Investors / India / gradCapital
gradCapital
Venture capital · Bengaluru, India · Asia Pacific
gradCapital funds students who have projects and companies. It offers $300k for full-time projects, $60k for those attending classes on the side, and $1k-$5k no-strings-attached grants to experiment with any idea.
Invests inIndustrial & ManufacturingRobotics & HardwareMobility & Logistics
In its own wordsstudent foundersgrantspre-seedventure capital
Your fit with gradCapital
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Or find every investor that fitsgradCapital lists 2 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Industrial & Manufacturing (33%), Robotics & Hardware (33%) and Mobility & Logistics (33%). 100% of its companies are based in India. It invests most often alongside Boundless Ventures, Crane Venture Partners and Pi Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name gradCapital, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 100% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 3 | 0 |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 33% | 7% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 33% | 1% |
| Mobility & Logistics | 33% | 1% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Boundless Ventures | 1 |
| Crane Venture Partners | 1 |
| Pi Ventures | 1 |
| Turbostart | 1 |
| Version One Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers2100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Boundless Ventures
Compare gradCapital head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with gradCapital| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Nov 2026 | Seed | |
| 25 Feb 2026 | Seed | |
| 18 Feb 2026 | Seed |
Round details for gradCapital
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in gradCapital's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
2 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armatrix builds robotic arms for industrial inspection and maintenance | Industrial & ManufacturingRobotics & Hardware | Feb 2026Seed · 2 rounds | Funding round | |
| Pluto Mobility designs and manufactures vehicles for last mile delivery | Mobility & Logistics | Feb 2026Seed | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- gradcapital.in
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 18 Feb 2026
- Companies checked
- 2
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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