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Deepa Rao invests or supports investments through Engine Ventures's published strategy: Partner globally at pre-incorporation, seed and early-market stages with Tough Tech founders transforming climate, health, advanced systems, materials, infrastructure and computing.
Founders with unusual insight, strong execution ability and credible evidence that partner globally at pre-incorporation, seed and early-market stages with Tough Tech founders transforming climate, health, advanced systems, materials, infrastructure and computing.
Opportunities outside the firm's published sectors, stages or geographic mandate are less aligned; no broader exclusion is inferred without a public statement.
Show founder-market fit, the problem and differentiated solution, early evidence, market scale, the milestone this round funds and why Engine Ventures is the right partner.
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Deepa Rao is a current Associate at Engine Ventures, according to the firm's official roster. No additional biography is inferred where the firm does not publish one.