSquareShreya Mishra, Neeraj Jain	Impact / Social	Mumbai, Maharashtra	Series C	2015
StonesoupMalini Parmar & Smita Kulkarni	Impact / Social	Bengaluru, Karnataka	Bootstrapped	2015
Swajal WaterDr. Vibha Tripathi	Impact / Social	Gurugram, Haryana	Series A	2014
SwayamAnuradha Kapoor	Impact / Social	Kolkata, West Bengal	Bootstrapped	1995
The Apprentice ProjectMonica Pesswani	Impact / Social	Mumbai, Maharashtra	Bootstrapped	2016
The Disposal CompanyBhagyashree Bhansali Jain	Impact / Social	Mumbai, Maharashtra	Seed	2020
Twirl.storeSujata Chatterjee	Impact / Social	Kolkata, West Bengal	Bootstrapped	2017
UgerLakshmi Murthy	Impact / Social	Udaipur, Rajasthan	Bootstrapped	2012
Under the Mango TreeVijaya Pastala	Impact / Social	Mumbai, Maharashtra	Bootstrapped	2009
VachaSonal Shukla	Impact / Social	Mumbai, Maharashtra	Bootstrapped	1987
Vardhman RecyclingNikeeta Jaiin	Impact / Social	New Delhi, Delhi	Bootstrapped	2020
VIDYARashmi Misra	Impact / Social	Gurugram, Haryana	Bootstrapped	1985
White PrintVerifiedUpasana MakatiRead our story →	Impact / Social	Mumbai, Maharashtra	Bootstrapped	2013
WomenWeaveSally Holkar	Impact / Social	Maheshwar, Madhya Pradesh	Bootstrapped	2002
Woven Tales of North EastPaulmie Gogoi	Impact / Social	Guwahati, Assam	Bootstrapped	2020
ZerocircleNeha Jain	Impact / Social	Mumbai, Maharashtra	Pre-Series A	2020

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Why Impact & ClimateTech matters

Climate and sustainability are moving from the margins of Indian business to its centre as regulation, capital and consumer attention all shift. Women founders are notably present in impact-led companies, where understanding the affected community is the work itself.

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Frequently asked questions

+ Is this where climate-tech companies are listed?

Yes. Sustainability, climate and social-impact companies that are women-led sit in this facet, each with at least one confirmed woman founder or co-founder.

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