Ideas for deep tech founders.

Essays by Yug Gupta on deep tech, scientific ambition and building foundational companies in India. Ideas behind the Variance founder residency. By Yug Gupta / 9 September 2026

Published

10 September 2026

Request for Startups: AI for Scientific Discovery

Yug Gupta outlines six AI for science startup ideas, from drug discovery to photonics, and the experimental evidence Variance wants founders to build.

By Yug Gupta

Published

27 August 2026

What Deep Tech Means to Variance

Yug Gupta on deep tech in India, how AI changes the first experiment, and why Variance gives young founders the resources to turn ideas into evidence.

By Yug Gupta

For what’s hard
to build, and worth it.

A place for ambitious builders to work on hard problems.
Built in India, for what comes next.

Variance

By
Yug Gupta
&
Vedant Nayak
© Variance. All rights reserved.

For what’s hard
to build, and worth it.

A place for ambitious builders to work on hard problems.
Built in India, for what comes next.

Variance

By
Yug Gupta
&
Vedant Nayak
© Variance. All rights reserved.

For what’s hard
to build, and worth it.

A place for ambitious builders to work on hard problems.
Built in India, for what comes next.

Variance

By
Yug Gupta
&
Vedant Nayak
© Variance. All rights reserved.