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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

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

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

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

In May this year, two years after its historic tech demonstrator flight — the first rocket in the world powered by a single-piece 3D-printed engine — AgniKul Cosmos delivered its next major proof point. On May 19, the Chennai-based launch vehicle company successfully completed a simultaneous hot-fire test of its four Agnilet engine semi-cryogenic cluster: eight pumps, eight motors, synchronized by independent algorithms, operating as a single coherent propulsion unit. This wa

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