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Co Founder, Sustainology

About

Thanks for stopping by. Here is what my profile will NOT tell you about me. My life’s mission has been to chase impact at scale. I’ve done some interesting things that might be considered ‘non-traditional’. I’ve lived alongside farmers for months in rural parts of Ghana just to get real feedback on my work. I tried starting a student platform in Nigeria and failed miserably at it. I spent my early career building expertise in rural India and Africa. It led me to get 1,200 ha planted by women farmers to restore mangroves in the Sundarbans, India; achieve a 20% yield uplift for 8,000 smallholder farmers through organic farm inputs + regenerative farming advisory; provide 300 people with smokeless homes through clean biogas; and reduce and remove approximately 100k tons of CO2e while doing all of this. I’ve also advised on 10+ projects and worked with associated government bodies across Africa and Asia. In 2025, I got an admit to Yale SOM, felt it was uninspired and dropped out. I’ve seen failures and success throughout my startup journey. It has taken me to experience and see things I never imagined. What keeps me motivated is hunger for more, drawing inspiration from the stories along the journey I’ve lived. At Sustainology, I lead the carbon part of the business. My work has mainly been towards making climate projects in energy and agriculture a sensible business case. For us to be productive, I have transformed my organisation into a fully AI-integrated company, optimising all metrics, data management, workflows, and even meeting notes via insights with AI. My role allows me to interact with a diverse set of people involving agribusinesses, social impact organisations, carbon experts, NGOs, and government agencies. If you’re in the impact/climate sector and found my journey to be interesting, drop me an email at krutarth@sustainology.world — promise I won’t waste your time.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

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elevenlabs

gemini

lovable

midjourney

Work experience

Co-Founder - Partnerships and Carbon Asset Development at Sustainology, Mar 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 7 mos, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Built Sustainology's carbon project development business from nothing. It runs today as a 15-person team across India, Ghana and the United Arab Emirates, from origination through to financing. Most of my time goes to the Renew Hope Initiative in Ghana, a household biogas business I designed and launched. It sells cooking gas to homes on a subscription and returns organic fertiliser to farms. I carried the submission through two ministries and a national agency to Stage A approval under the Ghana and Singapore bilateral agreement, and the full design covers 500 units across five regions and about 32,500 households. Around it I negotiate offtake and partnership terms across four jurisdictions, raise project financing and grants, and have built the business model through seven versions under investor diligence. Elsewhere I have taken a 19,875-hectare peatland programme in South Sumatra through audit and certification to the issuance of 50,000 credits, run budgets and partners on mangrove restoration in the Indian Sundarbans and a 9,000-hectare soil carbon programme in Ghana with 5,000 farmers, and own our digital monitoring product, now live in three countries. I was accredited to the Papua New Guinea delegation at COP28 and the Tanzania delegation at COP29, advising both environment ministries on digital monitoring and carbon policy, and negotiated offtake with obligated entities and development finance institutions at Enterprise Singapore's Article 6 conference.

Chief Of Staff at The Afara Initiative, Jan 2022 - Feb 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos, Founder's office: Organizational strategy, fundraising, recruitment and partnerships. Co-founded a graduate employment venture working across Nigeria and India, and ran the founder's office: organisational strategy, fundraising, recruitment and partnerships. Designed a university employment pathway programme with three universities, projected to reach more than 9,000 graduates. Built the hiring, onboarding and reporting processes the team ran on. Recognised in the GSV Elite 200. What I took from it is why I moved. The value we created, a graduate in work, had no buyer attached to it, so the venture grew exactly as fast as we could fundraise. Carbon markets are the first mechanism I found that fixes that, because a third party pays for an outcome the beneficiary cannot fund.

Associate at EY-Parthenon, Sep 2020 - Dec 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Strategy Consulting: Emerging markets education practice

Investment Banking Analyst at Deutsche Bank, May 2019 - Jun 2019 · 2 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Regional Finalist at Hult Prize Foundation, Mar 2019 - Mar 2019 · 1 mo, Philippines

Education

Master of Business Administration, Yale School of Management

Bachelor of Technology, Instrumentation Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur