CHENNAI: In a push to accelerate India\u2019s deep-tech innovation pipeline, Shastra VC, an early-stage investment firm, has launched a deep-tech fellowship aimed at helping researchers convert frontier laboratory research into venture-ready startups. <\/p>\n
The Shastra Deep-tech Excellence Fellowship (SDEX) will be a 16-24 week programme to support early technical validation for breakthrough technologies emerging from premier engineering and research institutions, including IITs, IISc, IISERs, NITs and national laboratories, said a statement. <\/p>\n
SDEX\u2019s first cohort will select up to 15 teams, each receiving up to $100,000 in equity-free funding to build proof-of-concepts and reach venture readiness. Applications are open until January 31.<\/p>\n
Jivesh Madan, SDEX Programme Lead, said India possesses world-class deep-tech research talent, but lacks early-stage support to help researchers turn strong scientific ideas into investable companies. \u201cSDEX is built to bridge that gap by funding early technical validation and providing close mentorship,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
The statement further mentions that India\u2019s deep-tech ecosystem is at an inflection point, with government support such as the new Deep Tech Fund of Funds and growing research-driven entrepreneurship in universities. However, the major bottleneck remains between lab validation and venture investment. <\/p>\n
\u201cSDEX creates a VC-led proof-to-venture bridge that helps deep-tech ideas get validated earlier and expands the pipeline of truly investable startups,\u201d said Avijeet Alagathi, Partner, Shastra VC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHENNAI: In a push to accelerate India\u2019s deep-tech innovation pipeline, Shastra VC, an early-stage investment firm, has launched…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":435486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[64,607,201698,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-435485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-entrepreneurship","10":"tag-shastra-vc","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115689432386711622","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}