Kalam Labs

Summary

About

About Kalam Labs

Kalam Labs develops aircraft and deployment systems for stratospheric defence missions. Its hydrogen lighter-than-air carrier releases unmanned aircraft at near-space altitudes, supported by an in-house flight controller and firmware designed for low pressure, icing temperatures and rapidly changing winds.

Current platforms include an EO/IR surveillance UAV, a retrievable radiosonde and an autonomous one-way aircraft designed for high-altitude release. The company manufactures airframes in Lucknow and has demonstrated systems with the Indian Army across mountain and desert environments. Longer-term programmes cover a persistent hydrogen-and-solar airship and a ramjet-powered supersonic vehicle; those remain development projects.

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Funding

Investors

  • FirstCheque - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-08-16
  • Lightspeed - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-08-16
  • Y Combinator - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2021-08-16

Team

  • Ahmad Faraaz - Founder
  • Sashakt Tripathi - Founder
  • Harshit Awasthi - Founder

Timeline

Events

  • 2021-08-16 - Funding - Kalam Labs raises pre-seed backing for science-learning platform

    Y Combinator, Lightspeed and FirstCheque participated in the pre-seed round; the disclosed source did not state an amount. At the time, Kalam Labs operated a multiplayer science-learning platform for children aged six to fourteen. This financing predates the company's later shift into stratospheric aerial systems and belongs to its corporate history, not its current defense product positioning.

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