Ankit Srivastava

Founder

India12 yrs 1 mo experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Founder of an entertainment platform for children's ecological education.
Expertise in climate tech and sustainable entrepreneurship.
Advisor in India's climate ecosystem with diverse consulting experience.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a ClimateTech and Children's Media entrepreneur with a strong focus on sustainability.

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Skills

Core Skills

Start-up VenturesImpact Investment

Other Skills

Seed CapitalAI for ClimateClimateTechSustainable AgricultureSustainability ConsultingCarbon FootprintingESGBusiness TransformationLeadershipFeasibility StudiesNegotiationQualitative ResearchBusiness StrategyFinancial ModelingAnalytics

About

After a decade building in climate in London, I returned to India with a conviction: long-term sustainability is shaped early - through culture, stories, and lived experience. The next generation doesn’t need to be taught sustainability as a concept. They need to remember what Indian culture has always known. I am now building an entertainment-first platform for India’s 250M+ children (ages 4–14), combining storytelling, physical products, and immersive experiences rooted in Indian ecological philosophy. Over the past year, I have worked across the climate spectrum from carbon removal pilots to climate finance to green skilling, deepening conviction around where real, durable change begins. Previously: 2× climate tech founder, founding team member at an early-stage VC, and advisor across India’s climate ecosystem. I also founded a charity incubating social entrepreneurs in India. IIT | London Business School If you're working across children's media, climate, education, or Indian culture, I would love to connect. Always building. Always hopeful. 🌱

Experience

12 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

2 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

4 mos

Current Experience

Prakriti sena

Founder

Jan 2026 – Present · 4 mos

Building an entertainment-first platform that helps India's 250 million children reconnect with nature and ecological wisdom, through content, products, and experiences rooted in Indian cultural philosophy.

Sulabh international social service organisation

Lead - Green Skilling

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos

Consultant / self-employed

Advisory Assignments

Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 · 0 mo

Multiple consulting projects:
Structured equity and debt funding for building one of India’s first unsegregated waste (MSW) to energy plants across two locations
Created operating model for a farm-to-fork consumer business backed by a conglomerate manufacturing organic manure
Designed operating and financial model for a novel Venture Studio focused on designing JVs with existing businesses to improve agri supply chain in East Africa and India
Supported launch of a new NBFC focused on green lending for renewable energy assets in India

Mati carbon

Fundraising, Product and Partnerships

Aug 2024 – Feb 2025 · 6 mos

Climajo

Co-Founder and CEO

Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 · 3 yrs

Started with a consumer focus. Realised the market wasn’t deep enough to monetise
Pivoted to B2B. Raised funding, designed products and built a customer base. Realised the commoditised nature made it difficult to differentiate
Realised that Climate software is a very thin layer of solution, making it incredibly difficult to build a VC-scale business
Explored an offer of acquisition and decided to move on

The vriksh (an initiative of sahaj foundation)

Co-Founder and Trustee - Charity Incubation Platform

Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 · 2 yrs

The Vriksh is an incubation platform for early-stage non-profits working on Sustainability and Climate change at the grassroots levels in India.
To date, we have supported 24 fellows with:
a monthly stipend for their personal and living expenses
Capacity building initiatives

Levnet ventures

Founding Partner

Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr

Explored setting up an impact investment vehicle for South Asia focussed on ClimateTech

Start-up VenturesSeed Capital

Pontaq

Senior Investment Manager

Mar 2018 – Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Multiple

Board Member and Advisory Roles

Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 · 3 yrs

Board Advisor (Start-ups)
Entrepreneurs Association/მეწარმეთა ასოციაცია
Sababa Media Sàrl
Mentor to Accelerators:
Toucan Ventures (Focused on London-based creative start-ups in the food & beverage, lifestyle, and retail sectors)
Digital Catapult Augmentor
Yunus Social Business
Wayra

Zs

Consultant

Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr · London

Consulting firm focused on go-to-market and commercial strategy

Hay group

4 roles

Consultant

Oct 2014 – Jul 2015 · 9 mos

Hay Group (now part of Korn Ferry) was one of world’s leading management consulting firm, focused on organization effectiveness.
I spent 4 years at Hay Group working with client CXOs to define organisation operating models and structure. While at Hay Group, I worked and lived across India, China, US and Brazil, working for the world’s largest retailer.

Senior Associate

Promoted

Oct 2013 – Sep 2014 · 11 mos

Associate Consultant

Nov 2012 – Oct 2013 · 11 mos

Analyst

Sep 2011 – Nov 2012 · 1 yr 2 mos

Grail research (a member of monitor group)

Analyst

Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 · 1 yr

I was part of quantitative research and analytics team for Grail Research, then part of Monitor Group (consulting firm).
I worked on projects to help companies develop targeted marketing plans and pricing strategies.