Crafting culture in a digital start-up with Meena Sankaran | S5 Ep.6

This week, Will and Tom, are delighted to be joined by Meena Sankaran, Founder & CEO Ketos, a vertically integrated water quality and monitoring platform. 

Meena talks about the importance of crafting a culture in this episode and the importance of maintaining the attitude of a start-up. 

Plus hear about:

• Meena's journey from humble beginnings in India where she learned the value of water before taking a one-way flight to the US to move up the ranks as an engineer
• The challenges of starting her own business that Meena had to overcome battling against naysayers and critics
• The task of raising $40 million in capital investment but how the pure play water investors initially closed the door, forcing her to look to impact and climate-tech investors
• Meena talks openly about investment cycles and how the 18-24 months between investment rounds are not necessarily aligned with the buying cycles of the utility market
• And how Meena purposefully built the strategy of the digital company to work across the utility, industry and agricultural sectors.

It was an absolute joy to have Meena on the podcast, a true passionate visionary who has built a company and culture that crosses industries and the water-energy-food nexus.

We know you will enjoy this episode!

Special thanks to this season’s sponsor Acciona.

And thanks to our knowledge partners: British Water, WWF, Water Alliance, DCU Water institute, SurplusWater25, Earth and Environmental Science at Berkeley Lab, Water Foundry and Atlantean Media.