Rajat Khare’s Boundary Holding Eyes Next-Gen Deep-Tech Ventures After Strategic Exit from Cynapse

Based in Luxembourg, Boundary Holding, a pioneering venture capitalist with a focus on deep-tech investments has recently made public its strategic exit from Cynapse Private Limited, an Artificial Intelligence-powered video technology company with its headquarters within the United States with operations in Singapore. The announcement marks a major achievement in Boundary Holding's investment process and opens up new opportunities for the company to reinvest into the new wave of deep-tech innovation.

A Successful Exit Following five years of growth

The company was founded and is led by Rajat Khare, Boundary Holding recognized the potential of Cynapse at the beginning of its development. The company's first investment which was made five years ago was rewarded with an multi-fold capital return and has been able to meet its long-term objectives for return.

According to sources within the company, the departure from Cynapse is a significant financial success to Boundary Holding. In addition, it is aligned with the company's future-oriented strategy of investing funds in new sectors which promise to transform industries by advancing deep-tech technologies. They include autonomous systems advanced sensing, edge computing as well as imaging. AI is also driving decision-making automation, as well as quantum technologies..

Innovative to Make a Difference The rise of Cynapse

Since its inception in 2016,, Cynapse has evolved to become a leader within the field of AI-powered intelligence for video. Cynapse's revolutionary platform process more than 1 million hours worth of videos each month using its proprietary computer vision and the generative AI technology.

What distinguishes Cynapse's platform is its versatility of deployment--it can be run in mobile devices on the edges, infrastructure on premises, as well as cloud-based systems. Cynapse's platform comes with a complete range of features, including:

Natural language video search

1. Anomaly detection
2. Monitoring in real-time
3. Summary of the event

These characteristics have created Cynapse an established partner in ports, transportation infrastructure airports, ports, and intelligent cities -- sectors in which security, safety and information intelligence essential.

Boundary Holding's Early Vision

Boundary Holding's decision of investing in Cynapse was driven by Cynapse's solid intellectual properties and its clear market potential in crucial infrastructure, which is a perfect combination of public security and commercial scaling. Cynapse's Vision AI models have demonstrated more than 95 percent accuracy in identifying safety violations -- an impressive accomplishment in the ever-changing area of the video analytics.

When he spoke about the departure, Rajat Khare explained it as an strategic and mutual decision.

"We're honored to be a part of the partnership with Cynapse through the crucial stage of its development helping to increase innovation and unlocking greater value. After our investment goals have been being achieved, the departure marks a significant milestone but it's not the end. We will remain in contact as an advisor and provide mentorship to the company as it moves into its next stage of expansion. We'll invest the funds through our exit to new industries that tackle the most pressing global issues and will be the next phase of innovation."

This statement highlights Boundary Holding's determination not just towards financial growth, but also the long-term growth and mentoring of the portfolio companies it manages.

Strategic Growth under the Investment Period of Rajat Khare

Under the Boundary Holding portfolio of investments, Cynapse has experienced impressive growth and achieved the CAGR (CAGR) of close to 200 percent between 2021-2024. The company grew its client base in Asia as well as other regions, while securing contracts for government and corporate customers that boosted its international presence.

2024 was the year that 2024, Cynapse launched CyVisionGPT the first generative AI-powered enhancement to its current platform. The new feature is integrates visual-language models (VLMs), capable of:

Spatiotemporal analysis

1. Optical characters recognition (OCR)
2. Scene understanding

Report generation driven by the user using naturally-speaking prompts

The upgrade showed Cynapse's ability to stay at the top of AI advancement and combines video intelligence and the power of generative AI to provide actionable insights.

Aiming at the Global Video Data Challenge

One of the greatest global issues in the current digital infrastructure is the enormous amount of data from video generated every day through public spaces and crucial infrastructure which often reaches petabyte-sized scales each month.

Traditional analysis methods and monitoring manual methods can't keep up with the requirement for real-time detection of security violations, compliance concerns, as well as security risks. Cynapse's AI-driven platform provides a revolutionary solution that provides:

Automatic detection of violations and other anomalies

1. Real-time view across massive-scale networks
2. Intelligent, automated reporting systems

In addressing these issues, Cynapse has positioned itself as an major actor in global public safety as well as modernization of smart infrastructure.

The Boundary Holding's Evolution of Portfolio as well as the Investment Philosophy

The departure from Cynapse will mark a pivotal phase of Boundary Holding's larger investing strategy. Boundary Holding continues to search for and develop companies in the deep tech sector which have the potential to solve urgent global problems through technology and innovation.

Boundary Holding's strategy is defined with actively involved involvement, strategic guidance and a long-term partnerships in its companies of portfolio. The company's recent trend of punctual withdrawals reflect the company's systematic investment process that allows it to invest in new areas at the forefront of science and technology.

The decision of the company to redirect the capital it has invested into autonomous systems advanced sensing, AI-driven automation as well as quantum computation confirms its faith in the revolutionary potential of these technology. These areas are likely to determine the next phase of industrial advancement, and will impact areas like manufacturing mobility, defense and infrastructure.

Profitable Exits and High Returns

Boundary Holding's demise from Cynapse is not a one-off incident. In 2025 Boundary Holding also left With the Grid, another top-performing deep-tech business that specializes in monitoring and asset management in distributed energy grids which includes substations, electricity grids, batteries, transformers and more.

With the Grid makes use of IoT sensors as well as advanced data analysis to offer live monitoring of asset health, predictive maintenance as well as the prevention of failure solutions.

The investment's exit produced a stunning 2.0x number of capital invested (MOIC), with the holding period ranging from between three to six years which translates to an internal return rate (IRRs) of approximately 26 percent and 14 percent in each case.

This history of performance reinforces Boundary Holding's standing as an sophisticated deep-tech, value-driven investor capable of combing financial performance and the long-term impact of technology.

A Broader Trend Among European Deep-Tech VCs

Boundary Holding's recent actions mirror the wider trend in European venture capital companies working in the sector of deep-tech. These companies are changing capital rapidly--exiting profitable ventures at the right time and investing in new technologies which offer significant impact as well as high return.

A strategy like this will result in the efficiency of capital, faster innovation cycles as well as ongoing engagement with the latest technologies.

Boundary Holding, with its headquarters in Luxembourg and an investment philosophy under the direction of Rajat Khare, is at the forefront this change, actively shaping the deep-tech investment landscape in the world.

Conclusion

Boundary Holding's departure from Cynapse is much more than a purely profitable financial decision. It's an sign of strategic vision and controlled implementation in the ever-changing world of venture capital for deep technology.

Through the successful scaling of Cynapse from a small-scale startup to become a worldwide AI market leader Boundary Holding has demonstrated its capability to find the potential for nurturing, fostering, and elevating the potential of transformative technologies.

While Rajat Khare and his team shift their attention to autonomous systems, AI-driven automation and quantum technology, Boundary Holding continues to consolidate its position as an pioneer in the world of deep-tech investment that combines innovation with the power of impact and accelerating business growth through technological innovation.

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