Of the 192 funding rounds reported in the sector so far this year, corporates participated in just 62, according to data from market-intelligence platform Deeptech startups typically take longer – about 3-5 years on research and another two years to finetune a product – to bring innovations to market and require higher capital than their consumer-tech peers.Unlike consumer-facing sectors such as ecommerce and fintech, corporate validation is crucial for deeptechs.“The first thing that comes with corporate p ...