Speciale Invest and Blume Ventures have announced top-level updates.
Speciale Invest hires investment principal
Speciale Invest, a seed-stage VC firm specialising in deep science and enterprise technologies, said it has named Vishnu Rajeev, formerly with Avaana Capital, as Investment Principal.
With over ten years of industry experience, Vishnu Rajeev has also served as the mobility and climate lead at Micelio and Axilor Ventures.
In his new role, he will focus on identifying and evaluating opportunities in the mobility, climate tech, and energy sectors.
Speciale Invest Managing Partner Vishesh Rajaram said, “with the appointment of Vishnu as Investment Principal, we have found a seasoned industry veteran with extensive experience in the cleantech and deep tech sectors.”
Blume Ventures promotes 2 senior execs to investment partners
Early-stage venture capital firm Blume Ventures on Monday said it has promoted Arpit Agarwal and Sajith Pai to investment partners.
While Agarwal joined Blume in 2014, Pai joined the firm in 2018.
Last year, Blume marked the final close of its fourth fund at over $250 million, exceeding its target corpus of $200 million.
Some of Blume’s portfolio companies include Turtlemint, Carbon Clean, Spinny, Slice and Servify.