Rahul Seth
Founder & General Partner
Pre-seed investment across national security, space, energy and frontier engineering. Earlier angel investments are labeled separately.
LinkedIn profile ↗India / Direct investor
Backing the engineering behind an industrial India.
Pre-seed capital for national security, space and energy.
Connect NowOfficial cheque range$500K-$1.5M
Reported first closeINR 85 crore
Target + greenshoeINR 150 + 50 crore
Published relationships10 identities
01 / The fund
Build the originals
Industrial47 is a Bengaluru-based pre-seed platform founded by Rahul Seth. Its own site gives a typical cheque range of $500K-$1.5M and India as its geography, with national security, space and energy as its core focus. August 2026 first-close reporting describes INR 2-10 crore investments across 15-20 companies. These are separately sourced ranges, not a currency conversion or a guaranteed cheque.
The debut fund reported INR 85 crore at first close in August 2026, towards a INR 150 crore base target with a INR 50 crore greenshoe. Neither the INR 200 crore potential maximum nor the site’s $250M “follow on capital raised” figure is treated as capital closed by this fund. The latter refers to follow-on capital in the platform’s track record.
The site lists seven company relationships, including older individual angel investments. Rahul’s current personal experience explicitly labels Pixxel, Digantara, FamPay and Flam as angel investments predating the fund. Armory and Rekise are separately confirmed by company financing announcements. Parsec is separately marked as database-reported, not a primary-confirmed current portfolio holding. No total-return, ownership or exit inference is made from a logo.
Official mandate ↗ · August 2026 first close ↗02 / Portfolio
Explore by sector
Ten source-linked relationships: seven manager-site identities, two additionally company-confirmed investments, and one database-reported investment with lower-confidence attribution. Repeated carousel copies are deduplicated. Relationship labels distinguish earlier angel history from the platform’s investments.
Fusion engineering is Energy & Materials; autonomous marine vessels and counter-drone systems are Physical AI; biosignal hardware is BioTech; satellites and aerospace engines are Space Tech. Mixed-reality content software and consumer payments remain Others.
Energy & Materials 1
Tokamak fusion engineering, superconducting magnets and plasma-control software.
The manager site blends platform relationships with earlier individual investments; current fund ownership is not inferred.
Holding source ↗Physical AI 2
Autonomous surface vessels and underwater vehicles with in-house autonomy software.
Company announcement explicitly names Industrial47. Round total is not this investor’s cheque.
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Counter-drone detection and response hardware with defence software. Not the unrelated US DevOps company.
Company’s own financing release names Industrial47. Card uses the correct Indian counter-drone identity.
Holding source ↗BioTech 1
Biosignal hardware and software for recording and decoding human electrical signals, including EEG and EMG.
The manager site blends platform relationships with earlier individual investments; current fund ownership is not inferred.
Holding source ↗Space Tech 4
Hyperspectral satellite imagery and Earth-observation data infrastructure.
The manager site blends platform relationships with earlier individual investments; current fund ownership is not inferred.
Holding source ↗
Space surveillance, object tracking and space-domain intelligence infrastructure.
The manager site blends platform relationships with earlier individual investments; current fund ownership is not inferred.
Holding source ↗
Synthetic-aperture radar satellites and radar payloads for maritime and defence surveillance.
The manager site blends platform relationships with earlier individual investments; current fund ownership is not inferred.
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Stealth aerospace-engine venture. Ownsite identifies ParsecAerospace but does not disclose product details.
PitchBook names Industrial47 in a completed September2026 round. Not shown on manager site and no primary financing confirmation found. The separate $10M round is talks/upcoming, not closed.
Holding source ↗Others 2
UPI and card payment accounts, wallets and financial tools.
The manager site blends platform relationships with earlier individual investments; current fund ownership is not inferred.
Holding source ↗
AI models and interactive visual-content tools, rather than physical robotics.
The manager site blends platform relationships with earlier individual investments; current fund ownership is not inferred.
Holding source ↗03 / Team & connect
Investment team
Rahul’s personal experience confirms Founder & General Partner since July 2024. His former Antler role ended in September 2023; its 40+ investments are not counted as this fund’s portfolio. Awais Ahmed, Shreevar Rastogi and Lt. Gen. AK Bhalla are listed as advisors, not investment team contacts or LPs.
Official contact route ↗04 / Fund network
Limited partners and named backers
Five named first-close participants, separate from advisors and portfolio companies. Names come from August 2026 fundraising reports. No individual commitment amounts are public in these sources, and this is not a full LP register.
Bhukhanvala Holdings ↗
Named first-close backer
Named industrial-group participant in first-close reporting. Group homepage explicitly identifies Bhukhanvala Holdings Pvt. Ltd.
Commitment source ↗Chemet India ↗
Named first-close backer
Named industrial-group participant; own site identifies the chemical marketing business.
Commitment source ↗
Vivek Mathur ↗
Named first-close backer
Named individual backer, former Elevation Capital MD. His own public transition post says he left at the end of 2024.
Commitment source ↗
Boris Wertz ↗
Named first-close backer
Named individual backer, identified in reporting with Version One Ventures. This does not make Version One the committing LP.
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Nandan Reddy ↗
Named first-close backer
Named Swiggy co-founder participating in the first close, per YourStory. Swiggy itself is not identified as the LP.
Commitment source ↗Unnamed Urban Company founders, family offices and operators are not expanded into guessed names. Version One, Elevation Capital and Swiggy are not substituted for the named individuals. Research checked 2 November 2026.