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Why enterprise procurement could become the biggest bottleneck for India’s DeepTech startups

By Dr. Sunil Shekhawat, Founder & CEO, SanchiConnect

India’s deep tech is attracting significant capital, policy attention, and infrastructure at an ever-growing scale. Indian DeepTech companies raised about $2.9 billion across 189 PE-VC deals in 2025, while cumulative funding between 2015 and July 2026 reached $11.4 billion. The deeptech sector’s share of India’s PE-VC activity has also risen from around 4% in 2016 to 15% in 2025. By July 16, 2026, DeepTech had already recorded 103 deals during the year.

Policy is also being designed around longer technology cycles. In February 2026, the government extended the recognition period for DeepTech startups from 10 to 20 years and raised the turnover ceiling to ₹300 crore. The ₹1 lakh crore Research, Development and Innovation Fund is also intended to support high-risk, high-impact R&D. But funding a DeepTech company and commercialising its technology are two different challenges, and this is where enterprise procurement...

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Hands on: The Ugreen HomeAgent HA100 delivers local AI in a new and curious form

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Securing sensitive data across the manufacturing supply chain

By Nilesh Bhojani, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Seclore A manufacturer can control who receives a product design. The harder question is what happens to that design once it leaves the organisation. Every manufacturing programme depends on sensitive information moving across a network of suppliers, tooling companies, contract manufacturers, testing

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