S2 E4 | Ankita Vijayvergiya - Building BillionCarbon, the Startup Tackling Food Waste at Scale
Fri Jan 30 2026
In this episode David speaks with Ankita Vijayvergiya, CEO and co-founder of BillionCarbon, the startup developing food waste processing technology that turns waste into nutrient-rich outputs and lowers carbon emissions at scale.Ankita explains why food waste is one of the biggest and most overlooked climate problems.They talk about moving from consulting into building hardware, why many food waste solutions fail to scale, and what it takes to turn a climate problem into a commercially viable company.
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In this episode David speaks with Ankita Vijayvergiya, CEO and co-founder of BillionCarbon, the startup developing food waste processing technology that turns waste into nutrient-rich outputs and lowers carbon emissions at scale.Ankita explains why food waste is one of the biggest and most overlooked climate problems.They talk about moving from consulting into building hardware, why many food waste solutions fail to scale, and what it takes to turn a climate problem into a commercially viable company.