Navratan Katariya fell in love with solar energy in the early 1980s, before his engineering studies even began. That early passion still drives every engagement Sy-Energy takes on today. The 10 year experience in incubation and acceleration helps in growing and supporting many startups/scaleups
A versatile renewable energy professional, Navratan has worked across nearly every function of a corporate career — energy, healthtech, manufacturing (Industry 4.0), mobility, and agritech — covering both domestic and international cooperation and market opportunities for startups.
Over the last two decades he has helped start 14 new businesses, learning as much from the one that didn't work as from those that did. That hands-on, one-on-one way of working carries through to every client engagement today — there is no standard package, because no two ventures face the same market.
Supported and mentored over 300 startups/scaleups in deeptech. Paid Clients have ranged from 20-person startups to 120,000-person enterprises, from single-country operations to businesses active in more than 50 countries, across electrical, civil, mechanical, cement, textiles, infrastructure, manufacturing, food processing, and education.
Suppliers, EPC companies, consultants, financiers and developers — built up over three decades in the solar ecosystem — are part of every engagement. Their experience adds as much value as any single advisor could on their own.
STARTUPS's enablers or ecosystem in India and across 40 countries visited, hosted are great collaborators to help startups esp. in early to medium stage.
Rather than working alone, engagements draw on a network of partners across the solar and innovation ecosystem, assembled specifically for what each startups and client needs.
No specific vendor, EPC contractor or ecosystem is ever promoted. The only thing consistently recommended is what is good for the startup's growth and the sun's utilisation — advice stays independent so it can stay useful.
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