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  • Dhruva Space

    The platform offers modular application-agnostic satellite platforms to enable faster, reliable, and cost-effective access to space. Coupled with providing launch and ground station services, Dhruva Space also provides integrated one-stop access to the clients in owning and operating space-based assets. The startup is active across space, launch, and ground segments and supports both civil and defence clients worldwide. Dhruva Space has already started to foster industry-academia collaborations and has already collaborated with BITS - Hyderabad, and IIT Hyderabad. It is incubated in the European Space Agency’s Business Incubation Centre in Austria, providing them access to the European market and technology. In October 2021, it raised Rs 22 crore led by IAN Fund and Blue Ashva Capital.

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  • SatSure

    Founded in 2017 by Prateep Basu, Rashmit Singh Sukhmani and Abhishek Raju, Bengaluru-based spacetech startup SatSure is a decision intelligence company that works at the convergence of space technology, artificial intelligence, and sustainability. It provides three key offerings – SatSure Sparta platform for agriculture and climate insights in a freemium model; SatSure SAGE, a life cycle risk monitoring and business intelligence product for the agriculture financial services; and SatSure SKIES, which is a high-resolution satellite imagery-based infrastructure change detection platform. The platform is involved in building decision insights using data from satellites for the banking and insurance sectors.

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  • Pixxel

    Pixxel says its platform unlocks a range of novel environment and sustainability use cases, offering advanced tools for agriculture, oil and gas, mining, and environmental agencies to analyse geospatial composites of the earth’s surface in real-time through a simple API (application programming interface). This level of precise detail will provide deep insights for the government to control and manage risk activities across several industries. The startup also successfully retrieved its first hyper spectral satellite images recently from a camera that was launched last year with partners NanoAvionics and Dragonfly Aerospace. In April 2022, it launched its first fully-fledged commercial satellite Shakuntala (Technology Demonstrator-2) with the SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket. Shakuntala hosts one of the highest resolution hyperspectral commercial cameras ever flown to space, bringing it one step closer to building a 24x7 health monitor for the planet.

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  • Agnikul Cosmos

    Founded in 2017 by Srinath Ravichandran, Moin SPM, and Professor SR Chakravarthy, Chennai-based Agnikul is involved in building a private small satellite launch vehicle. Its core product, Agnibaan, is a smallsat launch vehicle capable of carrying up to 100 kg of payload to Low Earth orbits. Earlier in 2021, the startup test-fired the world’s first 3D printed rocket engine Agnilet and had said it will undertake more such tests in the remainder of the year. In May last year, it raised $11 million in a Series A funding round led by Mayfield India. Existing investors including pi Ventures, Speciale Invest and Artha Venture Fund also participated in the round. The spacetech startup had raised $3.1 million in its pre-series A funding in March 2020, and a seed round from Speciale Invest in 2019. In September 2021, it signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Department of Space to access ISRO's facilities and expertise and undertake tests for its single-piece 3D-printed semi cryo engine and other systems.

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  • Astrogate Labs

    Started in 2017 by Nitish Singh and Aditya Kedlaya, Astrogate Labs is a space technology company from Bengaluru, building core technologies in optical/laser communication terminals. It is building an entire chain of optical/laser communication systems to tackle the problem of high-speed communication in space. The space tech platform, Astrogate Labs, enables satellite constellation operators to get more data from space to earth securely and affordably.

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