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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Co-founder Srinath Ravichandran talks about what it takes to build a rocket company in India, competing against global giants and the long-awaited mainstreaming of deep-tech startups.
It’s the year when all the pieces are supposed to fall into place. For Srinath Ravichandran, that means finally getting paid by his customers, after having spent more than eight years building his company up from scratch. Goes without saying, it has been a long wait.
Ravichandran is the founder and chief executive officer of AgniKul Cosmos, the prominent Indian space-tech startup, which has been building small rockets to (eventually) take satellites from all over the world to orbit. That may sound all too dry in theory, but Ravichandran and AgniKul’s trajectory over the years has been anything but.
AgniKul …
The space tech startup’s next bet is to build a business where it can sell more than just hyperspectral imaging. The sky is the limit but the money is finite.
Influence cannot be manufactured through diaspora networks, carefully branded events or political donations. It requires honesty and credibility.
Elon Musk’s satellite internet promises a new way to get online. How will it coexist with the country's telecom giants?
