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When Iron Man backed agri start-up ClimateAi to fight climate change

ClimateAi was co-founded in 2015 by Himanshu Gupta, a former climate and energy expert with the Niti Aayog, along with Max Evans, a machine learning expert with a farming lineage

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Gupta's start-up secured $12 mn from three funds, including Robert Downey Jr’s Footprint Coalition

Shreya Jai New Delhi

4 min read Last Updated : Jul 24 2021 | 6:10 AM IST

The Stanford University dorm has incubated some of the tech giants of the world — Google, Cisco, Yahoo!, among others. Himanshu Gupta has joined this list, and is now the co-founder and CEO of a $16-million company working on the next disruption in the tech space — climate change.

This week, ClimateAi, his company, secured $12 million from three funds, including Footprint Coalition, started by Iron Man himself — Hollywood star Robert Downey Jr. Footprint Coalition is a venture capital (VC) fund that invests in “sustainability focused companies” and gives grants to support environment technology. The two other VCs that

Topics : Climate Change agriculture sector Start-ups funding

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