Founder's Vision

One year into my attempt at a low carbon footprint lifestyle, I realized that emissions occurring at an industrial scale cannot be significantly reduced by individual choices. And what choices do we really have? Even a single blade of the hardiest grass uses freshwater, a fast depleting, finite resource. How could my attempt rewire something as fundamental as that? Instead of shunning industry, the answer is to find an alternative building block that future industries could switch to.

Ironically, the answer lies in the industry's greatest dumpyard - the ocean. The many varieties of seaweed that grow in the ocean contain vast reserves of nutrients that can be used to mitigate food scarcity, birth sustainable packaging, reverse climate change and do so much more.

With Zerocircle, I intend to use seaweed to create bio-alternatives to products that we use in our daily lives and enable organisations to create solutions that are perfectly circular, and leave nothing behind. And make a zero waste lifestyle as easy as instant noodles.

Neha Jain

Every morning at Zerocircle is a dive into the deep unknown of the sea. Anything can come out of it. Our tags might read scientists and entrepreneurs, but mostly we are explorers of the uncharted, hoping to salvage something good for the world.

Neha Jain
Chief Seaweed Officer & Founder

Founder of India’s first, late night delivery service and an ex Googler with 14 years of experience in scaling up tech enabled businesses. Neha’s transition to algae entrepreneurship began with her work as a tech consultant for a sustainability firm where she started looking for a brand new building block for the world. The cats she rescued helped her find seaweed.

Satej Dharmapurikar
Senior Scientist

Polymer Chemist (PhD.) from CSIR - National Chemical Lab. His past research was focused on the development of self healing conjugated polymers for flexible electronics. He has a strong background in the synthesis of polymers. In his spare time, he enjoys farming and helping local farmers with new technologies associated with cultivation.

Sameer Huprikar
Material Processing Lead

A Polymer Engineer who holds a PhD in Engineering Sciences from CSIR-NCL, Pune and MTech from UMass, Lowell MA. He worked on the rheology and microstructure of gels as part of his doctoral research. In his spare time he likes to trek, play flute, watch soccer and gymnastics. He wishes to study the biomechanics of Mallakhamb sometime in the future.

Dr. CRK Reddy
Chief Advisor

CEO, Indian Centre for Climate and Societal Impact Research, Renowned Phycologist with 35+ years of experience in seaweed utilisation & biorefinery

Varun Jain
Financial & Tech Advisor, Director

Varun has extensive experience in investment banking and quantitative finance with Nomura, BlackRock, and Soros. His policies in financial sustainability made him a vital cog for the Niti Aayog. His newest challenge is leading machine learning experiments for E-Mobility to reach zero emissions.

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