Author: Athira Sethu

Leather has been an essential element of the fashion industry for a long time. Over the years, people have realised the harm it causes to animals. Now, many stay away from using leather. Malai, a Kerala-based company, exploits this opportunity. Malai, run by Zuzana Gombosova and Susmith C. Suseelan, offers a sustainable and vegan alternative to leather. It makes fashion accessories with flexible, durable and bio-composite material made from coconut water! Both Zuzana and Susmith wanted to make a healthy and natural fashion choice. This thought led them to experiment with bacterial cellulose in coconut water. This eventually marked the…

NAVALT Navalt is an eco-marine tech startup specializing in solar electric vessel manufacturing. Navalt’s main activities are electrifying boats and ships in the water transport sector and discovering ways to save fuel consumption through data analytics from ships and boats. Navalt aims to bring electric propulsion systems from small diesel-powered boats to large boats. Alternative methods like solar energy, fuel cell, wind propulsion etc. are used for this. What makes Navalt unique is that it uses a different propulsion system in boats and ships. Similarly, Navalt has developed technology to make the same propulsion system more efficient through analytics with…

What is KOLO? KOLO is a one stop platform for home building. This means that while building a house, a person will have many needs, such as ideas, designs, communication with professionals, purchasing materials, etc. KOLO is the platform that helps with all these things. The company calls this process Content to Quomas. People go into purchasing a home after doing a lot of research and watching videos before they even build it. KOLO works on this concept. There are two types of users. The first category consists of a group of professionals, architects, contractors and people involved in house…