Shantanu Agarwal

Shantanu is an engineer, inventor, and climate tech entrepreneur with more than 20 year of industry experience. He has founded multiple successful startups and non-profits in the energy and climate domain.

Shantanu has experience in building startups, both as an entrepreneur and as an investor. He led the origination in a large energy technology venture capital fund in the past where he has invested and experienced the scaling journey of multiple startups as a board member.

Shantanu is deeply passionate about climate change mitigation and development efforts in vulnerable populations. He has been working towards this goal with his technology startups and non-profit efforts for more than a decade. In 2021, Shantanu identified the potential of enhanced rock weathering as a tool for climate change mitigation and climate justice for vulnerable farmers. He has since founded “Mati Carbon PBC” to build robust scientific methodology for carbon removal MRV and scaling up operations. Mati has already touched more than 20,000 farmer lives in rural central India and on track to remove >20,000 Tons CO2e from its deployments till date.

September 2024