Our story Est. 2021

We exist to move a trillion dollars into climate projects.

The money is real. It is stuck, because no company can prove what it owes.

01
The problem

You cannot fix what you cannot see.

Every company puts carbon into the air. Almost none of them know how much, or where it comes from. It hides in factories, in suppliers, in flights, and in the products they sell.

Scope 1 and 2 are the small part. Scope 3, the part with suppliers, logistics, and the products themselves, is 70 to 90 percent of the real footprint. Measured. Assured. Signed off. Almost never.

Every plan to fix the climate starts with a number nobody has.

02
What changed

Now someone checks.

BRSR Core · India

An auditor.

An outside auditor now signs a listed company's carbon numbers. They can refuse.

CBAM · Europe

A tax.

Ship steel or aluminium into Europe and you pay a tax on the carbon inside. A bad number costs real money.

CSRD · Europe

A contract.

European buyers must report their suppliers' emissions. Sell to them, and that means yours.

Guessing used to be free. It now has a price.

03
Who feels it

Four kinds of company feel this.

Listed company

Files carbon numbers every year; an auditor has to sign them. Scope 1 and 2 are clean. Scope 3 is blank.

The trigger
The board asks for the number.
Squeezed supplier

Sells to a big overseas buyer. No sustainability team. The owner decides, personally.

The trigger
A customer sends a questionnaire.
Chain owner

Told by its global parent to report carbon for every part, every supplier, every tier.

The trigger
Head office mandates a programme.
Border exporter

Ships steel, aluminium or cement into Europe. Must declare the carbon in each product, every quarter.

The trigger
The tax lands at the border.

Different rules. Different fears. The same missing number.

04
What we do

We find it. Then we measure it properly.

01 · Carbon X-Ray

A free scan.

We score a company out of 100 on how much of its carbon it can actually account for, and show where it stands against its industry.

1,247 companies scanned so far. Highest score found: 97.

02 · Carbon-OS

The system that does the real work.

It takes messy data out of a company's own systems: flights, invoices, factories, parts. It turns them into a number an auditor will sign. Every figure carries its source and its method, so it can be defended line by line.

The scan opens the conversation. The system is the business.

05
How it actually works

The hard part is not the carbon. It is the data.

It sits in four different systems nobody built for carbon, owned by people who do not report to the sustainability team.

01

Raw data

From ERPs, invoices, travel systems, meter reads. Messy and inconsistent.

02

Reconciled

Matched to entities, sites, categories, units. Duplicates removed.

03

Method attached

Every figure gets an emission factor, a source, and a calculation method.

04

Auditor signs

A number that survives assurance, line by line, without the auditor blinking.

What actually arrives

  • Two different columns, both called "approved amount"
  • Train journeys with no train number, so no route
  • Hotel check-outs that do not match the nights booked
  • Bus records that cannot be used at all

Nobody wants to do this part. It is the entire job.

After a few hundred of these conversations, the same scene kept repeating. A company had a carbon number, and the moment someone with the power to check it asked how they got there, the number came apart. An auditor. A European buyer. A regulator. Not because anyone was careless, but because the data underneath was never built to be traced. It was built to be reported once and never questioned. Everyone in the market was selling them another dashboard. What did not exist was the plumbing beneath it, the infrastructure that ties every number back to the document it came from so it holds up the moment it is finally examined. That is the part nobody wants to build. That infrastructure is our whole company.

Anirudh Gupta
Anirudh GuptaFounder, Climes
06
Who builds it

The humans behind the hard questions

Anirudh Gupta

Anirudh Gupta

Founder

Roma

Roma Amarnani

Builder

Manasvi

Manasvi Goyal

Builder

Aravind

Aravind Kannan

Builder

Juhi

Janhavi Kamble

Builder

Dishant

Dishant Arora

Builder

Where this goes

Move a trillion dollars into climate projects.

The money to fix the climate exists. It is stuck, because no company can prove what it owes. When every company knows its real number, the money knows where to go.

That is why we start with measuring.

08
What changes if we succeed

The world ten years from now.

Carbon stops being a report written after the fact and becomes a number that is simply known, at the moment a decision is made.

01

A listed company, at year-end.

Today: a Scope 3 scramble, weeks of chasing suppliers, an auditor who may still refuse.

It signs its carbon numbers the same day it signs its revenue, and the auditor does not blink.

02

A border exporter, before a shipment.

Today: a quarterly guess at the carbon inside each product, and a tax bill that lands as a surprise.

The carbon prints on the product like a spec, and the tax is known before the goods leave the yard.

03

A bank, before it lends.

Today: financed emissions are estimated from averages, long after the loan is made.

It sees the real emissions of what it is financing, and prices the loan on a number it can trust.