Aman Raj

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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 🇮🇳

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

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.

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

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

Bangalore rains finally

Samsung’s social media team working overtime today xD #appleevent

Haha, knew something like this was coming!

Excited about live recap and Siri Recap features in the new apple watch, going to be a life-saver! #appleevent