India, April 22 -- Real estate-focused cleantech startup Accacia has raised$6.5 Mn (around INR 54 Cr) in a Pre-Series A funding round led by Illuminate Financial, with participation from AC Ventures and existing investors Accel and B Capital.

Founded in 2022 by Annu Talreja, Piyush Chitkara and Jagmohan Garg, Accacia offers an AI-enabled SaaS platform that helps real estate asset managers, owners and developers track their emissions and design their net-zero journey.

The platform claims to allow customers to measure and benchmark the transitional risks on their portfolios, while the AI-enabled recommendation engine suggests decarbonisation strategies at the asset and portfolio level.

According to the startup, its tech platform integrat...