Kavyashree Manjunath

Super Founder profile

Kavyashree Manjunath

Founder, Apratima Biosolutions Pvt. Ltd.

  • BioTech / Deep Tech / CleanTech
  • Bengaluru
  • Founded 2022
  • Active

The idea

What Apratima Biosolutions Pvt. Ltd. set out to solve.

PhD structural biologist

Founded 2022 Bangalore; PhD from IISc; expert in macromolecular X-ray crystallography; AI-guided protein engineering to create industrial-grade PET-degrading enzymes; C-CAMP incubatee

The turning point

The Lemon Ideas connection.

Kavyashree competed in Innopreneurs Season 9 and finished in the Top 100, pitching Apratima Biosolutions Pvt. Ltd. to mentors, investors and the wider Lemon Ideas network.

Recorded as: Innopreneurs Season 9 Top 100

Where they are now

Milestones along the way.

  1. Boeing BUILD win
  2. Rainmatter investment
  3. C-CAMP lab operations

Achievements

  • Developed enzyme-based PET plastic biodegradation (degrades in hours vs 450 years)
  • Incubated at NSRCEL IIM Bangalore & C-CAMP
  • Boeing India BUILD program winner
  • Rainmatter (Zerodha) investment