AI-first venture capital backing India's next generation of category-defining deep-tech companies.
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SilverX Venture Partner Nanda Kodimyala joined the reactor panel at Founders Network’s #SFTechWeek evening on October 6, where VC-backed #AI founders pitched to a packed room at Salesforce Tower, San Francisco, with the Bay as the backdrop.
Evenings like this keep #SilverX close to how the best #AIstartups are being built, and to the #founders building them.
#VentureCapital #DeepTech
A #VentureCapital fund typically runs seven to ten years, and LPs now judge it less on value on paper (TVPI, IRR) and more on cash actually returned (#DPI).
Kaustubh Savant traces the lifecycle from raising capital to returning it, and why exit strategy now has to be planned at the time of investment. The defining shift: from valuation creation to value realisation.
Read it here: zurl.co/4bBF7
On #Vijayadashami, here’s to clarity of purpose and the courage of conviction. Wishing founders, partners and the wider #StartupIndia community a very #HappyDussehra from #SilverXFund.
#SilverXFund sources deals through research labs, partner networks, research-led outreach, its incoming pipeline and founder networks, then asks how it can add value before it invests: strategy, fundraising, hiring, compute and partners on call.
Because in #VentureCapital, when access is commoditized, capability becomes the principal metric.
Read the full note: silverx.vc/research/where-si…
Most #DeepTech pitches sound convincing in the first thirty minutes, which is exactly why #SilverXFund slows judgement down. Every deal faces one test: can it reach ₹1,000 Cr in revenue within 5 to 8 years?
From an AI-scored first pass to six hard questions and a nine-step #traction ladder, AI does the groundwork and partners make the call at the IC.
How SilverX evaluates #startups: silverx.vc/research/how-we-e…
#DurgaPuja in #Kolkata shows what happens when culture, craft and commerce come together at city scale.
At Bengal: The Next Chapter, Ajay Jain, Founder & Managing Partner, joined founders, investors and operators, and #SilverXFund signed an MoU with AIC Techno to back #startups from the region and the wider #VentureCapital ecosystem.
SilverX Fund is opening the doors to its #DealRoom. Inside SilverX’s Deal Room is a new monthly webinar series and part of the fund’s knowledge-sharing effort.
Each session gives a small invited group a sneak peek inside the SilverX startup funnel, walking through three live opportunities from first look to investment call: how each one was sourced, how it was assessed and how the team builds conviction.
#VentureCapital #DeepTech
A camera built for better #SatelliteImagery could end up in #Healthcare, industrial inspection or #AutonomousSystems. In #DeepTech, the problem a technology was first built to solve rarely sets the limit on where it ends up.
That's why investors need to understand the science itself, not just the first market it targets, and why staying close to the research labs where these technologies begin matters so much for #VentureCapital.
Indian #DeepTech companies rarely struggle to raise their first cheque. The climb gets steep at #SeriesB, just when they need to fund production lines, certification and #Manufacturing scale.
Development timelines often outlast a 7–10 year fund life, and capital stays concentrated: about 64% of India's 2025 #DefenceTech #VentureCapital went to just three rounds.
Closing the gap takes patient, structured #GrowthCapital, money released against technical milestones, and anchor buyers who turn market risk into execution risk. That's the stage where India's next generation of #FrontierTech companies will be decided.
#IndiaDeepTech #Startups
Plenty of #DeepTech companies have brilliant technology and still stall, usually because one piece is missing. The lab breakthrough has the science but no buyer yet. The subsidy darling works only while incentives last.
The fast follower is easy to copy, and the nice-to-have can be sourced elsewhere. The companies that last tend to have all four in place: a chokepoint they own, a scientific moat, sovereign demand and a business that stands without subsidies.