Company: Vaayu
Website: https://www.vaayu.tech/
Business: The world’s first and only automated carbon software built to empower retailers to measure, monitor and reduce carbon emissions in real-time.
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About Namrata Sandhu
Namrata Sandhu is the CEO and co-founder of Vaayu. With over eighteen years of international experience in sustainability, Namrata has unprecedented insight into the unique and complex challenges facing the retail sector to ensure that carbon emissions are reduced in an accurate and efficient way. Her experiences in leadership positions at Arcadia Group and as Head of Sustainability for Zalando highlighted a critical gap in the market for an automated carbon-tracking tool to empower retailers to reduce emissions in real-time and at scale.
Namrata also sits on the board of Nia – an NGO which empowers young women through education and choice. As a regular contributor to tech and climate-related thought leadership panels, she was included in TechRound’s ‘Top BAME 50 Under 50 Entrepreneurs 2021’ and Europe’s Most Influential Women in the Startup and Venture Capital Space’.
About Vaayu
Vaayu is the world’s first and only automated carbon software built to empower retailers to measure, monitor and reduce carbon emissions in real-time. It does this by providing retailers with easy-to-use carbon data and unparalleled insight into their entire supply chain from product development to packaging to deliveries.
The platform leverages proprietary AI and machine learning technologies to draw insights from production, sales and logistics data to help retailers locate hotspots in their supply chain and take effective action in parallel to their business operations. Vaayu makes calculating carbon footprint accessible and affordable to retailers of all sizes and budgets and works with over 50 global brands including Klarna, Missoma and Organic Basics.
With the retail sector currently responsible for 20% of all global emissions, Vaayu aims to help retailers reduce one gigaton of carbon emissions by 2030, the equivalent of the combined emissions produced by Germany and France annually.
