Sprih: Handholding Businesses Across Their Entire Sustainability Journeys, From Day Zero To Net Zero

Sprih: Handholding Businesses Across Their Entire Sustainability Journeys, From Day Zero To Net Zero

CIO Vendor Of late, environmental sustainability and climate change have been among the most discussed topics in the boardroom meeting of both private and government entities worldwide. Many countries globally have enforced stringent laws around environmental sustainability in recent times; and India is no different. With monitoring and publishing information about environmental data becoming essential across many countries, investors now look at non-compliance with sustainability guidelines as a major risk factor. Most importantly, with an increased awareness among customers about eco-friendly products, services & solutions, companies across almost every industry are now forced to reduce their carbon footprint and implement sustainable practices. As a result, the demand for efficient sustainability and climate solutions has witnessed a hockey stick growth over the last few years.

Among the myriad of companies that currently operate in the market, one company that is fast emerging as the torch bearer of this sunrise sector is Sprih. Headquartered in Philadelphia, US, Sprih was founded in 2022 by a group of IIT alumni – Akash Keshav, Ravi Singhal, Rohit Toshniwal, and Hemant Joshi, with a vision to effectively leverage latest tech innovations to assist companies in their endeavors towards a sustainable future. Today, within just two years of inception, the company has established a significant market share in India and US, with many large global organizations and public listed businesses as its clients.

Throwing further light of the current market scenario, Akash, the Co-Founder & CEO of Sprih says, “While the ecosystem is perfectly set for the climate tech industry to evolve to the next level, there are still a few challenges that are hindering its growth. Firstly, there is a severe dearth of skilled talent who possess a clear understanding of critical aspects such as GHG accounting. The second challenge is in terms of data, wherein the data being tracked and assessed by businesses is fragmented and cannot be integrated together to access the carbon footprint of the organization. Hence, despite envisioning a sustainable future, companies are unable to track and measure the outcomes of their sustainability efforts due to the absence of an efficient solution. Most importantly, majority of the companies fail to have clearly defined KPIs and metrics in place to measure their carbon footprint and thus fail to effectively implement ecofriendly practices”.

Beginning of a Tryst between Technology & Sustainability
The idea to start Sprih took birth when the four eco-conscious cum technology enthusiasts – Akash, Ravi, Rohit, and Hemant – met each other while volunteering for a non-profit near Pune. While working there, the co-founders observed that although companies wished to contribute towards sustainability, they lacked the necessary expertise to collect and process the data necessary to take future plan of action. The co-founders saw this gap as a potential opportunity to transform their passion for environmental sustainability into a business opportunity and thus incepted Sprih in 2022. “Our technology expertise, along with the hands-on learning that we garnered while helping companies with planning their entire sustainability initiatives came very handy when we started this venture”, says Akash.

Coming from a technology background, the four co-founders have been the key pillars of strength for Sprih. While Akash is an expert business development executive with vast knowledge in enterprise sales, Ravi has prior experience of building some of the world's largest enterprise distribution system and leading the datacenter operations. On the other hand, Rohit has had prior experience of building global companies by driving innovation and product execution, and had even grown his previous venture into a $250 million business.
Similarly, Hemant is a seasoned technology professional and serial entrepreneur who has founded four startups so far and has even completed Ecology certification.

AI-backed Solutions for all Sustainability Needs
As a technology driven company, Sprih is offering a SaaS based platform that is backed by a strong AI foundation to enable global businesses to effectively implement sustainable practices and reduce their carbon footprint in a streamlined manner. Through its robust SaaS platform, Sprih helps businesses to precisely measure their environmental data across numerous touch points, accordingly formulate a sustainability strategy, and implement it in such a way that it becomes the benchmark for other companies in the industry to follow.

Keeping in mind the criticality of adhering to all regulatory policies and frameworks pertaining to sustainability, Sprih’s AI-assisted reporting feature analyzes thousands of data points, ensuring efficient and insightful sustainability reporting while lowering the team’s workload. Going a step further, the platform also collects emission data from the suppliers, derives meaningful insights from it, and provides businesses with a bird’s eye view of their supply chain emissions, further accelerating their endeavor towards achieving net zero goals.



Equipped with automation technologies such as ai, our saas solution collates raw data from businesses & helps them optimize their end-to-end sustainability journeys



“Equipped with strong automation tools such as AI, our SaaS solution helps businesses to find emission hotspots and recommends solutions for emission reduction by collating their raw data and optimizing their end-to-end sustainability journeys. Firstly, we gather common information of the company such as electricity consumption, distance travelled and many others. Based on this data, we come-up with an accurate reading of their emissions, correlate it with the readings of other companies within the industry, and accordingly formulate an action plan to help them realize their sustainability goals in a highly efficient way. Since most of companies still have only a small team or even lack a dedicated team for sustainability and find it very cumbersome to approach different vendors for implementing their sustainability initiatives, we have built a very strong marketplace comprising of experts, solution providers and offset sellers, thus catering to customers’ every sustainability need under a single roof”, Akash further explains.

With most of the sustainability related policies & frameworks being revised very often in recent times, Sprih clearly understands the importance of building a solution that is robust, yet flexible to be tweaked easily in order to stay compliant with any future regulatory amendments or policy changes. Thus, the company lays immense emphasis on research & innovation and has active research MOU with sustainability and technology development centers in IIT Kanpur and IIT Bombay to assist its R&D efforts. This has been a real game changer for Sprih in its efforts to handhold clients through their sustainability journeys.

When asked about the company’s future roadmap, Akash says, “Going forward, we will strengthen our position in India and US markets, and have plans in motion to foray into Middle East & European markets to position ourselves as the most sought-after sustainability partner. To do so, we will focus on developing a product that will ease the customers’ pain points globally. Further, we also want to strengthen our partner ecosystem and become a one-stop-shop for all sustainability related requirements and handhold our clients in their journey towards becoming an ecofriendly organization and contribute towards the betterment of planet earth”.