deepgridSEMI

Pre-Series A · Hyderabad, India

About

Leadership and team

The founders, board, engineering organisation, advisors and the partners contracted for the silicon.

Leadership

Portrait of Aravind Prasad G

Aravind Prasad G

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

B.Tech ECE, Bangalore University · Research Associate, IISc Bangalore (speech signal processing) · Stanford SDRM, 2007

Ayaz Khan

Chief Technology Officer · Silicon architecture

M.Sc. Physics, IIT Gandhinagar

Board and officers

Portrait of Prashant Sadanand

Prashant Sadanand

Part-time Director · CMO

Jayesh Loya

Virtual CFO

Krishna Mohan R

Independent Director

28Engineers
10Silicon / hardware
6AI / perception
7Firmware / software
5Design, test, G&A

Our Team

28 engineers across four domains.

Silicon / Hardware 10

  • Arun Saathappan SundaraamSr. Digital IC Design Engineer
  • Koushik BSr. Digital IC Design Engineer
  • Santu SardarDigital IC Engineer
  • Chandana PokalaDigital IC Engineer
  • Shrivardhini IndlaDigital IC Engineer
  • Siddhartha V. S. BadeDigital IC Engineer
  • Ananya SindamRTL Engineer
  • Srikar Varma PenmetsaRTL Engineer
  • Haritha PalgunamSilicon Verification
  • Rajesh HembramHardware Engineer

AI / Perception 6

  • Aryaman Anil KaprekarADAS Engineer · Perception Lead
  • Vishista Reddy MandalaAI Engineer
  • S. Haemanth RubanAI Engineer
  • Shankar PathlavathAI Engineer
  • Rahul AkaAI Firmware Engineer
  • Kodali Paani ChowdaryPython Developer (Intern)

Firmware / Software 7

  • Saiteja JampulaFirmware Engineer
  • Bhavagna BathulaFirmware Engineer
  • Srikar PanugantiSoftware Dev Engineer
  • Gopi Krishna PulicharlaSoftware Dev Engineer
  • Snigdha MohapatraSoftware Dev Engineer
  • Govind SarangBackend Engineer
  • Srinath PanugantiFront-end Developer

Design / Test / G&A 5

  • Rehan Ahmed Siddiqui3D Design & Hardware PCB
  • Madhu Babu MallappagariUI & Graphic Designer
  • Sai Sreekar TirumalaManual Testing
  • R. K. GoverdhanG&A / Support
  • A. GovardhanG&A / Support

Advisors

Venkat Simhadri

Strategic advisor

Ex-CEO, MosChip Technologies

Emani Capital Advisory

Financial advisor · placement agent

Sai Emani · Haradatta Emani

Dr. Ramesh Patel

ANRF lead PI · IIT Tirupati

Electrical Engineering

Dr. M.V. Kartikeyan

ANRF co-PI · IIT Tirupati

Electrical Engineering

Prof. C. Krishna Mohan

Academic advisor · IIT Hyderabad

Computer Science & Engineering

Dr. K.T. Satyajith

Academic advisor · IMJIR

Founder Director

Silicon & Manufacturing Partners

Specialist firms engaged across fabrication, physical design, IP and board manufacturing for the 28 nm combo die.

Fab / MPW

Muse Semi / GSME

TSMC 28 nm HPC+ shuttle for the six-chiplet combo die; 79-day fab cycle.

Physical design

SmartSoC

RTL-to-GDS partner: floorplanning, place and route, timing, DRC/LVS sign-off.

IP partner

PrimeSoC

Authored the feasibility reports DGrid-FS-001/002-2026; architecture confirmed feasible.

PHY IP

Terminus Circuits

High-speed PHY hard macros for the 28 nm die.

FPGA board fab

Anamya Technologies

Artix-7 200T prototype boards and carrier PCBs for the current AD-series pilots.