Startup Coverage Discussion board (SPF), an business alliance of new-age know-how corporations, has launched DeepVerse, a Centre for DeepTech Innovation that brings collectively startups, traders, authorities stakeholders, world know-how corporations and academia to hurry up the expansion of India’s deeptech sector.

It should work by means of ecosystem collaboration, coverage dialogue and analysis, and is guided by an 18-member advisory board of traders, founders, policymakers, lecturers and world know-how executives.

DeepVerse will concentrate on 10 sub-sectors, together with semiconductors, superior manufacturing, spacetech, quantum tech, defence tech, biotech & healthtech, cleantech & power, drones & aerospace, EVs and robotics.

SPF mentioned the centre will launch an in depth report setting out coverage suggestions throughout these sectors.

S. Krishnan, Secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and Data Know-how (MeitY), welcomed the launch.

“A robust, multi-stakeholder method is vital to rising India’s deeptech ecosystem. Nice to see DeepVerse bringing collectively founders, traders, academia and authorities to take India’s deeptech ambitions ahead,” Krishnan mentioned.

Shweta Rajpal Kohli, President and CEO of SPF, mentioned the centre is supposed to provide long-gestation companies a voice in rule-making.

“India has the founders and, more and more, the capital for world-class deep tech. Coverage has to catch up. When corporations take a decade to construct, founders and traders want guidelines they will plan round, and a say in making them. DeepVerse institutionalises that voice,” Kohli mentioned.

Who has joined

DeepVerse has 30 members unfold throughout three tiers, known as Deep Core, Deep Circle and Patrons. Members will contribute business insights to the centre’s coverage consultations and ecosystem initiatives.

The 15-member Deep Core tier consists of enterprise capital companies Accel, Lightspeed, Bessemer Enterprise Companions, Avaana Capital, Crane Ventures, Endiya Companions, Iron Pillar, Speciale Make investments and Stride Asset Administration. It additionally consists of chipmaker Intel, electrical two-wheeler maker Ather Vitality, used automobile platform Cars24, drone startup Airbound, house startup Digantara and Dayananda Sagar College.

The Deep Circle tier has 10 members: Alteon, Aspera, Beenext, Gabit, Normal Autonomy, Meta, Newtrace, Pronto, River and Yulu. The Patrons are CarDekho Group, International Training Lab, Sarvam, Scaler and SQ1.

9 of the 18 advisory board members are traders, together with Prashanth Prakash, Companion at Accel India; Anjali Bansal, Founding Companion at Avaana Capital; Pankaj Mitra, Companion at Bessemer Enterprise Companions; Anandamoy Roychowdhary, MD at Crane Ventures; Sateesh Andra, MD at Endiya Companions; Anand Prasanna, Managing Companion at Iron Pillar; Hemant Mohapatra, Companion at Lightspeed; Vishesh Rajaram, Managing Companion at Speciale Make investments; and Ishpreet Singh Gandhi, Founder and CEO of Stride Asset Administration.

4 are founders: Naman Pushp, Founder and CEO of Airbound; Tarun Mehta, Co-founder and CEO of Ather Vitality; Pawan Chandana, Co-founder and CEO of Skyroot Aerospace; and Anirudh Sharma, Founder and CEO of Digantara.

The remaining 5 come from coverage, academia and world know-how, together with Panneerselvam Madanagopal, CEO of MeitY Startup Hub; B. Chagun Basha, Chief Coverage Adviser within the Workplace of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Authorities of India; Kohli of SPF; D. Premachandra Sagar, Professional-Chancellor of Dayananda Sagar College; and Aditi Nanda, Director of Ecosystem and Trade at Intel India.

Constructed on #100DesiDeepTechs

DeepVerse takes ahead SPF’s #100DesiDeepTechs initiative, which it developed with MeitY Startup Hub, Startup India (DPIIT) and IIT Madras.

The programme opened functions in July 2025 and was formally launched at TiECON Delhi on 29 October 2025, the place Krishnan mentioned it aligned carefully with the federal government’s Analysis, Growth and Innovation programme. After an eight-month curation course of, SPF named the 100 founders within the cohort in Might 2026, drawn from 10 sectors.

Biotech and healthtech was the most important group with 24 startups, adopted by house tech with 16, clear tech and power with 12 and semiconductors with 10, in response to the programme’s web site. Names within the cohort embrace Dozee, Eka Care, String Bio, Mindgrove, Bharat Semi, AGNIT, Kazam EV Tech, Ultraviolette, CynLr, QNu Labs and Normal Autonomy.

Over these eight months, SPF hosted “Deeptech Baatcheet” periods in innovation hubs together with Delhi and Bengaluru.

“Advisory Board members chaired in-depth dialogues with founders on regulation, entry to capital, expertise, and world enlargement,” SPF mentioned in its launch, including that “DeepVerse provides this work a everlasting house.”

Founder suggestions from these consultations was to feed a coverage whitepaper being ready with tech coverage agency Ikigai Regulation.

The launch comes because the Centre rolls out the Analysis, Growth and Innovation (RDI) Scheme, which the Union Cupboard authorised in July 2025 with a corpus of Rs 1 lakh crore. The scheme routes long-term loans at low or nil rates of interest to personal sector analysis by means of second-level fund managers, permits fairness funding for startups, and helps the establishing of a Deeptech Fund of Funds.

SPF has mentioned it intends to make use of its deeptech cohort as a direct business suggestions channel into these nationwide programmes.

The discussion board itself has grown over the previous 12 months. On the TiECON Delhi launch in October 2025, it represented greater than 60 startups with a mixed valuation of over $90 billion. It now represents over 75 new-age tech corporations with a mixed valuation of greater than $100 billion, throughout fintech, deeptech, client tech, healthtech and edtech. Its members embrace Groww, Zerodha, Razorpay, Pine Labs, Sarvam, CRED, Meesho, Digantara, Airbound, Snabbit, Pronto and Cars24.