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Generated image for illustration of a startup incubator office space. Listen to the episode Spotify YouTube (00:21) China’s Zhuque-3 reaches orbit but crashes on landing Chinese rocketmaker Landspace’s stainless steel, methalox-fuelled Zhuque-3 reached orbit on its debut flight from Jiuquan, successfully deploying its expendable second stage before the reusable first stage failed during landing an...

Janaki Venkatraman, Santanu Datta and Arindam Ghatak, co-founders of Biomoneta. Image source: company. (00:20) IVCA forum urges more domestic capital for deep tech The Indian Venture and Alternate Capital Association hosted its Domestic Institutional Investors & Exits Forum 2025 in New Delhi, spotlighting the role of local capital in deep tech and biotech. An MoU between IVCA and BIRAC aims to...

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India’s Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnav recently visited SCL, and outlined a plan to modernise the chip facility. (00:20) India to invest Rs. 4,500 crore to modernise SCL Mohali India will invest Rs. 4,500 crore to modernise and expand the government-run Semiconductor Laboratory (SCL) in Mohali, targeting a 100-fold increase in wafer production while ruling out privatisation, Electron...

Vishal Katariya at Ankur Capital (L) and Sunil Cavale at Speciale Invest have recently released their report on the semiconductor startup landscape in India – the second edition. In today’s episode, I bring you a conversation with Sunil Cavale at Speciale Invest and Vishal Katariya at Ankur Capital, both VC firms well known as early-stage backers of deep tech startups in India. Vishal and Sunil di...

Team CrisprBits. Image source: company. CrisprBits, a Bengaluru biotech startup, has raised $3 million in a pre-Series A round to scale its CRISPR-based diagnostics and gene-editing platforms, lifting its valuation to $12 million. The company plans to use the money to commercialize its PathCrisp molecular diagnostics line and build an AI-augmented strain engineering platform for industrial biofuel...

An AI generated image for illustrating an Indian startups co-working space. (00:20) Google, Accel to co-invest in Indian AI startups Google and Accel will co-invest in at least 10 early-stage Indian AI startups through a new partnership between Google’s AI Futures Fund and Accel’s Atoms programme, with up to 2 million dollars available per company. The tie-up, based in Bengaluru, is Google’s first...

Coming up on Friday, Nov. 28. How’s India’s semiconductor product startup landscape changing. In the next episode of Conversations at India Tech Report, Sunil Cavale at Speciale Invest and Vishal Kataria at Ankur Capital discuss the second edition of their report on this very subject. Catch the full conversation right here or wherever you get your podcasts. Here’s a 2-minute preview. Listen to the...

Moin SPM and Srinath Ravichandran, Co-founders of Agnikul Cosmos, are pioneering India’s private small satellite launch vehicles with 3D printed engines. (00:20) Swiss quantum startup shrinks cooling systems for scalable processors YQuantum has raised CHF 150,000 ($186,000) from Venture Kick to commercialize miniaturized cryogenic hardware for quantum computers. The startup’s compact components ad...

AI generated image for illustration. India is backing the international solar alliance with a call for global action on energy for small island developing nations, at the COP30 meet. (00:20) India calls joint crediting mechanism a model for equitable climate action At UNFCCC COP30 in Brazil, India’s Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav said the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) is crucial for scalab...

AI generated image of Chandrayaan on the Lunar surface for illustration. India’s Karnataka state has unveiled its space tech policy 2025-30. (00:21) Karnataka unveils India’s first Quantum City plan, space policy Karnataka launched India’s first Quantum City blueprint at the Bengaluru Tech Summit this week, with a plan to create a Rs. 1,000 crore integrated quantum cluster in Hesaraghatta. The pro...

A chip built by Princeton’s Nathalie de Leon, Andrew Houck, Robert Cava and their research teams supports qubits with coherence times longer than 1 millisecond — three times longer than the best ever reported in a lab setting, and nearly 15 times longer than the industry standard. Image by Matthew Raspanti, Office of Communications, Princeton University. (00:21) Princeton’s qubit breakthrough exte...

An ISRO SSLV with an Earth Obervation Satellite. Govt backing for space tech startups is soaring. Image source ISRO website. (00:21) SIDBI hits first close of Antariksh, India’s largest space fund SIDBI Venture Capital announced the first close of its Antariksh fund at Rs 1,005 crore, anchored by a Rs 1,000 crore commitment from IN-SPACe, Times of India reports. Registered as a Category II alterna...

L-R: Shravan Shankar and Simmi Sareen, co-founders of Climake, have recently released the fifth edition of their annual state of climate finance in India report. In this episode, I’m joined by Simmi Sareen and Shravan Shankar, co-founders of Climake, a climate finance platform and advisory, to talk about their fifth annual report on the state of climate finance in India – 2025 edition. In 2024, eq...

Simmi Sareen and Shravan Shankar co-founders of Climake have released the 5th edition of their annual report on the state of climate finance in India. Coming up, in the next episode of India Tech Report: In Conversation, Simmi Sareen and Shravan Shankar at Climake discuss their State of Climate Finance in India 2025 report. Catch the full conversation tomorrow right here, or wherever you get your...

Simmi Sareen and Shravan Shankar co-founders of Climake have released the 5th edition of their annual report on the state of climate finance in India. Listen to the preview Catch the full conversation on Friday, Nov. 14 right here or wherever you get your podcasts. Here’s a one-minute preview. Climake https://www.climake.co

Dr. S Somanath, former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation, delivering a keynote at the deep tech VC firm Speciale Invest’s annual summit in Chennai on Nov. 3. News, views, and conversations with founders, investors, industry leaders and other stakeholders building India’s deep tech and climate tech ecosystems. In this episode I bring you a lightly edited version of a speech made by...

News, views, and conversations with founders, investors, industry leaders and other stakeholders building India’s deep tech and climate tech ecosystems. QpiAI Founder Nagendra Nagaraja is has unveiled a 64-qubit quantum processor. Nvidia, Qualcomm join alliance to mentor Indian deep tech startups Nvidia has joined the $2 billion India Deep Tech Alliance as a founding member, pledging mentorship an...

In today’s episode, Neil Shah, co-founder and vice president at Counterpoint Technology Market Research, gives us a quick take on Intel’s new Panther Lake processor and its potential use cases in robotics and physical AI. Intel’s new Panther Lake SoC marks a defining turn in the company’s roadmap toward robotics-ready edge computing. In this quick-take episode, Neil explains how the chip’s modular...

Ganapathy ‘Gani’ Subramaniam, founding managing partner at Yali Capital. In today’s episode, Ganapathy ‘Gani’ Subramaniam, founding managing partner of Yali Capital, a deep-tech VC firm in Bengaluru, joins me for Part 2 of our discussion on the firm’s debut deep-tech fund. In this conversation, we picked up with Yali’s investment in Perceptyne, a company developing humanoid robotics for manufactur...

Bhaktha Ram Keshavachar, founder and CEO of Chara Technologies. In this episode, Bhaktha Ram Keshavachar, founder and CEO of Chara Technologies, talks about a new funding round at his startup. Chara, based in Bengaluru, specializes in building rare earth-free motors and matching controllers. That China, which has a near monopoly on the supply chain of rare earth minerals, has intensified its restr...

Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. IFC proposes $6M equity investment in African Catalyst Fund The International Finance Corporation (IFC) plans to invest up to $6 million in Catalyst Fund, which is targeting a corpus of $40 million for early-stage climate-tech startups across Africa , Africa Private Equity News reports. Managed by Catalyst Impact Partn...

Ganapathy Subramaniam, founding managing partner of Yali Capital. Listen to the episode Coming up on Wednesday, Oct. 15 The importance frugal engineering, diverse co-founder teams, and strong customer focus for deep tech startups. In Part 2 of my conversation with Ganapathy Subramaniam, founding managing partner at Yali Capital, in which Gani discusses his firm’s focus on deep tech and semiconduct...

Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. illustrative image of an automotive assembly line. China controls over 90 percent of the processing capacity of rare earth minerals needed in magnets that go into EVs. Its tightening restrictions are impacting global supply chains. China tightens rare earth export controls China has expanded its restrictions on rare ea...

Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. Shilpa Kumar, MD, BII India, with Priya Shah , Founder, Theia Ventures. BII is backing Theia’s $30 million clean energy fund in India. Image source: press release. ABB sells robotics unit to SoftBank for $5.375 billion ABB has announced it will divest its Robotics division to SoftBank Group for $5.375 billion, a decisi...