{"id":1005024,"date":"2026-04-27T08:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T03:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005024"},"modified":"2026-04-27T09:08:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T03:38:57","slug":"capital-a-secures-first-close-of-rs-160-crore-for-fund-ii-bets-on-manufacturing-deeptech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/27\/capital-a-secures-first-close-of-rs-160-crore-for-fund-ii-bets-on-manufacturing-deeptech\/","title":{"rendered":"Capital-A secures first close of Rs 160 crore for Fund II; bets on manufacturing, deeptech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Capital-A, an operator-led venture capital firm focused on manufacturing and deeptech, secured the first close of its second fund at Rs 160 crore, as it looks to back early-stage startups across aerospace, robotics, energy transition, and industrial hardware, among sectors. <\/p>\n<p>The fund is targeting a base corpus of Rs 300 crore, with a greenshoe option of Rs 100 crore. <\/p>\n<p>The first close was anchored largely by domestic investors such as Srikar Reddy of Sonata Software, Siddharth Bafna of Lodha &amp; Co; Sekhar Boddu, a former Amazon technology director; Chamaria Group, Steel House Family Office, Avyay Jhunjhunwala,founder of Enzo Developers, family office of Vijayalakshmi Agarbathi Works, and the Anand Rathi Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capital-A, an operator-led venture capital firm focused on manufacturing and deeptech, secured the first close of its second fund at Rs 160 crore, as it looks to back early-stage startups across aerospace, robotics, energy transition, and industrial hardware, among sectors. The fund is targeting a base corpus of Rs 300 crore, with a greenshoe option of Rs 100 crore. The first close was anchored largely by domestic investors such as Srikar Reddy of Sonata Software, Siddharth Bafna of Lodha &amp; Co; Sekhar Boddu, a former Amazon technology director; Chamaria Group, Steel House Family Office, Avyay Jhunjhunwala,founder of Enzo Developers, family [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005050,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005024\/revisions\/1005050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}