Startup Profile

Attero

Legal entity: Attero Recycling Private Limited

Recycling e-waste and lithium-ion batteries into recovered metals

Climate / SustainabilitySeries D+Hardware / IoT· Noida, Uttar Pradesh· Est. 2008Website ↗
Attero is an Indian e-waste and lithium-ion battery recycling company headquartered in Noida with its main processing plant in Roorkee, Uttarakhand. It uses proprietary hydrometallurgy and pyrometallurgy processes to recover metals such as gold, silver, copper, aluminium, lithium, cobalt and nickel from discarded electronics and batteries. The company is among the largest organised e-waste recycle
Funding raised
₹311.00 Cr
Total disclosed
Latest valuation
₹2610.00 Cr
Most recent round
Latest revenue
₹114.00 Cr
FY FY21
Employees
FY FY21

Founders

  • Nitin Gupta

    Co-founder and CEO of Attero. Leads the company's strategy, technology development and global expansion in e-waste and lithium-ion battery recycling.

  • Rohan Gupta

    Co-founder and COO of Attero. Conceived the original idea while studying in the US after struggling to safely dispose of an old laptop, which exposed the lack of an organised e-waste recycling industry in India.

Funding rounds

  1. Series C2014-02-25
  2. Series B2010-06-21₹68.89 CrLed by International Finance Corporation (IFC)
  3. Series A2008-05-23₹52.29 CrLed by NEA-IndoUS Ventures

Financials

MCA / self-reported
Fiscal yearRevenueProfit / (Loss)Employees
FY21₹114.00 Cr+₹13.00 Cr
FY22₹214.00 Cr+₹40.00 Cr
FY23₹289.00 Cr+₹21.00 Cr
FY24₹446.00 Cr+₹14.50 Cr
FY25₹961.00 Cr+₹14.60 Cr

The full story

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Timeline

  1. FY25Crossed Rs 1,000 crore revenueRevenue from operations rose to about Rs 961 crore in FY25 from Rs 446 crore in FY24, with the company citing roughly 125% growth and crossing the Rs 1,000 crore revenue milestone.
  2. 2022-05-31$1 billion global expansion plan announcedAttero announced plans to invest about $1 billion by 2027 to expand lithium-ion recycling capacity in India and set up plants in the US, Europe (Poland) and Indonesia as EV adoption accelerates.
  3. 2019Pivot into lithium-ion battery recyclingAttero began R&D into lithium-ion battery recycling, anticipating EV adoption. The vertical reached commercial scale by 2021 using proprietary hydrometallurgy claiming high recovery rates for lithium, cobalt and nickel.
  4. 2008-05-23First institutional fundingRaised $6.3 million in Series A from NEA-IndoUS Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson to build its e-waste recycling facility.
  5. 2007-2008Company foundedBrothers Rohan and Nitin Gupta founded Attero after Rohan struggled to find a safe way to dispose of an old laptop. The company was incorporated in 2008 (MCA CIN U28931UR2008PTC032573) and began operations as an e-waste recycler.

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Updated 2026-06-01