Lightspeed’s Ravi Mhatre & Bejul Somaia on India’s AI opportunity; The rise of NSFW appsHappy Monday! Lightspeed’s top brass has laid out the firm's AI thesis for India. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.
23 Feb, 2026, 07.14 AM IST
Air taxi startup ePlane eyes $40-50 million round, Speciale Invest co-leadsDeeptech investor Speciale Invest is in discussions to co-lead the private round, along with other investors, sources said. The Chennai-bas...
23 Feb, 2026, 06.00 AM IST
IIMA Ventures, Jaivel Aerospace launch fund to back early-stage defence, aerospace startupsIIMA Ventures, backed by IIM Ahmedabad, has partnered with Jaivel Aerospace to launch a new fund supporting early-stage aerospace and defen...
13 Oct, 2025, 10.18 AM IST
Speciale Invest’s Fund III closes at Rs 600 crore; eyes investing in 18-20 deeptech startupsThe new fund, which will invest in sovereign tech and globally scalable IP from India, will hand out cheques of Rs 7 to Rs 10 crore to star...
12 Aug, 2025, 06.00 AM IST
Deeptech startup Plenome Technologies raises Rs 6.5 crore from Indian, global investorsThe IIT Madras-incubated startup bagged the seed funding from Luxembourg-based Ovington Capital, UAE-based AADI, and Manish Gandhi, who has...
25 Jul, 2025, 07.00 PM IST
IIT-incubated startup's air taxis to fly in UAE & Southeast AsiaIIT-Madras incubated ePlane Company partners with Dubai’s Empire Aviation to globalize eVTOL air-taxis and air ambulances across India, UAE...
25 Feb, 2025, 06.11 AM IST
eVTOL player ePlane raises $14 million, anticipates parallel aviation industry & new jobsFounder of the startup and IIT-Madras aerospace engineering professor Satya Chakravarthy told ET that the government's support and announce...
14 Nov, 2024, 05.52 PM IST
Infosys to invest Rs 17 crore in IIT M-incubated spacetech startup GalaxEyeThe cash investment will involve Infosys picking up a minority stake, less than 20%, as part of the series A round to pick up equity and co...
19 Sep, 2024, 07.28 PM IST
Anicut Capital picks up over $6 million from SIDBI startup fundSIDBI is an existing investor in Anicut Capital and has invested in both of its debt funds. The bank had invested Rs 140 crore (about $16.9...
05 Sep, 2023, 04.18 PM IST
BluJ Aero secures $2.25 million in funding led by Endiya PartnersAviation startup BluJ Aero has raised $2.25 million in a seed funding round to develop a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft powe...
27 Jun, 2023, 12.01 AM IST
Speciale Invest launches Rs 200 crore growth fund for follow-on investmentsThe new fund, approved by Sebi, will have an initial investment of Rs 100 crore and a final corpus of Rs 200 crore. It will invest in ‘winn...
05 Apr, 2023, 11.05 AM IST
Seed stage investment firm Speciale Invest raises Rs 286 croreThe firm, which focuses on deep tech and enterprise technologies startups, is looking to back more than 20 companies through pre-seed and s...
06 Apr, 2022, 06.00 AM IST
Flying taxi startup ePlane looks to initiate certification with $5 million fundraiseThe company has tested a scaled-down prototype and expects to have its first cargo plane ready as early as February 2023. A passenger versi...
11 Jan, 2022, 10.41 AM IST
The ePlane Company raises $5 million funding from Speciale Invest, Micelio, othersThe fresh lease of funds would help bolster the hiring of top-tier talent, advance R&D and continue to gain airworthiness provision and ini...
10 Jan, 2022, 02.01 PM IST
ET Startup Awards 2021: FamPay wins the Best on Campus awardFamPay’s product gained traction during the Covid-19 pandemic as it enabled teenagers to own a quasi-digital banking account where parents ...
27 Sep, 2021, 06.30 AM IST
Carbon-fiber startup Fabheads raises Rs 8 crore in pre-Series A funding roundFabheads, a deeptech startup that manufactures carbon fiber parts, will use the funding to strengthen its R&D team, building a global sales...
18 May, 2021, 06.24 PM IST
The ePlane Company raises $1 million to build a flying electric taxiThe funding is expected to help The ePlane Company through the prototype stage of building a flying electric taxi with a range of 200 km an...
03 Mar, 2021, 02.38 AM IST