India Tech Report

Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech from India and around the world. Indian fabless semiconductor startups are developing products and finding global customers. Illustrative image. Quantum Computing Inc. secures $750 million in private placement Quantum Computing Inc. (QCi), an integrated photonics and quantum optics company, has successfully closed an oversubscribed private placement, raisi...

Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech from India and around the world. India’s Science and Tech minister Dr. Jitendra Singh (centre) at the curtain raiser for the country’s first science, tech and innovation conclave. Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh launches Emerging Science, Technology & Innovation Conclave Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh launched a curtain-raiser for the Emerging Science,...

Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. A shot of wind turbines on the mountains. Illustrative image. Climate change is disrupting global wind patterns Climate change is disrupting global wind patterns, which is intensifying sand and dust storms, wildfires, and extreme weather events, Mongabay reports. This poses a growing threat to human and planetary healt...

In-depth conversations with founders, investors, industry leaders, and other stakeholders building India’s deep tech and climate tech ecosystems. 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 to discuss the firm’s debut fund, which had i...

In-depth conversations with founders, investors, industry leaders, and other stakeholders building India’s deep tech and climate tech ecosystems. Ganapathy ‘Gani’ Subramaniam, founding managing partner of Yali Capital, talks about the firm’s deep tech bets in India. A peak into what’s perhaps India’s biggest deep-tech-only fund. Coming up on Tuesday, Sep. 30th, in the next episode of IndiaTechRepo...

Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. Illustrative image. OpenAI and India’s Reliance are developing large AI data centres in the country. India plans 20-year tax exemption, GST credits to boost data centres The Indian government may grant a 20-year tax exemption and GST credits to supercharge investment in domestic data centres, Moneycontrol reports. This...

Ravi Jain, Investment Director at Japan’s TDK Ventures, expects a snowball effect in India’s deep tech ecosystem. Image credit: Hari Arakali. In this episode, Ravi Jain , an Investment Director at TDK Ventures, joins me for a wide-ranging discussion on the current state and trajectory of India’s deep tech ecosystem. Jain gives us a micro capsule on the history of TDK, developing technologies for s...

Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. Solaq’s water from atmosphere system, one of the innovations selected to Amazon’s ClimateTech cohort in its Sustainability Accelerator. Image source: Amazon sustainability stories. Union Minister Gadkari unveils roadmap for sustainable transport at SIAM meet Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari...

Listen to the preview Coming up, on Tuesday, Sep. 16th, in the next episode of India Tech Report: In Conversation, I speak with Ravi Jain at TDK Ventures on their recent Deep Tech Report report, in partnership with Kae Capital and how he sees the ecosystem evolving. Catch the full conversation next week right here, or wherever you get your podcasts. Here’s a two-minute preview.

Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. India’s Minister for New and Renewable Energy Pralhad Joshi. Image source Press Information Bureau. Quantum reference hub launched in Amaravati The Andhra Pradesh government inaugurated what is said to be India’s first Quantum Reference Facility in Amaravati, backed by Rs 40 crore and support from the National Quantum...

Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. An ISRO SSLV with an Earth Obervation Satellite. Image source ISRO website. Komatsu invests in autonomous mining with AI Komatsu has announced what the Japanese heavy industries giant described as its most significant technology investment, partnering autonomous vehicle software maker Applied Intuition to integrate AI-...

Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. Illustrative image. Aavishkaar, a well-known impact investor in India is planning a deep tech fund. ( Note: This is an updated post. The previous version included an incorrect value of Aavishkaar’s planned deep tech fund. That post has been deleted. I request subscribers who received the post by email to please ignore...

Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. Illustrative image. The world will see a massive increase in the number of poor and only the rich few will get richer due to capitalism taking advantage of AI, Geoffrey Hinton, considered the godfather of AI, was widely reported to have said in a recent interview. India’s first telecom system with indigenous chips gets...

Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. AI generated illustrative image of a micro farm in space. Production of medicines and nutrients in space is an example of frontier technologies that global venture capital is backing. Nobel laureate urges open sharing of climate technologies Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize winning economist, has called for climate techn...

AI generated illustrative image. CynLr and IISc have teamed up in an initiative called Visual Neuroscience for Cybernetics. Japan’s TDK Corp. sets up Haryana plant to make 200 million lithium-ion battery packs India’s Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw inaugurated TDK Corporation’s advanced lithium-ion battery plant in Sohna, Haryana, under the Electronics Manufacturing Cluster Scheme, a...

Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. ETH Zurich students have innovated a 2-metal 3D printer that significantly reduces waste and manufacturing time for cylindrical components. Image courtesy Science Direct. Indian cabinet approves Rs.1,500 crore plan for mineral recycling India’s Union Cabinet has cleared a six-year, Rs.1,500 crore incentive plan under t...

Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnav with the first made-in-India semiconductor chips, at the Semicon India 2025 meet in New Delhi. First Made-in-India chips as semiconductor mission accelerates Prime Minister Narendra Modi received India’s first homegrown semiconductor...

Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from Indian and around the world. Illustrative image. OpenAI and Indian conglomerate Reliance are planning large AI data centres in the country – investments that could boost AI compute availability for many. OpenAI to build multi-gigawatt AI data center in India, expanding local footprint OpenAI is planning to set up a major data center in India with...

Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. One of the winners being presented with a cheque by Dr. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, chairperson of Biocon, at the conclusion of C-CAMP’s NBEC 2025 competition in Bengaluru IN-SPACe signs five ISRO tech transfer deals with Indian firms IN-SPACe has facilitated the transfer of five ISRO-developed technologies to Indian industry...

GS Madhusudan, co-founder and CEO of Incore Semiconductors, says India’s chip ecosystem needs many more people who can conceive and market products. My guest in today’s episode is GS Madhusudan, Co-Founder and CEO of Incore Semiconductors , a company at the forefront of processor IP innovation in India. With nearly four decades of experience in the technology sector, Madhusudan has played a signif...

Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. Co-Founders of PeelONPeelON Venkata Ravi Sankar Ummidi and Taraka Ramji Moturu have just raised $1 million in seed funding. Image courtesy company. C-CAMP announces date for bio entrepreneurship competition finale C-CAMP, with support from the Government of Karnataka, will host the grand finale of the National Bio Entr...

Listen to the preview Coming up, in the next episode of In Conversation, G S Madhusudan , Co-Founder and CEO of InCore Semiconductors , gives us a sense of how far India’s chip ecosystem has come, and how quickly it’s evolving. Catch the full conversation on Friday, Aug. 22nd, right here or wherever you get your podcasts. Here’s a one-minute preview.

Inbound Aerospace’s founders Abhijit Bhutey, Aravind IB and Vishal Reddy are developing an unmanned reusable spacecraft for microgravity experiments. Image courtesy the company. In this episode, I’m joined by Abhijit Bhutey and Vishal Reddy, co-founders of Inbound Aerospace , a startup incubated at IIT Madras. The discussion covers the origins of their journey — from an academic collaboration focu...

Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. India’s Ultraviolette Automotive, with its flagship F77 electric performance motorcycle has raised funding from Japan’s TDK. Image courtesy Ultraviolette. ISRO deems Skyroot’s static test of KALAM 1200 solid motor a success Skyroot Aerospace successfully completed the first static test of its KALAM 1200 solid motor, th...

Listen to the preview Coming up on Aug. 14 Why are SpaceTech startups working to build various microgravity platforms and solutions catching the attention of investors? In this exciting field of science and engineering, experts see many possibilities: from drug discovery and better medicines to 3D-printed life-saving organ replacements to ultra-efficient semiconductors. In my next episode of India...