Aman Raj

Software & AI Investor @chirataevc | Seed/Series A investing in India-US | @iitbombay alum | Sharing theses, portfolio lessons & what I’m seeing in the AI world

[Chiratae Ventures @ChirataeVC]

Access to capital shouldn't be a barrier to building and growing a business.

At the 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔, we recognised GetVantage with the Impact in FinTech Award for its work in making growth capital more accessible to India's MSMEs, startups and emerging businesses.

Through its data-driven financing solutions and embedded finance platform, @GetVantage_Co is helping entrepreneurs access capital aligned with their business needs and cash flows, moving beyond traditional lending models.

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[Aman Raj @amanvoid]

Fair point on the risk appetite. We’ve been trying to do more of the hard stuff too.
In the last year and a half we’ve put two meaningful deeptech bets.

TakeMe2Space… we led their $5M seed. They’re building orbital data centres — satellites where you can actually run AI models and process Earth observation data in orbit instead of dumping raw files back to Earth.

Quanfluence… we led their $10M. Full-stack photonic quantum computing company. Designing their own chips, electronics and software, aiming for something that can eventually work without extreme cooling. Early processors targeted for 2027.

Still early, but doing our bit to fund frontier innovations from India 🇮🇳

[Ashlee Vance @ashleevance]

Why are Indian VCs so afraid to take risk and make money?

Someone should go to India and take risk and make money.

Our story - https://t.co/SvpOrKT0Fx

[Aman Raj @amanvoid]

@nakulreddy196 Don’t know about earlier but currently NQM is indeed exploring parallel architectures. They hv been incredibly supportive.

[Aman Raj @amanvoid]

We spent several months working deeply on this investment, and it is a very special moment to finally see it out in the world. When we first met Sujoy and the team, we knew immediately that this was a company we had to champion at Chiratae.

Building physical quantum hardware is not an easy path, but their approach made complete sense. Most quantum computers need huge, expensive freezing machines just to stay stable. Quanfluence is building a computer that runs on particles of light instead. By using light, they skip the extreme freezing requirement, which makes the computer much more practical to actually build and scale.

They design the physical chips, the control electronics, and the software from the ground up, right here at home. It takes a very rare mix of skills in physics, hardware, and software to pull this off, and this team has it.

Leading this investment is a privilege and we firmly believe this founding team will put India at the center of the global quantum landscape. Incredibly proud to partner with Sujoy, Biman, Ravi and the entire Quanfluence team! 🚀🚀

@ChirataeVC @venkypeddi

[Chiratae Ventures @ChirataeVC]

We're excited to lead Quanfluence's $10M round, alongside Rainmatter by Zerodha and existing investor pi Ventures.

Sujoy Chakravarty and team are building a full-stack photonic quantum computer in India, from indigenously designed photonic chips to control electronics and software, with the long-term goal of a fault-tolerant, general-purpose quantum computer. The founding team brings rare depth across photonics, semiconductors and quantum research, the combination this problem demands.

We believe Quanfluence can help strengthen India’s position in the global quantum computing landscape.

@amanvoid @venkypeddi @_TanviD @Inc42
https://t.co/wSZOKq15OW

[Inc42 @Inc42]

Bengaluru-based quantum computing startup Quanfluence has raised $10 Mn to build its full-stack photonic quantum computer. 👇

Led by @ChirataeVC , the round also saw participation from @Rainmatterin by Zerodha and existing backer Pi Ventures. The startup will use the funds to develop an integrated system combining photonic chips, control electronics and software.

Founded in 2021, Quanfluence is targeting early processors by 2027 and larger, scalable quantum machines by 2029. Its optical Ising machine is already commercialised, with three machines sold and paid pilots with 10–15 corporations.

🔗 Quanfluence is taking its photonic quantum computing technology from research towards commercialisation. Read the full story here: https://t.co/yZeqAbCGRK

#Quanfluence #QuantumComputing #DeepTech #Fundraise #News

[ETtech @ETtech]

💰Bengaluru-based deeptech startup Quanfluence has raised $10 million in a funding round led by Chiratae Ventures, as it looks to build a full-stack photonic quantum computer that combines photonic chips, control electronics and software into a single system.

[Chiratae Ventures @ChirataeVC]

We're excited to lead Quanfluence's $10M round, alongside Rainmatter by Zerodha and existing investor pi Ventures.

Sujoy Chakravarty and team are building a full-stack photonic quantum computer in India, from indigenously designed photonic chips to control electronics and software, with the long-term goal of a fault-tolerant, general-purpose quantum computer. The founding team brings rare depth across photonics, semiconductors and quantum research, the combination this problem demands.

We believe Quanfluence can help strengthen India’s position in the global quantum computing landscape.

@amanvoid @venkypeddi @_TanviD @Inc42
https://t.co/wSZOKq15OW

[Entrackr @entrackr]

#Funding: Chiratae Ventures leads $10 Mn round in photonic quantum startup Quanfluence

✍️ @Gyantap
https://t.co/PPm2z4upn8

[Aman Raj @amanvoid]

Some interesting numbers from ICONIQ 2026 State of Scaling: The Great Sorting report!

They tracked 137 software companies and split out a cohort it calls 'Pacesetters'.

> Median age of cos is six years with 60% AI-native and 70% on hybrid or usage-based pricing.

> The chart breaks down where each group’s new revenue in a year actually comes from: brand-new customers, or more spend from customers they already had.

> For Pacesetters, over 70% comes from brand-new customers. For everyone else it is about 54% (below $100M of revenue) and 46% for those above it which means the older companies now get most of their growth by selling more to their existing base.

> Separately, Pacesetters hold net dollar retention of 120–130% against 99–102% for the rest. So the fast companies are not growing on expansion instead of new logos, they are doing both, and new logos still dominate.

[Aman Raj @amanvoid]

@tm2space Godspeed🚀

[TakeMe2Space @tm2space]

MOI-1a Update: We finally made it to orbit onboard a orbital transfer vehicle (OTV) depoyed at T+01:02:10 from Transporter-18 mission of Falcon-9 SpaceX. https://t.co/a1kt6HId1b supported us across every critical phase of MOI-1a launch journey.

Next stop, on 10th Oct we get injected into orbit by the OTV. Post that 90-minutes of phoenix period (no operations) and then the operations begin.

Stay tuned for updates on mission.

#ai #space #dataCentersInSpace #isro #india

[Aman Raj @amanvoid]

Super super proud of @rokrsa and the whole @tm2space team today as MOI-1a reaches orbit aboard the orbital transfer vehicle on @SpaceX. It gets deployed in the next few days, and from thereon it forever changes how space-data compute happens !! 🚀🚀@ranjith_menon @ChirataeVC

[Pawan K Goenka @GoenkaPk]

Genuinely big day for India's private space sector. SpaceX's Transporter 18 is carrying two Indian satellites and an Indian hosted payload into orbit, all authorised by IN-SPACe.
Among them, @satleolabs TAPAS-1, India's first commercial thermal imaging payload built by a private company. Thermal sensing picks up what ordinary optical cameras cannot, from crop stress to forest fires to urban heat. A new layer of Earth intelligence, now opened up by Indian industry.
Alongside it, @tm2space's MOI-1A brings AI computing to orbit, running models on the satellite itself, and @DhruvaSpace's LEAP-2 flies four payloads, demonstrating its platform for hosting others in space.
Orbital computing, thermal intelligence, and a homegrown hosting platform, all on a single flight. This is the range and ambition of India's private space ecosystem today.
Congratulations to all three teams. Wishing you a clean deployment and a long innings in orbit. @isro @INSPACeIND @PMOIndia

[Aman Raj @amanvoid]

@rajeshsawhney Checkout @tm2space

[Aman Raj @amanvoid]

@CalmInvestor Time for a similar analysis now!

[Aman Raj @amanvoid]

Some journeys you don’t get to be part of, but you get the privilege of watching closely.

Watching @venkypeddi and our team celebrate @rentomojo's listing today is one of those moments.

I wasn’t around for the RentoMojo investment, but working with Venkatesh has given me a glimpse into the kind of investor he has been for the company - there through the good years, and through the many years of building along the way.

This is a special one, watching someone that I work closely with celebrate a journey like this.

And, of course, none of this without the vision, grit and years of building by Geetansh.

Congratulations Venky, here's to many more! @ChirataeVC

[Aman Raj @amanvoid]

@ThisCouldBeAas Fly to deoghar!

[Aman Raj @amanvoid]

@GhaiVibhor 12,666 crore is the post money valuation, while ~10,300 crore, the current mcap, is pre-money valuation.

Read a little for once

[Aman Raj @amanvoid]

Bangalore rains finally

[Aman Raj @amanvoid]

@shantanugoel Same thoughts the moment I read it!

[Aman Raj @amanvoid]

@kinshuk_soperna check it out here: https://t.co/rQyurzb539

[Aman Raj @amanvoid]

Looking at Ramp’s AI Index data this morning. It measures what US businesses actually pay for AI, using card and bill-pay transactions across roughly 70,000 companies. Its price index tracks the effective, blended cost of a million tokens.

Some interesting finds here: