| | | | | | | | Hi Guest,
November marked a significant step up for India’s DeepTech story, with policy, capital, and technology making positive strides yet again. The Union Government’s new ₹1 lakh crore Research Development and Innovation (RDI) fund is starting to take shape as a major filip for long-cycle financing for R&D heavy ventures, especially in areas like semiconductors, quantum, AI, space, and climate technology. This push is a major boost to both the DeepTech investor ecosystem and startups. This is a clear sign that India is serious about building sovereign IP and scaling deep science from lab to market.
The momentum is mirrored in our own updates this month at Java Capital. We’re excited to welcome Lightspeed Photonics to the Java portfolio, a company building next-generation optical interconnects to power high-performance computing and AI infrastructure. You can also dive deeper into our rationale for investing in the company in our “Why we invested” section.
AgniKul Cosmos also announced a fresh ₹150 crore funding round, further enabling and strengthening its efforts towards reusable satellite launch vehicles. The ePlane Company was featured in The Times of India for targeting its first flight in the next two months and eyeing ambulance certification by 2027. Legistify celebrated its 10th anniversary, marking a decade of transforming enterprise legal operations with technology.
Regards, Team Java | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | SBM Offshore used Preimage to verify a 120,000 sq ft facility in 48 hours, creating a digital model that automated checks, revealed deviations, and sped up decisions by 40%. | | Creddinv recognised Okulo Aerospace as one of India’s drone tech startups revolutionising sectors like agriculture, defence, and logistics through autonomous UAVs and sustainable power innovations. | | | | Oorja Energy’s CEO, Vineet Dravid, and CTO, Prashant Kumar Srivastava, unpacked during an online session how OCV curves reveal true battery behaviour and enhance modelling accuracy. | | The ePlane team visited avionics partner HENSOLDT in Pforzheim, Germany, to strengthen collaboration on advanced air mobility solutions. | | | | ePlane Company's Satya Chakravarthy was given the platform at the Antares Investor Summit to deliver the opening insights on the State of Deep Tech in India. | | CynLr was invited to the ZF Innovation Workshop 2025, held in Chennai, as the only automation-focused solution amongst eight innovative tech suppliers. | | | | Rohin Y, Co-Founder of Lightspeed Photonics, emphasised the importance of aligning design, manufacturing, and market creation to build sustainable depth in India’s tech ecosystem at TiEcon 2025. | | Satya Chakravarthy of Eplane participated and moderated a fireside chat on "Rocket Science to Startup Science," alongside Srinath Ravichandran, CEO of Agnikul Cosmos. | | | | SatLeo Labs was featured in the Times of India on how they have started testing street-level thermal maps in India. | | Resilience AI was featured at the Google for Startups Accelerator AI First Demo Day 2025. | | | | Quash organised an in-person event about AI Agents in Mobile QA for the QA community. | | Quash launched Mahoraga, an agent that uses your mobile app like a real user. It taps, scrolls, types, navigates flows, verifies things, and keeps going even when the app changes. | | | | Karan Shroff, Justin Farren, and Anurag Banerjee from Lightfury Games attended IGDC Chennai. | | Hindu Businessline's Emerging Entrepreneur featured, Akshat, CEO of Legistify, and showcased how Legistify's AI‑first legal ERP is helping streamline contracts, litigation, IP, notices and compliance on one platform. | | | | The Frigate Podcast featured Poonkuzhali Prakash, Director of P & P Metal Alloys. The episode traces her inspiring journey from academic research at BITS Pilani and TERI to leading a top metal-alloy manufacturer. | |
Legistify was awarded "Most Innovative AI Solution for Legal Teams" at the 7th Edition Future of Legal & Compliance Summit & Awards 2025. | | | | | | | | | | LightSpeed Photonics develops innovative optical interconnect technology to enable faster data transfer speeds inside computers and data centres. (Optical interconnects are systems that connect devices such as computers and data centres to each other using light. They are capable of transmitting large amounts of data at very high speeds). The optical interconnects from LightSpeed act as high-speed data superhighways, enabling computing systems to keep up with the exponential growth in data demands.
| | | | | | | | Vinod, our Partner, spoke on a panel sharing his insights on Energy Transition & Climate Tech at the Venture & Capital Conference organised by CAPITALHQ India | |
Vinod will be speaking on fundraising for startups at the Mundhe Banni meetup in Hubballi. | | | | | | | |
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The video tells the complete story of Google's 20+ year AI journey: from their first tiny language model in 2001 through the creation Google Brain, the birth of the transformer, the talent exodus to OpenAI (sparked by Elon Musk's fury over Google’s DeepMind acquisition), and their current all-hands-on-deck response with Gemini. | | Building something exciting, Write to us | | | | | | | | | | | |
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