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Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. Manastu Founders Ashtesh Kumar, CTO, and Tushar Jadhav, CEO have raised $3 million to advance green propulsion. Image courtesy the company. Speciale Invest closes Fund III at Rs 600 crore to double down on deep tech in India Speciale Invest has closed its third fund at Rs 600 crore, exceeding the Chennai-based early-st...

Rishabh Agarwal, co-founder and CEO, Peer Robotics is building autonmous collaborative robots for industrial use. ViewPoint Here’s a deep tech founder’s sincere career advice for students (and schools and universities) that applies beyond science and engineering, in the age of AI. Instead of scratching the surface via multiple projects in different areas, would it be better to focus on one area of...

What would you say is the biggest bottleneck preventing Indian Deep Tech startups from scaling? And why does a base in the US make a big difference in this regard? Here’s a 2-minute View point from Rishabh Agarwal , Co-Founder and CEO of Peer Robotics ViewPoint

Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. NISAR, a world first dual band synthetic aperture radar built jointly by ISRO and NASA was successfully launched on a GSLV-F16 rocket. ISRO, NASA launch historic NISAR satellite to revolutionize Earth observation In the successful launch of a historic satellite mission being conducted jointly by Indian Space Research O...

Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. AI generated illustrative image: An EV charging station in rural India. DRDO successfully tests Pralay indigenous quasi-ballistic missile Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), India’s top defense R&D agency, conducted two consecutive successful flight tests of the Pralay missile off Odisha’s coast...

Rishabh Agarwal, co-founder and CEO, Peer Robotics is building autonmous collaborative robots for industrial use. Listen to the audio

Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. The drone from Skydweller Aero is designed to stay in the sky for as long as three months. Image courtesy company website. Wipro Infrastructure Engineering launches new division with $60 million plan Wipro Infrastructure Engineering, part of billionaire Azim Premji’s Wipro Enterprises in Bengaluru, has inaugurated a ne...

Rishabh Agarwal, co-founder and CEO, Peer Robotics is building autonmous collaborative robots for industrial use. In today’s episode, Rishabh Agarwal , Co-founder and CEO of PeerRobotics , gives us a sense of how automation is changing for small and mid-sized manufacturers and outlines his vision for collaborative robotics. Rishabh shares his experience and perspective on the factory floor transit...

Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. Illustrative image: African women cooking in the open. The IEA reports sub Saharan Africa is off track in providing clean cooking energy by at least a decade. India’s rollback of SO₂ norms related to clean air targets draws criticism A recent rollback of sulphur dioxide (SO₂) emissions standards by the government of In...

Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. NASA ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite to be launched onboard Isro’s GSLV-F16 rocket on July 30. Image courtesy ISRO. AstraZeneca to build $50 billion US manufacturing facility AstraZeneca is investing $50 billion in the US by 2030, with its largest drug manufacturing facility to be built in Virginia. Thi...

At Ati Motors’ annual Products Day, Founder and CEO Saurabh Chandra introduces Mecha, the company’s experimental humanoid prototype. Today, I wanted to bring you one story that caught my imagination last week, about how Indian engineering could go global – not just in software, but in areas like robotics. This past Saturday*, I got a chance to attend the annual Products Day at Ati Motors, which as...

Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. Global warming and climate change concept. Hot weather thermometer with arrow on high temperature symbol on glass earth globe on red drought background with copy space. Increase hot degrees level. India set to mandate climate risk disclosures for banks by 2028 India’s central bank, RBI, is finalizing rules to require b...

Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. Dr. Nagendra Nagaraja, founder and CEO, QpiAI, has just raised $32 million to develop his company’s Quantum computing tech. One Biosciences raises €15 million to accelerate precision oncology Paris-based One Biosciences has closed a €15 million Series A round led by Redmile Group and Blast, with contributions from Gali...

Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. India marks 10 years of Digital India, expands AI training for rural citizens India’s Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, celebrated a decade of Digital India achievements – including the Common Service Centre (CSC) network – by announcing free AI training for 1 million citizens, with village-level en...

Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. Tesla New Model Y. Image courtesy company. Tesla this week officially launched sales in India with a showroom in Mumbai selling cars imported from China. Tesla launches Model Y in India at premium price, opens first showroom in Mumbai Tesla has officially launched its Model Y electric SUV in India, pricing it at $69,76...

Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. Illustrative image to reflect India’s net zero efforts. Proud Indian Farmer Standing by Solar Panels Promoting Renewable and Sustainable Energy. For today’s episode of The Climate on Monday, I thought I’d bring you a brief conversation with some of the key people at The Sustainability Mafia, or SusMafia, about their up...

Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. Airalo’s founders Abraham Burak and Ahmet Bahadir Ozdemir. The eSIM provider has just raised $220 million in an investment that values it at $1 billion. Image courtesy company. India launches ₹10,000 crore second tranche of deep tech fund Union Minister Piyush Goyal announced a ₹10,000 crore second tranche under the go...

Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. The robot used with the Surgical Robot Transformer-Hierarchy to perform gallbladder surgery.  Image courtesy XinHao Chen/Johns Hopkins University Robot performs first realistic gallbladder surgery autonomously A Johns Hopkins University team has developed a robot that autonomously completed a complex phase of gallbladd...

Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. The development of humanoid robots is advancing rapidly, with early versions already being trialed in environments ranging from factory floors to hospitals. The image above shows NEURA Founder David Reger with the company’s 4NE1 robot. Courtesy company.  AWS launches dedicated space accelerator for startups in India Am...

In the thumbnail image: L-R Dr. Nagesh Kini and Murari Ramkumar are building nanotech membranes for a range of industrial applications, including long-term energy storage and hydrogen electrolysers My guests today are Murari Ramkumar and Dr. Nagesh Kini, founders of Vimano, a deep-tech startup headquartered in Bengaluru, India, specializing in advanced nanotechnology and materials science. The com...

Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. Illustrative image: wind turbines on moutains. The Green Climate Fund has approved a record amount for new projects. Green Climate Fund approves record $1.2 billion for climate projects in developing nations The Green Climate Fund has approved a record $1.2 billion for 17 new climate projects, mainly in Asia and Africa...

Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world Proteus, Amazon’s first fully autonomous robot. Amazon deploys one million robots, launches AI to boost warehouse efficiency Amazon has surpassed the deployment of one million industrial robots , marking a major automation milestone as its latest system began operations in a Japanese fulfillment center, the Association...

Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world Rajiv Ganth, founder and CEO, CIMware, is leading innovation that can help make data centre power use more efficient and therefore boost sustainability. Google signs landmark deal with Commonwealth Fusion Systems to commercialize fusion energy Google has entered its first commercial fusion energy agreement , committing...

Daily brief on deep tech and climate tech news from India and around the world. Udith Vaidyanathan and Arun Ramakrishnan, LogicFlo AI’s founders, aim to put human experts in life sciences at the centre of AI-led productivity gains. Image courtesy company. BEML inaugurates aerospace SEZ facility in Bengaluru, lays foundation for major expansion BEML Limited has inaugurated a state-of-the-art wareho...

Daily news on deep tech and climate tech from India and around the world An infographic show the 17 Sustainable Development Goals that were articulated at the United Nations in 2015 as an urgent call to action for all countries. Tech Giants’ Net Zero Goals May Be Unachievable Amid AI Data Center Boom Researchers warn that the net zero pledges of big tech companies such as Microsoft, Apple, Google,...