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Solar Ladder Raises 11 Crores in Seed Funding from Axilor Ventures, Titan Capital, DeVC, Stride Ventures and Angel Investors | ||
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Solar Ladder, a supply chain platform for Solar Installation companies today announced it has raised 11 Crores in seed funding from Axilor Ventures, Titan Capital, DeVC, Stride Ventures, and angels from Atha Group, NIPHA group, Varun Alagh (Founder, Mamaearth), Subin Mitra and Aditya Bandi of Groyyo, Deepak Jain (Partner, Bain and Co.) among others.
Founders - Solar Ladder
“We at Solar Ladder are committed to helping solar installers grow their business 10x. In the fiercely competitive domain of rooftop solar installation companies, Solar Ladder aspires to equip local installers in every city with state-of-the-art technologies and services to enhance their capabilities,” added Abhishek Pillai, Co-founder, Solar Ladder.
“Solar Ladder is building a digital flywheel in one of the fastest growing sectors in the economy, globally. The India opportunity alone in residential and commercial solar installations is well above $50 billion. We are confident in the founding team to scale the company as a key enabler, bringing procurement transparency and credit availability in a highly fragmented and broken supply chain,”- Prachi Sinha, Axilor Ventures.
“Solar Ladder is one of the most capital-efficient and frugally innovative teams we've invested in. The founders have been passionately working on ground and understand every facet of the industry. Their early set of customers have grown manifolds and we are excited to see them replicate the business model on a larger scale,” - Bipin Shah, Partner, Titan Capital.
Founded in 2021 by Manan Mehta, Abhishek Pillai, and Farhan Ahmed, Solar Ladder is a comprehensive supply chain platform. The Solar Ladder team has achieved profitability while being bootstrapped. The team committed almost three years to the product's development and in acquiring valuable industry insights and key partnerships through on-field experience. Solar Ladder has received awards and grants from various organizations such as YCombinator Startup School (USA), London School of Economics (UK), Govt of India (India), and Facebook.
Solar Ladder is a full-stack supply chain platform helping Solar Installation companies to deploy rooftop Solar faster. The SaaS tool helps Solar installation companies 10x their sales, execute projects while reducing delays, and automate after-sales service. The procurement marketplace helps Solar installers with end-to-end fulfilment, price and product discovery and quality control. The financing layer enables Installers to get short-term working capital credit for completing projects timely and enables long-term financing for end customers
Founded in 2014, Axilor Ventures is among the top 3 most active seed funds operating out of India. Axilor Ventures invests in early-stage startup across sectors in the supply chain/B2B commerce, Enterprise SaaS, Healthtech, AgriTech, Fintech, and consumer internet space. Axilor Ventures was founded and backed by Indian tech pioneers, including Kris Gopalakrishnan, SD Shibulal, Prof. Tarun Khanna, Srinath Batni, and Ganapathy Venugopal. |
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