Alim Shaikh focuses specifically on deeptech and physical AI, backing hard-engineering companies like Cambridge Aerospace, Q.ai, and Wayve from their earliest stages, often finding founders through personal reference calls and a genuine curiosity about risky, technically ambitious projects. He's especially drawn to founder-scientists with strong technical track records, centers his investing around perception, compute, and physical-world autonomy, values teams that execute quickly on hard problems, and has built a strong reputation among other deeptech investors while maintaining a notable focus on European frontier tech companies.