Try GOLD - Free
Pollution season fuels clean-air tech startups
Mint Mumbai
|November 17, 2025
Pollution spike is driving demand for purifiers, mask and clean-air devices
Climate-tech startups such as Qubo, Karban Envirotech and Atovio are benefiting from the surge, with each targeting niche clean-air segments, including wearables.
(HT)
Climate-tech startups are cashing in on India's post-Diwali pollution spike, as the toxic haze over Delhi-NCR pushes people toward everything from home purifiers to wearable clean-air devices—with each company aiming to target a specific slice of rising consumer anxiety.
Delhi's air quality slipped into the 'severe' zone and remained there for days after Diwali, as firecracker fumes mixed with cold winter stagnation—an annual pattern that sent purifier and mask sales surging on Amazon and Flipkart.
This story is from the November 17, 2025 edition of Mint Mumbai.
Subscribe to Magzter GOLD to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 10,000+ magazines and newspapers.
Already a subscriber? Sign In
MORE STORIES FROM Mint Mumbai
Mint Mumbai
PFRDA sets up panel to prepare assured NPS payout framework
The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) has constituted a high-level committee to formulate guidelines to enable a framework for assured payouts under the National Pension System (NPS).
1 mins
January 14, 2026
Mint Mumbai
HCLTech reports $146 mn in advanced AI revenue, up 46%
HCL Technologies
2 mins
January 14, 2026
Mint Mumbai
Why US-led Pax Silica matters for India
Pax Silica follows earlier US-led efforts such as the 2022 Mineral Security Partnership and Quad Critical Minerals Initiative.
2 mins
January 14, 2026
Mint Mumbai
Quick commerce firms to rethink 10-minute delivery
India's quick commerce companies may have to rethink their much-touted 10-minute delivery promise.
1 mins
January 14, 2026
Mint Mumbai
India pulls solder wire QCO to ease electronics production
India has scrapped a crucial quality control order (QCO) on flux-cored solder wire, used in electronic items such as televisions, mobile phones, chargers, and earphones, to support domestic manufacturing and boost exports.
1 min
January 14, 2026
Mint Mumbai
INSIDE INDIA'S STRUGGLE TO BUILD A BATTERY SUPPLY CHAIN
Battling aggressive Chinese pricing, a new wave of 'midstream' companies is trying to localize critical components
6 mins
January 14, 2026
Mint Mumbai
Founders of footwear co RedTape looking to sell stake
Indian footwear firm RedTape’s founders are soliciting interest from Blackstone and KKR as they look to sell a majority stake or even their entire holding worth nearly $510 million, as per people and a document seen by Reuters.
1 min
January 14, 2026
Mint Mumbai
Central bank autonomy must not be trifled with
Independence holds the key to long-term financial stability and economic growth. It liberates the central bank’s pursuit of pre-defined policy goals from short-term political calculations
2 mins
January 14, 2026
Mint Mumbai
Indian car sales rise 26.8% in December
Indian carmakers' sales to dealers jumped 26.8% in December, their biggest monthly rise of 2025, as tax cuts made several models more affordable and spurred demand, industry data showed on Tuesday.
1 min
January 14, 2026
Mint Mumbai
He's their daddy. Meme-stock traders rush to Powell's defense.
When Jerome Powell went public with his defense of the Federal Reserve's independence, the central bank’s chair found an unlikely army standing behind him: the meme-stock crowd.
3 mins
January 14, 2026
Listen
Translate
Change font size