droninghead labs · MMXXVI

Heads down.Signal up

An idea taking shape at the layer where hard-won capability meets what's newly possible. Built quietly, for now.

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00 the signal

droninghead labs is where the next thing gets built.

The conviction is simple: the most exciting work is now possible at the intersection of hardware and software, and the people who read the signal early are the ones who get to shape what it becomes. That's the endeavour.


01 the person behind it

Splinter-brained monomaniac. Lover of rabbit holes.

Vibhore Sharma, deep tech investor, thinker, builder. One signal through the noise.

The career has been long and deliberately jagged: salesperson, journalist, systems administrator, software developer, CTO, entrepreneur-in-residence. Not a straight line; more a helix. Each loop returns with a wider view.

A deep thinker and problem-solver drawn to the unknown, and a believer that rooms need unmuffled, different voices, that the best ideas come from people who refuse to stay in one lane.

Today: running a Deep Tech fund, backing founders who start with the science and build companies that could change how the world runs. Alongside that, advising startups and organisations of every scale on product strategy and technology roadmaps.

SalespersonJournalistSysadmin Software developerCTOEIRInvestor
Zen
Clarity over cleverness. Act from stillness.
Essentialism
Pursue the vital few. Ignore the trivial many.
Open source
Ideas improve when they're shared freely.

02 fund & investments

The most durable companies will begin in a laboratory, not a pitch deck.

A portfolio built on that conviction.

Balance-sheet investments

Redstart Labs

Early, hands-on bets placed off the balance sheet, backing the frontier before the round exists.

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Running a fund

Capital2B

A Deep Tech fund backing founders who start with the science and build for the long arc.

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03 reads

Books that leave a mark.

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up whenever you felt like it.
J.D. Salinger · The Catcher in the Rye
92 books on the shelf

04 writings

Thinking out loud.

Deep tech and life, trying to make sense of both. Published on Substack.