Energy Leap Partner Organisations
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Lead Partners
Our lead partners provide Energy Leap with essential resources and strategic support, ensuring that start-ups have both the funding and technical expertise needed to scale. Their financial backing fuels innovation, while their industry experience helps translate groundbreaking ideas into real-world solutions.
As a pioneering catalyst for just transition and climate action, SED Fund partners with early-stage organisations and innovative programmes to drive transformative environmental impact. Their approach is built on four strategic pillars: funding groundbreaking solutions with measurable outcomes, providing comprehensive scale support through organisational development, offering seed capital for emerging ideas, and fostering powerful collaborative networks across geographies.
They believe in the power of collective action and a systems-based approach to addressing complex climate challenges. Through strategic convenings, knowledge-sharing sessions, and issue-focused dialogues, they create platforms for meaningful collaboration between grantees and stakeholders, amplifying their collective impact.
Their partnership with Energy Leap exemplifies this mission through targeted support for early-stage innovations in the hydrogen value chain. By providing vital grant capital and strategic business mentorship to selected technology developers, they help transform promising solutions into scalable technologies that accelerate the clean energy transition.
Technip Energies stands at the forefront of the global energy transition, combining engineering excellence with breakthrough technology solutions. They partner with visionary organisations to bring transformative projects to life, driving enhanced performance while accelerating the path to sustainable energy systems. Their comprehensive expertise spans the entire project lifecycle—from strategic early-stage planning through to full-scale delivery—enabling them to turn complex energy transition challenges into opportunities for lasting impact.
Through their strategic collaboration with Energy Leap, they provide our cohort of emerging technology innovators with critical scaling support, leveraging their deep industry expertise to navigate complex technology scaling and offering access to world-class manufacturing facilities. This hands-on engagement empowers promising solutions to move from concept to commercial reality, accelerating the deployment of next-generation energy technologies.
Strategic Partners
Strategic partners play a critical role in creating a thriving ecosystem for start-ups within the Energy Leap platform. By facilitating valuable connections with industry leaders, government bodies, and potential clients, they enhance the visibility and reach of emerging technologies.
As the nodal agency for the Hyderabad Science & Technology Cluster, the Research and Innovation Circle of Hyderabad (RICH) catalyses groundbreaking collaborations between research institutions, industry, government, and start-ups. Launched in 2017 by the government of Telangana and operating under the Office of Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India, RICH drives multidisciplinary innovation to address complex regional and national challenges. Their mission centres on three transformative objectives: enhancing India's global science and technology competitiveness, developing targeted solutions for local industry and government needs, and fostering shared science and technology ecosystems across the nation.
RICH combines the agility of a private enterprise with the strategic vision of a government initiative, enabling us to effectively orchestrate partnerships that drive meaningful technological advancement and societal progress.
RICH’s partnership with Energy Leap exemplifies this approach through strategic support across multiple dimensions: providing vital grant capital to accelerate promising start-ups, collaborating on a pioneering Centre of Excellence to advance energy innovation, and leveraging their extensive network to create market access opportunities for emerging technologies. Together, we're building a robust ecosystem that transforms innovative ideas into scalable solutions for India's energy future.
As a pioneering force in India's technology landscape, NASSCOM Deep Tech champions the evolution of cutting-edge innovation through strategic ecosystem development, reflecting their deepened commitment to accelerating deep tech growth, driving product development, and establishing India's competitive position in the global technology arena.
At the heart of their approach lies a sophisticated understanding of deep tech financing dynamics, where patient capital, technological expertise, and market timing converge as critical success factors, and foster an integrated ecosystem where investors bring not just capital, but deep domain knowledge and a co-creation mindset, while academia and corporates serve as vital enablers for research advancement and commercial scalability. This is further strengthened by proactive government engagement to create an enabling regulatory environment for deep tech innovation.
Their partnership with Energy Leap embodies this collaborative spirit, providing comprehensive market access and fundraising support to innovative start-ups in our cohort, while creating powerful platforms for showcase events such as demo days. This synergistic approach not only strengthens the deep tech ecosystem but positions India as a global leader in technological innovation.
Ecosystem Partners
Ecosystem partners bring together a blend of academic expertise, cutting-edge research, and deep industry knowledge, ensuring that startups benefit from the latest advancements in technology and sustainability. .
As an Institute of Eminence, the Energy Consortium at IIT Madras stands at the intersection of academia and industry, driving comprehensive innovation across the energy value chain—from generation and storage to conversion and distribution. With a focused mission to accelerate the path to Net Zero, the Consortium harnesses the power of global industry-academia-government collaboration to create lasting impact.
The Consortium brings together an exceptional community of over 50 faculty members, 250+ postgraduate researchers, and 20-30 post-doctoral fellows, all dedicated to advancing energy transition solutions. This expertise is further enhanced by strategic partnerships with ten global energy majors spanning oil and gas, power and utilities, construction, transportation, and digital enterprises. As official observers at UNFCCC representing IIT Madras, the Consortium plays a crucial role in shaping the future of sustainable energy systems.
Through their strategic alliance with Energy Leap, the Consortium provides innovators with comprehensive support across multiple dimensions: access to state-of-the-art testing facilities, expert technical mentorship, technology sourcing capabilities, and specialised assistance in innovation challenge design and grant proposal evaluation. This collaboration exemplifies our commitment to bridging the gap between breakthrough research and real-world implementation in the energy transition space.
As a premier institute of science and technology established in 2008, IIT Hyderabad has rapidly emerged as a centre of excellence, consistently ranking among India's top 10 engineering institutions in the NIRF rankings. The institute's commitment to pushing the boundaries of technological innovation has established it as a key catalyst in India's research and development landscape.
With state-of-the-art facilities and world-class expertise, IIT Hyderabad fosters an environment where groundbreaking ideas transform into tangible solutions. Their partnership with Energy Leap exemplifies this mission through comprehensive support to emerging innovators: providing access to advanced testing facilities, delivering expert technical mentorship, enabling technology sourcing, and offering specialised guidance in innovation challenge design and grant proposal evaluation.
This collaboration harnesses IIT Hyderabad's academic excellence and technical capabilities to accelerate the development and deployment of next-generation energy solutions, contributing significantly to India's energy transition journey.
As a Centre of Excellence recognised by the Department of Science and Technology, IIMA Ventures is a comprehensive Innovation Continuum built at IIM Ahmedabad. Since its inception in 2002, it has evolved from an academic centre into a dynamic force addressing critical gaps in India's innovation-driven entrepreneurship ecosystem, spanning incubation, acceleration, seed funding, growth capital, and cutting-edge research.
Through strategic partnerships with corporates, government bodies, investors, multilateral agencies, and academic institutions, IIMA Ventures orchestrates transformative interventions across the innovation spectrum. These include pioneering accelerator programs, innovative investment instruments, research initiatives, and comprehensive long-term programs. Their expertise extends to shaping national and state-level policies, serving in key advisory roles to strengthen India's innovation and entrepreneurship landscape.
The collaboration with Energy Leap exemplifies IIMA Ventures' commitment to fostering impactful innovation, providing vital grant capital support to promising start-ups and leveraging their extensive network to create powerful market access opportunities. This partnership helps bridge the crucial gap between innovative ideas and successful market implementation in the energy transition space.
As an independent research and technology organisation launched by Innovate UK in 2015, Energy Systems Catapult stands at the forefront of accelerating Net Zero energy innovation. With a dynamic team of over 250 experts spanning technical, engineering, consumer, commercial, incubation, digital, and policy domains, we leverage comprehensive test facilities, advanced modelling tools, and insights from more than 500 research projects to drive energy system transformation.
Their 'whole energy' system approach enables innovative companies of all sizes to test, trial, and scale breakthrough solutions for the future energy landscape. By facilitating access to new customers, investments, and grants, we help promising innovations evolve into market-ready solutions that can thrive in tomorrow's energy system.
Based in Birmingham and part of Innovate UK's network of nine world-leading technology and innovation centres, Energy Systems Catapult fosters powerful collaborations between industry, government, research organisations, and academia. Through their partnership with Energy Leap, they extend their impact by providing cohort start-ups with international market access opportunities, pilot funding support, and contribute to knowledge dissemination efforts, accelerating the global adoption of innovative energy solutions.
As an early-stage venture capital firm, Ankur Capital invests in visionary founders leveraging technology to tackle some of the world's most challenging problems. They seek out entrepreneurs who see opportunities in complex challenges, pioneering innovations in overlooked markets with the potential to create transformative impact.
They provide comprehensive support that goes beyond capital, working alongside founders from seed to scale. their partnership with Energy Leap exemplifies this approach, offering cohort start-ups strategic mentorship from an investment perspective and evaluating opportunities for capital deployment.
As India's pioneering Energy Transition-focused venture capital fund, launched by marquee investors Raiyaan Shingati and Mohammed Shoeb Ali, Transition VC catalyses transformative change in emerging markets' journey toward ambitious climate goals. With a clear mission to accelerate India's path to Net-Zero, they invest in breakthrough technology solutions that drive substantial environmental impact.
Our ambitious vision targets enabling 40 million tons of CO2 offset through their portfolio by 2027—representing 1% of India's total carbon emissions—demonstrating our commitment to meaningful climate action through strategic investment. This positions them at the forefront of driving sustainable innovation in the energy transition space.
Through their strategic partnership with Energy Leap, they extend their expertise to promising start-ups through comprehensive investment mentorship and evaluation of funding opportunities.