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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In this episode we bring you Prashant Nair, one of the four astronaut's trained at ISRO #isro for the #Gaganyaan Mission. Prashant talks about why India's space mission is built on inclusivity and furthering human collaboration. Ankur Capital's Deep Science Forum captured India's moment in making scientific ideas become mainstream businesses.

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00:00 - Prasant Nair sets the context to the Deep Science Forum.
03:00 - The Mathematics, Algorithms, Romance and Poetry of space travel.
06:36 - Deep tech is for everyone, it is for humanity and all living things.
09:00 - Why an Indian should go to Space?
12:00 - Why the Gaganyaan moment matters?
14:15 - Prashant falling in love with flying.
17:16 - Shed the colonial past.
20:40 - Art and Science beyond #ai
21:28 - The story of Ganesha and Skanda: the Indian way

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In this episode we talk about the business of robotics and how it can be made-in-India. Raghu is the co-founder of Anscer Robotics and wants to make

00:00 - Introduction
01:40 - Intelligence for warehouses.
10:07 - How does it work within an ecosystem?
18:00 - Selling in India and why the ecosystem is evolving?
26:00 - The SME story in robotics.
29:51 - Making robots inexpensive for Indian companies.
37:49 - Funding robotics in India and protecting intellectual property
44:19 - Components should be available globally if you build Robots.
51:30 - Support of the founders.

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In this episode we talk to Sriram Kannan the co-founder of Routematic about how he has made more than 20 cities and their private corporations use smart mobility to ensure employees come to the office on time and are safely reached home after a tiring day.

00:00 - Routematic and its journey.
05:44 - The customer profile and how they use Routematic
14:40 - Why government can use data from Routematic about city productivity.
21:40 - Smart communities and cities.
34:44 - Understanding corporate SLAs.
36:33 - How not to stagnate?
42:25 - Final thoughts

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In this episode of theUpStreamLife we talk to Ashish Singhal, the co-founder of Coinswitch who talks about regulation in crypto currencies, retail investors and the rise of crypto as an investment class.

00:00 - Introduction
01:22 - A quick short history on crypto exchanges in India.
06:00 - How to invest in crypto - have a long term mindset.
12:00 - Talking to government about Web3, payments and its impact.
18:19 - Managing stakeholders like VCs
19:58 - Crypto assets, Security and Protection
25:17 - Developers who love to build on blockchain.
29:41 - Blockchain and its future as a technology.
35:46 - Startups in the Web3 space.

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In this episode we talk to GitHub's Karan M V about how AI and Open Source is converging.

00:00 - Introduction to the podcast.
02:00- The open source community and the developers.
12:48 - Open source has revolutionized technology.
15:43 - Why you must use open source.
21:00 - Productivity gains with AI
29:38 - Developers globally
36:00 - How AI agents operate?
36:55 - College students and AI, humans cannot fear.

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