Cosmochute’s $1.5 million pre-seed round backs a lunar-infrastructure bet
Cosmochute has raised $1.5 million to develop reusable lunar-surface robotics, with its three founders now focused on product development and engineering hires.
Ahmedabad-based space robotics startup Cosmochute has raised $1.5 million in a pre-seed round, giving its three founders capital to develop hardware intended for repeated work on the lunar surface.
The company was founded by Janhavi Gore, Amit Chowdhary and Dhruv Alok Sangal. It is building what it describes as reusable robotic infrastructure for moving, protecting and deploying payloads on the Moon, rather than a one-off vehicle for a single mission.
Accel and Prosus Ventures backed the round through their Atoms X programme, with participation from IIMA Ventures’ deep-tech and aerospace fund, Operators Studio and Chinmayi Muthyala. Cosmochute says the funds will support product development, engineering hires and its commercial roadmap.
The startup’s platform includes the EPOC modular rover, the OASYS trailer system and a payload-survival unit called Cartridge. Its pitch is that lunar projects need dependable surface logistics as well as a successful launch: instruments need power, data links and protection from the environment after they arrive.
For the founders, the raise puts an early vote of confidence behind an unusually long-horizon Indian deep-tech proposition. The immediate task is more practical: turn a systems concept into hardware that can be tested, built and sold to the space agencies and commercial programmes planning work beyond Earth orbit.
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