In this episode Ritu Varma, the founder of @ankur_capital talks with Dr Vikram Rao about the importance of intellectual property to tell a story and create value.

00-00 - Ritu sets the context of building value in deep tech with IP
02:53 - Two buckets of intellectual property - patents and know-how.
08:25 - Do agreements hold when business of deep tech is across countries.
09:23 - Giving away patents for free.
15:29 - Protecting Scientific Discovery or Formulations.
17:00 - IP Strategy with platform technology.
23:18 - Convincing customers about IP.
30:48 - Raising money to match customer demand.
37:19 - Understand your business model.

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In this episode of @ankur_capital Ankur Capital's Deep Science Forum, Rishi Srivastava of OffGrid Energy Labs talks to Avishek Kumar, Co-founder, VFlowtech, Sri Sailaja Nori, Co-founder and CSO, Sea6 Energy, and Kedar Medhi, Innovation Advisor, ex-Director Philips Ventures about the value of deep tech in manufacturing and how to navigate regulation along with business.

00:00 - Rishi sets the context to the panel
07:30 - Kedar talks about knowing the value of the manufactured device and its use case in order to cross all regulation compliances.
12:20 - Avishek talks about how to manage scale with policy level expectations and validating the product by selling the product
15:00 - Why Avishek got into solar manufacturing .
17:20 - Need for grid level batteries.
21:23 - Sailaja talks about Sea6 and the future of feedstock.
26:00 - Sea6 Energy's growth as a deep tech firm.
30:03 - CVCs or Corporate Ventures taking bets on deep tech.
35:00 - Scaling deep tech ventures with ecosystem.
38:32 - Q&A

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In this episode we capture why Deep Science ventures need to scale and how they are going to scale. Deep science startups are responsible to several stakeholders, but they also need several stakeholders to support them inorder to scale. In this panel discussion with Dr Renuka Diwan, the founder of BioPrime, and Deepak Shapeti from Morphing Machines we learn how deep science can prosper and progress in India as the ecosystem of funds, scientists, market and government are coming together as one. @ankur_capital

00:00 - Vishal Krishna of theUpStreamLife sets the context to the journey.
02:00 - BioPrime's Dr Renuka on what her startup is doing for farmers.
06:40 - Making an impact with microbes that nurture crops.
08:52 - Agriculture fertilizer must be utilized efficiently.
10:48 - The story of Morphing Machines - flexible compute platform.
12:36 - GPU supply chain and the global context.
16:00 - The need for an Indian customer for Indian processors.
19:21 - Value of Morphing Machines for telecom.
22:14 - Scaling up to make agri ecosystems work.
27:53 - Being food secure.
29:00 - Why getting the first sale is important for Indian deep tech startups.

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