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Navam Capital held our Annual Day on November 13 in Mumbai at the iconic Ballard Pier, convening founders, entrepreneurs, senior policymakers as well as business leaders and technologists.
Over the course of the day, we were privileged to host:
- Rajesh Pathak, Secretary, Technology Development Board, @IndiaDST, Government of India
- @sanjeevsanyal , Member, @EACtoPM
- @S_Ramadorai, former CEO and MD of @TCS @TataCompanies
- @tarunsmehta, co-founder and CEO of @atherenergy
- @neelkanthmishra, chief economist, @AxisBank and chairman, @UIDAI
It was wonderful to catalyze the right industry and business connects for our portfolio companies, and ignite conversations and discussions that have continued after the Annual Day concluded!
A special thanks to the 125+ individuals across communities, from @navamcapital portfolio company founders and executives, to fund investors, representatives from Indian industry, legal advisors and consultants as well as friends, collaborators and partners from the startup and venture ecosystem who came together to make the Annual Day a success!
We look forward to hosting everybody again at next year’s program!
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>@navamcapital held our Annual Day 2026 on October 12 in Kolkata, convening founders, scientists, senior policymakers, investors, business leaders and technologists.
Over the course of the day, we were privileged to host:
– Dr Swapan Dasgupta, Hon. Finance Minister, Government of West Bengal @swapan55
– Dr Sudhir Jain, former Vice Chancellor, Banaras Hindu University and former Director, IIT Gandhinagar @SudhirJainIITGN
– Ashish Dhawan, founder of ChrysCapital, founder-chairman of The Convergence Foundation @AshishDhawanTCF
– Manish Sabharwal, co-founder of TeamLease
Hon. Finance Minister @swapan55 took particular interest in meeting the founders, hearing what they are building and inviting them to come to West Bengal as they scale up their manufacturing efforts!
40+ deep tech founders and executives from across India, drawn from over 20 startups showcased their work through the day, alongside closed-door sessions and direct engagement between industry leaders, our investee companies and Navam's fund investors! We also convened academia and institutional leaders from @iiserkol @IITKgp @IIMCIP @tcgcrestuniv in special sessions to meet with other attending incubators and institutional partners.
It was wonderful to catalyze the right industry and business connects for our portfolio companies, and ignite conversations that have continued well after the Annual Day concluded.
A special thanks to the 200+ individuals across communities, from @navamcapital portfolio founders and executives to investors, industry and academia, legal advisors and consultants, and friends and partners from the startup and venture ecosystem, who participated in the program and made the day a success!
We look forward to hosting everybody again at next year’s program!
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Navam Capital's Annual Day 2026 will be held this year in Kolkata, on October 12 – like last year xitter.cf/navamcapital/status/19…, we shall convene Navam portfolio founders, industry leaders, senior policymakers and leading scientists for deliberations and discussions on the fast-evolving deep tech opportunity in India.
Kolkata has a unique position as the cradle of Indian science and industry - and we are thrilled to bring the best of deep tech to the city!
Registration link: luma.com/phdpefe3
C2i Semiconductors was founded in 2024. Two years on, Infineon, Germany's largest semiconductor company, has agreed to acquire it!
@NavamCapital invested in C2i's Series A round alongside Yali Capital, @peakxvpartners and others.
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C2i founders Ram Anant, Preetam Tadeparthy, Vikram Gakhar and B.S. Dattatreya went after a constraint that the AI build-out has made unavoidable: as accelerators draw more current and switch loads faster, the bottleneck migrates from the processor to the power delivered to it.
C2i's solution is a software-defined voltage regulator platform: the Manas controller and the Sarayu smart power stage, architected, taped out and validated in Bengaluru. The received wisdom holds that India carries out only supporting work for the global semiconductor industry: verification, layout and physical design for architectures is done elsewhere. C2i has shown what is possible.
The intellectual property was created here, and a global incumbent has acquired the company that developed it. IP-differentiated deep tech, built by top tier talent that chose to build in India, funded by patient risk capital at the point of maximum technical risk.
Taking just two years from incorporation to acquisition by one of the world's leading power semiconductor firms is not good fortune - it speaks to the quality of work done by the C2i team!
C2i Semiconductors is an early example of what is going to unfold - India will not merely assemble and test what others design. It will design what others buy. Every outcome of this kind grows the pool of founders willing to take a swing, and expands the pool of capital willing to fund them.
Congratulations to C2i founders Ram Anant, Preetam Tadeparthy, Vikram Gakhar and B.S. Dattatreya, as well as the entire C2i team!
Navam Capital's Annual Day 2026 will be held this year in Kolkata, on October 12 – like last year xitter.cf/navamcapital/status/19…, we shall convene Navam portfolio founders, industry leaders, senior policymakers and leading scientists for deliberations and discussions on the fast-evolving deep tech opportunity in India.
Kolkata has a unique position as the cradle of Indian science and industry - and we are thrilled to bring the best of deep tech to the city!
Registration link: luma.com/phdpefe3
Navam Capital held our Annual Day on November 13 in Mumbai at the iconic Ballard Pier, convening founders, entrepreneurs, senior policymakers as well as business leaders and technologists.
Over the course of the day, we were privileged to host:
- Rajesh Pathak, Secretary, Technology Development Board, @IndiaDST, Government of India
- @sanjeevsanyal , Member, @EACtoPM
- @S_Ramadorai, former CEO and MD of @TCS @TataCompanies
- @tarunsmehta, co-founder and CEO of @atherenergy
- @neelkanthmishra, chief economist, @AxisBank and chairman, @UIDAI
It was wonderful to catalyze the right industry and business connects for our portfolio companies, and ignite conversations and discussions that have continued after the Annual Day concluded!
A special thanks to the 125+ individuals across communities, from @navamcapital portfolio company founders and executives, to fund investors, representatives from Indian industry, legal advisors and consultants as well as friends, collaborators and partners from the startup and venture ecosystem who came together to make the Annual Day a success!
We look forward to hosting everybody again at next year’s program!
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Navam Capital retweeted
World's first OptoSAR satellite of @GalaxEye almost made it. And I want to tell that story honestly.
Mission Drishti reached orbit and earned accolades that meant the world to us. For a few weeks, we watched something we had built with our own hands come alive above the planet. Then, after those early weeks of operations, Drishti stopped performing the way we had dreamed it would.
I won't dress that up. It hurts. But here is the truth we're holding onto: what this mission taught us, we could not have learned any other way. We were bold enough to try. We got achingly close to bringing a breakthrough technology to the world. And the demand and excitement OptoSAR has already stirred only makes us more certain about where this is headed.
As I said before, Mission Drishti was never the destination — it was the beginning. We are now on our way to launching the next two satellites, 300 kg class, in the next 20–24 months.
To our beloved team, to our families who carried us through the long nights, to IN-SPACe, to the investors, to the government, and to every single person who believed in us: thank you. We could not be more grateful. Building from India, for the world, was never going to be easy. We came so close. And we will make it happen again — sooner than you think!🚀
Read more - galaxeye.space
Navam Capital retweeted
Mission Drishti was an audacious endeavour. Years of relentless effort culminated in a single satellite carrying not just technology, but the aspirations of countless people. It reached its intended orbit, but unfortunately could not become fully operational.
That is the nature of space exploration. It is an unforgiving pursuit where uncertainty is part of the journey. More importantly, every setback is an opportunity to learn, improve, and come back stronger.
My compliments to the entire team @GalaxEye, not only for the extraordinary effort, but also for their transparency and honesty in communicating what went wrong. That openness is what builds trust, accelerates learning, and defines a mature spacefaring culture.
Looking forward to the next launch.
#space #india #shux #galaxeye #shubhanshushukla
Today, @GalaxEye successfully launched India’s largest private sector built satellite as part of Mission Drishti – it is the world's first OptoSAR imaging satellite setting a new benchmark in Earth observation, built for precision and reliability from day one.
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A huge milestone for space tech in India. Navam Capital is proud to be an early backer of this pioneering space tech venture.
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Separation Confirmed!
The world's first OptoSAR Satellite is now in space.
Made in India for the world.
Go Drishti! Go @GalaxEye! Go India!
🚨 On the occasion of India's 77th Republic Day, we are delighted to announce that @navamcapital has successfully closed its maiden venture fund with a corpus of Rs 315 crore! With a target corpus of Rs 250 crore, Navam Venture Fund - I has been oversubscribed and received strong demand from a wide investor base of leading technology company founders, major family offices, and ultra high networth business leaders and business owners.
@navamcapital was founded over 15 years ago on the conviction that India’s economic transformation into a prosperous, wealthy nation with advanced capabilities in strategic domains will be driven not by replication of global business models, but by inventiveness, new knowledge creation and research commercialization – over the years, Navam has been a consistent backer of exactly such engineering-led innovation.
We shall maintain that thesis focus, backing IP-differentiated ventures and science-driven innovation in sectors such as aerospace, advanced electronics and semiconductor chip design, climate tech, robotics, industrial automation, biotech and materials science. More information on our portfolio is available at: navamcapital.com/portfolio-c…
We look forward to investing in the best of deep technology product companies being built in India for global markets, and supporting them through the life cycle with not just capital but B2B / industry connects too🤝
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📰 @vccircle coverage:
Navam Capital’s Maiden Fund Oversubscribed At Final Close vccircle.com/navamcapital-s-…
📰 @DealStreetAsia coverage: Navam Capital exceeds target to close maiden fund at $35m dealstreetasia.com/stories/n…
Two of @navamcapital's portfolio companies, chip design venture Morphing Machines and robotics startup Unbox Robotics, are emerging as category leaders in their sectors and have attracted growth capital!
>@iiscbangalore semiconductor spinout @morphingm closed a Series A financing of Rs 38 crores and is on its way to taping out an Indian-designed chip later this year: inc42.com/buzz/semiconductor…
Warehouse automation leader @RoboticsUnbox has closed a Series B financing of Rs 243 crore and is globalizing rapidly, drawing over 95% of revenue from international markets. Unbox Robotics, which is growing profitably, has drawn premier venture and PE funds from the Indian and US ecosystem to scale up: economictimes.indiatimes.com…
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🚨 Navam Capital announces its latest investment in advanced electronics and semiconductor venture, SecureMachines.
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📣 @navamcapital is delighted to lead the seed round financing of SecureMachines, an Indian deep-tech startup at the forefront of innovation in advanced electronics and semiconductors.
SecureMachines is building certified security hardware devices designed for the post-quantum era. SecureMachines’ flagship product, Prastaara, is a cryptographically agile Hardware Security Module (HSM) that combines Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) with robust physical protections - enabling forward compatibility, compliance, and long-term resilience for IT and digital infrastructure.
With quantum computing on the horizon, hardware is becoming the new frontier of cybersecurity. We believe SecureMachines, founded by a stellar team of semiconductor engineers, is poised to play a foundational role in securing the digitalized and connected world.
We are thrilled to back this bold vision in a key frontier tech area of strategic national importance. 🔐🌐
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Announcing our first AI investment: @FrinksAI is building foundational vision models for industrial automation and quality control.
Founded by three engineers from @IITHyderabad, Frinks AI has developed best-in-class visual inspection to power @makeinindia and manufacturing 🏭
We are delighted to invest with @Primevp_in and @ChirataeVC to support Frinks AI in its mission!
📰 links:
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📣 We are delighted to announce our latest investment, in drone tech leader Vayudh @BotLabDynamics’s $10M financing round, with Dharana Capital, Mathew Cyriac’s Florintree Advisors, and @deepigoyal.
More here: inc42.com/buzz/dronetech-sta…
>@navamcapital portfolio company @GalaxEye has raised a further Rs 17 crore from Infosys, marking the IT bellwether’s first strategic investment, via its Innovation Fund, in India’s space technology industry
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>@GalaxEye is also partnering with @SpaceX to launch its Drishti satellite 🛰️
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