Speciale Invest is a pure-play DeepTech VC founded in 2017 that backs science- and engineering-first founders across spacetech, advanced manufacturing, semiconductors, AI infrastructure, batteries, quantum, dual-use defence and life sciences, positioning itself as one of the earliest dedicated DeepTech seed platforms in India. The firm reserves around 60% of its corpus for follow-ons and operates both early-stage and separate growth funds to back deep-science companies from pre-seed through growth, with Growth Fund II making $5–8M bets into deeptech companies that have solved core scientific risk but need patient, execution-focused growth capital to scale.