Bhargavi V
Co-Founder & Partner
Semiconductors, clean tech, aerospace and AI. Fund I, II and III.
LinkedIn profile ↗India / Direct investor
First believers. First cheque.
India-first seed investing in companies built on hard science, engineering and defensible intellectual property, with a Bengaluru and California presence.
Connect NowOfficial cheque range$600K-$1M
StagePre-seed to seed
Fund III target, Feb 2026₹400Cr incl. greenshoe
Published portfolio27 companies
01 / The fund
The first institutional believer
Java backs India and Indian founders at idea, prototype and seed stage. Its current deep-tech focus spans robotics, space, defense, semiconductors, photonics, energy and climate systems. Earlier funds also hold enterprise software and consumer businesses; those are preserved in the portfolio rather than recast as deep tech.
The official site quotes a $600K-$1M cheque. February 2026 Fund III launch coverage describes ₹6Cr-₹8Cr initial investments and a ₹400Cr target including a ₹150Cr greenshoe, with 15-20 planned investments. A target is not a final close. Follow-on reserves are separate from the first cheque.
Fund I reported a ₹50Cr final close in October 2023, with an optional ₹25Cr greenshoe. Later launch coverage refers to Fund I as ₹75Cr and Fund II as ₹250Cr; these should not be read as verified final-close figures. The live regulatory page lists CSQUARE VENTURE PARTNERS FUND I and ONEPOINT44 FUND 3 as separate SEBI-registered vehicles.
Official cheque range ↗ · Fund III launch ↗ · Regulatory disclosures ↗02 / Portfolio
Explore by sector
All 27 companies published in the current official portfolio, including KukuFM marked full exit and Eat Better marked partial exit. The firm reports 35+ companies backed overall, so this public list is not represented as its entire investment history. Sector groups below are DTT technology groupings, not a claim that consumer or software holdings are deep tech.
BioTech 1
Fund I
Wireless handheld ultrasound and a mobile imaging app, originally backed for AI-assisted kidney screening. Current product: one probe with two arrays for everyday exams.
Holding source ↗Energy & Materials 2
Fund II
Climate-risk data and software to help enterprises assess physical risks and plan adaptation.
Holding source ↗
Fund II
Hybrid ML + physics-based simulation platform for battery designers. Digital twin for complex energy systems.
Holding source ↗Physical AI 3
Fund I & II
Universal robot vision that lets any industrial robot manipulate any unstructured object without custom hardware. Solving the last mile of automation: the human hand.
Holding source ↗
Fund II
Photorealistic 3D reconstruction of complex environments from standard camera footage - the fastest way to create survey-grade digital twins at scale.
Holding source ↗
Fund II
Digital sourcing and manufacturing services for custom industrial parts, linking engineering files to quotations and production.
Holding source ↗Semiconductors 1
Fund II
Optical connections that transmit data using light, rather than electrical signals, for data centers and AI computing.
Holding source ↗Space Tech 4
Fund I
Designing and building orbital launch vehicles for small satellites, with 3D-printed rocket engines. Incubated at IIT Madras.
Holding source ↗
Fund II
Dual-band thermal imaging satellites for agriculture, defence, and climate monitoring. Real-time earth observation at previously inaccessible resolution and price.
Holding source ↗
Fund I & II
eVTOL flying taxis for door-to-door urban commute. Professor Satya's team at IIT Madras reimagining how cities move.
Holding source ↗
Fund II
Clean-energy powered UAVs for defence, border surveillance, and precision agriculture. Built for Indian operating conditions.
Holding source ↗Others 16
Fund II
No-code digital operations platform that helps retail and restaurant businesses optimise store compliance, task management, and frontline training.
Holding source ↗
Fund I
Website personalization, A/B testing and conversion tools for online stores.
Holding source ↗
Fund II
Generative AI agents that automate testing and QA for mobile applications. Engineering teams ship faster, with fewer bugs.
Holding source ↗
Fund II
AI-native audit intelligence. Reimagining how risk, audits and controls work together for enterprise compliance teams.
Holding source ↗
Fund II
AI-powered material procurement management for the construction sector. Digitising India's construction supply chain.
Holding source ↗
Fund II
Building AAA-quality games out of India. Proving Indian studios can compete globally.
Holding source ↗
Fund I
Tech-enabled legal concierge - contract lifecycle, dispute tracking, and compliance monitoring in one platform.
Official company site currently returns a gateway error. Use the fund holding source.
Holding source ↗
Fund I
1-to-1 marketing automation for B2C brands. Personalised campaigns at scale to existing customer bases.
Holding source ↗
Fund I
Single-source customer success platform for B2B SaaS. Turns customer health data into proactive retention actions.
Holding source ↗
Fund I
Sales engagement platform that accelerates B2B sales pipeline through multi-channel outreach.
The fund-listed domain now shows an AI advertising creative business, not the original sales-engagement company. Destination withheld.
Holding source ↗
Fund I
India's largest audio content platform - vernacular audiobooks, podcasts, and courses. Our earliest seed bet.
Holding source ↗
Fund I
Direct-to-consumer brand making healthy, organic snacks accessible to everyday India.
Holding source ↗
Fund I
On a mission to get every school kid in India to fall in love with coding. Live 1:1 classes, students from 50+ countries.
Holding source ↗
Fund I
Curated platform for clean, toxin-free beauty, wellness, and nutrition.
Holding source ↗
Fund I
Enabling rural India with asset-backed credit in 30 minutes at the doorstep.
Holding source ↗
Fund I
Transparent, tech-enabled platform for secondary real estate transactions.
Holding source ↗03 / Team & connect
Investment team
Vinod Shankar
Co-Founder & Partner
Space, robotics, aerospace and defense. Fund I, II and III.
LinkedIn profile ↗
Karteek Pulapaka
Co-Founder & Partner · Fund I & II
Deep tech, portfolio development and fund strategy. Official profile lists Fund I and II, not Fund III.
LinkedIn profile ↗
Anirudh Jayagopal
Principal
Deal sourcing, investment research and portfolio support.
LinkedIn profile ↗Three official partners and one principal. Karteek also works at GlobalFlex, while the official Java profile identifies him with Fund I and II. Teja Godina handles operations, compliance and investor relations and is excluded from investing contacts. Investment committee and advisory-board members are not presented as day-to-day investing contacts or assumed LPs.
Official fund website ↗04 / Fund network
Limited partners
No named individual or institutional LP has been verified from public sources. Historical October 2023 Fund I reporting describes Indian founders and high-net-worth investors in India, the Middle East and the US, without naming them. No names are inferred from that description.
Vistra ITCL and MITCON Credentia are disclosed trustees, not evidence of LP backing. The firm's industry advisers and investment committee members are also not assumed to be fund investors.
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