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60% of rural Indian households cook on traditional chulhas that fill homes with toxic smoke. Indoor air pollution kills more people annually than malaria and tuberculosis combined.
Women spend hours collecting firewood, then breathe smoke while cooking. Their children breathe it too.
Greenway Grameen built a smokeless biomass stove that cuts fuel by 65%, smoke by 80%, and cooking time in half—while creating employment for 5,000+ rural women.
What You'll Learn:
✅ How smokeless stove technology actually works
✅ The health crisis: indoor air pollution's deadly impact
✅ Business model: Product sales + carbon credits
✅ Impact: 2M stoves, 10M lives, 5M tons CO2 saved
✅ Funding: $25M+ from impact investors
✅ Women-led distribution: 5,000+ rural entrepreneurs
✅ Carbon finance: how emissions reduction funds affordability
The Technology:
→ Forced draft combustion system
→ Burns biomass 65% more efficiently
→ Reduces smoke emissions by 75-80%
→ Cooks 50% faster than traditional chulhas
→ Uses locally available biomass fuel
The Impact:

2 million+ stoves deployed
10 million+ lives impacted
5 million+ tons of CO2 prevented
Gold Standard carbon credits certified
International reach: India + East Africa

The Business:
→ Affordable pricing: ₹2,500-4,000 per stove
→ Microfinance partnerships for rural buyers
→ Carbon credit revenue from verified emissions reduction
→ B2G government rural development contracts
→ Women-led sales force earning commissions
The Funding:

$25M+ raised
Investors: Acumen Fund, Bamboo Capital, responsAbility
Profitable unit economics
Multiple revenue streams (sales + carbon)

Why This Matters:
3 billion people globally cook with solid fuels. Indoor air pollution is the world's largest environmental health risk, disproportionately affecting women and children.
Greenway proved clean cooking can be:
→ Affordable for rural households
→ Profitable for businesses
→ Scalable across countries
→ Empowering for women (as distributors)
For Entrepreneurs:
This is how you build impact businesses that scale:
→ Stack solutions (health + economic + environmental)
→ Create multiple revenue streams (sales + carbon finance)
→ Empower the community you serve (women distributors)
→ Make the economics work (carbon credits subsidize affordability)
Greenway didn't just sell stoves. They built a movement.
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Financial & Impact Summary:

Funding: $25M+ raised
Investors: Acumen Fund, Bamboo Capital, responsAbility, others
Stoves Deployed: 2 million+ across India and East Africa
Lives Impacted: 10 million+
CO2 Emissions Prevented: 5 million+ tons
Revenue Model: Stove sales + carbon credit revenue
Pricing: ₹2,500-4,000 per stove (affordable via microfinance)
Distribution: 5,000+ rural women entrepreneurs
Carbon Certification: Gold Standard verified
Specific revenue/ARR not publicly disclosed

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Key Entrepreneurial Insight: Greenway cracked the affordability puzzle for impact products: use carbon credit revenue to subsidize product costs. The stoves prevent emissions (generating carbon credits), which creates a second revenue stream that makes stoves affordable for rural households. That's circular impact economics.