DTM E36. Deep Tech Investments - 8X Ventures

Chirag is the Managing Partner of 8X Ventures and has 15+ years of experience in venture capital, startup mentoring, strategy design, strategy execution, organisation design, investment banking and business analytics. Through 8X Ventures he is investing and supporting DeepTech startups that will fundamentally change how industries and economies operate while striving to build a profitable, sustainable business in the long-term. 

In this episode, Chirag shares his views on Deep tech domain, why 8X Ventures chose to go ahead with this domain, his advice to startups in Deep tech on things to avoid, what value 8X Ventures provides to its portfolio startups. 

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In this episode, we cover:

[00:01:29] How does 8X venture define deep tech?

[00:03:23] What made 8X Ventures take on deep tech domain when very few people are doing that right now?

[00:06:40] What are the ways that a startup can go about building moats in deep tech industry?

[00:08:44] How do you make deep tech pervasive toward for wider audience?

[00:11:00] Advice to entrepreneurs in deep tech domain looking to take their startup from zero to one?

[00:13:50] How does 8X Ventures venture assess the tech quality of deep tech startups?

[00:15:24] How is it evident at a very early stage from when a startup is doing just a few POCs, that it will go on to make a 10 X impact?

[00:18:01] What value does 8X Ventures provide to the startups who come onboard?