Industrial47 Fund I | 2026 VC Fund

Industrial47

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Status

ACTIVE

Global HQ

Bengaluru, India

Countries of investment

India

Investment stages

Pre-seed
seed

Industries

AI
Fintech
Health Tech
Blockchain

About
Industrial47 is a Bengaluru based venture builder and pre seed and seed fund focused on frontier technologies tied to national security and strategic infrastructure. With a debut fund targeting 15 to 20 companies, it writes 2 to 10 crore rupee cheques into deep tech startups building in space, defence, energy, and advanced manufacturing to fortify India’s supply chains and enable dual use innovation.

Min check size: $240K
Max check size: $1.2M
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Investment Thesis

Industrial47’s thesis is to strengthen India’s strategic ecosystem by backing frontier deep tech in national security and strategic infrastructure, including space systems, defence, energy, maritime intelligence, and advanced manufacturing, at pre seed and seed. It aims to catalyze dual use innovations with global security and economic impact.

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Manager's Experience

Founded by Rahul (Managing Partner), former Major in the Indian Army Reserves and deeptech operator specializing in spacetech and dual-use hardware; Awais Ahmed (Venture Advisor), Founder & CEO of Pixxel (hyperspectral satellite constellation backed by Google and Lightspeed); and Shreevar Rastogi (Technical Advisor), Senior Product Manager at NVIDIA specializing in high-performance computing and AI hardware acceleration.