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POWERED Accelerator’s Second Cohort Shortlists 9 Women-Led Startups

POWERED Accelerator, entrepreneurship programme, focusing on women-led businesses in energy value chain, shortlists 9 women-led startups for its 2nd cohort

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Sneha Verma
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POWERED Accelerator’s Second Cohort Shortlists 9 Women-Led Startups

Selected companies from the 2nd cohort will be supported with an equity-free seed fund of up to $10,000 after a successful first cohort in October.

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POWERED Accelerator, a first-of-its-kind global entrepreneurship programme, focusing on women-led businesses in the energy value chain, has shortlisted 9 women-led startups for its 2nd cohort.

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The 9 women-led startups shortlisted for the seed fund are:

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  1. REVY Environmental Solutions: A startup which develops a cost-effective and indigenous process of treating wastewater releasing biogas in the process.
  2. Cydee Technologies: A startup which has unique streetlights to help reduce cost and saving 60% material, along with 30% Extra Energy Saving compared to conventional LED Streetlights.
  3. DD Bio Solution Technology: The startup technology produces green energy from agro waste providing an end-to-end clean cooking solution for rural women.
  4. FinEffi Energy Solutions: Is a platform which helps save energy, reduce cost of electricity by at least 25% for the end user through their IoT devices and data analytics.
  5. GTarang Energy Solutions: The startup develops devices to convert waste thermal energy from individual and industrial setups into useful energy.
  6. Pushan Renewable Energy Private Limited: A social enterprise that provides innovative solar powered systems and products for income generation of rural Indian women.
  7. Paterson Energy Pvt. Ltd: A Plastic Waste to Fuel Company recycles plastic waste into quality Plastic Oil using Thermochemical Depolymerization Technology.
  8. Prakriti Biosystems Engineering: A startup, which converts organic waste into energy by using membrane-based modular solutions to purify Biogas to Bio-CNG.
  9. Durga Energy: A cleantech enterprise providing alternative livelihood opportunities to women through training in manufacturing, installation and maintenance of solar products.

Selected companies from the 2nd cohort will be supported with an equity-free seed fund of up to $10,000 after a successful first cohort in October. Cohort is a joint initiative of Shell Foundation (a UK based charity) the UK Government’s Department for International Development (DFID), Government of India’s Department for Science and Technology (DST); and is managed by Zone Startups India.

Previous winners of the grants have included firms in a wide range of development stages, from mature firms to firms that had just crossed concept stage.

India Government of India powered accelerator Shell Foundation UK Government’s Department for International Development Zone Startups India
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