Girish Nadkarni

Non-Executive Director, Investment Committee Member

📍 Greater Paris Metropolitan Region, France🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2026
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Board Member
May 2022
Our purpose is to solve the world’s most pressing sustainable energy needs, to change how we live today and to help secure our future. Gentari is a clean energy solutions company, wholly owned by PETRONAS, tasked to independently pursue and deliver integrated sustainable energy solutions. We offer lower carbon solutions through three initial core pillars – Renewable Energy, Hydrogen and Green Mobility, forming a portfolio of solutions cutting across the electron value chain to help customers achieve net zero emissions. We, the Gentarians, are a collaborative and innovative bunch of socially responsible people focused on putting clean energy into action by solving the needs of our commercial, industrial, and retail customers. We dream big, and we set even bigger goals; - To build an overall renewable energy capacity of 30-40 GW in key markets through utility-scale projects across solar, onshore and offshore wind, and battery storage by 2030 - To offer cost-competitive low carbon hydrogen solutions with an aspiration to produce up to 1.2 mtpa of clean hydrogen by 2030 - To support the EV ecosystem by capturing 10% market share, equivalent to 25,000 public charging points across key markets in Asia Pacific by 2030 Launched in September 2022, we are driven by an entrepreneurial spirit to build Gentari into a full suite net zero solutions provider, creating greater value, connecting businesses, and making the journey to net zero simpler. Let’s chat. Join the Gentari movement today.
Board Observer
Dec 2017
Sigfox 0G (Zero-G) technology is a Low-Power Wide-Area (LPWAN) IoT networking protocol dedicated to Massive IoT. It is designed to connect devices at a low-cost, ultra energy-efficient and secure manner. Sigfox 0G technology is owned by UnaBiz, a proven global Massive IoT service provider, and has been adopted by 70+ national 0G Operators as a global standard. Together, UnaBiz and the 0G Operators provide the Global 0G Network that connects over 10 million sensors for 1500 B2B customers worldwide to power sustainable business growth.
Board Observer
Mar 2012
TaKaDu provides a comprehensive SaaS analytics software solution that enables water distribution utilities to manage their water network efficiently and intelligently instead of having to operate in a ‘fire-fighting’ mode, thus empowering them to overcome high water loss, low operational efficiency, and poor customer service. Using the utility’s network data and integrated information from other solutions such as work order software and smart meters, TaKaDu employs sophisticated statistical techniques to detect, automatically and 24/7, diverse asset failures such as leaks and broken meters early in their evolution, before there are other indications. It then enables the utility’s personnel to manage these incidents until resolution. Utilities gain ROI of 5X-10X through reducing their physical and apparent water loss, focusing their back office and field teams on acute failures and shortening their maintenance backlog activities, while reducing their operational costs, retaining organizational knowledge, and improving their customer service. Unlike other solutions, TaKaDu is a proven, mature and patented solution, operating for over a decade with leading utilities in 15 countries, who almost all retain the service for many years. Additionally, it stands out due to its rapid deployment, intuitive user interface and built-in best practices.
Board Observer
Mar 2010
Pentalum develops the SpiDAR: a revolutionary, cost effective, patent pending, LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) system, for remote sensing of wind. The system targets all three main wind farm applications: Wind resource assessment, Wind farm operation optimization and Wind forecasting. Pentalum is a privately held company, funded by VCs and headed by highly experienced entrepreneurs, professionals in optics, fluid mechanics and atmospheric remote sensing
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2026
Independent Board Member
Mar 2026
“Daha İyi Bir Dünya İçin Çözüm Üretiriz” şirket amacı doğrultusunda hareket eden, Türkiye merkezli Borusan Cat; Kafkasya ve Orta Asya’daki operasyonlarıyla inşaat, madencilik, enerji ve ulaşım sektörlerinde hizmet vermektedir. Guided by its company purpose, "We Create Solutions for a Better World," Türkiye-based Borusan Cat operates in the construction, mining, energy, and transportation industries, serving the Caucasus and Central Asia regions.
Independent Board Member for the Non-Regulated Business
Mar 2026
Saudi Energy (SE) is the Kingdom’s national energy champion, enabling everyday life and progress across Saudi Arabia. Through generation, transmission, and distribution, SE ensures energy is produced efficiently, carried reliably across the national grid, and delivered seamlessly to homes, cities, industries, and major development projects. Energy may be invisible, but its impact is constant, supporting healthcare, education, technology, mobility, and economic growth across the Kingdom. SE seeks to contribute in building a more resilient and future-ready energy ecosystem. Through digital innovation, renewable integration, and world-class infrastructure, SE continues to strengthen reliability, sustainability, and customer experience. At SE, people are central to progress. The organization fosters a collaborative and confident culture that empowers talent, drives innovation, and contributes to the Kingdom’s long-term development and Vision 2030 ambitions.
2023
Member of Strategic Advisory Board
Feb 2023
Clean Energy Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on investing in companies commercializing disruptive advanced energy technologies and business model innovations that can achieve significant scale by taking advantage of market-driven forces to address global climate disruption. The firms’ principals have been investing in, supporting and mentoring early-stage clean energy startups together since 2005, and work with a deep bench of Venture Partners who, together with the Principals, represent more than 300 years of combined clean energy operating and investing experience. Additional information is available at: https://www.cleanenergyventures.com.
Venture Partner and Member of the Investment Committee
Jan 2023
Without carbon removal, there is no Net Zero. At Alchemist Climate Ventures, we invest in the carbon removal technology startups that make Net Zero possible. We are on the cutting edge of a rapidly emerging Trillion dollar market.
2022
Senior Advisor
Jun 2022
Climate Investment is a US and UK-based independently managed specialist investor focused on accelerating capital-efficient decarbonization of heavy emitting sectors. Operational since 2017, its team of investment and technology professionals has built a portfolio of 40 technology and business model innovations across energy, transportation, buildings and industry. Collectively, its Catalyst portfolio delivered 95 MT CO2e of cumulative greenhouse gas reduction in the period 2019-2023. Climate Investment was founded by member companies of the Oil & Gas Climate Initiative (“OGCI”). They have invested in Climate Investment funds and deployed many of its portfolio innovations, supporting their early commercial development.  Visit www.climateinvestment.com
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