VineetSingh

There has been a lot of talk in the last couple of weeks about the need for Indian startup’s to work on deep tech and AI. And for VCs to invest in deep tech and AI in India. At Info Edge we have been investing in these areas for the past five years. We have a separate pool of capital for deep tech investments. Initially we invested through Red Start (an Info Edge subsidiary) and subsequently through our VC Fund @Capital2B (yes we Have two VC Funds the better known one being @InfoEdgeVC) Our Deeptech investing is led by @vibhores who is a partner at @Capital2B   We have invested into eighteen Deep Tech companies over the past five years. And we continue to invest in one or two more every quarter. The range is diverse - from drug discovery to mental health to materials to space technology and many other areas. The unified theme is around frontier knowledge being converted into companies. The detailed list of our deep tech portfolio is below Matter Motors - Battery tech & Geared motor bikes Pantherun - Hardware & Software encryption Leumasware - Manufacturing on demand Manastu Space - Propulsion systems for in-space Ahammune BioSciences - Drug candidate for auto-immune disorders Marbles Health - Mental health & depression BrainSight Al- Interpreting Brain MRIs ePlaneCo - Electric Flying taxi (eVTOL) Unbox Robotics - Robotics for ecomm warehouses CynLr- Vision stack for Robotics StringBio - Alternative proteins and bio-stimulants for agriculture RaylOT - Touch-less breath monitoring Skyserve Al - Edge-compute for Geo-spatial data Aarogya Al - Genomics for drug-resistance against TB Skylark Drones - Drone survey & analytics Lumiq Al - Data storage & Analytics for BFSI Attentive Al - Purpose-driven geospatial insights NexStem - Brain-computer interface