Cover SunGreenH2 co-founder Tulika Raj (right) meeting Vishal Harnal of multi-stage venture capital firm 500 Global for the first time to pitch her startup’s mission of making green hydrogen production cheaper and more efficient, inside the all-electric Porsche Taycan (Photo: Tatler Gen.T)
SunGreenH2 co-founder Tulika Raj (right) meeting Vishal Harnal of multi-stage venture capital firm 500 Global for the first time to pitch her startup’s mission of making green hydrogen production cheaper and more efficient, inside the all-electric Porsche Taycan (Photo: Tatler Gen.T)
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In a two-part reel series, the Singapore-based founder pitches her company’s vision of decarbonising polluting industries using green hydrogen to investor Vishal Harnal inside the all-electric Porsche Taycan
Three minutes was the length of time that SunGreenH2’s co-founder Tulika Raj had to convince Vishal Harnal, the global managing partner of multi-stage venture capital firm 500 Global, why her company was worth his investment.
On a mission to decarbonise highly polluting sectors such as aviation and energy, Raj had the opportunity to deliver her elevator pitch to Harnal—except the pitch took place inside a fully electric Porsche Taycan as opposed to an actual lift.
As Harnal drove both of them through Singapore’s central business district, Raj shared about SunGreenH2’s goal of making more efficient and affordable the production of green hydrogen, a critical ingredient to cutting down the carbon emissions produced by industries heavily reliant on fossil fuels.
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Trained as an engineer and previously working in oil and gas, Raj co-founded SunGreenH2 with scientist Dr Saeid Masudy Panah at the peak of the Covid pandemic in 2020. “We share a vision to drive mass adoption of clean energy at scale by making green hydrogen cheap,” she says.
Their method: supercharging electrolysers to produce more clean hydrogen with the same unit and using less energy.
The Porsche Taycan on the highway, with Singapore’s cityscape in the background
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The company received initial seed funding from SGInnovate, a government-linked deep-tech innovation platform, and has expanded to Australia, having set up a manufacturing and research and development facility in Melbourne.
Watch the video below to learn more about SunGreenH2’s plans for the future.
Credits
Content Direction: Chong Seow Wei
Videography: Melvin Wong and Nicola Ng
Video Editor: Melvin Wong
Camera Crew: Jufri Husne and Yan Qiu
Grooming: Crystal Loh
Chong Seow Wei is a regional senior editor covering business, innovation, impact and people. Based in Singapore, she oversees content for Gen.T, Tatler’s platform for promising entrepreneurs and new-generation leaders, and its Power & Purpose vertical.
