Cohort 2024
Akanksha Malhotra
MindfulSip
MindfulSip is a plant-based wellness brand dedicated to making daily nutrition effortless. Our functional beverages blend superfoods and 100% plant-based ingredients to enhance focus, energy and immunity—without compromise on taste or habit. With a mission to create healthy, cruelty-free alternatives, MindfulSIP is redefining how consumers fuel their minds and bodies.
Swathi Gopalakrishnan
Protivore
Protivore transforms plants into delicious, high-protein meat alternatives using cutting-edge technology. Our ready-to-cook products offer the taste, texture, and nutrition of meat—minus the guilt. Whether you’re a chef or a conscious eater, Protivore delivers sustainability without compromise.
Dheeraj Mohan
The GreenMeat
The GreenMeat offers delicious, high-protein plant-based meat products made using carefully sourced plant protein isolates—primarily yellow peas. We are dedicated to delivering the taste, texture, and satisfaction of animal-based meat while providing a healthier, more humane, and environmentally sustainable alternative.
Hubert Roshan
Zero Meat
Zero Meat crafts plant-based, protein-packed finger foods and condiments that bring sustainability and regional Desi flavours to every bite. Made for easy, guilt-free indulgence, our clean-label treats skip the artificial additives while keeping things delicious and climate-friendly.
Kuldeep Patil
Power Smoothies
NEXTera Foods is committed to delivering affordable, healthy and sustainable plant based foods for the mainstream market, starting with everyone's favourite ice creams. Meanwhile, exploring ways to create wider impact!
Indra T
NEXTera Foods
NEXTera Foods is committed to delivering affordable, healthy and sustainable plant based foods for the mainstream market, starting with everyone's favourite ice creams. Meanwhile, exploring ways to create wider impact!
Stuti Parekh
OG Mithai
The OG Mithai is reimagining traditional Indian sweets with a modern twist—completely dairy-free. Specializing in Gujarati, Bengali, and Rajasthani classics, we offer authentic flavors with inclusive options that are dairy-free, sugar-free, and gluten-free. Perfect for every celebration, craving, and conscious choice—without compromising on taste or tradition.
Maulik Vaishnav
OG Mithai
The OG Mithai is reimagining traditional Indian sweets with a modern twist—completely dairy-free. Specializing in Gujarati, Bengali, and Rajasthani classics, we offer authentic flavors with inclusive options that are dairy-free, sugar-free, and gluten-free. Perfect for every celebration, craving, and conscious choice—without compromising on taste or tradition.
Cohort 2022
Raunak
Oat Drinks & Chickpea Cheese
Made from Plants will make a range of plant-based dairy alternatives, starting with oat beverages. We are in the process of developing a high-protein cheese alternative produced through proprietary food technology.
Hemali Pasad
Nomou - Plant Based Gelato
At Nomou, we make Tasty, Healthy and Cruelty Free Plant Based Gelato using Natural Ingredients & Love. Our Rich & Creamy Gelato is made with minimal ingredients (4 to 5) without any Preservatives & Refined Sugar.
Ankush Jamadagni
Plant-based Dairy Alternatives
OATEY is a plant based company facilitating Healthy, Sustainable & Cruelty Free Living, without compromising on Taste or Quality! We bring to the world, Tastier, Healthier, Greener & Kinder food choices!
Shantanu Dhangar
Plant-based Seafood
We at Seaspire, developed and produce India’s first Plant Based whole-cut fish fillet. Our other offering include Fish less Burger patties and Fish less Nuggets
Cohort 2021
Ranjith Kumar
Artificial Tissues
Biodimension Technology is a tissue engineering company that develops “artificial tissues”, to eliminate animal based experiments for testing cosmetic ingredients by cosmetic companies.
Pankaj Khabia
Premium Non-Leather Products
Ethik produces premium non leather products, with a focus on men’s footwear and accessories. They use microfiber materials and plant-based fabrics to design accessible, modern, value-driven products for the Indian ecosystem.
Jai Khandelwal
Plant-based Dairy
Funny Nani (earlier NayaM!lk) is a plant based dairy company with a focus on developing alternatives to value added dairy products from Novel Indian Indigenous crops with a current focus on plant based paneer.
Bharat Bakaraju
Bovine Milk & Milk Products
Phyx44 working on creating bovine milk and milk products by working on nature identical, microbe created proteins & fats for human consumption created via recombinant protein expression and single cell lipids derivatives.
Ishu Bindal
Plant-based Egg Alternatives
Plantish is currently focused on on developing healthy, safe and sustainable plant-based egg alternatives which can be used to make boiled eggs, scramble, omelettes and other regional dishes, all without having the end consumer compromise on taste, price and nutrition.
Pranjuli Garg
Plant-based Meat Products
ProMeat is offering plant-based meat products made from plant derived proteins. They are focusing on replicating and retaining the taste, texture, and appeal of conventional meats from native Indian crops. Their current product portfolio includes plant-based meat burger patties, sausages and kebabs.
Program 2021
Cohort 2020
Manish Pareek
Vegan Leather
The company currently operates two divisions, the first being an online marketplace, VegShoes.in, which sells vegan shoes. The second is the research and development division, which is working on creating better vegan leather that outperform and outlasts the properties of real leather. Manish is using biomimicry to replicate the cell-like structure found in animal leather and create vegan leather.
Ravali Amba
Precision Fermentation-based Alternative Seafood
At Brew51, Ravali wants to create a kinder, healthier and more sustainable world by replacing animals in our foods using plants and precision fermentation — starting with fish. The motivation for creating a fish alternative is that there is an animal welfare, human health and sustainability crisis with the ways in which fish are farmed, killed and eaten today.
Kushal Aradhya
Plant-based Meat and Spirulina
Naka Foods develops alternative foods with impact, like microalgae-based and plant-based products. The company’s first product, the 4 PM Bar (already on the market), is a convenient cereal bar made from super food Spirulina. Its second product is a plant-based chicken, currently under development.
Jasmine Bharucha
Vegan and Plant-based Cheezes
Katharos currently offers two vegan cheeze products, Herbed Feta and Gooey Pizza. Both can be used for a variety of cooking purposes and are absolutely safe for children and pregnant mothers, as the main ingredient is nuts (almonds or cashew) without any add-ons.