Speciale Invest
specialeinvest.com Direct investor
Speciale Invest is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on deep tech startups in India and globally. It invests in pre-seed and seed stage companies across sectors like space, energy, AI, and advanced manufacturing.
Speciale Invest is a venture capital firm headquartered in Chennai, India. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in DeepTech, space, energy and climate. Its stated cheque size is $750K–$1M. $140+ Mn under management and 45 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We back bold, early-stage founders building disruptive innovations deeply rooted in science, engineering, and technology —ideas with the power to redefine entire industries.”
— Speciale Invest, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Invests in
- India, global
- Sectors
- DeepTech, Space, Energy, Climate, AI, Robotics, Semiconductors, Manufacturing, Life Sciences, Mobility
- Cheque size
- $750K–$1M
- Assets under management
- $140+ Mn
- Portfolio
- 45 companies
Team, as Speciale Invest publishes it
- Vishesh Rajaram Founding Partner
- Arjun Rao Founding Partner
- Vijay Jacob General Partner
- Krishnaswamy Srinivasan General Partner & Chief Financial Officer
- Dr Mridula Menon Head of Investor Relations & Chief of Staff
- Vishnu Rajeev Investment Partner
- Sunil Cavale Investment Principal
- Nithish Kumar Investment Manager
- Ahammad Shibil AVP - Investments
- Chethan Gowda Investment Analyst
- Varun KS Investment Analyst
- Arun Shanmugam Investment Analyst
Names and roles exactly as listed on specialeinvest.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 166 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Abac Capital 1 shared company: goo.gl
- Abingworth 1 shared company: goo.gl
- AC Ventures 1 shared company: goo.gl
- Acrewood Holdings 1 shared company: goo.gl
- Adara Ventures 1 shared company: goo.gl
- Adit Ventures Management, LLC 1 shared company: goo.gl
- AE Industrial Partners, LP 1 shared company: goo.gl
- AIF Capital 1 shared company: goo.gl
- Alchemy Special Opportunities LLP 1 shared company: goo.gl
- Alcuin Capital Partners LLP 1 shared company: goo.gl
and 156 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Speciale Invest publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.specialeinvest.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, stage_min, stage_max, description, aum, portfolio_count, status, confidence
- https://www.specialeinvest.com/portfolioallhq_country, hq_city
- https://www.specialeinvest.com/aboutinvests_in_geographies, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, people
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Record 650 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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