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Investment in deep tech startups is increasing year on year, as per a recent report. This trend clearly indicates that investors are drawn towards deep tech startups that can deliver notable returns over the years. Enabling such tech startups is a different deal altogether and to help accelerate their journey, a new post-seed accelerator from Cambridge named Deeptech Labs (DTL) has been launched.

You are a deep tech startup. You are bringing some new capability to market, i.e., at least some of the outputs that your API provides are new to people, or significantly improving the performance/scale/scope of an existing capability. Basically you have some jaw dropping tech. But it is not quite there yet. You are missing the tons of (annotated) data needed to train your machine learning models, the 80% of the effort that is required to make your tech really work (not just in the lab but also in the wild) and the customer traction that will validate the relevance of your tech and lead you towards a product-market fit.

In September last year, a video made the rounds of the Internet showing an astronaut taking giant slow-motion leaps on what appeared similar to the surface of the Moon. However, the parody was highlighted soon when an auto rickshaw was seen passing nearby tumbling across the unstructured road filled with potholes. While the video taken by a Bengaluru artist left many netizens in splits, the artist's unique way of shedding light into the city's perennial pothole problem was lauded heavily. These deaths were out of 9423 accidents that year, in which 8792 people suffered grievous injuries such as bone fractures and slip discs. Adding insult to injury, the number of road accidents due to potholes was unfortunately more than the fatalities caused by the terrorist attacks, noted the Supreme Court.