Led · Series C · May 2026

Skyroot Aerospace is a privately held Indian spacetech company that was valued at $1.1 billion following a nearly $60 million funding round. The financing elevated Skyroot to the status of India's first private spacetech unicorn. Public reporting around the raise focuses on the milestone and valuation. The articles do not provide detailed operating metrics such as revenue, users, or past financing history. Additional product, operational, or financial details were not included in the cited coverage.

Participated · Series C · Jun 2025

Antheia is a biosynthesis company focused on transforming pharmaceutical manufacturing through engineered microorganisms that produce complex active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). The firm employs its advanced biosynthesis platform to generate critical drug ingredients domestically, reducing reliance on fragile global supply chains. Under an ongoing collaboration with the U.S. government’s BioMaP-Consortium, Antheia will scale commercial production of two essential pharmaceutical compounds in the United States. The company positions its technology as a solution to longstanding vulnerabilities in healthcare supply chains and aims to build a more resilient, on-shore source of medicines for the American market. To date, Antheia has secured $21 million in federal project investment dedicated to this initiative, including a recent $9 million expansion award. These funds will be deployed to increase manufacturing capacity and accelerate the company’s path to large-scale commercialization. No additional operating metrics or revenue figures were disclosed in the article.

Participated · Seed · May 2025

GridCARE develops the Energize platform, which uses physics-based AI models to evaluate grid conditions—congestion, outages, weather, and demand fluctuations—in real time to locate underutilized power capacity. The company positions this approach as a way to shorten interconnection timelines for large data centers and AI facilities from years to months by unlocking existing grid capacity. GridCARE reports active projects across more than a dozen markets representing over 2 gigawatts of prospective AI compute capacity and cites a Portland General Electric collaboration that identified a pathway to unlock more than 400 megawatts with 80 megawatts expected online in 2026. Co-founder and CTO Ram Rajagopal is a Stanford professor on leave, and the company emphasizes working collaboratively with utilities. GridCARE frames the market opportunity around a “Time-to-Energize Crisis,” arguing power availability is a growing bottleneck for AI expansion. Financially, the company recently raised a $64 million Series A in an oversubscribed round that materially increased its valuation versus a round less than a year earlier.

Participated · Seed · Jun 2024

CheQ, founded by Aditya Soni in 2022 and based in Bengaluru, operates a platform to help consumers find and manage credit products and to pay credit card bills and EMIs in one place. The product centers on credit card bill payment management and consolidation features for users. The company says it will deploy new funds for general corporate purposes, marketing, growth and expansion. Financially, CheQ reported Rs 2 crore in revenue for the fiscal year ending March 2023 and a loss of Rs 19.4 crore during the same period. The startup is often compared to fintech competitor CRED, which the article notes reported much larger revenues and losses. CheQ is a pre-product B2C credit management platform founded by Aditya Soni in January 2022 and based in Bengaluru. The startup aims to simplify discovery and management of all credit products, giving customers a 360-degree view to track, manage and pay credit payments from one platform. CheQ says it is focused on improving customers' credit health by consolidating scattered credit information and making repayments more intuitive. The company currently operates with a team of about 30 people and plans to grow to roughly 100 employees by the end of the year. CheQ intends to use its newly raised capital to build the team, launch products over the next few months, and invest in technology. The product is still pre-launch and no revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the articles.

Participated · Series A · Jun 2023

Acryl Data provides a community-driven metadata platform and enterprise data catalog with solutions for data discovery, governance, lineage and an observability module called Observe. Its platform is built on the open-source DataHub framework and uses event-driven metadata to reduce catalog maintenance costs and enable trigger-based workflows. Features include real-time data quality monitoring, configurable metadata tests to surface cost-optimization opportunities, and lineage and impact analysis to accelerate resolution of data issues. Acryl plans to add AI features to intelligently curate metadata, suggest business glossary tags, and generate summaries describing catalog characteristics such as reliability and usage. The company has a 25-person workforce and lists customers including Notion, Zendesk, Robinhood, OVO Energy, BetterUp and Riskified; DataHub itself is used by companies like Pinterest, Stripe, Optum, Expedia, Saxo Bank and Peloton. Acryl disclosed a $21M Series A round, bringing total capital raised to $30M. Acryl Data develops a next-generation, stream-based metadata platform that extends the open-source DataHub and includes a developer-friendly data catalog. The platform uses a streaming architecture powered by Apache Kafka and an API-first design to enable DataOps practices, automated policy-based actions on metadata changes, and real-time metadata integration across tools. Its first product is an enterprise-ready SaaS data catalog, currently in private beta, that aims to simplify data discovery and governance across multi-cloud environments. The company emphasizes a DataOps approach and data quality to help central data teams scale and enable reliable data products. Acryl Data was founded by Shirshanka Das and Swaroop Jagadish, who previously led data efforts at LinkedIn and Airbnb respectively, and builds on Das’s work on DataHub and Apache Gobblin. The company announced a $9 million seed raise and is based in Mountain View, California.