Aerospace company developing unmanned HALE (high altitude, long endurance) aircraft that deliver real-time geospatial intelligence, replacing expensive satellites or existing aerial defense systems. Its aircraft will fly at 45,000 feet for up to 24 hours with 250kg of payloads (imaging equipment). Imagery can be delivered at $100 per hour for 500 square km in coverage, compared to $500-$10,000 in cost per hour charged by satellite providers. Its current aircraft fly at above 10,000 feet. $2.6M pre-seed round. Other investors in the round: Balaji Srinivasan, Srinivas Narayan, angels from Bounce Infinity, Boom Supersonic, Ather. Founded in Jan 2024. Founder Shreepoorna graduated from IIT Madras that year. During college he founded Flex Finance, a DeFi neobank.

Hydrogen production company which uses microwave plasma to convert methane into hydrogen, an approach which is in its early days. This process also produces solid carbon nanopowder, which can be used towards making composites and advanced material applications. The company started out in providing microwaves for industrial use cases, with 400 installations since they started in 2007. It is part of Maxcel, an accelerator program created by Capital A and SanchiConnect. ₹16.5CR seed round. Founded in August 2007 by Prakash, an engineer by background who stepped down from CEO to a CSO role in 2023, handing over the CEO role to incoming co-founder Kirankumar. Kirankumar was Group Manager at Bosch (9 years) and team lead at Continental.

Robotic track inspection systems for railways, using automation and AI to scan tracks and undertake predictive maintenance assessments for safety critical operations. ₹5.5CR invested by Pontaq between this venture and Edgehax, which has the same founders but operates as a separate company. This is its second round of investment in both companies, the split and structure is undisclosed. Founders: CEO Prabhu is a software engineer from EMC and Siemens; COO Savitri is a software engineer who worked as a systems analyst in the Karnataka Government. They built a delivery platform for bottled water together.

Edge AI computing platform for consumer IOT applications and robotics. It provides industrial grade boards for OEMs and end users to build gateways, robots, smart homes and other IoT products. ₹5.5CR invested by Pontaq between this venture and Dweepi, which is run by the same founders but runs independently. This is its second round of investment in both. Founded in Jan 2025. Founders: CEO Prabhu is a software engineer from EMC and Siemens; COO Savitri is a software engineer who worked as a systems analyst in the Karnataka Government. They built a delivery platform for bottled water together.

Fabless semiconductor startup developing an advanced biosensing System on Chip (SoC) for wearable and digital-health devices. SOCs act a a mini device on a chip - integrating sensing, processing, memory and wireless connectivity onto thechip. A biosensing SoC, naturally, reads biological signals - ECG, PPG, respiration, temperature - with very low energy consumption. $2MM seed round. Founded in Jan 2022. Founders: Manish was an engineer at Synopsys and Qualcomm; Jatin was a Director of Sales Strategy & Planning at Dell.

Precision manufacturing in the aerospace parts industry - across precision machining, fabrication, tubing and structural sub-assemblies. Building out the complete supply chain to deliver on predictable lead times for global customers. India's aerospace parts industry was $13.6B in 2023, expected to reach $21B by 2030. $3.5M seed round. Angels in the round: Ashish Gupta (Helion), PVS Raju (AIG Hospitals). Founded in Sep 2025. The founders played key roles at Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL). CEO Nishant (IIM Bangalore) was at TASL for eight years, most recently heading the Aerospace Manufacturing Business (Metallics & Composites); CBO Neeraj was there for 15 years, most recently as Head of Sales - Aerostructures and Aero-Engines; CCO Piyush was also there for 15 years, heading Corporate Supply Chain Management.

Rocket propulsion startup developing Harpy 1, a liquid rocket engine to support small satellite launch vehicles. AI enters the rocket "space" - AI based failure detection will bring down development time and cost. ₹4CR pre-seed round. Founded in Nov 2022, operates from IIT Delhi's R&I Park. The three founders, Aditya, Divyam and Rajat, are from Chandigarh University's B.Tech in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering program - Trishul started out as their college project.

Developer of autonomous satellite swarms, which capture faint emissions from maritime radar, satcom, satphones, and the spoofing of the Automatic Identification System (AIS) data of maritime vessels; and transforms these RF signals into precise real-time intelligence. This is useful, for example, for armed forces to plan missions and detect threats, for commercial maritime operators to safeguard shipping routes, to track illegal fishing, and to locate emergency distress signals. Plans to deploy in the next 12-18 months. $2.3M seed round. Founded in Aug 2024. Founders: CEO Siddhesh is a systems engineer who worked on autonomous satellite swarms at Upgraha Space Technologies; CTO Adheesh is an avionics engineer who was last at Aversan Inc., a Canadian engineering firm that supplies the space industry.

AI-led autonomy software stack for drones and unmanned systems, which allows them to operate without GPS, any comms support or operator intervention. Working on pilots with the Indian Navy and Indian Army, on projects such as ship-to-ship drone delivery in difficult weather conditions. $1M pre-seed round led by the GM for Taiwan & SE Asia at ASML - a key supplier to the semiconductor industry. Now plans to raise ~$8M in a seed round. Incubated at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in 2019. The startup is named after its founder Vinayak Tsalla, who was Chief Designer and a subject matter expert on unmanned aerial systems at Bharat Forge. His Master's thesis in Sweden's Linköping University was on "Design and Analysis of a VTOL Hybrid Unmanned Aerial System for Long Range Human Organ Transport".

Therapeutics company developing a new class of targeted medicines for genetic kidney diseases. Nanoparticle therapeutics deliver "cargo" directly to kidney cells. This is a disease modifying medicine that transforms life for 12 million patients worldwide who have no effective treatment options for ADPKD, an inherited disorder. $3.5M seed round, bringing total funding till date to $6M. Founded in 2021.