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Questions about the residency, your application or ways to help technically ambitious builders? Write to the founders.

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Use this address for questions about the Bengaluru residency, technical trouble with the application form, or a potential partnership. A short description of your question and the relevant context will help us understand what you need.

If you want to support residents with mentorship, equipment or other resources, tell us what you can contribute and which technical problems you know well.

Meet the founders

Variance is created by Yug Gupta and Vedant Nayak. Learn more about the house or read our essays on deep tech and scientific discovery.

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The application asks about your work, the evidence you have so far and the milestone you want to reach during the 30-day residency. You can open and complete it here.

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Apply to Variance

Variance is a 30-day residential deep-tech residency in Bengaluru from 18 September to 18 October 2026.

We're bringing together 14 exceptional builders working across robotics, hardware, applied physics, biotech, neurotechnology, foundational AI, and other foundational technologies.

Residents receive accommodation, workspace, compute and prototyping support, mentorship, and relevant introductions. Variance takes no equity.

We select for technical ability, ambition, speed, and what you can accomplish in 30 days, not credentials or pedigree.

Variance is built by Vedant and Yug.

Application time: approximately 10 minutes.

Share your X, LinkedIn, GitHub, personal website, or other relevant profiles. Put each link on a new line.

Explain what it does, its field, its current stage, and whether you are working alone or with a team.

Maximum 750 characters

Tell us what existing approaches get wrong and what becomes possible if you succeed.

Maximum 1,000 characters

Include prototypes, experiments, technical results, users, research, or other evidence. Share links where possible and clearly state your personal contribution.

Maximum 1,200 characters

What have you done that is genuinely exceptional? Tell us about your most impressive achievement, project, research, award, growth, revenue, open-source work, or unusually difficult accomplishment. Numbers and evidence are encouraged. Don't be modest.

Maximum 1,000 characters

Give us one specific, measurable milestone that you can demonstrate by 18 October, not simply "make progress" or "finish the product."

Maximum 1,000 characters

9. Can you commit full-time to living and building from Bengaluru from 18 September to 18 October 2026?