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Sanket Deshpande

Sanket Deshpande

Co-founder and CEO of Dirac Labs, building quantum sensing and AI-based navigation systems that operate without GPS

Aug 5, 2026

16:36
So what have been the toughest operational engineering constraints in ruggedizing and miniaturizing these sensors to run in all sorts of conditions?
16:45
Yeah.
16:45
So that's been one.
16:48
big guiding principle, right? Like, okay, you wanna reduce the swap, swap C, you know, swap plus cost, right? So reduce the swap C, ruggedize the sensor, and then make sure you can put it in more number of platforms than ever before, right? To do that, you don't want to reinvent engineering, you don't reinvent infrastructure.
17:12
So the specific technology platform we chose is this kind of like a solid state sensor, right? So these solid state defects inside a diamond crystal that's artificially grown in a lab, which means that at scale, we can produce these sensors in a TSMC or Intel kind of a foundry.
17:33
So that gives us a unique advantage of scalability.
17:36
It gives us advantage of cost following the same unit economics of your microchips, right? And then also because now you are at a nanometer scale, that brings down your overall device size significantly smaller.

7 MINS LATER

24:50
So when it comes to the Midwest quantum corridor, how's that helping a startup of your scale compete against like the giants? Is it really helping you in a way like a quantum Silicon Valley? Is there a talent pipeline there for you guys?

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