Navya Naveli Nanda has formally launched Naveli Ventures, the strategic venture arm of the Nanda Family Office, announcing the platform in a LinkedIn post on October 6, 2026.

The firm will back startups and research-led opportunities across six frontier sectors: deep tech, space, clean energy, artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing and health. It will invest through four routes — direct startup investments, institutional funds, co-investments, and academic and intellectual-property partnerships.

"We define ourselves not by sector but by the scale of the problem and the conviction of those solving it," Nanda wrote. She added that the family office's relationships across industry, government, academia and the investor community would be put to work for its partners — and that Naveli is "not chasing quick returns but looking to help build enduring companies alongside exceptional people for India's future."

Nanda serves as managing partner of the firm, as per her LinkedIn profile. Naveli Ventures LLP was actually incorporated in March 2023, with Nanda and her brother Agastya Nanda as designated partners — making this week's announcement the formal unveiling of its investment strategy rather than a new incorporation.

The Nanda family is best known as a co-promoter of Escorts Kubota, the farm and construction-equipment major, alongside Japan's Kubota Corporation. Nanda herself co-founded the women's health platform Aara Health and the non-profit Project Naveli, and is the daughter of Escorts Kubota chairman Nikhil Nanda.

The timing is pointed. India is directing serious public capital at commercially difficult technologies: the government's Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) scheme has a planned corpus of Rs 1 lakh crore over six years, and Startup India Fund of Funds 2.0, notified in April 2026, adds a Rs 10,000 crore pool aimed partly at deeptech and tech-driven manufacturing. Naveli's promise of patient, problem-scale capital lands squarely in that current.

Why it matters for founders

If you are building in deep tech, space, clean energy or advanced manufacturing, India's family offices are becoming a real funding lane — with longer horizons than typical VC. Naveli Ventures' four investment routes, including co-investments and academic IP partnerships, mean even pre-commercial research teams have a door to knock on.