Dust To Dust

With its nanofibre solutions, FIB-SOL has successfully addressed age-old problems of agriculture

- Harichandan Arakali

The name FIB-SOL stands for fibre solutions, explains Kavitha Sairam. And it stands for two things: One, FIB-SOL, the venture she co-founded that provides nanofibre solutions to problems in agriculture and eventually in health care, and second, the fact that it provides both the proprietary nanofibre material and solutions around it.

Last December, Sairam, 40, and her co-founder Anant Shyam Raheja won the top prize in India’s first National Bio Entrepreneurship Competition. That got them ₹10 lakh in prize money from Ankur Seeds, and also the opportunity to negotiate a $100,000 funding round from the Tata Trust-backed Social Alpha, with mentoring thrown in. The startup has raised around ₹1.1 crore via grants and awards.