Industrial47

Before you pitch

• Industrial47 is an investor, not a grant or an incubator. It publishes no application window, form or deadline; the way in is the Contact Us link on its site.
• It says its stage is Pre-Seed and its geography is India. Companies outside India, or well past pre-seed, are not its stated audience.
• Its focus areas are National Security, Space and Energy. Lead with how your product fits one of these.
• Show hardware or engineering progress, not only a plan. Its portfolio is made up of technical, deeptech companies.
• The site is thin and carries a 2024 copyright line, so confirm it is still actively investing in your first message.

Industrial47 is an early-stage investor based in Bengaluru, Karnataka, that backs founders building deeptech and industrial companies in India. Its home page describes it as backing the forerunners of India's Industrial Revolution, and lists Pre-Seed as its stage with India as its geography. The browser title calls it a venture builder, but the page content reads as a pre-seed investor, so treat it as a fund you pitch rather than a programme you apply to.

Who Industrial47 backs

The site names three focus areas: National Security, Space and Energy. Under National Security it talks about strengthening India's strategic ecosystem, from advanced materials to cybersecurity. Under Space it points to building satellite and connectivity businesses at lower cost, and under Energy it mentions renewables, nuclear energy and green hydrogen. If you are building hardware, satellites, robotics or deep engineering rather than a pure software product, this is the audience it writes for.

Portfolio

The portfolio section lists Pixxel Space, Digantara, Pranos Fusion, PierSight Space, Nexstem, FamPay and Flam XR. These range from earth observation and space situational awareness to fusion reactors, maritime surveillance and brain-computer interfaces, which gives a fair picture of how early and how technical its bets are.

How to pitch

The site is a single page with a Contact Us link in the navigation and an office location in the footer. It does not publish a form, a deadline, an application window or a description of how it evaluates companies, and its blog currently has no posts. Because there is no stated process, write a short, specific note: what you are building, why it needs to exist in India now, what you have built so far and what a pre-seed round would let you do next. Check the site again before you write, since it carries a 2024 copyright line and may be updated.

What to check first

The site does not state fund size, so ask how a first cheque would fit before investing time in a long deck. It also publishes no fund registration details, so ask about structure and terms in your first conversation.