Financing Green Startups: A Blockchain-Powered Approach

Title

Financing Green Startups: A Blockchain-Powered Approach

Creator

Srinivas, D.; Giri, Simon; Raina, Kartikeya; Singh, Hardev; Udayai, Kirti; Ahmad, Vasim

Description

Green startups routinely encounter difficulty in obtaining financing owing to the high funding needs to launch their business, and the imprecise market acceptance and future returns of those businesses, rendering them unacceptable to traditional latter-day funding methods. The funding modality available today fails to provide the needed transparency, flexibility and accessibility to encourage ventures based on green projects. This paper develops a funding model based in blockchain for green startups, that employs tokenization, decentralised finance (DeFi) and smart contracts with automaticity, as an efficient way of funding to provide secure, traceable funding structures that make funds available related to the performance of the venture. We present a conceptual model showing the responsibilities of startups, funders and smart contracts within a de-centralised funding ecosystem. Various case studies such as Power Ledger and WePower are investigated in order to validate the practical relevance of the model. Our research indicates how blockchain mechanisms can heighten trust, enhance liquidity, and automate funding that is linked to impact. This paper contributes to future work on scalable platforms that are both regulation compliant and also provide a fit between Blockchain infrastructure and the unique requirements of sustainable innovation. 2025 IEEE.

Source

Proceedings - 2025 5th International Conference on Internet of Things: Smart Innovation and Usage, IoT-SIU 2025;

Date

01-01-2025

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Subject

blockchain; crowdfunding; decentralized finance (DEFI); environmental impact; green bonds; green startups; smart contracts; sustainable finance; tokenization

Coverage

Srinivas D., SR University, School of Business, Telangana, Warangal, India; Giri S., Christ University, Department of Commerce, Bangalore, India; Raina K., Graphic Era (Deemed to be University), Department of Management Studies, India; Singh H., Uttaranchal Institute of Management, Uttaranchal University, Dehradun, India; Udayai K., Graphic Era (Deemed to be University), School of Management Studies, Uttarakhand, Dehradun, India; Ahmad V., Uttaranchal Institute of Management, Uttaranchal University, Dehradun, India

Rights

Restricted Access; Hardcopy may be available in the library

Relation

ISBN: 979-833159099-4;

Format

online

Language

English

Type

Conference paper

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1109/IOT-SIU65919.2025.11402723

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