As India readies its own deep tech startup policy, this is episode 10 in a short series of conversations with some of the entrepreneurs and VC investors who are building this ecosystem in the country.

In this episode Pramod Ghadge and Shahid Memon recount the story of their robotics startup, Unbox Robotics Labs which they founded in 2019. Today their plug-and-play robotics tech for intra-logistics automation – which they’ve branded as the UnboxSort system – has customers including some of the largest third-party logistics providers in India, a large e-commerce company, and one of the biggest retailers from Europe.

They are raising more money, and expect to go from about 60 robots currently deployed with customers, to about 400 this fiscal year. And they’re beginning to expand into the US and Europe, with their tech certified for those markets.