Logo for Greenway

Meet an Unreasonable Venture

Greenway

Designing, manufacturing, and distributing clean cooking stoves

Photo of Ankit Mathur

Ankit Mathur

Co-founder at Greenway

More about Ankit »
Employees 201–500
Headquarters Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Greenway designs and manufactures improved cookstoves and other household appliances for mass-market consumers. Their flagship product is India’s best-selling improved cookstove which established adoption, impact, and best in class NPS. Greenway Stoves form modern replacements for traditional mud stoves (chulhas), delivering 65% fuel savings and 70% smoke reduction while working on all solid biomass fuels. Built using their patented air regulation technology, they minimise noxious CO, PM, and GHG emissions leading to better health, savings, climate change mitigation, and everyday convenience. Over the years, Greenway has distributed over 1.4 Million stoves and worked extensively with a variety of financing partners to enable rural households access to their products.

Notable Achievements

  • Leading clean cookstove manufacturer in the Eastern hemisphere with over 1.4 million stoves built and sold.
  • In 2017, TIME India honored Greenway with its Startup Sustainability Pioneer award.
  • Won Ashden Award for Clean Energy for Women and Girls in 2014.

Currently Operating in Three Regions

Press Mentions

March 4, 2024

How Ankit Mathur's Smart Stoves Saved 3 Million Lives Across Rural Villages

Read on Times Now »

November 24, 2023

ADB and Greenway partner to transform rural cooking in India through USD 6.5 million carbon finance deal

Read on Organiser »

More Ventures in Energy & Environment

Get the Unreasonable Newsletter

Get monthly updates on Greenway and over 389 other ventures working to solve the world's toughest problems.

Read our Privacy Policy.