Prosus Ventures has led a USD 1.5 million pre-seed round in Cosmochute, an Indian space robotics startup. Cosmochute is based in Bengaluru.
The company joins six startups from the inaugural Atoms X cohort, a programme launched earlier this year in partnership with Accel.
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What Cosmochute Builds
Cosmochute is developing LEAP, a modular lunar mobility platform. It is designed to support payload transportation and deployment on the Moon.
The problem is specific. Delivering and deploying equipment on the Moon is still expensive and highly specialised. Each mission also tends to rebuild the same capability from scratch.
Cosmochute wants to make lunar missions more standardised and commercially viable. Its plan is a reusable infrastructure layer that multiple lunar missions can build on, rather than one-off engineering for each flight.
Who Is Behind It
Cosmochute was founded by Amit Chowdhary, Janhavi Gore and Dhruv Alok Sangal. All three are rocket engineers who returned from the United Kingdom to build in India.
The startup is guided by Mylswamy Annadurai, former programme director of Chandrayaan-1. That is a rare name to have on the board of a pre-seed company. It signals the technical depth the team is trying to project.
What The Founders Said
Janhavi Gore, co-founder of Cosmochute, framed the round as a shift in the sector. She said Space 1.0 was ISRO proving India could reach orbit. Space 2.0 made orbit commercial, cheaper and open to private capital.
With access now secured, she said the moment belongs to what comes next. That means making the in-space economy operable and extending it to the lunar surface. She said the funds will go into platform development, hiring and space research.
Dhruv Gupta, an investor at Prosus, said the firm explores frontier technologies across specialised engineering, deep technology and future-economy infrastructure.
Why It Matters
The investment comes as India’s private space ecosystem moves past launch and satellite capabilities. The next layer is the infrastructure that makes in-space operations and lunar exploration commercially viable.
Atoms X backs companies that combine scientific breakthroughs with engineering ambition. Its current set of startups spans climate infrastructure, space communications, aerospace launch systems and next-generation healthcare.
The funding will accelerate LEAP’s development, strengthen the engineering team and push the commercial roadmap. Cosmochute also sees eventual applications in broader in-space and terrestrial robotics.