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8X Ventures

  • Precision Manufacturing

    Connectors, thermal systems and rocket engines built to tolerances India has long imported.

  • Electronics & Communication

    Encryption chips, optical interconnects and sensors that move data securely at full speed.

  • Energy

    Clean hydrogen, microwave plasma and copper nanomaterials taking industry off fossil fuels and silver.

  • Biotech

    Engineered enzymes that make chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing cleaner, faster and higher-yielding.

Backing DeepTech founders before the world catches up.

8X Ventures invests in companies building the technological foundations of the next economy.

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Sectors we invest in

  • Precision Manufacturing
  • Electronics & Communication
  • Energy
  • Biotech

The future will not be inherited. It will be engineered.

We back founders turning precision manufacturing, electronics and communication, energy and biotech into companies that matter.

By the Year 2047

India will move from consuming innovation to creating it. From importing progress to inventing the future.

8X Ventures exists to help build them.

Early signals. Serious scale.

  • ₹400+Cr

    Portfolio revenue generated

  • 70+

    Patents across portfolio companies

  • ₹2,000+Cr

    Portfolio order book

  • 17

    DeepTech companies backed

Founders at the Frontier

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  • Cybersecurity
  • Fund I

Pantherun Technologies

Series A stage

High-speed data protection and encryption technology.

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Founder Journey

Capital is available. Conviction is rare.

Discovery

The founders we partner with are rare. We look for them before consensus forms.

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Stage 1 of 7: Discovery. The founders we partner with are rare. We look for them before consensus forms.

Our Team

Operators. Investors. Technologists. Institution builders.

We partner with founders through all stages of their growth journey.

Chirag Gupta

Managing Partner

Leadership positions at 500 Global, Careem (acquired by Uber at $3.1bn), McKinsey, PwC and Korn Ferry, across 11 countries.

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Meet the Team

Our Leadership Board and Mentors

The People Who Bring That Expertise

  • Chirag Gupta

    Managing Partner

    Leadership positions at 500 Global, Careem (acquired by Uber at $3.1bn), McKinsey, PwC and Korn Ferry, across 11 countries.

  • Esha Arya

    Partner & Board Advisor

    Vice-Chairman of JBM Group, a $2.7bn conglomerate operating in 10 countries, where she is involved in executive decisions across automotive, sustainable technologies, AgriTech and DeepTech.

  • Vinod Agarwal

    Partner & Board Advisor

    20+ years across multiple entrepreneurial ventures, with success in the polymer and steel industries, and an active investor worldwide in public and private markets.

  • Ajay Singh Rajput

    Partner & Board Advisor

    25+ years across white goods, plastic processing and petrochemicals. He spearheads several polymers and petrochemicals businesses and has invested in startups across the Middle East, Asia and Europe.

  • Suresh Nanda

    Former MD, ING Private Bank (Dubai)

    Former Head of International Banking at Bank One, Mauritius, and an Independent Director at Multiples Private Equity. Holds a doctorate from IIM Calcutta and an AMP from The Wharton School.

  • Deepak Chitnis

    Chief Designer, Lodha Group

    Leads a team of more than 200. Since 2007 he has driven end-to-end design and championed organisational growth by mentoring leaders and building cross-functional collaboration.

  • Bony Niranjan Dalal

    External Advisor

    An accomplished businessman in Surat whose work spans real estate development and management, asset management and franchising, and an active investor across sectors and stages.

  • Ankit Agarwal

    Head of Fund Management, Globe Capital

    A CA and CFA. He oversees PMS, research, institutional advisory and FII services, along with the firm's proprietary investment and arbitrage strategy.

LP Day · An annual gathering for DeepTech builders

Operators. Investors. Technologists.

LP Day brings together investors, founders, mentors, and ecosystem leaders around the future of DeepTech.

LP Day

Where Capital Meets Conviction

An annual gathering for DeepTech builders, investors, founders, and mentors in one room.

LP Day Highlights

Building something the world is not ready for yet?

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