Sunil Goyal
Managing Director and Fund Manager
Fund management and early-stage investment leadership
LinkedIn profile ↗India / Direct investor
Nurturing DeepTech founders from idea to success.
India-focused, early-stage capital for IP-led technology, with separate continuation capital for mature portfolio companies.
Connect NowPublished typical investment$500K-$1.5M
New-company focusEarly-stage DeepTech
Fund III, official home pageINR 504 crore
Official portfolio list39 companies
01 / The fund
Engineering-led companies, patient capital
YourNest backs Indian founders building intellectual-property-led technology. Its current thesis includes AI, quantum computing, space technology, energy management, connected devices and robotics. Its Nurture Capital approach combines finance with technical advice, founder support and portfolio growth work. Earlier funds also backed software, fintech and tech-enabled businesses; those holdings are retained below rather than relabeled as frontier science.
The manager's published typical investment is $500K-$1.5M on its YourNest Capital home page. This is an indicative early-stage range, not a promise of an available cheque or a size limit for follow-ons. The older SOAR program's $250K-$1M range and the aggregate Velocity 2024 cohort investment are not used as current cheque terms.
The current home page lists Fund I at INR 83 crore, Fund II at INR 215 crore and Fund III at INR 504 crore. It lists the 2026 Continuum Fund I at INR 394 crore, while June 2026 close coverage reproduced on its news page reports INR 400 crore. These two published figures are not silently treated as identical. Continuum is a specialized secondaries and follow-on vehicle for mature holdings, not an open early-stage fund for every new applicant. A reported INR 1,500 crore Fund IV raise is a plan, not a completed close.
The October 2026 news page reports YourNest among 19 managers selected in the first RDI cohort. The INR 7,131 crore commitment is the cohort total, not YourNest's allocation. No specific YourNest allocation is asserted here.
Official fund overview ↗ · Published typical investment ↗ · Dated fund news ↗02 / Portfolio
Explore by sector
39 unique entries in the current official portfolio, with 31 marked active and 8 marked exited by YourNest. This public directory is not a complete transaction history: the manager separately reports more investments across its funds. DTT sectors describe the technology, with conventional software, fintech and tech-enabled holdings in Others. Exit labels reproduce the manager's classification and do not establish timing, proceeds or full cash realization.
Energy & Materials 4
Builds compact metal 3D printers, materials and software for industrial manufacturing.
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Builds connected electricity meters and energy-management software for shared housing and other properties.
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Builds battery packs, chargers and controls designed to charge compatible electric vehicles in about 15 minutes.
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Builds digital-twin and battery-intelligence software for monitoring and managing grid-scale energy-storage assets.
Holding source ↗Physical AI 9
Uses sensors under a mattress to monitor vital signs without attaching devices to the patient.
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Uses machine signals and AI to detect faults and support predictive maintenance.
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Connects factory machines to software that tracks output, downtime and maintenance needs.
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Connects industrial equipment to a platform for remote monitoring, device management and analytics.
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Uses AI to analyze industrial equipment data and support maintenance and operational decisions.
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Uses deep learning to interpret live 3D-sensor data for detection, classification and tracking.
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Develops connected wearable devices, apps and monitoring platforms.
Holding source ↗Semiconductors 1
Develops optical interconnects and optoelectronic computing technology for AI and high-performance computing.
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Builds quantum computers and AI software for scientific and industrial computing.
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Develops a reusable medium-lift rocket, with both stages intended to return for reuse.
Holding source ↗Others 23
Aggregates neighborhood broadband providers to make home internet available through public Wi-Fi networks.
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Uses satellite imagery and AI to monitor crops, map fields and support farming decisions.
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Combines geospatial, operational and enterprise data for infrastructure monitoring and analysis.
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Provides business phone numbers, customer-management tools and AI calling agents for small businesses.
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Develops confidential-computing tools that protect data while it is being processed in cloud and AI systems.
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Provides transportation-management software, freight auditing and logistics workflow tools.
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Develops enterprise AI and voice software, including tools for healthcare revenue-cycle work.
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Measures digital consumer behavior to help advertisers understand audiences and media use.
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Develops AI recommendation and personalization software; acquired by media technology company Amagi.
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Provides software for moving and recovering computing workloads across cloud and data-center platforms.
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Offers Hissa software for managing company ownership records, employee stock options and secondary transactions.
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Provides supply-chain finance software for early-payment discounts and vendor payments.
The manager links to a LinkedIn company page rather than a verified standalone company website. Holding source shown instead.
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Uses computer vision for virtual makeup, hair-color trials and personalized beauty recommendations.
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Develops software-defined wide-area networking products to connect enterprise branches and cloud systems.
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Uses data and digital processes to support lending to small and underserved businesses.
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Provides immersive 3D design review and collaboration tools for architecture, engineering and construction.
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Provides food-service and cafeteria technology for workplaces, universities and events.
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Connects rewards programs, merchants and payment services to let customers use rewards at checkout.
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Provides enterprise AI tools for credit, document processing, model oversight and financial workflows.
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Automates testing and change management for enterprise business applications.
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Provides enterprise AI software across data, models, knowledge and business workflows.
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Operated a multilingual parenting content and community platform.
The manager links to a LinkedIn company page rather than a verified standalone company website. Holding source shown instead.
Holding source ↗03 / Team & connect
Investment team
Girish Shivani
Executive Director and Fund Manager
Investment thesis, sourcing and portfolio management
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Sanjay Pande
Director and Fund Manager
Fund management; founder coaching and team development
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Dr. Vivek Mansingh
General Partner
Investment Committee; technical evaluation and portfolio boards
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Venkat Raju
Venture Partner
Dealflow curation, startup selection and portfolio boards
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Vipul Arora
Principal
Term-sheet negotiations, transaction structuring and portfolio analysis
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Ujjwala Amba
Senior Associate
Deal screening, financial analysis and transaction execution
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Shivek Arora
Senior Analyst
Post-investment growth, partnerships and fundraising readiness
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Shivanshu Mishra
Senior Analyst
Deal execution, shareholder rights and portfolio tracking
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Rishabh Mehrotra
Principal
Portfolio growth, go-to-market strategy and operating support
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Bhavesh Gulia
Associate Principal
Portfolio valuation, transaction execution and investment structuring
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Bhargavi Mantri
Senior Analyst
Startup scouting, company evaluation and investment theses
LinkedIn profile ↗17 people with current fund-management, sourcing, investment-execution or portfolio-investment support remit. Each personal LinkedIn profile was opened directly. Titles follow the current official team page; portfolio-growth staff are labeled by their actual work, not presented as investment-committee members. Monika's LinkedIn headline says Manager - Dealflow while the current official page says Lead Manager. General administrative, finance, investor-relations, brand, talent and mentor listings are not automatically included.
Official team and remit ↗04 / Fund network
Limited partners
Named institutional LP relationships and their published vehicles. These entries include government programs investing through named intermediaries, not seven inferred independent legal commitments. Family offices and individuals are mentioned as categories but not given invented identities. Portfolio co-investor logos are not fund LP evidence.
SIDBI / Government of India Ministry of Finance
Fund I and Fund III
The official investor page identifies Ministry of Finance participation through SIDBI in Fund I and names SIDBI again in Fund III.
Investor source ↗IIFL Seed Venture FoF
Fund I
Named explicitly as an institutional investor in Fund I. The vehicle name is retained as published; no unverified successor identity is substituted.
Investor source ↗Northgate Capital
Fund I
The official investor page names Northgate Capital from Silicon Valley as a Fund I participant.
Investor source ↗MeitY / Electronics Development Fund via Canbank Ventures
Fund II
The investor page identifies MeitY participation via Canbank Ventures; the home page names the Electronics Development Fund as Fund II anchor.
Investor source ↗National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF)
Fund III anchor
The official investor page says NIIF invested 20% of the US$75M Fund III corpus. This is the manager's stated vehicle relationship, not a separately audited allocation.
Investor source ↗Max Life Insurance
Fund III
Named explicitly on the official investor page alongside NIIF and SIDBI. No commitment size is published there.
Investor source ↗HDFC AMC Select FOF I
Continuum Fund I anchor
Named on the current home page and in June 2026 continuation-fund close coverage. This is not HDFC Capital, which is separately shown as a portfolio co-investor.
Investor source ↗Research checked 2 November 2026. Public fund statements are not investment advice or confirmation that a fund is accepting applications.