Cross-disciplinary deep-tech stories on funding, policy, IP and ventures that span categories
Terrastack, Varaha Climate, Farmers for Forests and Climitra Carbon join the APAC programme, announced on 7 September.
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The September 6–7 programme linked minerals, medicine, materials and machinery. Its reported transfer initiatives need to be followed through to licensing, validation and production.
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DoT will coordinate India’s participation in the September 9 announcement. The pledge defines staged follow-up while preserving national positions in standards bodies.
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The September 11–12 showcase gives a subset of the Nice cohort another route to partners. Attendance plans and funding commitments should not be mistaken for completed outcomes.
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The commitment spans three to four years and is separate from Krafton’s participation in an India-focused growth fund.
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Minimac Systems has raised ₹30 crore in a pre-Series A round led by Zerodha's Rainmatter to scale mobile, miniaturised units that restore industrial lubricant on-site instead of trucking it away as waste.
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The/Nudge Foundation has launched TILT, a ₹250 crore impact-investment platform backing seed-to-Series A science and technology startups working on livelihoods, climate resilience and financial inclusion.
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G Kishan Reddy has launched the Critical Minerals Innovation Hackathon 2026, a JNARDDC-run call for startups, researchers and students to build technical solutions for India's critical-minerals mission, with winners announced at India Mining Week in November.
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Bengaluru pre-seed fund Industrial47, founded by ex-Antler VC director and Army Reserves officer Rahul Seth, has closed Rs 85 crore for its debut fund backing space, defence, energy and maritime hardware startups.
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DPIIT and Avaana Capital's third Grand Challenge for Deep Tech Innovation pushed 12 finalists from space, biotech and energy through to pitch for non-dilutive grants and commercial pilots.
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Micromax Informatics has launched a ₹250 crore family office to back deep-tech startups in AI, semiconductors, defence, space and robotics, pairing capital with its manufacturing and supply-chain network.
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A carbon-rich chert from Jharkhand's Singhbhum Craton, directly dated to 3.497 billion years, carries carbon-isotope and structural evidence of an ancient microbial mat — the oldest directly dated biosignature yet found, an India-led PNAS study says.
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Hyderabad-based incubator T-Hub has partnered with Japanese manufacturer OKI Electric to help eight shortlisted Indian deep-tech startups pilot water-infrastructure and logistics solutions in Japan.
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Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath is investing Rs 200 crore and entrepreneur Sreeram Reddy Vanga another Rs 50 crore into hyperscale data centre operator CtrlS — a personal capital cheque, announced on 19 August 2026, that stacks on top of CPP Investments' Rs 7,000 crore commitment to fund India's fast-growing AI-serving compute base.
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A new IVCA report released on 17 August 2026 says India's deep-tech sector has drawn nearly $11.4 billion in PE/VC funding since 2015, with over 85% of it in the past six years — and 2025 a record year at $2.9 billion across 189 rounds.
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Gurugram-based geospatial technology firm NeoGeo has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Neev II Fund and Aavishkaar Capital, aiming to expand its GIS platforms and enter the Middle East and the Americas.
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In his 2026 Independence Day address from the Red Fort, PM Modi placed AI, semiconductors, quantum and space at the centre of India's Viksit Bharat 2047 plan — pledging to train one crore youth in AI, adding seven to eight new chip plants and reaffirming a 100 GW nuclear target.
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Chennai's Bluehill.VC has closed its maiden frontier-tech fund at ₹400 crore, backed by SIDBI and the Kerala and Uttar Pradesh governments, to write $1–2 million first cheques into Indian startups across defence, semiconductors, space, energy and robotics.
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T-Hub has launched Blueprint, a 12-month fellowship in which the Hyderabad incubator acts as a "generalist CXO" to help deep-tech founders scale — opening with a 14-startup cohort spanning energy, space, health and applied AI.
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Aum Ventures has marked the first close of its ₹750 crore India Innovation Fund II at ₹225 crore, with more than 65% of the capital coming from international limited partners — an unusual profile for an Indian seed-stage deep-tech fund.
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At its Future Forge conference in Bengaluru on 7 August 2026, Nasscom named the Emerge 50 'League of 10' deep-tech startups and released ecosystem data showing 74% of applicants use AI, 83% have reached advanced technology-readiness, and 39% are already fully commercialised.
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India-focused climate-tech startup Mitti Labs has raised a $9.5 million Series A led by Aramco Ventures to scale its GeoAI platform, which uses satellite radar and AI to measure methane and water use across 100,000-plus smallholder rice farms.
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Mumbai investment firm Piper Serica has marked the first close of its deep-tech Bharat Tech Fund at ₹300 crore against an ₹800 crore target, backing semiconductors, defence, space, robotics and biosciences with ₹25–50 crore cheques.
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Chennai-based Anicut Capital has launched the ₹250 crore Grand Anicut Seed Fund, its second early-stage vehicle, to back over 20 startups across deep tech, enterprise, consumer and fintech with ₹5–8 crore cheques from pre-seed to Series A.
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Researchers at BITS Pilani's Hyderabad campus have built a low-energy, three-stage process that uses electric pulses to turn biopharmaceutical and vaccine-factory wastewater into reusable water and methane-rich biogas, and are scaling it up with vaccine maker Biological E.
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Inflexor Ventures has completed the first close of its ₹1,250 crore Technology Discovery Fund III at ₹400 crore, backed by the SRI Fund and HDFC AMC, to write ₹15–45 crore cheques into 22–25 early-stage Indian deep-tech startups.
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Tata Elxsi has signed an MoU with the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute (SCTIMST) to jointly develop diagnostics, medical imaging, digital health and medical devices, pairing clinical expertise with product-engineering muscle. The framework targets India''s persistent gap between medical ideas and manufacturable, validated products.
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The Technology Development Board has selected the first 22 startups for India's new RDI Fund, approving 2,192 crore rupees of low-cost "patient capital" across space, quantum, robotics, EV, biotech and climate — with space firms like Agnikul and Dhruva Space and companies such as ePlane, Ather and Tejas Networks among the beneficiaries.
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At the third India-EU Trade and Technology Council in Brussels, the two sides agreed to open negotiations on India's association to the €93.5 billion Horizon Europe research programme and to deepen cooperation on semiconductors, quantum, AI, 6G and EV charging.
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India has commissioned an indigenous 'White Rabbit' fibre network to distribute Indian Standard Time with sub-nanosecond precision, cutting critical infrastructure's reliance on foreign satellite timing under the 'One Nation, One Time' initiative.
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The Union Cabinet has approved a five-year, ₹62,500 crore Mobile Phone Manufacturing Scheme that ties incentives to domestic component sourcing and Indian brand R&D, aiming to move the country from phone assembly to deeper electronics value addition.
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Goa-based Adage Automation, a maker of industrial gas-analysis and emissions-monitoring systems, has raised ₹230 crore led by InCred Growth Partners to scale its AI-enabled monitoring platform and expand across the Middle East, Africa, Europe and the US.
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India, Australia and Canada have signed an MoU establishing the ACITI Partnership, a trilateral framework spanning AI, quantum computing, critical minerals and advanced manufacturing — with the underlying goal of building China-resilient supply chains for battery and semiconductor materials.
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India's Finance Ministry has waived basic customs duty on inputs for display assemblies, lithium-ion cells and inductor coil modules — including an expanded list of 85 battery-manufacturing machines — in a targeted move to make domestic electronics and battery production cheaper than imports.
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India launched its first national drone cooperative — the Drone Tech Multi-State Co-operative Society — at the National Drone Summit 2026 in New Delhi on 4 July, alongside a "1 Panchayat, 1 Drone Udyami" mission and an NSDC skilling network. The model aims to put affordable drones and trained operators into every village council.
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At the 16th India-Japan Annual Summit on 2 July 2026, Modi and Takaichi signed a Joint Declaration on Economic Security spanning semiconductors, critical minerals, quantum, AI and advanced materials — and agreed on India and Japan's first joint defence co-development project, the UNICORN stealth antenna.
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At Bharat Innovates 2026 in Nice, ~$254.5M in FDI and 50+ agreements signalled Indian deep tech's rotation from low-margin SaaS to sovereign hardware — with IITM anchoring a ~$100M pipeline and a domestic grant matrix bridging the valley of death.
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IUST Awantipora reported a 113-patent portfolio spanning doped ceramic adsorbents, solar thermal storage and healthcare robotics, backed by ₹107.61cr in funding — evidence that India's deep-tech IP is decentralising beyond the IITs.
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TuTr Hyperloop signed a commercial MoU with thyssenkrupp at Bharat Innovates 2026. The deal targets the category's hardest bottleneck: manufacturing vacuum-tight, thermally stable steel-composite tubes at scale, not levitation.
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