Gati Drives builds rare-earth-free electric motors for Indian appliance and HVAC manufacturers

Summary

Gati Drives is building rare-earth-free electric motors for Indian appliance and HVAC manufacturers. The Ahmedabad-based company says its single-phase motors can match brushless efficiency without neodymium magnets and recently raised a pre-seed round from Campus Fund.

Why it matters

Hard-tech stories tied to cost, input risk, and manufacturing resilience are still very fundable when the buyer is obvious. This one sits at the intersection of industrial localization and supply-chain de-risking, which matters to both OEMs and investors.

Founder/operator read

• Deep-tech teams need to show why the physics and the economics both work.
• For hardware founders, early OEM validation and a sharp manufacturing plan matter more than narrative polish.

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