Renewable Watch profiles Manik Thapar, Founder and Chairman of Eco Wise Waste Management, spotlighting the company's role in building out India's circular-economy and waste-management infrastructure.
Kaboom Impact's Kawach, a four-part interactive learning programme built with the British Asian Trust and Mission Karmayogi, has been completed by 1,20,000 Indian civil servants, using storytelling and animation to build empathy around child protection.
Flipkart says it has created more than 2.5 lakh direct and indirect festive-season jobs across its logistics network, with women now making up over 20 percent of its supply chain workforce and increased participation from persons with disabilities.
UK-based Certain Energy has closed a £10 million ($13.6 million) Series A round for its manganese flow battery technology, addressing long-duration energy storage needs for renewable energy grid integration, with an active use case under development in India.
MassMutual Ventures has launched its second Climate Technology Fund with $150 million earmarked for early-stage companies developing technology to improve the sustainability of real assets, extending institutional capital's growing role in climate technology investing.
Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Implicity has secured a $40 million funding round to scale its AI-driven cardiac remote monitoring platform, addressing growing clinical demand for continuous, technology-enabled monitoring of cardiac device patients.
Inspiren, a New York-based company redefining senior living through AI-powered monitoring and care solutions, has raised $70 million in Series C funding at a valuation exceeding $500 million, addressing growing demand for technology-enabled elder care.
The Odisha state government has approved a Rs 15,949 crore investment plan to upgrade its power grid infrastructure, aimed at enhancing distribution reliability, reducing transmission losses and accommodating future industrial and renewable energy demand.
Terrastack, Varaha Climate, Farmers for Forests and Climitra Carbon have been selected for the inaugural Google DeepMind Accelerator: AI for the Planet across Asia-Pacific, joining a 16-organisation cohort applying artificial intelligence to environmental challenges.
Roughly 153 million driver's-license scans have surfaced from a breached identity-verification vendor, reigniting global concern about the security practices of third-party services that businesses rely on to confirm customer identities.