Events

For our 8th edition of #SpecialeTalks, we want to focus on all things “Creator Economy”— on 28th Feb 2022 (Monday) at 5.30 PM IST. The format of the talk will be a one hour moderated panel discussion moderated by Arjun Rao (GP at Speciale Invest) followed by a 15-20 Mins Q&A session with the audience.

About #SpecialeTalks: A platform for entrepreneurs & technologists to come together and learn from leaders at fast-growing tech companies. It will be a 1-hour deep-dive session where leaders go in-depth, revealing how they built & scaled their tech stacks and their business. We want #SpecialeTalks to become a forum for knowledge-sharing and open dialogue among the early stage ecosystem.

Churning the Creator Ocean #SpecialeTalks 

For our 9th edition of #SpecialeTalks, we want to focus on all things “Role of Communities in a Startup’s Growth”— on 31st March 2022 (Thursday) at 11:30 AM IST. The format of the talk will be a one hour moderated panel discussion moderated by Arjun Rao (GP at Speciale Invest) followed by a 15 Mins Q&A session with the audience.

Community-led Growth #SpecialeTalks

There are 1300+ paid developer tools and tens of millions of open source projects created by the 73M+ developers on platforms like GitHub. There have never been more options available to build, test, deploy, and manage software- Open-source Software is the developers’ favourite and has registered a 25% growth in 2021. 

To discuss this rising adoption of “Open-source Software”, we are excited to bring the 10th edition of #Specialetalks on 2nd May 2022 (Monday) at 11.00 AM IST. The format of the talk will be a one hour moderated panel discussion moderated by Arjun Rao (GP at Speciale Invest) followed by a 15 Mins Q&A session with the audience.

You will be hearing unique insights from:

#SpecialeTalks: Open-source Software

Over the years, we, at Speciale Invest, have grown to invest in 30+ companies, and are a team of 7! We continue to be thankful to you for your belief and support!

 -  a platform where you (our investors), will have an opportunity to interact with our investee partners and get to hear first-hand of all the exciting things they are building.

We are in the process of setting the agenda which will include an overview of the fund’s performance, a fireside chat on the market environment and dinner conversations with portfolio founders, founder friends, and colleagues from the start-up ecosystem. The detailed agenda will be shared soon.

We request you to grace the occasion and join us in the celebration.

Speciale Day

Kyle Poyar, Operating Partner at OpenView VC joins us for Speciale Talks - Season 2 with Arjun Rao (Partner, Speciale Invest).

Kyle leads OpenView’s growth team, responsible for advising portfolio executive teams on strategies to increase revenue growth and dominate their markets. His team has helped OpenView’s portfolio companies generate over 100 Million in additional enterprise value in the last 3 years. 

Kyle specialises in product pricing & strategy, which is the most effective yet overlooked growth lever at a SaaS company’s disposal. He’s an expert in PLG, optimizing GTM, and SaaS metrics. 

As part of our many initiatives to engage the startup and VC ecosystem of India, we run a series of video casts called 

. We've hosted 30+ founders building exciting product-first companies of tomorrow on a range of topics from GTM strategy to Product Org to Customer Success. 

​Conversation points for this talk include - PLG overview, Growth, Product Pricing, Marketing, Virality, and Community.

Decoding Product Led Growth with Kyle Poyar

Join us for invite-only mixer Founders Happy Hour hosted by DevRev, Stripe and Speciale Invest to connect with fellow SaaS founders and learn from each other.

Manoj Agarwal [Founder of DevRev] will join us to share his insights and experiences. (

 is a startup that raised $70 million in seed funding, which is one of the largest seed funding rounds in Silicon Valley history.)

Catchup with DevRev Team, Stripe Team [Global leader in business payments infrastructure] & Speciale Invest Team [an early-stage VC fund investing in engineering-first companies under EnterpriseTech & FrontierTech]

​Enjoy some drinks and snacks as you network with fellow SaaS founders.

​IMPORTANT: Please remember to register to secure your spot.

Founders Happy Hour hosted by: DevRev + Stripe + Speciale Invest

Join us for an exclusive closed-door informal Speciale Breakfast with our Wingman Shruti and other Speciale's SaaS Portfolios Founders on March 19th at 8:30 AM IST 

Let's enjoy some breakfast and candid conversation with Shruti. 

Speciale SaaS Breakfast w Wingman Shruti Kapoor

Speciale Invest will be hosting Xinyi Tow, Managing Director of Hello Tomorrow, Asia Pacific and Indian deeptech ecosystem stakeholders for a Deep Science and Technology meetup in Chennai on 21st April 2023

The session will include a panel discussion on the Building Deep Tech for India followed by a networking session (with dinner and drinks) with deep-tech ecosystem stakeholders across startups, academia, and industry. ​

This is a closed-door, invite-only event. 

​Hello Tomorrow is a global non-profit that aims to accelerate the development of deep technologies to address the world's most pressing challenges. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Paris, France. ​

Hello Tomorrow runs a number of programs and initiatives to support deep tech entrepreneurs, researchers, and startups. This includes an annual Global Challenge, which invites startups from around the world to showcase their deep tech innovations and compete for cash prizes, as well as mentorship, networking, and investment opportunities. The organization also offers an accelerator program, investor matchmaking, and community building events. 

​The focus areas of Hello Tomorrow include a wide range of sectors such as energy, agriculture, transportation, healthcare, and materials science. The organization aims to foster innovation and entrepreneurship in these sectors to help address global challenges such as climate change, resource depletion, and disease. 

​Speciale Invest is an early stage VC fund focusing on deep-science and deep-tech startups. We are attracted to disruptive innovations that are deeply rooted in multiple streams of science, engineering and technology. We have invested in over 30 companies in sectors ranging from SpaceTech, Electric Mobility, Robotics, Batteries, Green Hydrogen, Water, Quantum Cryptography, Semiconductors amongst others.

Hello Tomorrow // Deep Science and Tech meet-up - Chennai

Speciale Invest is delighted to host a mixer with 

- Early Stage Investor and Operator with a focus on US-India cross border SaaS.

We cordially invite you to join us for a closed door session with Soumitra at WeWork Galaxy, Residency Road, Bangalore, from 4 to 6 pm on 17th May, 2023 (Wednesday) followed by an informal mixer.

Speciale Invest - SaaS Mixer

Welcome to our event on "Product Positioning Playbook".

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Product Positioning Playbook

We are excited to be hosting an invite-only meetup for founders, data infrastructure folks and ML engineers focused on GenAI in Chennai. 

, Data Scientist at Glance and an Open Source Contributor at Llamaindex to deliver a working session on ‘Beyond the Basics: Leveraging LlamaIndex from Concept to Production”. 

LlamaIndex, previously known as the GPT Index, is a powerful data framework aimed at helping build applications with LLMs by providing essential tools that facilitate data ingestion, structuring, retrieval, and integration with various application frameworks.

With his expertise in the space, we are sure this will be an engaging and insightful meetup.

Additionally, If you are building something in the GenAI space and would like to present it during the meet-up, pls DM us. 

Chennai GenAI Meetup

Presenting Dheeraj Pandey, Co-founder & CEO of DevRev & Co-founder of the Nasdaq-listed Nutanix that had a $2B+ IPO, in conversation with Arjun Rao (Partner, Speciale Invest). 

Having witnessed and contributed to the trends in technology from the internet era to cloud computing and now artificial intelligence, this conversation with Dheeraj is sure to be an insightful one for any tech enthusiast. 

Generative AI : Unveiling The Next Technological Frontier

​Generative AI is great for research, and we've seen many hackathon projects built around it. However, implementing it for real-world use cases is entirely different.

​We're inviting leaders and builders who have put generative AI in production for a panel discussion to go over their journey of putting generative AI in production.

​Who should attend? Founders, Leadership in engineering/analytics/data science/ML, and builders in AI looking to implement generative AI in your product.

This event is a collaborative effort between 

, Magic Ball community, and Speciale Invest.

​This is a closed-door session with limited seats. Register now!

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Generative AI in Production (BLR) | NimbleBox.ai × Magic Ball × Speciale Invest

Presenting Kailash Nadh (hobbyist developer, open source contributor and CTO of Zerodha) in conversation with Arjun Rao (Partner, Speciale Invest)

Drawing on Kailash's vast experiences with tech systems, this talk will cover India's developer ecosystem and open source contributions, Zerodha's mode of product and org building, and so much more, and is sure to be insightful for any tech enthusiast.

Dhanush Ram

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