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Investment thesis
pi Ventures backs early-stage deep-tech and AI companies leveraging cutting-edge scientific and engineering innovation to build defensible IP and solve complex problems. It invests across sectors including artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, energy, life sciences, quantum computing, advanced materials and sustainability. The firm primarily invests at Seed and Series A stages, open to backing startups with no revenue but a strong technological foundation and clear path to scalability. Beyond capital, it takes a 'fill-in-the-blank' approach, supporting portfolio companies with customer discovery, investor connections and leadership hiring. Its primary focus is Indian startups, though it will consider international companies with a strong 'Deep India Connect'.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 6 people
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What they invest in
from 31 of 41 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×17Deep Tech ×14Hardware ×9SaaS ×8Digital Health ×6Enterprise Software ×5Healthtech ×5Medical Devices ×5
HQs:India×15United States×2Singapore×1
Investments · 41 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 32025 · 52024 · 72023 · 12022 · 319 dated
Agnikul Cosmos designs and manufactures orbital-class launch vehicles, including 3D-printed rocket engines, to provide customizable small-satellite launch services.
Deep TechHardwareSpace TechChennai, IN
Srinath Ravichandran(Founder)inMoin SPM(Founder)in
Co-investorsSpeciale InvestAnicut CapitalCelesta CapitalCelesta CapitalDholakia VenturesFundamental VC+9 more
Ahammune develops therapeutic treatments for chronic skin diseases with unmet medical need.
BiotechDeep TechDigital HealthHealthtechMedical Devices
Dr. Krishnamurthy NatarajanDr. Parul Ganju
Co-investorsCapital2BColossa VenturesIdeaspring Capital
Ai Palette is an AI-powered consumer insights platform for CPG brands, using billions of data points from search, social, and e-retail sources to identify trends and generate product and marketing concepts.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureLogistics & Supply ChainMarketing TechMedia & EntertainmentRetail TechSaaSSingapore, SG
Som GanChoudhuri(CEO)inHimanshu Upreti(Cofounder)inSOMSUBHRA CHOUDHURI
Co-investors500 GlobalAgFunderEntrepreneur FirstExfinity VenturesKickstart InnovationSGInnovate+2 more
ArMatrix builds snake-like robotic arms designed to enter confined and hard-to-reach spaces without requiring human entry.
Deep TechHardwareRobotics
Co-investorsBoost VCboundless venturesCrane Venture PartnersgradCapitalInuka Capital
Aule develops autonomous robotic systems for servicing satellites in orbit, targeting in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing (ISAM).
Deep TechRoboticsSpace TechBangalore, IN
Jay Panchal(CEO)inNithyaa Giri(CTO)inHrishit Tambi(COO)in
Co-investorsEntrepreneur FirstTranspose Platform Management
Ottonomy builds autonomous delivery robots (Ottobots) using contextual AI and L4 autonomy for indoor and outdoor last-mile transport across hospitals, labs, pharmacies, manufacturing plants, campuses, and urban areas.
AI & Machine LearningLogistics & Supply ChainRoboticsSanta Monica, US
Hardik Sharma(Director)Ashish Gupta(Director)Pradvot Korupolu Venkata Narasimha(Executive Officer, Director)Ritukar Vijay(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsBranded Strategic HospitalityConnetic Ventures
Clean Electric develops hardware and software solutions for energy storage systems, managing battery design, deployment, and lifecycle management to support the transition to renewable energy.
CleantechEnergyHardwareMobility & TransportationBangalore, IN
Co-investorsIIMA VenturesInfo Edge VenturesKalaari CapitalLok CapitalInfo Edge
Green Aero designs, simulates, manufactures, and tests advanced propulsion systems and engines in-house for next-generation aircraft.
Deep TechDefense TechHardware
Helex is a biotech company whose team specializes in molecular biology, drug delivery, biomedical engineering, and nanotechnology research.
BiotechDigital Health
Rohini Kalvakuntla(Founder)in
Co-investorsSOSV
Immunito AI is an in-silico antibody discovery company that combines artificial intelligence with an in-house biological lab to speed up and improve the discovery of antibodies.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechMedical DevicesBangalore, IN
Aridni Shah(CEO)inTrisha Chatterjee(Co-Founder and CTO)inDr. Aridni Shah(Co-Founder and CEO)in
Co-investorsEntrepreneur First3one4 CapitalAnicut Capital
LightSpeed Photonics builds modular optoelectronic processors and optical interconnects aimed at bandwidth-intensive computing workloads.
Advanced ManufacturingDeep TechMedia & EntertainmentBangalore, IN
Rohin Yelurpati(CEO)inDinesh Natesan(Cofounder)inRohin Kumar
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Co-investors500 GlobalEntrepreneur FirstMerak VenturesgrowX Ventures
LimeChat builds AI-powered chat and messaging infrastructure for ecommerce brands, enabling conversational commerce and customer support across channels like WhatsApp and Instagram.
AI & Machine LearningE-commerceEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Nikhil(Co-Founder)inAniket(Co-Founder)in
Co-investorsStellaris Venture Advisors 2 Llp
Locus provides a logistics optimization and dispatch management platform that helps enterprises make decisions across order-to-delivery operations.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply ChainRetail TechSaaS
Nishith Rastogi(Founder)inGeet Garg(Founder)in
Co-investorsAlpha Wave GlobalExfinity VenturesIngka InvestmentsRocketship.vcGICQualcomm Ventures+2 more
Moonrider is an automotive company developing electric tractors.
AgTechCleantechHardwareMobility & TransportationBangalore, IN
Ravi Kulkarni(Founder)in
Co-investorsAdvantedge Founders
Niramai develops an AI-based, radiation-free thermal imaging medical device (Thermalytix, SMILE-100, and Mythri) for early detection of breast cancer, offering a low-cost, portable, non-invasive screening tool for use in clinics, hospitals, and outreach camps.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtechMedical Devices
Geetha Manjunath(Founder)in
BoardNidhi Mathurin
Co-investors500 GlobalAnkur CapitalAxilor Ventures
Orbitt Space develops propulsion-first satellite platforms designed to operate in Very Low Earth Orbit (180–250 km), including air-breathing electric propulsion, a radiation-hardened satellite bus, and station-keeping and mission operations services.
Deep TechHardwareSpace TechAhmedabad, IN
Christopher Parmar(CEO & Co-Founder)Anupam Kumar(CTO & Co-Founder)
Palette Desktop is a workspace application designed for non-engineering professionals to manage writing, research, planning, operations, and design tasks across shared folders using AI agents.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Co-investorsAcadian Ventures Management, LlcBain Capital VenturesExfinity VenturesKima VenturesLiquid VenturesTin Men Capital+1 more
Pixis builds AI-driven advertising tools for performance marketing teams, offering campaign optimization, creative, and ad strategy solutions.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningMarketing Tech
Vrushali Prasade(Founder)inHari Valiyath(Founder)in
Co-investorsCelesta CapitalCelesta CapitalChiratae VenturesExfinity VenturesPremji InvestSoftBank Vision Fund+4 more
Pranos Fusion Energy develops fusion energy technology combining physics expertise with hardware engineering.
CleantechDeep TechEnergy
Dr Shaurya Kaushal(CEO, Cofounder)Roshan George(COO, Cofounder)
Co-investorsAnkur Capital
Preimage offers a 3D capture and visualization platform that produces 360-degree virtual tours, Gaussian Splat renderings, and viewer analytics for property presentations.
AI & Machine LearningConstruction TechDeep TechMarketing TechPropTech
Siddharth Jha(Founder)in
Co-investorsArka Venture LabsBetter CapitalSprint VcTDV PartnersUpsparks Capital
Quanfluence develops quantum computing systems, including a photonic quantum computer and a coherent Ising machine platform aimed at optimization applications.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechHardwareQuantum ComputingBengaluru, IN
Sujoy Chakravarty(CEO)in
Co-investorsGolden Sparrow Ventures, Llc
Build and evaluation/guardrails platform for LLMs and GenAI reducing hallucinations and risk.
Co-investorsExfinity VenturesNuVenturesTenOneTen VenturesAnorak Ventures
Repello provides autonomous red teaming and security testing for AI applications and agents, detecting vulnerabilities through adversarial attack simulation combined with human-like interaction testing.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Aryaman Behera(Founder and CEO)Naman Mishra(Founder and CTO)
Co-investorsEntrepreneur FirstVenture Highway
SigTuple makes AI100, a digital microscopy device that digitises and analyses blood and urine samples on a single platform, classifying 30+ cell types with visual evidence for pathologist review.
AI & Machine LearningHardwareHealthtechMedical DevicesRoboticsBengaluru, IN
Tathagato Rai Dastidar(Co-founder & CEO)inPranat Bhadani(Founder)in
Co-investorsAccelAxilor VenturesChiratae VenturesTranspose Platform ManagementTrifecta Capital Advisors
Silence Laboratories develops privacy-preserving computation technology, with a team drawing on cryptography, academic, and industry expertise.
CybersecurityData & InfrastructureDeep TechEnterprise Software
Andrei Bytes(CTO, Co-founder)inJay Prakash(CEO, Co-founder)inTony Quek(CSO, Co-founder)inVladyslav Khomenko(Engineering & Cryptography Lead)
Co-investorsKira StudioImToken Ventures
SwitchOn builds DeepInspect, an AI computer-vision platform that performs high-speed visual defect detection and quality inspection on production lines.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningSaaSBengaluru, IN
Aniruddha Banerjee(Founder)
Co-investorsAxilor Ventures
Theranautilus develops nanorobotic technologies for precision diagnosis and treatment of disease, using magnetically controlled nanorobots for targeted, minimally invasive procedures.
Deep TechMedical DevicesRobotics
Co-investorsGolden Sparrow Ventures, Llc
TrueLark provides an AI receptionist and online booking platform that answers missed calls with interactive text conversations and lets patients book appointments over text or on the practice's website around the clock.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthSaaS
Supriya Rao(Founder)inSrivatsan Laxman(Founder)in
Co-investorsElevate Capital
Velmenni develops light communication technology, including LiFi (Light Fidelity), that transmits data wirelessly over the visible and infrared light spectrum as an alternative to congested radio frequencies.
Deep TechHardwareIoT
Deepak Solanki(Founder)in
Wysa for Teams is a mental health SaaS product that delivers emotional wellbeing support to organizations with 200 employees or less through self-guided exercises, anonymous access to reflection spaces, and resources based on cognitive behavioral approaches.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtechMental HealthSaaSWellness & Fitness
Jo Aggarwal(Founder)inHarsh Guptain
Co-investorsChange VenturesHealthQuadW Health Ventures Gp LlcKae Capital
Wysa is an AI-powered digital mental health platform that provides clinically backed behavioral health support through chatbot conversations and guided referrals for individuals, employers, and health systems.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthMental Health
Jo Aggarwal(Founder)inRamakant Vempati(Founder)in
Co-investorsKae CapitalAjax HealthBritish International InvestmentHealthQuadW Health Ventures Gp Llc
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
ArkleenergyNiramaiOpto Electronic ComponentsOrbitt SpaceRedoxSigtupleSwitchonZero Cow Factory
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesAgnikul · thehindu.com · Jul 29, 2026
Quanfluence · x.com · Jul 22, 2026
Armatrix · moneycontrol.com · Jun 2, 2026
Locus · trysignalbase.com · May 3, 2026
Repello · investorsync.in · Mar 28, 2026
Aule Space · evertiq.com · Jan 20, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has pi Ventures made?
- pi Ventures has 41 tracked investments, including 10 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does pi Ventures invest at?
- pi Ventures invests at the Seed, Series A stages.
- What is pi Ventures's typical check size?
- pi Ventures typically writes checks of $250K – $3M.
- What sectors does pi Ventures focus on?
- pi Ventures focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Biotech, Climate Tech, Deep Tech, Energy, New Materials, Quantum Computing, Robotics.
- Where is pi Ventures located?
- pi Ventures is headquartered in India, IN.
- Does pi Ventures lead rounds?
- pi Ventures typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
- Who does pi Ventures co-invest with?
- pi Ventures most often shares deals with Golden Sparrow Ventures, Llc, IIMA Ventures, Entrepreneur First, among 23 tracked co-investors.
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