Founder building at climate finance × industrial ops. Family business in Industrials → NortheasternU → @SiddhEnterprise,📍Boston. Research platform in progress.
Spent a full day at the NU CEM India Summit on how India can become a global manufacturing hub. 🤠
@Northeastern’s Center for Emerging Markets (CEM) brought policymakers, executives & academics into the same room.
@ramthebestIFS (Consulate General @IndiainBoston) addressed us all!
Standout insight from Bhavani Parameswar (Indivate Inc., ITC Group): India employs ~265M people in farming. Agri is ~16% of GDP but exports only ~$53B. The Netherlands (farming ~1/80th–1/100th the land) exports $155B.
Sources: @Brands_India & @StatNet
The gap is post-farm gate processing, branding, cold chains. India loses ~$18–20B yearly to wastage. Every $1 on the farm can generate $6 more with better infrastructure. Same principle applies across manufacturing.
@PiyushGoyal (Ministry of Commerce) encouraged us youth to bring startup ideas into manufacturing. India now has ~250k startups (3rd largest globally) creating ~2.5M jobs. iPhones, luxury cars, aircraft & defense components are already made in India.
- @amitabhk87 (@g20org ) walked us through Make in India.
- Ganesh Mani (@ALIndiaOfficial / @switchmobilitye ) on engineered vehicles.
- Michael McCabe (Tata Sons North America) on diversified manufacturing at scale.
- @navsri6619 (Fr. Ambassador @IndiaInNepal ) on the India-China lens & deglobalization as an opening.
At @siddhenterprise we research exactly these transitions: sustainable investment analysis grounded in industrial reality. Connecting engineering constraints with commercial & environmental data.
Grateful to Professors: Ravi Ramamurti, Emery Trahan, Ravi Sarathy, Nada Sanders & the CEM team.
#India #Manufacturing #MakeInIndia #EmergingMarkets #ClimateTech #SupplyChain #GlobalTrade
I'm attending @StartupGrind Boston w/ From Demo to Deployment 2: AI That Actually Ships on Nov 19. https://t.co/qrnPKIcmrt
If you are in Boston, I encourage friends visit to learn more about how you can use AI for your product shipping.