About Divya Chalise
Divya Chalise is co-founder and chief technology officer of TheZero, a company in Sunnyvale, California. TheZero offers solutions for waste management, carbon removals and industrial decarbonization.
In 2024 he was an Accelerator Fellow at the Stanford Sustainability Accelerator. He also did postdoctoral research at Stanford University alongside professors Arun Majumdar and Yi Cui. There he studied heat-driven chemical methods that turn agricultural waste into stable carbon materials. His fellowship project was about scaling up biochar made from agricultural waste. He earned his PhD at UC Berkeley, working under Dr. Ravi Prasher.
Experience
This experience comes from official bios and from SEC filings. For roles taken from filings, the years are when the filings name Divya Chalise in the role, so the role may have started earlier or lasted longer.
Key Colleagues at Startups
The people Divya Chalise works with at each company, as listed on that company's latest Form D.
