Capital discipline
Renting institutional infrastructure and sweating existing assets before raising commercial equity. Capital goes into process IP and hard assets, not into rebuilding facilities that already exist.
Company
Building the physical layer of the carbon transition.
BioVikas exists because the hardest part of decarbonisation is not electricity. It is the molecules that everything else is made of.
Our thesis
Renewable carbon is an infrastructure problem, not a chemistry problem.
The chemistry to convert plant matter into valuable molecules has existed for decades. What has not existed is a way to do it profitably at a scale that matches how biomass actually occurs — scattered across millions of smallholdings, varying by season and by crop.
Solve that, and a national waste and air-quality crisis becomes a domestic materials industry. That is the problem we chose.
The company was incorporated in Bengaluru in 2023 and has been funded by its founding team to date, working alongside national research institutions rather than duplicating their laboratory infrastructure.
What we optimise for
Three commitments that shape every decision.
Rural value, not extraction
Residue only becomes feedstock if collecting it pays the person who grew it. An organised supply chain that rewards farmers is a commercial requirement, not a social add-on.
Substitution over subsidy
Products are engineered to win on performance and cost-in-use against the incumbent import — not to depend on a green premium or a policy incentive that may not persist.
Impact
Where the value lands.
SDG 3Gut health and reduced antimicrobial resistance in the food chain
SDG 9Distributed industrial infrastructure and domestic innovation
SDG 12Biodegradable products replacing toxic synthetic chemicals
SDG 13Reduced residue burning and lower fossil-derived consumption
Leadership
Operators, not first-time founders.
A leadership team with more than 130 years of combined technical and operating experience across oilfield technology, renewable energy infrastructure, industrial software and process engineering.
Former Schlumberger oilfield and hardware technology veteran. Leads reactor architecture, extreme metallurgy and the company's intellectual property strategy. IIT Mumbai, 1994.
Murali Subramanian
Fractional Chief Operating Officer
EPC and logistics veteran driving pilot execution and supply-chain procurement. Co-founded large-scale renewable energy companies including Orange Renewables and Ocior Energy. IIT Mumbai, 1994.
Atul Narkhede
Fractional Chief Digital Officer
IoT and edge-computing specialist, architect of the BioOS cyber-physical control layer and its measurement and verification integration. Co-founded and exited SaaS companies. IIT Mumbai, 1993.
Seshadri Rajagopalan
Fractional Chief Marketing Officer
Former Schlumberger oilfield veteran who co-founded an oilfield services company in Malaysia. Decades of enterprise marketing and sales leadership. IIT Kharagpur, 1996.
Venkat Pacha
Fractional Partner — Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology
US and Colombia based, formerly of Schlumberger. Co-founded ventures in oilfield services and rare-earth mining and processing across the US and Latin America. Deep chemical engineering and biotechnology expertise. IIT Kharagpur, 1996.
Research partners
The platform is developed in partnership with a leading Indian food research institute for pilot residency, analytical quality control and regulatory support, and with a leading national biotechnology research institute for biocatalyst development.
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