Pavestone Ventures Trust

Stage focus

Seed

Primary sector

SpaceTech & Defence

City

Hyderabad

HQ / office

Hyderabad, Telangana (firm base; registry address is a sponsor residence in Thane, Maharashtra)

Fund registered

2021

Investments on record

24

Corpus (as reported)

Pavestone Technology Fund closed at INR 816 Cr (~USD 97M), 2024

Website

pavestone.vc

LinkedIn

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Pavestone VC is a Hyderabad-based SEBI-registered AIF (founded 2021) led by managing partners V. Laxmikanth, Sridhar Rampalli and Srikanth Tanikella, investing in early-growth B2B enterprise-tech and frontier-tech startups. This Category I 'Pavestone Ventures Trust' is part of the same Pavestone VC platform; the registry email [contact on file] ties it to founding partner Sridhar Rampalli.

Early/growth-stage VC; B2B sector-agnostic enterprise-tech platforms for large enterprises, with a frontier-tech allocation (spacetech, AI, 5G, EV components)

INR ~40-85 Cr (USD 5-10M) early growth-stage B2B; INR ~8-16 Cr (USD 1-2M) frontier-tech/seed

As compiled from public sources — verify with the investor.

SEBI AIF Category I — reported as “Cat I”

• IN/AIF1/21-22/0900

Yes — Self-Reliant India (SRI) Fund (Govt of India fund-of-funds; INR 10,006 Cr GoI corpus, managed by SBI Ventures/SBICAP Ventures, sponsored by NSIC) is an investor/LP in Pavestone's INR 816 Cr Pavestone Technology Fund, the Category I AIF (IN/AIF1/21-22/0900). Verified via pavestone.vc press release and yourstory coverage.

Bellatrix Aerospace; CynLr; E42.ai; LivNSense; Bizom; Vivriti; Yubi; NewSpace Research

~10-11 professionals incl. 3 Managing Partners (Sridhar Rampalli, Srikanth V J Tanikella, Laxmikanth V)

LLP-managed Category I AIF — manager Pavestone Advisors and Consultants LLP; Pavestone Ventures Trust holds the Cat I scheme (Pavestone Technology Fund, IN/AIF1/21-22/0900)

What does Pavestone Ventures Trust invest in?

Early/growth-stage VC; B2B sector-agnostic enterprise-tech platforms for large enterprises, with a frontier-tech allocation (spacetech, AI, 5G, EV components)

What cheque size does Pavestone Ventures Trust write?

As compiled from public sources: INR ~40-85 Cr (USD 5-10M) early growth-stage B2B; INR ~8-16 Cr (USD 1-2M) frontier-tech/seed

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VC fund (Cat I)

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VC fund (Cat I)

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VC / investor (non-AIF or offshore)

8X Ventures

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Initial cheques INR 2-5 Cr each; up to ~INR 20 Cr total per startup including follow-ons (Fund II)Contact on file

VC fund (Cat I)

AARUHA TECHNOLOGY FUND

Seed · Deep Tech (AI/ML/Robotics) · Bengaluru

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Compiled from SEBI registrations and public sources as of 2026-07. iHub India lists investors neutrally and does not endorse, rank, or verify investment terms — confirm all details directly with the investor before transacting.

Sources: https://pavestone.vc/fund/; https://pavestone.vc/team/