Speciale Invest
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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.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 166 co-investors found.
- 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 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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