Deepak Mishra is an investor at Lingotto, the London based investment firm owned by Exor that backs industrial robotics, electric vehicles, and life sciences technology. He previously worked as an instructor and scientist, with patent pending research in machine learning, life sciences, and robotics published in the journal Science. He holds a doctorate from MIT and studied engineering at Caltech. Lingotto has co-led funding rounds for RobCo, an industrial robotics company, and Ultraviolette, an Indian electric motorcycle maker, among its recent bets on physical AI and hardware.