ACT for Environment
No. 8/2 (Old No.2 and Old No.7), Ulsoor Road, Sivan Chetty Gardens, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560042, India
Overview
ACT started as a 100 CR grant in response to fight Covid-19 and has now expanded its mandate to cover education, environment, health and women's participation in the workforce.
- Total investments
- 1
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 1
- Active investors
- 0
Sector focus
- Non Profit
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- RenewCred
Participated · Seed · Jan 2026
RenewCred is a climate-tech startup focused on overhauling carbon markets by launching a fully digital, science-driven carbon credit standard and registry for India. The platform connects continuous data streams with scientific models and automated compliance checks, cutting verification timelines by about 75 % and slashing transaction costs by more than 50 % compared with legacy systems. By addressing key pain points—lack of trust, opaque data, slow verification, high costs, and fragmented accountability—the company seeks to unlock credible, technology-enabled infrastructure for emissions trading. RenewCred’s mission is to remove two gigatons of greenhouse-gas emissions from the atmosphere within the next 14 years. Its technology is designed to comply with India’s Carbon Credit Trading Scheme, where each credit represents one tonne of CO₂ equivalent reduced or removed. The recent seed round provides capital to accelerate product development, expand scientific integrations and onboard industry participants to its registry.
Team
No current team members are available.