DeepVerse

Introducing DeepVerse, Startup Policy Forum’s Centre for DeepTech Innovation.

➡️ Why "DeepVerse"?
Deeptech isn't one sector. It's a universe. On one side: semiconductors, space, robotics, biotech, quantum, clean energy, advanced manufacturing. On the other: multiple ministries, departments, regulators whose decisions matter. These worlds often work in separate orbits. DeepVerse brings that universe together.

➡️ Why does DeepVerse matter?
Deeptech moves on long timelines, needs patient capital, and often enters territory regulation hasn't mapped yet. Founders know where they're stuck. Investors see what makes capital flow. Academia drives the research. Big tech brings scale. The government sets the rules.

DeepVerse brings them together. We have launched with an initial 30+ partners across startups, investors, academia and big tech, to build a sustained policy dialogue, so the people writing the rules hear directly from the people building and backing the future.

➡️ The Logo
Read it one way: a spark of invention held between the brackets of hard science, with a beam cutting deep into the lab and reaching all the way to orbit. Read it another: two drones flanking a rocket on lift-off, a nod to the aerospace and space tech founders, two of the ten identified sectors in focus (See ad).

➡️ Our Advisory Board
Honoured to bring together a high-powered 18-member Deepverse Advisory board:

♦️Investors: Prashanth Prakash (Accel in India), Anjali Bansal (Avaana Capital), Pankaj Mitra (Bessemer Venture Partners), Anandamoy Roychowdhary (Crane Venture Partners), Sateesh Andra (Endiya Partners), Anand Prasanna (Iron Pillar), Hemant Mohapatra (Lightspeed India), Vishesh Rajaram (Speciale Invest) Ishpreet Singh Gandhi (Stride Asset Management)

♦️Founders: Naman Pushp (Airbound), Tarun Mehta (Ather Energy), Anirudh Sharma (Digantara), Pawan Kumar Chandana (Skyroot Aerospace)

♦️Policy & Academia: Dr.Panneerselvam ( PS ) Madanagopal (MeitY Startup Hub), B. Chagun Basha (Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India), Dr.Premachandra Sagar (Dayananda Sagar University), Aditi Nanda (Intel).

They're joined by our Deep Core, Deep Circle members and our Patrons. (See comments for details)

DeepVerse institutionalises a year of work for the Startup Policy Forum. Through #100DesiDeepTechs, we named a cohort of 100 deeptech startups. Through our DeepTech Baatcheet sessions, they told us what slows them down: certification, testing, licensing, talent, raw material, demand and more.

DeepVerse gives this momentum and effort a permanent home.

Let's move India's deeptech ecosystem forward, together.

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