Chennai, September 19, 2025 – Raptee.HV, the Chennai-based electrical motorbike startup pioneering the usage of electrical automobile’s high-voltage (HV) know-how in two-wheelers, has introduced that it has secured strategic funding from the Know-how Growth Board (TDB), Division of Science & Know-how, Authorities of India.
This milestone makes Raptee.HV the First Electrical Automobile Motorbike OEM within the nation to obtain monetary help from TDB, underscoring the corporate’s research-first strategy and groundbreaking improvements in mobility know-how.
The contemporary funding will allow Raptee.HV to additional advance its proprietary high-voltage know-how and speed up its efforts to capitalize on the USD 1 billion efficiency electrical motorbike class.
“This help from the Know-how Growth Board is a powerful endorsement of Raptee.HV’s mission to redefine efficiency electrical mobility, from India, for the world. Within the absence of an ecosystem for high-voltage motorbike structure, we constructed our personal by means of uncompromising engineering.
Earlier, we additionally obtained a grant from the Ministry of Heavy Industries by means of ARAI-AMTIF, and now from TDB, each clear alerts of the Authorities of India’s deal with supporting indigenous technological innovation.
The belief positioned in us by TDB and ARAI-AMTIF strengthens our resolve to push the boundaries of performance-driven motorbike electrification in India” stated Dinesh Arjun, CEO & Co-Founder, Raptee.HV.
In 2021, Raptee.HV was additionally the one OEM to be awarded a non-dilutive grant of ₹3.25 crore from ARAI-AMTIF, additional validating its deep-tech focus.
With the most recent backing from TDB, Raptee.HV joins the ranks of a few of India’s most revered groundbreaking improvements, such because the TATA Indica and Bharat Biotech’s COVID-19 vaccine, which have traditionally obtained TDB’s help.
For the Board, this marks its first-ever funding within the EV Motorbike phase, signaling a daring dedication to advancing next-generation mobility applied sciences.
In contrast to many EV gamers who construct on present platforms, Raptee.HV has spent over six years growing its know-how ground-up, creating India’s solely electrical bikes powered by confirmed high-voltage automobile know-how.
What was thought-about practically unattainable six years in the past has now develop into a actuality, with Raptee.HV bikes providing car-level efficiency, reliability, and charging comfort.
Since bikes account for practically two-thirds of India’s two-wheeler market, their electrification is important to reaching India’s 2030 goal of 30% EV penetration in two wheelers.
And Raptee.HV believes that true motorbike electrification requires leapfrog developments just like the disruptive shifts seen within the international automobile business, not incremental upgrades to present applied sciences, as each are inherently performance-driven.
About Raptee.HV
Raptee.HV is an Indian electrical motorbike startup based in 2019 by Dinesh Arjun, Co-Founder and CEO (Ex-Tesla), together with three different co-founders, with a mission to convey the most effective of worldwide electrical know-how to bikes.
The corporate is dedicated to delivering superior using expertise for inner combustion engine (ICE) customers by means of a no-compromise electrical motorbike.
Headquartered in Chennai, Raptee.HV is the one startup to develop an electrical motorbike on an electrical automobile’s high-voltage platform, bringing electrical automobile advantages to bikes in efficiency, reliability, and charging comfort.
Raptee.HV bikes are the one two-wheelers outfitted with the CCS2 car-charging normal, offering prompt entry to the quickly rising electrical automobile charging infrastructure.
As a deep-tech firm, Raptee.HV has developed its mobility know-how fully in-house, constructed on a high-voltage structure.
With a staff of 120+ workers, the corporate has filed 156 patents, designing and growing 100% of its electronics internally, together with PCBs for all important subsystems, establishing a powerful full-stack technical moat throughout its motorbike structure.
Raptee.HV operates a 4.5-acre manufacturing facility in Chennai with an put in annual capability of 100,000 models. For future enlargement, the corporate has secured 40 acres of land at SIPCOT, Cheyyar.
Thus far, Raptee.HV has raised USD 5 million in pre-Collection A funding and is within the technique of closing a USD 20 million Collection A spherical by means of a strategic mixture of debt and fairness. With its deal with innovation, know-how, and buyer expertise, Raptee.HV is poised to redefine the “Efficiency electrical motorbike” phase.
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