Investors target space tech software and data over capital-intensive hardware
Nitin Sharma · The BIGGEST Mistake Founders Make After Funding Ft. Rajiv Srivatsa & Nitin Sharma, Antler India · Jul 18, 2022 · at 48:57
Nitin Sharma, partner at Antler India, explains how the fund approaches capital-intensive sectors in emerging ecosystems.
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“We are very bullish on space tech. One of our team members is, is very deep into it. And we are actually publishing something on it soon. But of course there are, you know, we are trying to play, for example, in the software or the application or data side of space tech rather than actual propulsion engines and rockets and stuff like that, right?”
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