Hi, I’m Divya.
I work on how new technology gets adopted.
There's one question I keep coming back to: why do technologies that already work take so long to show up in the world? My working answer is that the bottleneck is usually people. The founder, the buyer, the investor and the regulator who need each other rarely end up at the same table. So I set the table.
I started as an electronics engineer (in 2017 I was training game-playing agents on GitHub off MIT's open AI courses), did a master's at ESSEC, then spent years inside the Paris innovation ecosystem: Hello Tomorrow, Station F, the ESSEC incubator and four VivaTechs.
Today I work independently with startups, corporates and investors. On the side, I make futures games that let people feel a near-future economy before they have to live in it.
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English & French.
French was my fifth language; I hold a DALF C1 diploma. I also speak Hindi, Gujarati and Marwari.
I began learning Marwari at eleven, to help keep a fading part of my heritage alive. Gujarati came at eighteen, while I was living in Gujarat.
Art, humour & curiosity.
I paint, perform stand-up, read, and host Climate Conversations with Divya. This site makes room for those parts of me, too.
Different chapters.
A connected set of questions.
Venture development
Research, expert sourcing and business-case work around fleet electrification with Limineer / DepotFlex. Exploring how market knowledge and relevant expertise support a venture’s next decisions.
Founder’s Associate
Supporting the two founders across operations, finance and partnerships at a climate-finance strategy startup. Coordinated input on 20+ proposals, standardised pricing and templates, and built a dashboard of 30+ opportunities for revenue forecasts and pipeline reviews.
Growth & go-to-market advisory
Advising two climate startups in ag-tech and packaging on go-to-market roadmaps, investor narratives and entry into the French market.
Paris City Lead
Running the Paris chapter: monthly events, speaker coordination, communications and community engagement across Slack and WhatsApp.
Climate strategy
Research and strategy across circular business models, mobility and the energy transition · including leasing, electric buses, and solar-plus-storage.
Deep-tech ecosystems
Materials and circularity programme development, corporate partnerships, and investor engagement. Connecting emerging technologies with organisations that could help them progress.
Brand strategy
Positioning and naming across electric mobility and consumer brands. An earlier chapter in translating complexity into something people can understand and care about.
Let’s work out
the next step.
A market to understand, a partnership to explore, or a conversation that deserves a well-designed room.