From petri dish to payload: India's next Big Bang in future deeptech

Part II of this series shines the spotlight on India's audacious deeptech builders - startups engineering the country's future by tackling challenges too complex for conventional innovation

Bengaluru-based Xovian Aerospace plans to deploy a constellation of satellites that will provide signal intelligence to track assets, including ships and aircraft. At Digantara, the mission is to make space safe by creating, among other things, a space debris detector. In Chennai, The ePlane Co. is piecing together an electric aircraft designed to make urban air taxis a reality. 

In the Delhi-National Capital Region, Dharaksha Ecosolutions is growing mycelium-based biodegradable packaging to replace Styrofoam. Meanwhile, technology veteran and former Tech Mahindra chief executive officer (CEO) C P Gurnani is helping “define how artificial intelligence (AI) and humans work together for