One Planet Partners Private Limited

What One Planet Partners Private Limited does

One Planet Partners Private Limited is a Mumbai-based private equity firm that invests in mid-market Indian businesses across three climate-transition verticals: energy, mobility, and manufacturing. The firm was founded in 2021 (previously operating as ECube Investment Advisors) and structures its investing through a SEBI-registered Category II Alternative Investment Fund — One Planet Investment Trust — with fund management operated by its subsidiary, One Planet Growth Advisors Private Limited.

The four founders — Dr. Mukund Rajan, Bobby Pauly, Mrinalini Mirchandani, and Sheetal Thakkar — bring a combined ~25 years of prior working collaboration, approximately $14 billion of cumulative deal experience, and 65+ transactions, anchored by their shared tenure managing the Tata Opportunities Fund at Tata Capital. A senior advisory bench of five (Manoj Kohli, Rajendra Bhinge, Ramesh Subramanyam, Riki Kojima, Riaz Currimjee) extends cross-border sourcing across Indian conglomerates, SoftBank, TEPCO, and South Asian business groups. The firm's productized differentiator is a "climate intelligence" underwriting lens applied to mid-market opportunities, screening investments through climate-related risk and opportunity factors specific to the energy, mobility, and manufacturing value chains in India.

As a regulated AIF manager, One Planet Partners earns revenue through conventional private equity economics — recurring management fees on committed or deployed assets under management, plus carried interest on fund returns — with its customer base split between limited partners providing capital and portfolio companies receiving growth capital. The firm does not publicly disclose fund size, AUM, fee terms, or revenue.

Name

One Planet Partners Private Limited

Legal name

One Planet Partners Private Limited

Website

https://oneplanetpartners.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Short description

One Planet Partners is a Mumbai-based, SEBI-registered Category II AIF manager investing in mid-market Indian energy, mobility, and manufacturing businesses through a proprietary climate-intelligence underwriting lens, led by ex-Tata Capital founders.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

India Mid-Market Private Equity

NAICS

Portfolio Management and Investment Advice (523940), Other Investment Pools and Funds (5259)

SIC

Investment Advice (6282)

akta.pro primary industry

Renewables & Energy Transition Funds (Solar, Wind, Hydrogen, CCUS) (FSANAEAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Climate / Clean Tech & Decarbonization Funds (FSANAJAA), Sustainable Private Markets (Impact PE/VC, Private Credit, Infrastructure) (FSAAALAG), Energy & Power Infrastructure Funds (Generation, Transmission, Storage) (FSANAEAB)

Keywords

• Private equity investing
• Mid-market investments
• Climate-aligned investing
• Alternative investment fund
• Growth equity capital

Headquarters

HQ city

Mumbai

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Private Equity Fund Management: One Planet Partners generates returns through managing a SEBI-registered Category II alternative investment fund (One Planet Investment Trust, SEBI Registration: IN/AIF2/26-27/2225). The firm takes meaningful equity stakes in mid-market businesses and creates value through active ownership, strategic insight, operational expertise, governance support, and climate-integrated practices to achieve higher-quality exits.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

One Planet Partners manages the One Planet Investment Trust, a SEBI-registered Category II alternative investment fund that invests equity capital in established mid-market businesses across India's Energy, Mobility, and Manufacturing sectors. The firm provides active ownership, strategic insight, operational expertise, governance support, and climate-intelligence-driven value creation to help portfolio companies achieve stronger growth, greater resilience, and higher-quality exits.

Product overview

One Planet Partners operates as a single unified investment management offering rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture. The core offering is the One Planet Investment Trust (SEBI Registration Number: IN/AIF2/26-27/2225), a Category II Alternative Investment Fund managed by One Planet Growth Advisors Private Limited. The firm provides active ownership, operational expertise, and climate intelligence to mid-market businesses in India, complemented by a value creation framework that includes strategy enhancement, growth acceleration, capital efficiency optimization, talent elevation, governance strengthening, and exit development.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• One Planet Investment Trust A SEBI-registered Category II alternative investment fund (SEBI Registration Number: IN/AIF2/26-27/2225) managed by One Planet Growth Advisors Private Limited, focused on investing equity capital in India's mid-market businesses across Energy, Mobility, and Manufacturing sectors with active ownership and climate-intelligence-driven value creation.

Quantifiable outcome

• India's energy transition represents one of the most significant scalable opportunities of this decade

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Inflexor Ventures: India-focused deep-tech and climate venture and growth fund backing technology-led businesses; adjacent peer sharing a climate and sustainability lens on Indian growth-stage investing.
• Asha Impact: India-focused impact investment platform deploying capital into climate, healthcare, and financial inclusion; directly comparable in climate-aligned investment approach targeting Indian growth-stage companies.
• Lok Capital: India-focused private equity firm investing growth capital in financial inclusion, climate, and consumer businesses serving low-income segments; comparable in deploying impact-aligned capital into Indian mid-market opportunities.
• Gaja Capital: India-focused growth and climate/impact private equity firm investing in mid-market businesses across consumer, financial services, and climate sectors; the closest direct peer given its similar India mid-market climate-aligned investment thesis.
• Mahindra Partners: India-focused private equity and venture arm of the Mahindra Group investing in mid-market businesses across clean energy, mobility, and manufacturing; highly comparable in sector focus and India mid-market deal profile.
• Aspada Investment Advisors: India-focused impact investment fund backing early-to-growth stage businesses in climate, healthcare, and livelihoods; comparable in deploying climate/ESG-aligned capital into Indian market opportunities.

Others

• Tata Opportunities Fund: Prior Tata Group mid-market PE vehicle co-founded by One Planet Partners' founders Mukund Rajan and Bobby Pauly; thematically tied as the predecessor platform whose learnings and network seeded the new firm.

Emerging players

• GreenGrowth Equity Partners: Emerging climate-focused private equity manager targeting growth-stage clean energy and resource-efficiency businesses in emerging markets including India; comparable thematic focus on the climate-transition opportunity.

Broad incumbents

• KKR India: Global private equity giant with a substantial India platform investing across mid-market and large-cap deals including renewables and industrials; broader incumbent with overlapping themes but far larger fund sizes.
• Blackstone India: Global alternative asset manager with significant India exposure across private equity, real estate, and infrastructure; a broader incumbent that competes for the upper end of the same mid-market deal universe.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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