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How the StarOps Acquisition Drives GalaxEye's Full-Stack Space Ambition
India's private spaceflight ecosystem is moving through a structural shift, and the pace is picking up. The sector's centre of gravity is moving from a landscape of component suppliers serving a government-anchored ISRO to a smaller set of globally competitive deep-tech companies building their own rockets, satellites and orbital infrastructure end to end. IN-SPACe's own numbers capture the scale of the ambition behind that shift: India's space economy stood at roughly $8.4 b

Speciale Invest
4 min read


Ultraviolette and the Rise of India's Sovereign Industrial Deep Tech
A few years ago, a made-in-India, high-performance, all-electric motorcycle competing on European roads — Bologna, home of Ducati; Berlin, HQ to BMW — would have sounded like a pitch deck fantasy. Ultraviolette has made it real. The company's July 2026 numbers mark a watershed: sales surged 406 percent year-on-year to a record 694 units, the highest month in its history. Set against India's ~12–15 million annual two-wheeler market, 694 units is still a rounding error — but th

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3 min read


Defrastructure: How ePlane Is Turning India's Urban Chaos Into a Market Opportunity
The ePlane Company's unveiling of its full-scale e200X PT-01 prototype, staged inside a 60,000-square-foot facility at the IIT Madras Discovery Campus, is a milestone worth pausing on — not because prototypes are rare in aerospace, but because this one moves a category that has lived almost entirely in slide decks and subscale lab demonstrations into physical, weight-bearing reality. For Founder and CEO Professor Satya Chakravarthy and the engineers who built alongside him, t

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A True Confession About Indian Biotech
Where we think the science, the capital, and the country are actually going — and what we're betting on. This is Speciale's view, not the market's. Every year a number gets read out at a podium in Delhi and the room applauds. This time it was $195.3 billion — India's bioeconomy, up 18% in a single year, now around 4.8% of GDP, built on the backs of nearly 12,000 biotech startups. It is a genuinely large, genuinely good number. It is also, if we're being honest, the wrong plac

Ahammad Shibil
6 min read


Tripling down on our conviction in InspeCity in its INR 100Cr Pre-Series A Round
We're excited to be co-leading in InspeCity's INR 100Cr Pre-Series A round, tripling down on a company we first backed in 2023 and again in 2025. InspeCity is building India's first integrated stack for in-space servicing — propulsion, sensing, and robotics — the capabilities that let a satellite move, see, and act once it's already in orbit. Our conviction rested on a simple observation: as more satellites go up, someone will need to service, refuel, inspect, and eventually

Sunil Cavale
3 min read


Taking Heat: How DashamLabs Is Mastering the Economics of Insulation With Advanced Aerogel
Those who sold the picks and shovels to gold rush prospectors in California, some 175 years ago, often made more money than the prospectors themselves. In India's deep tech landscape today, the modern equivalent is a wave of entrepreneurs building the advanced materials, components and subsystems that Indian industry has historically had to import. In our own portfolio, DashamLabs, based in Haryana, is a prime example — and in the coming weeks, the company will commission Ind

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India's Path to Energy Abundance: Why Thorium-Based SMRs Are the Bet Worth Making
India's growth story has a quiet dependency problem. Every semiconductor fab, every data center racing to serve AI workloads, every gigafactory and desalination plant we want to build over the next two decades needs one thing that solar and wind, for all their virtues, cannot reliably provide: firm, 24x7 baseload power. Renewables solve the emissions problem. They don't solve the dispatchability problem. And a $7-trillion-economy ambition cannot be built on intermittent elect

Vishesh Rajaram
5 min read


Data Security in the Post-Quantum Era: How QNu Labs Is Putting Indian Deep-Tech on the World Map
Quantum-safe communication remains one of the hardest verticals in deep tech to commercialise anywhere in the world — India included. Most ventures in this category are still working through lab-stage physics. A small cohort, however, is now making the harder transition: from R&D roadmap to fielded, revenue-generating product, taking made-in-India quantum technology into the global arena. Bengaluru-based QNu Labs is one of them — and it is making that transition visible. As c

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Sovereign Silicon: Mindgrove and the Arrival of India's Product IP Era
India's chip design industry has spent three decades exporting talent, not products: engineers who design silicon for Qualcomm, Intel, and Nvidia while the domestic market runs on imported chips. In June this year , that pattern broke a little further. Mindgrove Technologies, a Speciale portfolio company, has signed a commercial deployment agreement with Prama India to embed its indigenously designed Vision SoC into Prama's CCTV and video security product line. It is a small

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