India, May 5 -- Mindgrove Technologies is a Chennai-based fabless semiconductor design startup, incubated at IIT Madras. Mindgrove now aims to build secure, scalable silicon platforms that Indian products can truly call their own.

Shashwath TR, Cofounder and CEO of Mindgrove Technologies, tells us more.

DQ: Around 80% of CCTV components in India are currently imported from China. How do you see this dependence impacting India's digital and national security ecosystem?

Shashwath TR: When you design hardware for high-stakes environments, you learn quickly that what you cannot inspect, you cannot trust. I spent years building systems for industries where a component failure is not just a cost issue. It is a safety issue. Surveillance infr...