New Delhi, Oct. 31 -- Beyond Renewables & Recycling, a climate-tech startup developing advanced solar waste recycling technologies, has raised Rs.5 crore in a pre-seed funding round led by US-based Momentum Capital. The round also saw participation from Venture Catalysts, IIMA Ventures, Oorjan Cleantech, and Gautam Das, founder of Oorjan.

The funding will help Beyond Renewables scale its proprietary recycling process-designed to recover over 95% of high-value materials such as silver, silicon, aluminium, and glass from end-of-life solar panels-and build India's first large-scale solar waste recycling ecosystem.

Founded in 2024 by Manhar Dixit and Vedant Taneja, the startup aims to address India's mounting 1.2 million-ton solar waste cha...