Ground Up

About

Ground Up (Ground Up Ecowaste Pvt Ltd) is a Mumbai-based biochar startup founded by Rhea Dabriwala, Naveen Shivalingam and Shanay Jhaveri. The company develops strategically located industrial biochar production hubs that pyrolyze Indian agricultural residues into biochar, producing soil-amendment fertilisers and permanent carbon removal credits. Seed-stage: raised ~$117K in a May 2025 seed round; roughly 15 employees.

Registry Activity

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Isometric

• 1 project · Biochar · 4 tCO₂ issued · first issued 2026-04-17  ↗

Data from Puro.earth and CarbonPlan OffsetsDB (Verra, Gold Standard, ACR, CAR, ART, Cercarbono, Isometric). Refreshed monthly.

History

• 2026-10-14 — news mention: Ground Up: Project Nandani is rated A by Sylvera . 5/5 for permanence. 5/5 for additionality. 5/5 fo (source)
• 2026-10-06 — news mention: What I ask a biochar project before we sign an exclusive deal (source)
• 2026-09-14 — news mention: Biochar Demand Hits 2.99 Million Tonnes: Can Corporate Buyers Trigger a Supply Crunch? • Carbon Cred (source)
• 2026-09-07 — news mention: Tapovanam Organic Farming Systems: Announcing Cohort 2 of our 🇮🇳 India CDR Startup #Accelerator Prog (source)
• 2026-09-07 — news mention: Engrow: Announcing Cohort 2 of our 🇮🇳 India CDR Startup #Accelerator Program 🌟 We continued (source)
• 2026-09-07 — news mention: Ground Up: From Pilot to Platform. 🚀 Project Nandani has officially levelled up. We’re scaling (source)
• 2026-09-04 — news mention: Supercritical Partners With Ground Up To Expand India Biochar Network (source)
• 2026-08-30 — news mention: Ground Up: 📰 This week key developments in durable CDR, as Google launched a $6M R&D funding (source)
• 2026-08-23 — news mention: Ground Up: Pre-purchase announcement: remove has signed a pre-purchase agreement with Ground Up . At (source)
• 2026-08-20 — news mention: remove: Pre-purchase announcement: remove has signed a pre-purchase agreement with Ground Up . At re (source)
• 2026-08-19 — news mention: CDR.fyi: 📰 This week key developments in durable CDR, as Google launched a $6M R&D funding progr (source)
• 2026-08-15 — news mention: Ground Up: As part of our ongoing biochar field application trials, Ground Up recently completed pat (source)
• 2026-08-15 — news mention: Ground Up: Boeing has procured 20,000 tonnes of permanent carbon removal through Supercritical. Six (source)
• 2026-08-15 — news mention: Ground Up: 📰 This week key developments in durable CDR, as Google launched a $6M R&D funding pro (source)
• 2026-08-15 — news mention: Ground Up: Indian biochar startup Ground Up has secured a pre-purchase agreement with remove, follow (source)
• 2026-08-15 — refresh: coresignal
• 2026-08-14 — news mention: Indian Company Ground Up Secures A Pre-Purchase Agreement With remove (source)
• 2026-08-02 — news mention: Engrow: Announcing Cohort 2 of our 🇮🇳 India CDR Startup #Accelerator Program 🌟 We continued to be ov (source)
• 2026-07-26 — news mention: A framework for ground-up life cycle assessment of novel, carbon-storing building materials (source)
• 2026-05-12 — news mention: Credible carbon removal markets require credible policy frameworks. Few know this better than Puro.e (source)
• 2026-05-01 — liveliness: 🔴 Likely Dead → 🟢 Active (source)
• 2026-05-01 — refresh: screenshot
• 2026-05-01 — refresh: coresignal, screenshot, liveliness
• 2026-05-01 — liveliness: 🟢 Active → 🔴 Likely Dead (source)
• 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=Biochar focus=supplier liveliness=🟢 Active (source)
• 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=Biochar focus=supplier liveliness=🟡 Moderate (source)
• 2026-04-19 — refresh: coresignal, screenshot, liveliness
• 2026-04-19 — liveliness: 🟡 Moderate → 🔴 Likely Dead (source)
• 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=Biochar focus=supplier liveliness=🟡 Moderate (source)
• 2026-04-18 — reclassified: pathway=Biochar focus=supplier liveliness=🟢 Active (source)