portfolio company

Agnikul

sector

Aerospace & Defense

•

status

Active

Initial Investment

2023

location

India

Space tech startup that manufactures and launches orbital class rockets for micro and nano satellites.

company overview

Agnikul Cosmos designs and manufactures Agnibaan, a configurable orbital-class launch vehicle for small satellites. Built on 3D-printed engines, the platform is designed to give customers dedicated, on-demand access to space.

Agnikul

Democratizing and Modernizing Space Access: A Conversation with Agnikul Cosmos

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Business Today | Ten Indian deep-tech start-ups that found a spot on the WEF’s top 100 emerging companies

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Economic Times | Agnikul ignites India’s first electric motor-driven semi-cryogenic rocket engine

CNBC TV-18 | Exclusive | Young entrepreneurs lead India's charge in global space race

Solving AI's Data Movement Problem: A Conversation with Eliyan

TechSurge Podcast: Patrick Pilarski: Alberta Plan Co-Author On Reinforcement Learning & AI-Powered Prosthetics

TechSurge Podcast: Gaming Chip Pioneer Raja Koduri on China's AI Cost Advantage and Moving Beyond the GPU

Reflections on Photonics and the AI Data Center

TechSurge Podcast: The Race to Build the Next Trillion-Dollar AI Chip Company

University of Alberta and Deep Tech VC Firm Celesta Capital Launch Partnership to Accelerate Startup Commercialization

Meet Tushar Krishnan: Backing India's Deep Tech Moment

Rodrigo Liang, SambaNova | theCUBE + NYSE Wired: AI Factories

AI’s Inference Economy Is Starting to Take Shape

TechSurge Podcast: The Nobel Winner Who Built Google's Quantum Computer: Why I'm Building NVIDIA of Quantum

Corporate Venturing Insider #127 with Sriram Viswanathan from Celesta Capital

Where Investors Are Betting in AI Hardware

Breaking the AI Power Wall: A Conversation with Powerlattice

Meet Kyle Jackson: Turning Canadian Science Into Scalable Companies

TechSurge Podcast: Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan on 40 Years of Contrarian Bets in Semiconductors

Meet Jennifer Erskine: Building Deep Tech Ambition in Canada

Building the Hardware of the AI Compute Era

TechSurge Podcast: The Moving Bottleneck: Networking, Power, Memory, and the Race to Win AI

TechSurge Podcast: Physical AI, Quantum, and Bio-Innovation: Inside Canada’s Research Frontier

TechSurge Podcast: Google's Chief Technologist on Intelligent Search in the Age of AI

TechSurge Podcast: Battle for the AI Data Center: Deep Dive on the Semiconductor Supercycle with Stacy Rasgon

Founder Q&A: Building the AI Business Partner for SMBs

TechSurge Podcast: The U.S. – China Deep Tech Arms Race

TechSurge Podcast: Rare Earth Rush - Strategic Minerals and Tech's New Resource Wars

Building at the Foundation: The Celesta Capital Deep Tech Thesis

TechSurge Podcast: The US Crypto Awakening

Inside Deep Tech Market: What the Data Tells Us In 2026

TechSurge Podcast: Pixels to Intelligence: The Next Era of Imaging

Helping Founders Build Purpose-Driven Companies: Ambassador Jonathan Kaplan Joins Celesta

TechSurge Podcast: Sovereign AI Stacks: The New Strategic National Resource

What Is Deep Tech? A Playbook for Investors and Founders

TechSurge Podcast: Governing AI Before It Outpaces Us: Safety for Critical Infrastructure

Moving Beyond the Training Tax: How Tensordyne Unlocks Advantage in Inference

TechSurge Podcast: India, The Next Tech Global Superpower?

From Lab to Field: Bringing Molecular Diagnostics to the Point of Need

Looking Past the Hype: Deep Tech Perspectives for 2026

A New Partnership to Fast-Track Research from Lab to Market

Solving the AI Cluster Bottleneck: Inside Upscale AI’s Open-Standards Approach

Unlimited Power: Why We’re Backing PowerLattice

Democratizing and Modernizing Space Access: A Conversation with Agnikul Cosmos

Q&A With Robin Clewley: The Power of Timing, Truth, and Taking Risks

Nicholas Brathwaite Announced as McMaster University’s Next Chancellor

Interconnect in the Age of AI: Investing in Upscale AI

Leading Global and Indian Investors Launch India Deep Tech Investment Alliance

Q&A with Matt Marsh: Investing with Depth, Discipline, and a People-First Perspective

Tonbo Imaging is Building the Future of Battlefield Autonomy

PR Newswire | Normal Computing Announces Tape-Out of World’s First Thermodynamic Computing Chip

Times of India | Tuticorin to get three defense, space tech investments worth more than 5,600cr

Business Today | Ten Indian deep-tech start-ups that found a spot on the WEF’s top 100 emerging companies

The Miner Mag | Auradine Shipped $73M Worth of Bitcoin Miners to MARA in H1 2025

PR Newswire | WEKA Expands India Operations With State-of-the-Art Center of Excellence in Bangalore

Times of India | Differentiations for AI Hardware Vendors

CB Insights | AI agent startups are becoming revenue machines — here are the top 20 ranked

EE Times | Silicon 100 Startups Worth Watching in 2025

Close to the Metal Blog | What Should Your Discuss at Board Meetings?

Scaling Radiology with AI: Inside 5C Network’s Ambitious Vision to Transform Medical Imaging

Celesta Capital Bolsters Leadership Team to Accelerate Deep Tech Growth

Data Center Dynamics | SambaNova launches turnkey AI inference offering for data centers

MARA Fireside: Rajiv Khemani - Auradine, Bitcoin Mining & Silicon Valley Mindset

Fortune | Nokia Helped Build the Mobile World. Now it Wants to Seed the Next One - From Inside Bell Labs

TechSurge Podcast: Open vs. Closed AI: Risks, Rewards, and Realities of Open Source Innovation

Bloomberg | The Company That Wants to Bring Back Supersonic Jet Travel

Forbes | Nokia Bell Labs Is Commercializing Its Historic IP Portfolio, Starting With Heathcare

BusinessLine | Agnikul, CynLr, GalaxEye, ePlane Co Among Indian Start-ups in WEF’s 2025 Tech Pioneers

Silicon Angle | Rewriting the Rules of AI Infrastructure for the Agentic Era

Bitcoin Magazine | Genesis Digital Assets Limited Acquires 1000 Air-Cooled Miners to Mine Bitcoin

TechTarget | Weka Connects Storage AI with New NeuralMesh Architecture

TechSurge Podcast: Betting Early on Zoom, Canva, and Crypto: Inside the Playbook of Visionary Solo VC Bill Tai

BioSpace | Oncology, 2025 Expected to be a ‘Turning Point’

Contagion Live | Nationwide Avian Flu Response Gains Momentum, Yet Urgent Action Remains Essential

TechSurge Podcast: Blueprint for an AI Future - OpenAI Chief Economist on How AI Will Shape the Global Economy

Pulse 2.0 | Crescendo: Interview with CEO Matt Price About the Full-Service CX Company

Why the Next Silicon Valley Might Be Indian