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Technology validation opens the first conversation in the US market. Enterprise use cases, customers and partnerships decide what comes next. The India Deeptech Confluence focused on that next stage. It was held at FalconX in Milpitas, California, as part of #NasscomInnoTrekUSA2026. Indian Deeptech founders, US enterprise leaders, investors and technology experts spent the day on market access, enterprise adoption, capital and scaling in the United States. The conversations covered three areas: → Enterprise trust and adoption: securing a first pilot, moving AI and Deeptech deployments into production, and building the technical and commercial readiness that sustained adoption requires → Capital and investor expectations: funding realities for Deeptech companies, and how traction, defensibility and readiness shape access to the next stage of capital → Founder experiences: scaling technology businesses, handling uncertainty and building companies for long-term value Speakers included: → Sachin Kaura, Vice President and Chief Architect for AI Research, Experimentation and Evaluation, SAP Business AI → Gayathri Radhakrishnan, Partner, Hitachi Ventures → Satish Talluri, Deeptech VC and former a16z Partner → Dr. Priyadarshi P. , Founder, International Battery Company → Lochan Alagh, Co-Founder & Chief Growth Officer, @ventureDock 18 Indian Deeptech startups presented their technologies, market opportunities, differentiation and US market strategies to potential customers, partners and investors. Their solutions spanned enterprise AI, industrial technology, healthcare, energy, robotics and logistics. The Confluence sat within InnoTrek's wider engagements with the Consulate General of India, enterprise leaders, investors and innovation networks. Together, these engagements gave founders a working view of the US market and helped them build relationships for international growth. nasscom | Nasscom Deeptech | GTD | Sangeeta Gupta | Shivendra Singh | Kavita Doshi | Shreya Sharma | Shalini Dewan | Mayank Gautam | Nehal Pandya | Praveen Mokkapati | Aishwarya K #NasscomInnoTrekUSA2026 #NasscomDeeptech #Deeptech

Why build in India? And where does the US opportunity lie? At Nasscom InnoTrek USA 2026, Vikram Shanbhag, Co-Founder of OpenTurf Technologies, and Pradeep Parappil, CEO of CogitX AI, share what they see as the advantages of building AI in India and the opportunity ahead in the US. India’s price-sensitive market pushes founders to build for real-world economics, creating AI products that work at the cost and scale enterprises need, beyond the pilot stage. Then there’s talent. India has the depth of technical talent needed to build complex AI solutions, while the presence of global enterprises creates opportunities to build and validate locally before taking products to international markets. In the US, they see an opportunity among mid-sized enterprises. While large enterprises already have the infrastructure and budgets to experiment with GenAI, companies in banking, financial services and healthcare are still working out how to take GenAI from pilots into everyday workflows. And that’s where deep enterprise experience matters - Understanding how data, systems and actions actually move through an organisation. Watch the conversation to hear their take on building from India and finding the right entry point into the US market. nasscom | Nasscom Deeptech | GTD | Sangeeta Gupta | Shivendra Singh | Kavita Doshi | Shreya Sharma | Shalini Dewan | Mayank Gautam | Nehal Pandya | Praveen Mokkapati | Aishwarya K #NasscomInnoTrekUSA2026 #NasscomDeeptech #Deeptech

India's first private 5G deployment in an energy plant did not start as a telecom project. It started as a coverage problem inside a mine. In conversation with Ashok Chandavarkar, Designated Partner at Nurturise Advisors, at Nasscom Future Forge 2026, Abhijit Chaudhary, Founder & CEO of Niral Networks, discusses how the company applied the logic of national connectivity to single industrial sites. The original idea was to take what carriers do across a country and compress it into a mine or a gas port, where the operational stakes of a dropped connection are immediate. The conversation at #NasscomFutureForge2026 moves to what a private 5G network actually carries on an industrial site, the mission-critical requirement behind India's first 5G network for the railways, and where device connectivity is heading next: Watch the full conversation: https://lnkd.in/gBusPR7v nasscom | Sangeeta Gupta | Dr. Abhilasha Gaur | Shreya Sharma | Shalini Dewan | Kavita Doshi | Satyaki Maitra | Srikanth Srinivasan | Ashish Aggarwal | Sanjeev Malhotra | Ketaki Karnik | Nehal Pandya | Shivam Sareen | Mayank Kumar | Khushbu Gupta | Dr. Karthik Mahesh | Niraj Kumar | Ankita Puranik | Prashant verma | Vinay Kumar C. | Aishwarya K | Anupam Ghosh | Nahla A | Sai Rohit | Pramod G I #Deeptech #NasscomDeeptech #NasscomFutureForge2026 #Industry40 

𝗔𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗷𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗻 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟲, 𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗣𝗜𝗜𝗧 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮–𝗔𝘃𝗮𝗮𝗻𝗮 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱–𝟮𝟲 𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝗩𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗷𝘆𝗮 𝗕𝗵𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗻, 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗵𝗶. Across three editions, the Grand Challenge has received 1,800+ applications, enabled ₹3.5 Cr in grants, and brought together 50+ industry and ecosystem partners - strengthening the pathways that connect breakthrough innovation with capital, industry, policy and opportunities for commercial scale. At the Culmination Summit, we look forward to bringing together the deeptech ecosystem to exchange insights and forge partnerships to translate India’s growing scientific and entrepreneurial capability into globally competitive enterprises. We are pleased to welcome Startup Policy Forum as our official 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿, strengthening our shared effort to foster deeptech collaboration. 📅 October 16, 2026 | 2:00 PM onwards 📍 Vanijya Bhawan, New Delhi Join us for an afternoon of deep-tech showcases, ecosystem conversations and the announcement of this year’s Grand Challenge winners - as we celebrate the technologies and entrepreneurs building from India, for the world. Startup India | Shri Amardeep Singh Bhatia | Shri Ateesh Kumar Singh | Department of Science & Technology, Government of India | MeitY Startup Hub | IN-SPACe | Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) | IDFC FIRST Bank | Maruti Suzuki India Limited | Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Society for Innovation & Entrepreneurship - SINE IIT Bombay | NSRCEL | IITM Incubation Cell | iCreate | Karnataka Digital Economy Mission (KDEM) | Indian Venture and Alternate Capital Association (IVCA) | Nasscom Deeptech | Startup Policy Forum | The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet | IKP EDEN | Larsen & Toubro | Applied Materials | Samsung Ventures | Nestlé| IIMA Ventures | Shweta Rajpal Kohli | Avantika Gode Anjali Bansal | Sandeep Singhal | Vikas Verma | Shruti Srivastava | Rahul Bhapkar | Rishubh Malpani | Sparsh Kumar | Samridhi Singh | Dr. Aastha Paliwal | Archit Bhargava | Shreya Bhattacharjee | Param Bafna #DeepTech #StartupIndia #DeepTechInnovation #AvaanaCapital #Innovation

India's mobility ecosystem is moving toward design and engineering, driven by electrification, connected and software-defined vehicles, and Deeptech integration. With EVs reaching 12.3% of retail sales in August 2026 and 60+ automotive GCCs employing close to 110,000 engineers, the next phase of transportation in India will be built as much in engineering centers as on factory floors. To support this shift, Nasscom Deeptech and the Nasscom ER&D Council, through the Nasscom Innovation Partnership Program (NIPP), present the Nasscom Mobility Innovation Challenge 2.0, giving Deeptech startups the opportunity to co-develop commercial pilots with automotive OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers. Eligibility Criteria:  → Company Type: Must be registered as a private limited company, partnership firm, or LLP in India. → Office Requirement: Company must maintain a functional office in India, even if you operate internationally (excluding technical support functions). → Age of Company: Company should have been founded after March 2016 (within the last 10 years). → Turnover: Revenue must be less than INR 100 crore in any of the previous financial years. → Team Size: You must have a team of at least two people. → Stage of Development: Your startup should be at a Technology Readiness Level (TRL) between 2/3 and 8/9, or up to Series A funding. → Proof of Concept: You should have evidence to support your claims, such as scientific validation, a proof of concept (PoC), or a prototype. Whether you're building in electric vehicles, connected systems, or software-defined mobility, NIPP connects your startup with the enterprise partners, mentors, and investors needed to take solutions from pilot to deployment. 📅 Applications open till 15 Nov Apply now: https://lnkd.in/eRry4pvG nasscom | Nasscom Deeptech | nasscom ER&D | Sangeeta Gupta | Shreya Sharma | Shalini Dewan | Shivam Sareen | Siva Polimetla | Nahla A | Sai Rohit | Anupam Ghosh | Sahana R #NasscomDeeptech #NasscomER&D #MobilityInnovationChallenge #FutureOfMobility #EVInnovation

The path from a working Deeptech product to an enterprise deployment runs through data and AI infrastructure. A cohort of nasscom startups visited Snowflake at the SV AI Hub in Silicon Valley today, for a session on enterprise scale and AI infrastructure. Alongside technical exposure, founders explored where their solutions could align with Snowflake's AI Data Cloud. Enterprise buyers evaluating frontier technology tend to ask the same questions: how a solution handles data at scale, how it fits into the systems they already run, and how it holds up in production. Sessions like this put those questions in front of founders early, as India's Deeptech startups prepare to build for global enterprise buyers. nasscom | Nasscom Deeptech | GTD | Sangeeta Gupta | Shivendra Singh | Kavita Doshi | Shreya Sharma | Shalini Dewan | Mayank Gautam | Nehal Pandya | Praveen Mokkapati | Aishwarya K | Sukirti Gupta #NasscomInnoTrekUSA2026 #NasscomDeeptech #Deeptech #Snowflake

Sessions from Nasscom Future Forge 2026 are now live on YouTube. Across two days, the conversations kept returning to one question: what does it take for India to build frontier technology, not just adopt it? Day 1 started with capability: who owns the stack, how research reaches the market, who finances Deeptech, and what it means to create IP instead of licensing it. Shri Priyank M Kharge, Cabinet Minister, Government of Karnataka, set out the state's frontier strategy, including Nipuna, the industry-led skilling program that has trained close to 100,000 people. The Emerge 50 Awards showed where the ecosystem stands today. Of the 50 winners, 86% are funded, 78% are generating revenue, and 54% are fully commercialized at TRL 9. Day 2 moved to execution, across six tracks: AI in production, Data infrastructure, Physical AI, Frontier engineering, Security, and India's own AI stack. The plenary covered semiconductors, defence, and scaling systems for a billion users. Shri Rajesh Kumar Singh, Defence Secretary, Ministry of Defence, Government of India, led the session Build for India's Defence. Build for the World.  Together, the two days cover the full path from lab to market to a million users. Watch the full sessions on YouTube:  Day 01: https://lnkd.in/ezVBc_QY Day 02: https://lnkd.in/eCcYYJbH nasscom | Sangeeta Gupta | Dr. Abhilasha Gaur | Shreya Sharma | Shalini Dewan | Kavita Doshi | Satyaki Maitra | Srikanth Srinivasan | Ashish Aggarwal | Sanjeev Malhotra | Ketaki Karnik | Nehal Pandya | Shivam Sareen | Mayank Kumar | Khushbu Gupta | Dr. Karthik Mahesh | Niraj Kumar | Ankita Puranik | Prashant verma | Vinay Kumar C. | Aishwarya K | Anupam Ghosh | Nahla A | Sai Rohit | Pramod G I | Ankit Mehta | Atul Batra | Palash Gupta | Ashok Chandavarkar | Narayanan Subramaniam | Mahendran Chandramohan, CISM | Sangeetha Yanamandra | Sugandha Srikanteswaran | Somnath Banerjee | Narendra Bhandari #NasscomFutureForge2026 #NasscomDeeptech #Emerge50 #Deeptech

At Nasscom InnoTrek USA 2026, founders and operators spent a morning at Silicon Valley Bank working through the go-to-market questions that come up as a tech startup scales. → Founder-led sales, content, and personal branding: Aditya Sharma, Founder & CEO, FutrBridge, on how an authentic personal brand and relevant content help founders build trust and support early-stage sales. → Pricing, monetization, and growth in the AI era: Andrew Davies, Chief Innovation Officer, Paddle, on how AI is changing software economics and why companies need to rethink value metrics, pricing, and monetization models. → Building in India, selling and scaling in the US: Mayank Kukreja, Co-founder & CEO, ITILITE, on lessons from cross-border expansion and how sales motions and go-to-market playbooks adapt for the US market. → Creating a new category with AI, data, and hardware: Sai Supriya Sharath, Co-founder & CEO, Hoomanely, and Aditi Aggarwal, Founder, GTM Unbound, on what it takes to build a category at the intersection of Deeptech, hardware, and data. For Indian startups looking at the US, the sessions covered what follows a working product: selling it, pricing it, and adapting the playbook for a new market. Thanks to the speakers and Silicon Valley Bank for hosting. nasscom | Nasscom Deeptech | GTD | Sangeeta Gupta | Shivendra Singh | Kavita Doshi | Shreya Sharma | Shalini Dewan | Mayank Gautam | Nehal Pandya | Praveen Mokkapati | Aishwarya K #NasscomInnoTrekUSA2026 #NasscomDeeptech #Deeptech

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Darsh Singh Mann of StartX, Stanford's startup ecosystem, at Nasscom InnoTrek USA 2026. Mann's case is that founders from India and other international ecosystems expanding into the US are missing one thing above all: a network. StartX began as a community of founders from Stanford, working with current students, professors, and alumni, and operates as a non-profit that takes no equity. Over 15 years, 3,000 founders and 1,500 startups have gone through the program. The support is specific: warm introductions to investors, connections with partners, and a clear read on how US buyers make decisions and who the right person to approach is. Through the partnership with Nasscom InnoTrek, that community of 3,000+ members is now open to Indian founders. nasscom | Nasscom Deeptech | GTD | Sangeeta Gupta | Shivendra Singh | Kavita Doshi | Shreya Sharma | Shalini Dewan | Mayank Gautam | Nehal Pandya | Praveen Mokkapati | Aishwarya K #NasscomInnoTrekUSA2026 #NasscomDeeptech #Deeptech