The TDK Ventures "Goodness" & its deeptech mission in India: in-conversation with Nicolas Sauvage

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In this episode we talk with the President of TDK Ventures, Nicolas Sauvage, who has been at the forefront of discovering entrepreneurs making impact in the climate-tech industry with the power of hardtech and deeptech. In this episode discover what TDK Ventures intends to do for India's deeptech community.
Deeptech is combining the hard work at the atoms level with the power of algorithms and software to help humanity in a new journey towards energy storage, battery recycling, air-taxis, green hydrogen, electric vehicles and digital transformation. Their investments in AutoFlight (https://autoflight.com/en/), pH7 Technologies (https://ph7technologies.ca), Verdagy (https://verdagy.com), AM Batteries (https://am-batteries.com), Ascend Elements (https://ascendelements.com) and many others is testimony to their commitment to the global deeptech community of entrepreneurs.
In India they have invested in Exponent Energy (https://www.exponent.energy), Fasal (https://fasal.co) and (https://www.infinite-uptime.com/).
If you are a scientist or a deeptech business in India you must not miss this episode with Nicolas if you want to understand the TDK Goodness.
00:00 - Introduction to the TDK Goodness.
00:50 - Investing in deeptech - innovations in materials science.
01:41 - Atoms level innovation combined with software.
02:55 - Nicolas love for deeptech - the TDK Ventures thought process.
04:39 - Scaling deeptech businesses and the role of VCs & CVCs.
05:36 - TDK & TDK Ventures - the history of a deeptech enterprise.
06:35 - Investing in entrepreneurs contributing to the future of humanity.
11:00 - Challenger Technologies and the business of deeptech.
13:30 - Green energy and energy storage in the years to come.
16:03 - Green hydrogen and its opportunities in India.
17:17 - TDK Ventures mission in India & it wants to meet scientists.
19:55 - Backing scientists and scaling a deeptech venture.
24:10 - What are a Challenger Technologies?
27:10 - Generative AI and its impact.
27:30 - Investing in Groq, https://chat.groq.com/ [chat.groq.com]
28:26 - Entrepreneurs going beyond the "Jugaad" mindset.
30:03 - Needing those exits in deeptech to inspire people.
32:09 - Nicolas and the TDK Ventures team.
33:33 - https://www.tablegroup.com/product/dysfunctions/

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