Geetha Dholakia is a Portfolio Program Director at TDK Ventures. She is responsible for strategic engagements between Portfolio Companies and global TDK business groups. She is committed to identifying, enabling and nurturing nascent technical ideas to grow into successful business collaborations that improve lives and build a sustainable world.
She brings many years of scientific, technical program management and business development experience. In prior technology management roles, she has worked at NASA Ames Research Center, supporting NASA’s $ 200 million SBIR/STTR program and in enabling partnerships, business development and technology transfer of NASA Ames’ vast technology landscape. As a scientist, her deep research focus was in two areas, one at the cross-section of physics, materials science and electrical engineering in studying nanoscale systems and another in instrumentation for space missions.
She has a Ph.D. in Physics from the Indian Institute of Science and a Masters in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, driven by a lifelong curiosity to understand how nature works. In her spare time, she loves to garden, listen to and learn Hindustani classical music and spend time with her family observing the night sky.
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Wheels is bringing safety, convenience, and sustainability to micromobility at last, with high-tech, all-electric scooters.
AutoFlight is pioneering the all-electric, sustainable air transportation of both human and freight.
Genetesis innovating the diagnostic cardiac space with a new scanning method that is working to save 8 million patients per year that come in for cardiac concerns.
Groq has developed a new and innovative compute technology that separates performance from latency allowing uncompromisingly exceptional results.
Exo is revolutionizing ultrasound. Their advanced silicon-based chip design works as thousands of tiny nanoscale chips act in symphony together.
GenCell has developed an off-the-grid or back-up power solution that runs completely on hydrogen or ammonia fuel and can operate and tolerate across the gambit of environmental conditions.
With over 15 years of robot development, Agility Robotics revolutionary Digit model can provide a robot solution to work side by side with humans, for humans.
Metalenz brings state of the art upgrades to optics across the board (agility, versatility, and resolution) with improved performance at lower manufacturing cost.
Uhnder is a first of its kind radar-on-chip system made to automate system and precision feedback for the next generation of automotive vehicles.
Ascend Elements has created a novel closed loop recycling process, recovering high value battery components for reuse without the need to reprocess raw materials.
Span has overhauled the 100-year-old electrical panel to bring the innovations of tomorrow into the homes of today.
Mojo develops ultra-compact, high-performance micro-LED displays for applications in AR/VR, automotive, and consumer electronics.
Sagence AI is building the most advanced line of AI inference accelerators ever seen using their novel in-memory compute technology.
Fabric8Labs brings micron level precision to 3D printing of metals, with never before seen quality, and without sacrificing cost, scalability, or throughput.
AMB’s innovative “dry” process to print Li-ion battery electrodes can reduce energy consumption of a battery plant by 50%, save 40% in capital expenditure and enable potentially higher energy, faster charging, and lower cost batteries.
actnano is setting a new standard for electronics protection with its commercialized water and environmental- resistant nanocoating technology, Advanced nanoGuard™ (ANG).
Verdagy is innovating water- electrolysis technology for the large-scale production of green hydrogen.
Faction develops driverless vehicles that have the speed and performance of cars, but at the cost of a motorcycle, to reduce emissions, avoid gridlock, and improve energy use.
Divirod’s cost-effective and scalable water network solution brings accessible, hyperlocal, and high-quality data in real-time.
Using frontier research in microfluidics and MEMS engineering, they have built a single chip system that can deliver variable size, cell precision, payloads achieving unmatched cell delivery yield and viability.
pH7 Technologies developed a proprietary metal-extraction process utilizing non-toxic organic and inorganic chemistry, as well as electrochemistry to drive extraction of metals and key minerals from ores, concentrates, and end-of-life materials.
Exponent believes EVs have completed the 0 to 1 shift of driving better than conventional vehicles. However, for the industry to exponentially scale from 1 to 100, the underlying energy problem needs to be simplified.
Silicon Box is an advanced semiconductor integration startup, specializing in cutting-edge semiconductor integration services.
Fasal has helped numerous farmers reduce their cost of cultivation and increased quality and yield, through its AI-powered platform for horticulture.
India’s SpaceTech sector is a significant and growing opportunity, projected to reach $44B by 2033. Driven by a surge in demand and lower technology costs, this market needs innovation, particularly in “Inspace propulsion” and “Launch Vehicle” segments. The exploration aims to identify startups to address this demand-supply gap.
