{"id":987988,"date":"2026-01-27T07:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987988"},"modified":"2026-01-27T07:53:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:23:00","slug":"navam-capital-makes-final-close-of-maiden-fund-at-rs-315-crore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/27\/navam-capital-makes-final-close-of-maiden-fund-at-rs-315-crore\/","title":{"rendered":"Navam Capital makes final close of maiden fund at Rs 315 crore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Navam Capital has closed its maiden fund, Navam Venture Fund-I, at over Rs 315 crore ($35 million), surpassing its original target of Rs 250 crore. The venture capital (VC) firm has already invested in eight startups and plans to back 15-16 in all, Rajeev Mantri, the company\u2019s founder and managing partner, told ET. <\/p>\n<p>Navam focuses on early-stage investments in frontier technologies and science-driven innovation. It\u2019s largely backed by domestic capital, with commitments from family offices, corporate groups, ultra-high-net-worth individuals, and technology founders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navam Capital has closed its maiden fund, Navam Venture Fund-I, at over Rs 315 crore ($35 million), surpassing its original target of Rs 250 crore. The venture capital (VC) firm has already invested in eight startups and plans to back 15-16 in all, Rajeev Mantri, the company\u2019s founder and managing partner, told ET. Navam focuses on early-stage investments in frontier technologies and science-driven innovation. It\u2019s largely backed by domestic capital, with commitments from family offices, corporate groups, ultra-high-net-worth individuals, and technology founders.<\/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-987988","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\/987988","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=987988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}