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When a micro, small or medium enterprise (MSME) called Zeus Numerix was declared winner of the iDEX (Innovation for Defence Excellence) challenge during the Aero India 2021 air show in Bengaluru last month for developing simulation software that would make warships invisible to radar, there was little surprise.
The Pune-based Zeus Numerix was already a serial winner. In 2004, its founders, Basant Kumar Gupta, Irshad Khan and Abhishek Jain had made a name at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay by becoming the first start-up to obtain incubation from the Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE), which nurtures tech start-ups
