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Weeks after stepping down as CEO<\/a> from food delivery service Zomato and its parent Eternal, Indian entrepreneur Deepinder Goyal is back with a $54 million raise for wearable startup Temple<\/a>, part of what the 43-year-old earlier described as a shift toward \u201chigher-risk exploration and experimentation.\u201d<\/p>\n On Friday, Goyal said<\/a> in a post on X that Temple had raised funds in a friends-and-family round from founder friends and early Zomato backers, at a post-money valuation of about $190 million. More than 30 employees participated at the same valuation, he said.<\/p>\n Goyal stepped down as chief executive of Zomato and its parent, Eternal, in January, handing the role to<\/a> Albinder Dhindsa, who leads the quick-commerce unit Blinkit. The move marked a major transition for Goyal after nearly two decades at the helm of the food delivery company he co-founded in 2008.<\/p>\n Temple is one of the clearest expressions yet of that shift. The startup is focused on building a high-performance wearable for elite athletes, an area Goyal has described as ripe for deeper technological innovation.<\/p>\n During a January conversation with podcaster Raj Shamani, Goyal described<\/a> Temple\u2019s wearable as a sensor designed to sit on the wearer\u2019s temple and continuously track cerebral blood flow.<\/p>\n In a separate post on X earlier Friday, he said Temple aims to build<\/a> what he called \u201cthe ultimate wearable for elite performance athletes,\u201d claiming the device would measure metrics that existing wearables cannot. He also outlined an expansive hiring push spanning embedded systems, computational neuroscience, and brain\u2013computer interface engineering.<\/p>\n