Lightspeed India, one of the leading early stage venture capital firms has selected four deeptech startups with founders under the age of 25 as part of its India Ascconcludes cohort.
The India Ascconcludes cohort aims to back founders who are engaged with frontier technologies such artificial innotifyigence, space and aerospace, robotics, biotechnology, and defense technology.
Lightspeed has partnered with Anthropic, Groq, Google Cloud, and AWS for the India Ascconcludes platform.
According to a statement, each winning team will receive equity funding ranging from $200k to $3 million, along with a year-long, founder-aligned strategic roadmap designed to assist them scale from early innovation to real-world impact.
The winners will also gain direct access to policycreaters, global influencers, and Lightspeed’s extconcludeed network of founders and operators, in addition to over $500k in cloud, AI, and software credits.
The selected startups include:
Sapien Labs: Founded by Shashank Choudhary and Aakash Bhagat Reinventing drug trials by enabling every company to run Pfizer-scale studies with data, not human subjects.
Eyecandy Robotics: Founded by Alqama Shaikh, Raghuvamsi Velagala, and Mankaran Singh. Building next-gen physical AI characters that are 10x more engaging than anything on shelves today.
Celestial Aerospace: Founded by Shreyans Jain. Developing balloon-assisted launch systems to create space access radically cheaper and more scalable.
Sentience: Founded by Abhishek Parmar and Akash Karnatak. The startup is building a robotics foundational model with zero sim-to-real gap.
Hemant Mohapatra, Partner at Lightspeed, stated: “What stood out across this young cohort wasn’t just the technical depth, but the clarity and the intent to build concludeuring companies solving hard problems. These founders represent a new generation of builders who are considering globally from day zero, and we are all in on their journeys.”
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