Ganapathy 'Gani' Subramaniam
Founding Managing Partner
Semiconductors, engineering-led companies and founder mentoring
LinkedIn profile ↗India / Direct investor
Backing India's science and engineering companies from first cheque to scale.
India-focused DeepTech investor spanning chips, AI, robotics, life sciences, manufacturing and aerospace.
Connect NowReported cheque range$2M - $10M
StagePre-seed to late stage
Fund I final closeINR 893 crore
Listed portfolio8 companies
01 / The fund
What Yali looks for
Companies building defensible technology and intellectual property from or for India. The team evaluates the engineering, commercial opportunity and path to scale, not only a market story.
Its maiden fund closed at INR 893 crore in July 2025, above the INR 500 crore target plus INR 310 crore greenshoe. The fund spans early-stage and late-stage investments; the current FAQ includes pre-seed, seed, Series A and late stage.
The $2M-$10M range is reported by Mint and Times of India in July 2025, not a current guaranteed offer. Late-stage allocations were described as $10M or more. The official site lists seven active companies and one exit as of November 2026.
Read the official investment thesis ↗02 / Portfolio
Explore by sector
Eight companies listed on Yali's official site: seven current holdings and C2i marked exited. Prior investments made by partners elsewhere are not counted as Yali holdings.
BioTech 1
Precision oncology leveraging genomics and clinical data for underrepresented populations
Holding sourcePhysical AI 1
Full-stack robotics platform for automating dextrous industrial tasks at scale
Holding sourceSemiconductors 1
Scalable digital power controllers for high-performance semiconductor applications
Holding sourceOthers 5
Private and on-premises AI tools for software engineering, with repository context and controlled model access.
Holding source
Optical fibers and precision lasers for industrial manufacturing, quantum technology and communications.
Holding source03 / Team & connect
Investment team
Mathew Cyriac
Founding General Partner
Investment strategy, business scaling and late-stage companies
LinkedIn profile ↗
Advisor
Lip-Bu Tan is an advisor, not included in the investment-team count. LinkedIn profile ↗
04 / Fund network
Limited partners
Yali's July 2025 final-close announcement names these individual LPs. Their affiliations below identify the people; they do not imply a current operating role at Yali.
C. Srinivasan
Disclosed LP
Co-founder, Cosmic Circuits
Identity named in the fund announcement; portrait and personal profile not verified.
Institutional LPs
Infosys, Qualcomm Ventures, Tata AIG, DPIIT Fund of Funds for Startups (managed by SIDBI), Self-Reliant India Fund, Evolvence and Singularity FOF.
No portrait is shown for Sanjay Nayak or C. Srinivasan because an appropriate verified headshot was not recovered. Vallabh's portrait opens his official profile because no personal LinkedIn was verified.
Official fund-close announcement ↗