12/15/2019 30 most promising drone startups in India

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30 most promising Drone startups in India

By Mahashreveta Choudhary - 04/30/2018

Drone Technology has a slew of applications and utilities. In the near future, its range will further
expand and decisively shape our daily lives. From agriculture to smart cities to construction to
surveying, drone technology is increasingly being deployed to enhance efficiency and productivity.

The ecosystem of drone startups in India is just taking off and private players would enrich it with a
much-needed competitive edge providing both value and dynamism. So, let’s have a look at the most
promising drone startups in India.

 1 Martian Way Corporation

1Martian Way Corporation provides custom-made drones for sale and services like aerial photography, drone rentals,
advertising with drones/aerial banners, robotics education for colleges and universities, robotic apps for industrial
solutions and experiential branding and gaming products. The company is based in Mumbai and offers various other

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software & embedded AI products that power drones, robots, web/mobile platforms and advanced automation
systems

Aarav Unmanned Systems

Founded by Yeshwanth Reddy, Vipul Singh, Suhas Banshiwala and Nikhil Upadhye, Aarav Unmanned Systems started
its journey in year 2013. The company is located in Bengaluru. Aarav Unmanned Systems has developed multi-rotor
and fixed wing UAVs. The company provides services to enterprise clients with a focus on services like GIS surveying
and mapping, industrial inspection and precision agriculture.

Aerial Photo India

Based in Pune, Maharashtra, Aerial Photo India provides Aerial mapping and survey services to Surveyors, Project
Planner and Project Consultants, Government Organisation Authorities, Land Administrators, Mining Companies etc for
better visulaization of the area which can help them in return for better planning and decision making. The company is
also into Drone Photography, video shoot and Aerial 360 degree panoramas.

Aerialair

Based in Mumbai, Aerialair is a brainchild of a group of young enthusiasts who specializes in advance aerial imaging
solution for commercial and residential use. The organization provides 3D land mapping services elevation data,
contour lines, 3D surface data, accurate volume measurements and CM level terrain profile Their creative array of
services also includes VR enabled 360 panoramas, aerial/ground as well as interior which can be incorporated as a
virtual tour.

Aero360

Pragadish Santhosh founded Aero 360 in 2017. The company is located in Chennai. The company provides aerial
images delivering high accurate Topography data, 3D Digital Elevation Models and Digital Surface Models to enable

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better assessment, planning, surveying, inspection and maintenance. Their training arm, Unmanned Engineeria, is the
first and Only dedicated UAV training facility that provides training in Unmanned Aerial Systems for Aerial
Photography, Aerial Mapping, Aerial Inspections and other commercial applications.

AirPix 

AirPix was founded by Aniket Tatipamula, Shinil Shekhar and Neeraj Waghchaure in year 2013. Located in Mumbai,
Airpix provides drone-based solutions using both multi-rotor and fixed-wing UAVs. The services offered by Airpix
include industrial inspections, aerial survey and aerial photography.

Airwood 

Started in the year 2014 by Vivek Rajkumar, Airwood is a UAV firm dedicated to Agri data and analytics. It has
developed custom drones that gather field data which farmers can leverage using Airwood’s farm management
dashboards. Located in Bangalore, the company is a ‘full-stack agri production management and data sciences
company’ working towards improving agriculture, and uplifting the farmers in the country.

Asteria Aerospace

Asteria Aerospace is a robotics and artificial intelligence company that develops drone based solutions for actionable
intelligence from aerial data. It provides end-to-end solutions to autonomously survey, inspect and monitor assets in
industries such as oil and gas, mining, construction and agriculture. Headquartered in Bangalore, Asteria Aerospace
was founded by Nihar Vartak and Neel Mehta.

Aurora Integrated Systems

Founded by a team of seven graduates from IIT Kanpur Aurora Integrated System develops airborne systems with a
focus on small Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). AIS is supported and funded by the Tata group. AIS’ drones have
applications in civilian space like Geo-Information Systems, Agriculture and Disaster Management. Systems of AIS are

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also tailored to meet requirements ranging from wartime operations to counter-terrorism and anti-insurgency
operations.

10

Bubblefly

BubbleFly started it journey in year 2016. Nishant Purohit and Reji Sivakutty founded this organization in year 2016 in
Delhi NCR. Bubble Fly Technology designs and manufactures drones and other UAS for the enterprise sector. Their
services include monitoring, surveillance, inspection, 3D mapping, and thermal imaging.

11

DeTect Technologies

Daniel Raj David, Harikrishnan A.S., Karthik R, Tarun Mishra and Krishnan Balasubramanian laid the foundation of
DeTect Technologies in year 2016. Located in Chennai DeTect Technologies is focused on providing infrastructure
services to the industrial sector including drone-based monitoring of critical infrastructure.

12

Drona Aviation

Drona Aviation designs and develops UAS for personal, civic, and industrial use. The company also sells ready-to-fly,
do-it-yourself drone kits, and conducts workshops to increase awareness around drones and other UAS. It was
founded by Apurva Godbole, Prasanna Shevare and Dinesh Sain in year 2014 in Mumbai.

13

Drone Aerospace Systems

Kishore Jonnalagadda laid the establishment of the company in Bengaluru. Drone Aerospace Systems is involved in
the design and development of unmanned aerial systems. Its products include low-cost flying platforms, ground
control systems, and embedded solutions.

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14

Drone Nation

Chetan Reddy, Vichar Shroff, Vaibhav Agarwal are founders of Drone Nation. Located in Sancoale, Drone Nation caters
to infrastructure companies, mining industry, and agriculture sector. Its services include infrastructure inspections and
mapping.

15

Edall Systems

Edall Systems was founded in 2016 by Pritam Ashutosh in 2016. The company is a UAV manufacturer and service
provider. They provide drone-based image processing support, mapping, land audit, town planning, and industrial
area survey.

16

Gravodrone

Gravodrone is a tech startup providing services of Aerial Photography / Drone Photography , Aerial Videography,
Aerial Inspection, Wind-turbine Inspection / Windmill Inspection, Structural Inspection, Civil Engineering Inspection,
Aerial Survey, Aerial Mapping, 2D & 3D Orthomosaics, Digital Surface models, Digital terrain models Digital elevation
models(DEM), Volumetric analysis, 3D Modelling in India. Founded in the year 2015 the headquarter of the company
is in Bengaluru, Karnataka

17

IdeaForge

IdeaForge is involved in the development and manufacture of quadcopter and fixed-wing UAVs with a clientele
including Indian Armed Forces, law enforcement bodies, and corporates outside the defense space. Located in
Mumbai, IdeaForge was founded by Ankit Mehta, Rahul Singh, Ashish Bhat and Vipul Joshi.

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INDrone Aero Systems

Indrone Aero Systems is a drone-based service provider that offers mapping, surveying, surveillance, plant health and
growth monitoring, inspection of infrastructure, and disaster management services. It was founded by Anurag Joshi
and Abhishek G S and is located in Bengaluru.

19

Indrones

Located in Mumbai and founded by Pravin Prajapati, Indrones is a drone service provider. The organization caters to
the agriculture and industrial sector. Its services include GIS mapping, precision agriculture, monitoring and
inspection of infrastructure. The foundation of the company was laid in the year 2015.

20

Johnnette

John Livingstone founded Johnnette in 2014. Located in Noida, Johnnette Technologies is a drone manufacturer and
service company. It provides services including inspections, disaster management assistance, mapping, and aerial
cinematography using drones.

21

Kadet Defence Systems

Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Kolkata, Kadet Defence UAV manufacturing and service company. The
company manufactures a wide range of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Micro UAV, Mini UAV, Commercial Drones, Fixed
Wing Drones, Industrial Drones, and also offers Aerial Solutions for military, industrial, environmental and agricultural
sectors. Kadet designs, develops and manufactures Drones and provides associated Drone Solutions for commercial,
civil and defense applications such as aerial surveillance, aerial survey and mapping, aerial inspection, crowd
monitoring, wildlife monitoring, aerial videography.

22

Omnipresent Robot Tech

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Aakash Kishore Sinha and Jyoti Vashishtha Sinha founded Omnipresent Robot Tech. Headquartered in New Delhi
Omnipresent Robot Tech designs and develops drones for enterprises with a focus on inspections and monitoring. The
company also develops robots for industrial and consumer use cases.

23

Pigeon Innovative Solutions

Pigeon Innovative Solutions specializes in professional aerial photography services with innovative sensor technologies
in the areas of UAV Drone surveying, mapping, GIS surveying, topographical survey, 3D models, photogrammetry
consultancy, drone inspection, aerial infrastructure monitoring, mining services, agricultural drones, vegetation
mapping and crop health monitoring. Headquartered in Mumbai the company was founded in the year 2014.

24

Quidich Innovation Labs

Quidich Innovation Labs is an aerial cinematography service provider with a focus on drone filming. The company also
offers drone services like mapping and infrastructure inspection. Quidich Innovation Labs was founded by Rahat
Kulshreshtha and Gaurav Mehta in 2015 and is situated in Mumbai.

25

Samhams Technologies

Samhams Technologies Provides Automatic Flying Crafts And Services In The Areas Of Intelligence, Surveillance And
Reconnaissance. It was founded by Shaik Sameer Ahamed, Abul Kalam Khan and Mirza Jahangeer Baig. This drone
company is headquartered in Nellore.

26

Skylark Drones

Headquartered in Bengaluru Skylark Drones was founded by Mughilan Thiru Ramasamy and Mrinal Pai in year 2015. A
drone service company, Skylark Drones focuses on mining, infrastructure and utility industries. It offers services like
aerial surveying, mapping, and infrastructure inspection.
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27

Sree Sai Aerotech Innovations

Sai Pattabiram and Venkatesh Sai are founders of Sree Sai Aerotech Innovations Private Limited. It is UAV
manufacturer and service provider. The services offered by Zuppa Drones include mapping, topographical survey,
monitoring, and surveillance. It has also developed drones for agricultural spraying.

28

Takvaviya Technologies

Bhaskar Raghunathan founded Takvaviya in Chennai. The company focuses on mining, power, oil & gas,
infrastructure, and agriculture sectors. Its services include aerial survey, inspections and monitoring for these sectors.

29

V Drone Agro

Kunal Sharma founded V Drone Agro in the year 2017. Headquartered in Bengaluru, this drone company develops and
designs drone-based systems for the agriculture sector with an aim to help farmers with crop yield. It provides
services like crop health, data analysis and mapping using its in-house analytics solutions.

30

WeDoSky

Jaspreet Makkar founded WeDoSky in year 2012 with an aim to build drones and provide services for agriculture,
mining, infrastructure and real estate sectors. The services include drone-based survey, mapping, monitoring, and
image analytics. Headquarter of WeDoSky is in Delhi NCR.

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Mahashreveta Choudhary
Correspondent, Geospatial Media & Communications. A poet at heart, Mahashreveta is what it takes to be a new-age
digital journalist. Be it tech-heavy conference coverage, quick blogs, or elaborate magazine stories, she always put
her best foot forward. An M.Phil in Media Studies, Mahashreveta has wide experience in video production, and in her
earlier stints, she has worked on notable documentaries on art and culture. In her free time, she loves to try her
hands at photography.

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