Climake

Which service fits you

Climake runs two separate financing routes, and they suit different needs.

• Advisory is for a climate venture that is trying to raise capital. Climake does not fund you directly; it connects you to its network of climate funders and helps you prepare for and reach them.
• Asset leasing is for a venture that needs to put a climate-positive asset into use without buying it outright, repaying against the income or savings the asset produces.

How to approach them

There is no cohort or dated call. For either service you put yourself forward through the online interest form linked from the relevant page on Climake's site. General questions go to the team inbox.

What to have ready

No formal eligibility is published, so lead with the basics a funder or lessor needs: what your climate solution does, the stage you are at, and the commercial traction behind it. For asset leasing in particular, Climake assesses future earning potential, so be ready to show how the asset will generate income or savings.

Climake is a climate-finance platform that works to make capital more accessible for climate ventures. It describes itself as a platform to make climate finance more accessible, and it operates from Mumbai, India. The registered entity behind it is Climate Connect Advisors Private Limited.

Climake is not an incubator, an accelerator or an investment fund. It does not run cohorts, hold a campus or write cheques from its own fund. Instead it works across four areas: advisory for capital-raising, asset leasing, knowledge and thought leadership, and ecosystem advocacy. Its two financing offers are the advisory service and the asset-leasing service described below.

What it supports

Climake focuses on startups and enterprises working in climate action. Its advisory work is aimed at early-stage climate ventures in areas such as the energy transition, resilient cities, food and agriculture, and nature. Its asset-leasing work covers climate-positive assets in energy efficiency, the built environment, food and agriculture, and waste and circularity, and is open to a wide range of operators, from early, emergent startups to mature enterprises. There are no formal eligibility rules published for either service; the common thread is a climate venture or a climate-positive asset.

How it works

Through its advisory service, Climake helps early-stage climate ventures access capital from a growing network of climate funders, rather than investing its own money. That network spans development funders, non-banking lenders, mainstream investors and impact investors, and Climake channels capital through those third-party funders while providing advice, mentorship and connections.

Through its asset-leasing service, Climake provides operating leases for the assets of climate solutions. The lease is kept off the lessee's balance sheet, repayment is structured against the income or savings the assets generate, and credit decisions are based on future earning potential, which it says makes financing more accessible for early-stage companies with new commercial traction.

Who runs it

Climake was set up by a founding team drawn from climate entrepreneurship and financial services. Shravan Shankar had earlier co-founded AtWorks, an impact entrepreneurship ecosystem builder. Simmi Sareen, a co-founder, is a chartered accountant with an MBA from London Business School and more than two decades in financial services.

How to apply

For both the advisory and the asset-leasing services, Climake invites climate startups to put themselves forward through an online interest form linked from its website. There is no application window or cohort date; interest is recorded on a rolling basis. General enquiries go to its team inbox.

Where it works

Climake is based in Mumbai, India, and its focus is on climate ventures in India and the wider Global South.