Our Roots
Rootd is built around a simple belief: exceptional technology needs patient capital, deep conviction and the right partners to become exceptional companies.
ETHOS • TEAM
Our Ethos
At Rootd Ventures, we believe the most important companies are built around problems that cannot be solved by software alone, short-term thinking, or borrowed playbooks.
They require scientific depth, engineering rigour, patient capital, and the conviction to work through long cycles of experimentation, deployment, and commercialisation.
We back founders building the physical and technological foundations of a more resilient India—and a more sustainable world. From water and energy to industrial systems, advanced engineering, and climate infrastructure, we invest in companies addressing difficult problems with real-world consequences.
Our role goes beyond writing the first cheque. We help technical teams move from breakthrough to adoption—from laboratory and prototype to pilot, deployment, manufacturing, and scale.
We believe India’s engineering talent, manufacturing capabilities, and urgent infrastructure needs can produce globally relevant companies. We partner early, think deeply, and stay close to the work required to build businesses that endure.
Our Principles
Rootd Ventures backs Indian founders solving difficult problems across the physical economy.
We invest early in deep-tech and climate companies working across water, energy, industrial systems, advanced engineering, and climate infrastructure. We believe the strongest companies in these sectors are built through technical depth, commercial discipline, and patient execution.
We partner with founders from the earliest institutional stage, helping them move from breakthrough technology to real-world adoption—and from promising ideas to enduring companies.
People behind Rootd
Investment is ultimately a people business.
Rootd brings together investment, operating and industry experience to work with founders building technically ambitious companies.
Jaypreeth Jayamohan
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Former Manager at EY, leading large-scale finance and operating-model transformation programmes for global enterprises, finance-function redesign, GBS/shared-service setup, and financial modelling with CFOs and CIOs. MSc Finance (Greenwich); NISM-certified in Alternative Investment Fund Management.
Shreya Raju
HEAD OF RISK & COMPLIANCE
10+ years in risk and compliance; formerly Chief Risk Officer at Zerodha Fund House and 8+ years at EY in Business & Risk Consulting. Bengaluru-based; affiliated with the University of Exeter Business School.
Jeyananth T
INDUSTRIAL & MATERIALS - SCIENCE ADVISOR
30+ years in exotic-metal engineering and electrochemistry; MD & Owner, Noble Tech Industries (Chennai). Work spans BARC nuclear-wastewater electrochemistry, India’s space programme, and the nuclear-submarine programme. BE Chemical Engineering, RV College of Engineering.
Manick Wadhwa
CAPITAL MARKETS ADVISOR
Executive Director, SKI Capital Services; Managing Partner, Tryrock Ventures. Prior AIF-formation and PE/capital-markets legal work at Nishith Desai Associates. MBA Finance (IIT Delhi); LL.B. (Delhi University).
Our Extended Ecosystem
TRUSTEE
Beacon Trusteeship
REGISTRAR, TRANSFER AGENT & CUSTODIAN
Orbis Financial Corporation
STATUTORY AUDITORY
MRSK & Associates, Chartered Accountants
MERCHANT BANKER
SKI Capital Services, led by Manick Wadhwa
LEGAL COUNSIL
Goyal & Goyal (engaged case-by-case)