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When Uravu Labs was selected for Abu Dhabi's Hub71 Cohort 18, the headline read like a geographic milestone. But for those of us who backed this Bengaluru-based deep-tech startup from its earliest days, the news carried a more significant signal: a technology developed, stress-tested, and commercialised in India is now being sought out by one of the world's most water-stressed and capital-intensive regions. This is not simply expansion. It is validation — of a fundamental tec

There’s a quiet but profound transformation building at the hardware-software boundary — below the applications layer where most AI productivity tools play, and deep in the firmware that actually makes silicon do things. This is where H2Loop is staking its claim. H2Loop’s recent close of a $2 million seed round, co-led by Speciale Invest and 3one4 Capital, validates a thesis we’ve held for some time: the next frontier of productivity lies not in general-purpose models, but in

The name alone should give you a hint. Morphing Machines. Shapeshifters. And in the world of silicon, that is precisely what they are — a Bengaluru-based fabless semiconductor startup building processors that physically reconfigure themselves in real-time to match the demands of a workload. After nearly two decades incubating at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Morphing Machines has crossed a critical threshold: a Rs. 80 crore (approximately $11.6 million) Series A rou

A Staircase Worth Climbing If you skip the elevator at Newtrace's R&D facility in Bengaluru and take the stairs, every step greets you with a sticker — a hydrogen factoid. How much of it humanity consumes. How much carbon the current production methods emit. How far the gap stretches between where we are and where we need to be. It's a small detail, but it tells you something important about the founders: Prasanta Sarkar and Rochan Sinha are not building a company for a pitch

At Speciale Invest, we back founders solving problems the rest of the world has decided are too hard. Nucleovir Therapeutics is exactly that kind of company — and this is the story of why we invested. The unfinished business of immunotherapy A decade ago, immunotherapy rewrote what was possible in cancer. Instead of poisoning tumors directly, a new class of drugs, checkpoint inhibitors like Keytruda and Opdivo, taught the body's own immune system to do the killing. They took

Why India needs full-stack health data infrastructure to extend healthy lifespan — and how the right startups can make it happen India's path to longer, healthier lives will be built on unglamorous foundations: interoperable records, clean diagnostics, and software that makes both actionable at the point of care. Not wearables, not longevity clinics, not AI chatbots promising personalised wellness; Infrastructure. This distinction matters because it shapes where durable value

The ePlane Company's new facility signals a shift from prototype to platform. What it means for aerospace investment in India. India has discussed advanced air mobility for years. What has been missing is industrial evidence — physical proof that companies are moving past renders and pitch decks into real engineering. The ePlane Company's opening of a 60,000 sq ft prototyping and testing facility at IIT Madras Discovery Campus in Thaiyur is a meaningful data point in that shi

If the last decade of the evolution of technology was defined by software eating the world, the next decade will likely be defined by software moving the world. Physical AI — software systems that combine intelligence with real-world action for robots — is emerging as the natural evolution of the AI wave. While large language models transformed how machines process text, images, and code, the next leap lies in enabling machines to perceive, decide, and act in physical envir

For decades, India has been the semiconductor industry's back office — providing the engineering muscle for global giants like Intel and Qualcomm while retaining none of the underlying intellectual property. That arrangement is finally changing. Mindgrove Technologies, a fabless chip startup spun out of IIT Madras, has launched the S2401: India's first commercial-grade, high-performance microcontroller. The milestone is more than a product launch. It signals that Indian semic