Venttup Raises $3M for AI Manufacturing Expansion

Bengaluru-based Venttup has closed a $3 million pre-Series A round led by Rainmatter by Zerodha and Unicorn India Ventures, money the company says will go toward precision manufacturing, rapid prototyping and AI-driven sourcing for deep-tech firms and OEMs. The round comes two years after Venttup's seed raise in 2024, a period in which the company's revenue grew fivefold to ₹10 crore in FY2025-26, with a business pipeline now estimated at ₹30 crore.

The new capital will fund an expanded engineering team and a manufacturing facility in Bengaluru, built to handle precision machining, turning and sheet metal production for sectors including energy transition, defence, aerospace and space. Venttup is positioning the facility as a bridge between early-stage component validation and full-scale production, a gap the company argues has slowed down hardware startups trying to scale in India.

Co-founder and CEO Sandeep Nair framed the raise around a broader shift in Indian manufacturing, one that depends on engineering capability as much as factory capacity. The company describes itself as building a more integrated model, pairing design standardisation with testing and production through India's MSME base, rather than treating each step as a separate handoff between vendors.