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Somewhere in the Western Ghats, a snake is hunting. When it strikes, it delivers a cocktail of molecules that evolution has been refining for millions of years, each one built to find a specific target in its prey and act on it almost instantly. Compare that with how drugs usually get found. Teams spend years, and a lot of money, screening molecules that were never designed to do anything inside a living body. Most of them don't. Venom is different. Every peptide in it has al

On the Siachen Glacier, at posts as high as 21,000 feet, the cold is not just weather. It is the enemy. Over four decades on the world's highest battlefield, more Indian soldiers have died there from the cold and the terrain than from anything the other side has done — better than seven in ten of all fatalities. The temperature falls to minus fifty; winds arrive at 160 kmph without warning; frostbite can begin in seconds. Everything that holds a soldier on that ice is energy.

Neuromorphic computing and India’s opportunity to leapfrog to the physical AI era Every time a large language model answers a query, it consumes roughly the same energy as charging a smartphone. Multiply that across billions of daily requests, and you have an industry sprinting toward a wall: AI’s insatiable compute demands are already straining power grids, inflating data centre costs, and making the economics of inference—never mind training—structurally unsustainable. The

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

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

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

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

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

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