ECOPATH Raises ₹2.25 Cr Seed for Zero-Cement Concrete
Bengaluru climate-tech startup ECOPATH has raised ₹2.25 crore from Social Alpha and Gemcorp for its zero-cement concrete. It says its order book tops ₹40 crore, a figure it has not itemised.
ECOPATH, a Bengaluru climate-tech company that makes concrete without cement, has raised ₹2.25 crore in a seed round from Social Alpha and Gemcorp. The money will go into precast manufacturing, supply chains, hiring and research.
The company says its order book already tops ₹40 crore.
What ECOPATH makes
Sourabh Kumar and Abhishek Chhazed founded ECOPATH in 2024. The company makes concrete from industrial by-products, including steel-industry waste, mixed with proprietary binders, and it says its products need no conventional water curing. The range includes pavers, kerbstones, U-drains, boundary walls, slabs, solid blocks and ready-mix concrete. ECOPATH also builds roads and external infrastructure for customers, so a buyer can deal with one vendor instead of several. It says it has more than 40 paying commercial customers, with Lodha, Tata Power and Jindal Steel among those it names, and that some of them have placed repeat orders. None of the customer names has been confirmed by the customers themselves, and ECOPATH has not published revenue.
A small cheque against a large order book
₹2.25 crore is a small seed round next to a ₹40 crore order book. Neither company nor investors have said how much each investor put in, or who led. The company has not itemised the order book, so it is unclear how much is firm work and how much is expected.
That gap shapes what the money has to do.
Precast plants need machines, space and working capital before a rupee of an order is collected, and I would expect the manufacturing line to absorb much of the round. If the order book converts at the pace the company suggests, a larger raise would likely follow soon.
The carbon claims come from the company
ECOPATH says its materials cut emissions by about 75% on average compared with conventional cement-based products, depending on the application. It estimates that its paver installation at RV University's new Mysore campus avoids about 130 tonnes of carbon dioxide and that its ongoing work at Emmvee Solar's facility will avoid more than 2,000 tonnes on completion. All of these are project-specific calculations by the company, and none has been independently verified. Its stated goal is a cumulative reduction of 10 million tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2030.
Roads are the next test
The company is also developing zero-cement concrete laid on site for roads, flooring and drains, along with a rapid-setting repair for concrete roads. In its own trials, repaired stretches reopened to traffic in 15 minutes without water curing, and a wider rollout is being prepared. SiliconIndia reports that the repair product is still in development. Co-founder and CTO Abhishek Chhazed put the ambition simply: "Cement built the last century. We are going to build the next one without it."
ECOPATH plans to focus on Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, Chennai and Mumbai, with Bengaluru as its priority.
Where it sits in climate-tech funding
Early-stage climate money in India has been flowing to hardware and materials as well as software. We covered how Agropak won a grant at SusCrunch 2026 as Zerodha, 3one4 Capital and Reliance joined a climate push, and how Ecofy raised $15 million in green debt. The policy backdrop includes a ₹20,000 crore green energy push through NTPC.
The question for ECOPATH is not whether low-carbon concrete is wanted, since developers are asking for it. It is whether the company can make it at a price and a volume that holds up once orders turn into deliveries.
