IAN Group announces Final Close of its Second VC Fund IAN Alpha Fund with US$100 million
New Delhi, 10th Dec’25: IAN Group, the country’s single largest early-stage investment platform, has announced the final close of its 2nd VC Fund - IAN Alpha Fund with US$100 million. The Fund will invest in early-stage companies / MSMEs with strong founders, solving real problems,...
Trishul Space Raises ₹4 Crore in Pre-Seed Funding Round led by IAN Angel Fund
New Delhi, November 10, 2025 — Trishul Space, an advanced rocket propulsion startup developing next-generation liquid rocket engines, has secured ₹4 crore in a pre-seed funding round led by the IAN Angel Fund, with participation from 8X Ventures and ITEL. The capital will fund research...
India’s reforms moment in Science and Technology
Consumer App have scripted a unique success story in India: they are transforming the way we eat, shop, and make payments, thus helping us to embrace technology at an accelerated pace. As they expand geographically, these billion-dollar businesses have also inspired and enabled a new...
How Propelld is trying to solve the specialised education financing problem
About a decade ago, Victor Senapaty, 37, chanced upon a peculiar trend. In a country where education is seen as a path to success, the quantum of education loans outside of, say the top 50 institutes, was nothing to write home about. What surprised Senapaty and...
AI startup Uniphore raises $260 million in Series F from Nvidia, AMD, Snowflake, Databricks
Artificial intelligence (AI) for business platform Uniphore has raised $260 million in a Series F round from global tech majors such as Nvidia, AMD, Snowflake, and Databricks, taking its total funding to $870 million. “Our Series F raise marks an exciting milestone for Uniphore. It is...
Morphing Machines Series A Funding Led by IAN Alpha Fund
Morphing Machines, a Bengaluru-based fabless semiconductor IP company at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), has raised ₹38.36 crore in a Series A funding round led by IAN Alpha Fund, with participation from Speciale Invest, IvyCap Ventures, and Navam Capital. Existing investors from the Seed round include...
India’s next billion-dollar leap
Consumer App have scripted a unique success story in India: they are transforming the way we eat, shop, and make payments, thus helping us to embrace technology at an accelerated pace. As they expand geographically, these billion-dollar businesses have also inspired and enabled a new...
India’s Angel Led Disruption
IAN Group is an early stage investing platform platform that invests in startups from seed to series A. According to Padmaja Ruparel, co founder and senior managing partner at IAN Alpha fund, the early stage is very attractive because innovative solutions are built by entrepreneurs,...
India needs a deeptech fund and not just a startup fund
With the rise of India Stack, UPI and consumer apps, India has rapidly evolved into a digital economy. This has enabled Indians to go online to ease payments, logistics, e-health, etc. While digital-first startups have reshaped the consumer economy and enabled incredible convenience, they depend...
IAN Alpha Fund invests in EndureAir Systems with ₹25 crores
New Delhi, 10th Sep 2025: EndureAir Systems, a deep-tech UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) company & aerial robotic solutions provider, has raised ₹25 crores from IAN Alpha Fund (along with IAN Angel Fund). The capital will be deployed to strengthen EndureAir’s deep-tech drone capabilities for the...