India, Oct. 28 -- B2B manufacturing startup Zetwerk and its subsidiaries Zetwerk Manufacturing USA Inc and Unimacts Global, LLC have filed a lawsuit in the District Court of Harris County, Texas against a former executive for allegedly building a rival venture using confidential data of the unicorn.

The petition has named former Ayr Energy Inc and its founder and former Zetwerk employee Anirudh Reddy Edla as defendants.

Zetwerk has alleged trade secret misappropriation and breach of fiduciary duty by Ayr, along with unfair competition within the renewable energy supply chain market. It has asked the court for temporary and permanent orders to stop misappropriation as well as use of its trade secrets and confidential information.

"Such ...