EFL

Role: Mentor

Tracks: Deep Tech

Kunal Sethi

General Partner, Ayuh Ventures

As a Climate nerd, I love working with academics, founders with grit and resilience, and forming partnerships rather than just executing transactions. In Hindi we call this type of person an aam log, a mango man. This mango man is a cancer survivor, who enjoys investing in the unknowns of climatetech and seeks authenticity and effortless synergies based on love for climate instead of fear and noise. Even though I survived the first wave of what I call CleanTech 1.0, my personal failure to adequately fund vertical innovation taught me a valuable lesson. I began to educate myself further on the relationship between science & society, and cultural aspects of climate change by speaking with experts on the front lines. This helped me better understand the impacts of climate change, focus on climate wealth, while supporting generational change for our investors and founders using our own unique approach. Come for the impact, stay for the returns. Separately, the power of the mind fascinates & excites me the most and I am always seeking to understand how we feed and look after the mind, truth be told this field has been lagging and is in need of a paradigm shift for some time. I'm Longevity obsessed, this field has been underfunded and under-researched for too long, which means we still don't have a clear understanding of many aspects of these fields.