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Let me share the ground reality of Indian deeptch investment. The hardest part of raising for Indian deeptech wasn't the tech. It was the skin color. Nobody says this out loud. A lot of our own people still believe hard tech gets built somewhere else, by someone who looks different. The same pitch from a white founder sounds like vision. From someone who looks like them, the first instinct is "he's probably exaggerating." We lived it raising for EV DOCTOR. Angels liked what they saw, then came the ifs and buts, mostly some version of "which IIT?" So we kept the R&D running on our own savings and the https://t.co/7kghkBZtn4 stipend I earned teaching physics wherever I could. Honestly, it made us build for proof instead of applause. The day we trust our own people with the words "Indian tech," a lot of things change. Not just for us. For every founder here building something hard. The same VCs who rejected are reaching out once we built some traction and now while we are working on something 1000x bigger. And that's the real problem, if we got those funds initially we would have accelerated faster. Not a generalized view, but we need to trust more of our builders so that they can experiment, and even if they fail country moves ahead by knowing what not to do. The best part it's changing for the better. Many founders know this whole thing, so they are investing/getting involved in deeptech. 🇮🇳🚀