Speciale Invest
VC Fund
Bengaluru, India
Speciale Invest is an early-stage venture capital firm specializing in tech-driven and deep-tech startups. The firm focuses on supporting innovative ventures that leverage advanced technology to solve complex problems and create transformative solutions.
- Total investments:
- 94
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 57%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Speciale Invest invests in
Stages Speciale Invest invests in
Countries Speciale Invest invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
2 more contacts available
Round size
- Seed
- $500k–$5.6M
- Pre-Seed
- $908k–$1.6M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 15 (16%)
- Artificial Intelligence 12 (13%)
- Information Technology 7 (7%)
- Aerospace 6 (6%)
- Financial Services 6 (6%)
Stage
- Seed 38 (40%)
- Pre-Seed 14 (15%)
- Funding Round 9 (10%)
- Series A 7 (7%)
- Series B 2 (2%)
Country
- India 44 (47%)
- United States 8 (9%)
- Singapore 1 (1%)
- United Kingdom 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Arjun Rao
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
Dhanush Ram
Investment Manager
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Investment Manager | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Vishesh Rajaram
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 37 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
H2LooP
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H2LooP develops an artificial intelligence platform designed for system engineering, focusing on automating and improving the development of safety-critical embedded software. The company builds domain-specific small language models that understand low-level system architecture, enabling engineers to generate, analyze, and maintain code used inindustries such as automotive, aerospace, industrial IoT, and healthcare. It focuses on addressing challenges associated with legacy system software, where documentation is often incomplete and system behavior is difficult to interpret. Its AI models analyze existing codebases to extract system structure, dependencies, and control flows, enabling faster debugging, integration, and onboarding of new engineers. | $2M / Seed / Apr 07, 2026 | |
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H2LooP
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H2LooP develops an artificial intelligence platform designed for system engineering, focusing on automating and improving the development of safety-critical embedded software. The company builds domain-specific small language models that understand low-level system architecture, enabling engineers to generate, analyze, and maintain code used inindustries such as automotive, aerospace, industrial IoT, and healthcare. It focuses on addressing challenges associated with legacy system software, where documentation is often incomplete and system behavior is difficult to interpret. Its AI models analyze existing codebases to extract system structure, dependencies, and control flows, enabling faster debugging, integration, and onboarding of new engineers. | $2M / Seed / Apr 07, 2026 | |
GalaxEye
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GalaxEye enables businesses to make better Decisions & perform operations efficiently via Space Technology. | $4.8M / Series A / Mar 12, 2026 | |
Newtrace
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Newtrace develops novel electrolyzers for affordable green hydrogen production at scale. | $6.2M / Seed / Mar 10, 2026 | |
Peptris Technologies
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Peptris Technologies is a artificial intelligence (AI)-powered drug discovery company. | $7.7M / Series A / Feb 18, 2026 | |
e-TRNL Energy
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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 | |
Dashamlabs
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Its mission is to transform deep science innovations into scalable, high-performance products — starting with silica aerogel flexible sheets and building a portfolio that positions India as a global leader in advanced materials. It is a materials innovation company committed to developing and scaling advanced material technologies from India,bridging the gap between lab-scale discoveries and real-world industrial impact. Its mission is to power a low-carbon, high-performance future through science-driven materials engineered in India, for the world. | $1.4M / Seed / Oct 16, 2025 | |
Morphing Machines
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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 | |
UNMANND
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Founded in February 2025 by Yeshwanth Reddy and Hemaditya Prasad, Unmannd is developing systems for the future of defence logistics and aerial security. Its first product, Titan, is a heavy-duty drone designed to carry and deliver supplies. | $2M / Pre-Seed / Sep 30, 2025 | |
VyomIC
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VyomIC is a deep-tech startup developing a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites to provide highly accurate, secure, and sovereign Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) services. Their technology offers centimeter-level positioning and nanosecond-level timing with spoofing-proof and jamming-resistant signals, aiming to serve autonomoussystems and critical operations globally without relying on foreign navigation networks like GPS. | $1.6M / Pre-Seed / Sep 22, 2025 | |
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FAQ
What does Speciale Invest invest in?
Speciale Invest invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 94 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Speciale Invest's check size?
Speciale Invest typically joins rounds of $500k–$5.6M at Seed and $908k–$1.6M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Speciale Invest participates in.
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Who are the partners at Speciale Invest?
The team at Speciale Invest includes Arjun Rao (General Partner), Dhanush Ram (Investment Manager) and Vishesh Rajaram (Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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