
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.
- Boeing BUILD win
- Rainmatter investment
- 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
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