Unreasonable Fellows
Abhilasha Purwar
Founder & CEO at Blue Sky Analytics
Abhilasha is an Unreasonable Fellow. Abhilasha was part of Unreasonable Impact Asia Pacific 2021 (Nov).
Abhilasha is the Founder and CEO of Blue Sky Analytics, a Climate-Tech start-up using satellite data and AI to build environmental monitoring and climate-risk assessment products. She is a Fulbright scholar, Yale and IIT alum with over 8 years of work experience in private equity, big data analytics, product development and environmental policy.
She began her career as a Research Associate at J-PAL, working on air pollution regulation with the Ministry of Environment, India. After her Masters in Environmental Management from Yale, she went on to work on building flexible solar cells in Dublin, kickstarting a solar products and asset financing startup at PEG Africa and clean energy investing as an Associate at GoldenSet Capital.
Upon her return to India, Abhilasha founded Blue Sky Analytics in 2018 as she believes that “data has the capacity to change an entire ecosystem". She deems Blue Sky as a focal point of enabling global climate action with high quality, accessible environmental data.