Last mentioned: Mar 4, 2026
Annual Report Release
Nasscom and Zinnov release the 2025 funding analysis highlighting the shift to execution-led maturity.
Funding Recovery
Total funding reaches $9.1B; 550+ new DeepTech startups are founded throughout the year.
M&A Baseline
Technology M&A activity remains moderate, setting the stage for a 2025 breakout.
IP Surge Begins
Indian startups begin a period of rapid patent filing growth, increasing 68% over the next four years.
Deeptech investment has reached a significant milestone of $2.3 billion, representing a 37% year-over-year increase driven primarily by artificial intelligence. This capital influx signals a strategic shift among venture capitalists toward high-barrier-to-entry technologies and specialized cloud infrastructure.
Indian tech startups secured $9.1 billion in funding during 2025, representing a 23% year-on-year increase as the ecosystem shifts toward execution-led maturity. The growth was largely fueled by DeepTech and AI ventures, which saw a 37% surge in capital allocation.
This page surfaces every story mentioning DeepTech across our saas coverage. We track each entity's appearance over time so readers can trace how the narrative evolves — which developments are isolated incidents, which build into longer arcs, and which reframe how operators in the space think about the entity. Story selection uses the same multi-source verification gate applied across the rest of our coverage.
Read our editorial methodology for how we identify, deduplicate, and score entity references. Our glossary defines the technical terms used across stories on this page, and our trends index contextualizes individual developments against the longer-running saas beat. Cross-entity comparisons live on our compare view.
| What you see | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Story count | Number of distinct stories where DeepTech was a primary or referenced actor. |
| Recency clustering | Whether mentions are concentrated in a recent window (a news cycle) or distributed (a sustained arc). |
| Sentiment distribution | Aggregate sentiment of the stories mentioning this entity, weighted by impact score. |
| Cross-niche links | When the same entity surfaces in our sibling networks, we link to those views to enrich context. |