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India Tech Report

Hari Arakali

This is a podcast dedicated to chronicling and supporting the rise of India's deep tech and climate tech startup ecosystems. One conversation at a time. indiatechreport.substack.com

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159 episodes

  1. SEBI’s deep tech startups push, AstraYAN’s Navy win and 6G chip R&D milestone 3:56
  2. VyomIC bags In-SPACe grant to commercialise made-in-India atomic clock ensemble and PNT tech 5:57
  3. Novel semiconductor could hold key to unlocking solar efficiency limits, Oxford-Wuhan teams show 3:50
  4. Own eyes: Paar Autonomy gets AdvantEdge backing to scale indigenous vision stack for defence 3:41
  5. Siddhanth Jayaram on Equilibrium's high-integrity carbon credits playbook 1:01:29
  6. Coming up: Siddhanth Jayaram on Equilibrium’s carbon credits playbook 2:49
  7. Agra boy’s American dream: VC investor Amir Khan on bridging US-India deep tech corridor 1:00:52
  8. Coming up: VC investor Amir Khan on his new StudioK for tech founders in India 2:47
  9. Satish Padmanabhan on DIMAAG’s power electronics innovations for AI data centres 1:01:45
  10. Pardeep Garg on heat pumps as the next big engine for India’s net zero effort 48:23
  11. Mredul Sarda’s journey from student satellite to deep tech investor to cybersecurity entrepreneur 46:51
  12. 20 million Ranchos: Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala’s vision for achieving tech sovereignty for India 50:15
  13. Coming up: Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala on ITEL and his next moonshots 2:43
  14. Why Indian deep tech needs corporate R&D and M&A, Vinod Shankar explains 2:44
  15. 10 pct challenge: Vinod Shankar at Java Capital on how India can put $1 trillion in deep tech 47:05
  16. Coming up: Vinod Shankar at Java Capital challenges India's ultra rich to back deep innovation 1:54
  17. Custom silicon: Ramamurthy Sivakumar at HrdWyr on the opportunity to build from India for the world 47:46
  18. Coming up: Ramamurthy Sivakumar at HrdWyr on the implications of building chips from India 2:05
  19. Coming up: Intel veteran Ramamurthy Sivakumar on HrdWyr’s roadmap for AI-native chips from India 1:50
  20. Deep tech: Ideaspring Capital's founders on the circle of life and other investing lessons (Part 2) 30:31
  21. Ideaspring Capital's founders on their entrepreneurs turned VCs life | Preview 1:39
  22. Decarbonising rice: Mitti Labs founders on their plan for future of sustainable farming 1:13:46
  23. Coming up: Mitti Labs founders on vision for sustainable rice farming 2:04
  24. Deep tech: Ideaspring Capital's founders on investing with conviction, eyes wide open (Part 1) 37:44
  25. Mitti Labs founders on helping rice farmers cut methane, make money (Preview) 3:47
  26. Founder journeys: Ravi Kulkarni at Moonrider on the importance of the right partner — bonus episode 28:03
  27. High voltage harvest: Anoop Srikantaswamy’s electric vision for the future of Indian agriculture 56:38
  28. Autonomous tractors: Anoop Srikantaswamy at Moonrider on the bigger picture — full interview coming soon 3:13
  29. Polsky Center selects 20 Indian deep tech startups, new funding rounds at Flo Mobility, HrdWyr 8:39
  30. Coming up: Anoop Srikantaswamy on e-tractor innovations at Moonrider 2:33
  31. Eka Robotics bets on force, not language, to teach robots dexterity 3:10
  32. Battery sovereignty: Stuti Kakkar, Co-Founder of MEINE Electric, on India’s ALBM plan 15:10
  33. Ati Motors becomes Ati Robotics, AI-led material orchestration specialist 4:59
  34. StepChange, Nilekani-backed Beckn unveil CSDX vision to bridge global climate data gap 5:50
  35. India withdraws bid to host COP33, US restores some carbon funds, Microsoft clarifies on purchases 9:19
  36. Robots and real-world RoI: Saurabh Chandra on Ati Motors’ perspective 2:50
  37. Where should I put my robots? Saurabh Chandra at Ati Motors offers his views 2:06
  38. Saurabh Chandra on ‘future factory’ vision in era of physical AI 48:54
  39. Saurabh Chandra at Ati Motors on a rendezvous with robots | Preview 1:25
  40. Four ways India's robotics startups can win 2:00
  41. Humanoid robots: which approach will win the race? 2:06
  42. What's holding humanoids back? This expert's answer might surprise you 2:56
  43. Humanoid future: Arjun Dutt at Bain on the coming waves of robots 51:44
  44. Arjun Dutt at Bain on the three waves of adoption of humanoid robots — from factories to homes | Preview 1:50
  45. Beyond Government: Gokul NA’s hard truths for industry in deep tech 2:00
  46. Gokul NA on training robots to learn like infants: CynLr’s Object Intelligence Stack 46:12
  47. The ‘knowhow challenge’ — Apoorv Shaligram, founder of e-TRNL 1:13
  48. Apoorv Shaligram on e-TRNL Energy’s efforts to innovate better cell architectures 39:00
  49. Coming up: Apoorv Shaligram on how the government is catalysing a deep tech discourse in India 0:42
  50. Coming up: Apoorv Shaligram on battery cell innovations at e-TRNL Energy, and a funding update 1:13