India / Direct investor
Backing science and engineering at the first institutional cheque.
Pre-seed and seed investor in DeepTech hardware and software, with a strong India focus and a global outlook.
Connect NowOfficial sweet spot$750K - $1M
StagePre-seed · Seed
Fund III, reportedINR 600 crore
Listed portfolio50 companies
01 / The fund
What Speciale looks for
Science- and engineering-first companies solving large problems. Speciale often invests before a product is fully built and supports customer access, early hiring and follow-on fundraising.
The current About page gives a $750K-$1M sweet spot. Fund III closed at INR 600 crore in August 2025, with initial cheques of INR 7-10 crore reported by ET and Reuters. These are different source descriptions, not a guaranteed cheque range.
Read the official investment thesis ↗02 / Portfolio
Explore by sector
50 companies listed across the official portfolio and exits pages: 37 current holdings and 13 exits. DTT groups them by technology below.
Energy & Materials 9
Developing and scaling advanced technologies to drive a low-carbon, high-performance future.
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Sustainable urban mining of valuable materials from spent lithium ion batteries
Holding sourceSpace Tech 8
Pioneering India's first private LEO-PNT constellation to enable sovereign, resilient, and GPS-independent navigation
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AI-driven autonomous aerial platforms tailored to India's strategic needs, delivering mission-ready systems for defense, surveillance, and logistics in challenging environments.
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Democratizing access to space by building orbital class rockets for micro and nano satellites
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Building an efficient smart satellite constellation for Satellite Image Acquisition
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Reusable Space Planes - designed for frequent, affordable, and safe reentry missions.
Holding sourceBioTech 4
AI-engineered oncolytic viruses for treating immunologically cold, therapy-resistant cancers
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Digitally enabled and connected healthcare platform for the Indian ecosystem
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Synthetic Biology company in India that provides contract development and manufacturing (CDMO) services
Holding sourcePhysical AI 2
Building a platform that will serve as the eyes and brains of industrial robotic arms
Holding sourceSemiconductors 2
Many core, reconfigurable semiconductor IPs for new-age applications
Holding sourceQuantum 1
Creating new possibilities for a secure future leveraging trust offered by quantum safe cybersecurity.
Holding sourceOthers 24
Developing hardware-aware AI co-pilot that accelerates system software with domain-trained intelligence.
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Airboxr works within your spreadsheets and connects to all your favorite data sources
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Cloud platform that allows you to run any GUI application from the browser without installation.
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Pay3 is building data and transaction pipelines and APIs across Web 2 & Web 3 making onboarding and payments easy for fin-tech applications.
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Protecto is an AI based privacy engineering tool that seamlessly integrates with data sources to provide a comprehensive view of a company's data posture, enabling them to secure vulnerabilities and stay compliant.
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Provides omnichannel retailers the ability to understand and engage with customers both online and at their physical stores and enable Intuitive Product Discovery in Real-time
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Capturing user financial behavior to build better products
Historical holding; current company destination not verified.
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Data-driven E-Sports Platform, bringing live & connected games such as Poker & Rummy to your devices
Historical holding; current company destination not verified.
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Purpose-built software to accelerate and streamline implementation and customer onboarding
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NoCode platform for creating Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality experiences
Historical holding; current company destination not verified.
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Help eCommerce/D2C companies to improve repeat purchase rate and post-purchase experience.
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The Command Centre for Your Online Community
Historical holding; current company destination not verified.
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Helps SaaS companies accelerate product adoption with product training videos and academies
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AI-powered omni channel customer appointment booking and customer support platform
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TurboML pioneers real-time machine learning enabling enterprises to do continual modal updates and make rapid data-driven decisions.
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Real-time sales coaching for Sales Reps
Historical holding; current company destination not verified.
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iauro Systems is a knowledge-centric digital transformations firm with expertise in innovation and implementation of Design Thinking, Microservices and DevOps.
Holding source03 / Team & connect
Investment team
Vijay Jacob
General Partner
Investment strategy, portfolio growth and Singapore presence
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Vishnu Rajeev
Investment Partner
Mobility, energy, chips, biosciences and manufacturing
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Sunil Cavale
Investment Principal
DeepTech and climate at the intersection of biology and engineering
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04 / Fund network
Limited partners
Public reporting describes returning family offices, institutions and strategic investors. Individual LP identities were not verified in the checked sources, so none are presented here.