The Factory After the Lab: Scaling India's Deep Tech Hardware | #NasscomFutureForge2026
"Securing your supply chain and designing in a way that you have the security and continuous supply with partnerships is a very important which cannot be ignored, at least for the industry that we are focusing on." -- Richa Hukumchand, Founder and CEO, Pramatra SpaceAt #NasscomFutureForge2026, "The Factory After the Lab: Scaling India's Deep Tech Hardware" featured Richa Hukumchand, Founder and CEO, Pramatra Space and Jaisimha Rao, Founder & CEO, Niqo Robotics, chaired by Arun Kumar, Managing Partner, Celesta Capital. They discussed the operational distance between a working hardware prototype and a product that can be manufactured at volume.
Discussion highlights:
→ Arun Kumar asked both founders on their manufacturing and supply chain strategy, including how much of production they choose to outsource.
→ Jaisimha Rao explained Niqo Robotics' decision to manufacture in the US while keeping the IP based in India, a call driven by where their customers and market demand actually sit.
→ Richa Hukumchand described Pramantra Space's fabless approach, building on European fabrication facilities today while working toward an Indian supply chain that can support 80% of production in a later cycle.
→ Both founders agreed that time spent upfront on design is what minimizes errors downstream and protects product quality once manufacturing scales.
The founders' shared lesson was that scaling Deeptech hardware is a manufacturing and supply chain decision as much as an engineering one, and getting it wrong at the design stage is expensive to fix later.
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