Key Highlights
- Subscribe now ANIRUDH SHARMA was a computer-science undergraduate with no training in aerospace when he co-founded Digantara, which gathers intelligence on satellite movements, in 2020.
- Today it employs 150 people in India, Singapore and America and is valued at more than $65m.
- That may be a modest sum by Western standards.
- But it makes Digantara one of the big success stories in India’s flourishing defence-and-aerospace startup scene.
- “The Indian defence-tech ecosystem is really buzzing right now," says Suyash Singh, the founder of GalaxEye, which provides radar and other imagery from satellites.
