Deepinder Goyal’s wearable startup Temple raises $54M funding

Wearable startup Temple has raised $54 million in its first round of funding, reaching a post-money valuation of approximately $190 million, Founder Deepinder Goyal shared in a post on X.

The “friends and family” round was financed entirely by the founders’ network, early-stage investors in the food delivery company Zomato, and more than 30 Temple employees. According to the post, the participating employees invested their own capital at par valuation, receiving no equity discount.

According to a report by The Economic Times citing regulatory filings accessed from the Registrar of Companies (RoC), Temple has raised capital from investors including Peak XV Partners, ​Steadview Capital, Dharana Capital, Info Edge Ventures, and more than 80 individual investors.

Temple is developing a wearable device targeted at elite performance athletes. The company states the hardware will track physiological metrics that are currently unmeasured by existing consumer wearables, aiming for a new standard of precision in the category. It has not yet announced a target launch date for the device.

The device traces back to “Gravity Ageing Hypothesis,” a body of research published in November 2025 by Deepinder Goyal through his science initiative, Continue Research. Goyal, alongside former Zomato executive Ashish Goel, directs the initiative.

The hypothesis suggests that human ageing is heavily influenced by gravity’s continuous pull, which gradually reduces effective blood circulation to highly metabolic brain regions, such as the hypothalamus and brainstem. According to data cited by Continue Research, cerebral blood flow declines by an average of 0.7% annually starting as early as age seven.

Temple’s technological development aligns with a broader push into deeptech and high-risk exploration by Goyal, who resigned as Group CEO of Zomato’s parent entity, Eternal, last month to focus on these new ventures. He currently serves as Eternal’s vice chairman.

In addition to Continue Research, Goyal co-founded LAT Aerospace in January 2025 alongside former Zomato COO Surobhi Das. LAT Aerospace is building a new generation of short take-off and landing (STOL) aircraft engineered to operate from compact air-stops rather than conventional airports .

On Tuesday, LAT Aerospace announced the acquisition of Sharang Shakti, an early-stage defence robotics startup based in Gurugram. Goyal stated the acquisition is LAT Aerospace’s first move toward building indigenous defence capabilities. The company intends to integrate Sharang Shakti’s technology to build in-house, shared core stacks for autonomy, perception, sensing, navigation, guidance, and control systems, which will be deployed across both defence and civil aviation programs over time.