Rajnish Kapur
Managing Partner ( IAN Fund ) @ IAN Group
Noida, India
Rajnish Kapur is a seed investor at IAN Group in Noida focused on Aerospace and Artificial Intelligence. Rajnish holds a Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Computer Science) from Bangalore University, Bangalore and a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Sri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University. Rajnish has, to his credit, a US patent (No. 6,775,683) as a co-inventor along with General Electric. He is a voracious reader and a science buff.
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 75%
Last updated:
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Industries Rajnish Kapur invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Aerospace 2 (17%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (17%)
- Solar 1 (8%)
- Drones 1 (8%)
- Battery 1 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (33%)
- Series A 4 (33%)
- Series B 1 (8%)
- Convertible Note 1 (8%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (8%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Anscer robots build autonomous cleaning robots that will clean all the mess humans have created to date from nuclear waste to picking up plastic bottles sailing in the ocean. Building robotics to keep the earth habitable for the future generation.Companies worldwide are back to business health, and safety regulations increase compliance risk foremployee and customer. Cleaning, sanitization, logistics, and surveillance require an extra workforce. It’s costly for businesses and challenges to recruit and retain custodial workers. Also, Increasing labor cost, sickness, absence, and turnover, making the business operate with overhead. Hiring More managers and staff for Monitoring and managing the existing staff is inefficient.Our solution is to improve the quality and efficiency by 2x, reducing overhead costs by 50% using our autonomous mobility robots. Monitoring and report generation is not a struggle anymore.WE CALL IT ANSCER PLATFORM: INDUSTRIAL GRADE ROBOTIC PLATFORM, RUGGED & RELIABLE ANSCER is built with industrial-grade components to withstand harsh indoor environments and move heavy payloads, including collaborative robotic arms with ease. ROS READY Programming complex applications is simple with the open-source Robot Operating System (ROS). ANSCER is supported in Gazebo Physics Simulator, RViz, and MovelT! Motion planner. EASY INTEGRATION ANSCER is designed for rapid integration with third-party sensors and manipulators - plug it in and go! Payloads are easily added with flexible mounting, accessible on-board power, and reconfigurable I/O. Mobile robot prototyping is fast and easy with ANSCER.FEATURES: 1) Point to Point Navigation 2) SLAM, LIDAR, Encoders & IMU 3) Machine Vision & AI 4) ROS Platform 5) Multi-Environment( Cross Platform Integration Machines, Elevators, and Enterprise Software)Technical spec: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HVfEIJa3TgZsrF1-Eimbk6hkgbyJ8Nlk/viewAnscer platform video demo: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WpzPkMorUcR4veZxxko35FlY7rsbY0TT/view | $4.6M / Series A / May 20, 2026 | ||
| BigEndian is a platform for fabless semiconductor development in surveillance vertical. | $6M / Seed / May 06, 2026 | ||
| Peptris Technologies is a artificial intelligence (AI)-powered drug discovery company. | $7.7M / Series A / Feb 18, 2026 | ||
| A revolutionary cell design and manufacturing concept that eliminates battery cell heating at the source, allowing us to realize the full potential of fast charging while avoiding cell degradation. | $3M / Seed / Feb 13, 2026 | ||
| D-Propulse Aerospace is a deep-tech company that uses first-principles engineering to develop next-generation propulsion systems where mission success is determined by performance. | $2.7M / Seed / Jan 28, 2026 | ||
| Morphing Machines is on a mission to create an exciting new range of silicon-centric solutions for compute-intensive applications. Leveraging the path-breaking patent-pending REDEFINE Reconfigurable Massively Parallel Processor SoC platform technology, a variety of high-performance silicon solutions for various application domains have beendeveloped at Morphing Machines in the areas of cryptography, data security, avionics, high-definition image and video processing, numerical computation, neural networks and deep learning, and other areas.REDEFINE based solutions deliver a unique combination of high performance and flexibility not available from other technologies offered by global players. REDEFINE technology enables ASIC-like high performance at an affordable NRE cost for a much wider range of compute-intensive applications than has ever been possible before. Advanced compiler toolchain and runtime software support is an integral part of the REDEFINE offerings. | $4.3M / Series A / Oct 06, 2025 | ||
| Satellite Internet and Telecom Backhaul Company | $10M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 27, 2025 | ||
| Truemeds is a health-tech startup. Its mission to make medicine affordable for chronic patients. | $21.8M / Series B / Apr 26, 2022 | ||
| Satellite Internet and Telecom Backhaul Company | $3.4M / Convertible Note / Sep 28, 2021 | ||
| Skylark Drones is a drone solutions company that builds and delivers products to make drone operations scalable and drone data usable for enterprises in infrastructure, mining, agriculture, and renewable energy.The company's core mission is to translate the key benefits of drones and drone data such as increased productivity, security, andreach into scalable solutions for smarter planning, faster construction, and better sustainability of high value geographically distributed assets such as roads, solar parks, mines, and agricultural fields. | $3M / Seed / Jul 05, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
About IAN Group
Started in April 2006, the Indian Angel Network is a unique concept which brings together highly successful entrepreneurs and CEOs from India and around the world who are interested in investing in startup / early stage ventures which have the potential of creating disproportionate value.The Network, in addition to money, provide constantaccess to high quality mentoring, vast networks and inputs on strategy as well as execution. The Network members, because of their background are better able to assess the potential and risks at the early stage.
IAN Group Contacts
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Mohit Goyal
Founding member and Director
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Rajnish Kapur
Managing Partner ( IAN Fund )
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Ajay Gupta
Investor
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Chintan Thakkar
Group CEO
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Dave Banerjee
Director
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What does Rajnish Kapur invest in?
Rajnish Kapur invests primarily in Aerospace, Artificial Intelligence and Solar startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Rajnish Kapur closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 12 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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