Navam Capital

Navam Capital held our Annual Day on November 13 in Mumbai at the iconic Ballard Pier, convening founders, entrepreneurs, senior policymakers as well as business leaders and technologists.

Over the course of the day, we were privileged to host:

- Rajesh Pathak, Secretary, Technology Development Board, @IndiaDST, Government of India
- @sanjeevsanyal , Member, @EACtoPM
- @S_Ramadorai, former CEO and MD of @TCS @TataCompanies
- @tarunsmehta, co-founder and CEO of @atherenergy
- @neelkanthmishra, chief economist, @AxisBank and chairman, @UIDAI

It was wonderful to catalyze the right industry and business connects for our portfolio companies, and ignite conversations and discussions that have continued after the Annual Day concluded!

A special thanks to the 125+ individuals across communities, from @navamcapital portfolio company founders and executives, to fund investors, representatives from Indian industry, legal advisors and consultants as well as friends, collaborators and partners from the startup and venture ecosystem who came together to make the Annual Day a success!

We look forward to hosting everybody again at next year’s program!

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>@navamcapital held our Annual Day 2026 on October 12 in Kolkata, convening founders, scientists, senior policymakers, investors, business leaders and technologists.

Over the course of the day, we were privileged to host:

– Dr Swapan Dasgupta, Hon. Finance Minister, Government of West Bengal @swapan55
– Dr Sudhir Jain, former Vice Chancellor, Banaras Hindu University and former Director, IIT Gandhinagar @SudhirJainIITGN
– Ashish Dhawan, founder of ChrysCapital, founder-chairman of The Convergence Foundation @AshishDhawanTCF
– Manish Sabharwal, co-founder of TeamLease

Hon. Finance Minister @swapan55 took particular interest in meeting the founders, hearing what they are building and inviting them to come to West Bengal as they scale up their manufacturing efforts!

40+ deep tech founders and executives from across India, drawn from over 20 startups showcased their work through the day, alongside closed-door sessions and direct engagement between industry leaders, our investee companies and Navam's fund investors! We also convened academia and institutional leaders from @iiserkol @IITKgp @IIMCIP @tcgcrestuniv in special sessions to meet with other attending incubators and institutional partners.

It was wonderful to catalyze the right industry and business connects for our portfolio companies, and ignite conversations that have continued well after the Annual Day concluded.

A special thanks to the 200+ individuals across communities, from @navamcapital portfolio founders and executives to investors, industry and academia, legal advisors and consultants, and friends and partners from the startup and venture ecosystem, who participated in the program and made the day a success!

We look forward to hosting everybody again at next year’s program!

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C2i Semiconductors was founded in 2024. Two years on, Infineon, Germany's largest semiconductor company, has agreed to acquire it!

@NavamCapital invested in C2i's Series A round alongside Yali Capital, @peakxvpartners and others.

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C2i founders Ram Anant, Preetam Tadeparthy, Vikram Gakhar and B.S. Dattatreya went after a constraint that the AI build-out has made unavoidable: as accelerators draw more current and switch loads faster, the bottleneck migrates from the processor to the power delivered to it.

C2i's solution is a software-defined voltage regulator platform: the Manas controller and the Sarayu smart power stage, architected, taped out and validated in Bengaluru. The received wisdom holds that India carries out only supporting work for the global semiconductor industry: verification, layout and physical design for architectures is done elsewhere. C2i has shown what is possible.

The intellectual property was created here, and a global incumbent has acquired the company that developed it. IP-differentiated deep tech, built by top tier talent that chose to build in India, funded by patient risk capital at the point of maximum technical risk.

Taking just two years from incorporation to acquisition by one of the world's leading power semiconductor firms is not good fortune - it speaks to the quality of work done by the C2i team!

C2i Semiconductors is an early example of what is going to unfold - India will not merely assemble and test what others design. It will design what others buy. Every outcome of this kind grows the pool of founders willing to take a swing, and expands the pool of capital willing to fund them.

Congratulations to C2i founders Ram Anant, Preetam Tadeparthy, Vikram Gakhar and B.S. Dattatreya, as well as the entire C2i team!

Navam Capital's Annual Day 2026 will be held this year in Kolkata, on October 12 – like last year x.com/navamcapital/s…, we shall convene Navam portfolio founders, industry leaders, senior policymakers and leading scientists for deliberations and discussions on the fast-evolving deep tech opportunity in India.

Kolkata has a unique position as the cradle of Indian science and industry - and we are thrilled to bring the best of deep tech to the city!

Registration link: luma.com/phdpefe3

🚨 On the occasion of India's 77th Republic Day, we are delighted to announce that @navamcapital has successfully closed its maiden venture fund with a corpus of Rs 315 crore! With a target corpus of Rs 250 crore, Navam Venture Fund - I has been oversubscribed and received strong demand from a wide investor base of leading technology company founders, major family offices, and ultra high networth business leaders and business owners.

@navamcapital was founded over 15 years ago on the conviction that India’s economic transformation into a prosperous, wealthy nation with advanced capabilities in strategic domains will be driven not by replication of global business models, but by inventiveness, new knowledge creation and research commercialization – over the years, Navam has been a consistent backer of exactly such engineering-led innovation.

We shall maintain that thesis focus, backing IP-differentiated ventures and science-driven innovation in sectors such as aerospace, advanced electronics and semiconductor chip design, climate tech, robotics, industrial automation, biotech and materials science. More information on our portfolio is available at: navamcapital.com/portfolio-comp…

We look forward to investing in the best of deep technology product companies being built in India for global markets, and supporting them through the life cycle with not just capital but B2B / industry connects too🤝

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