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Kalam Labs (YC S21) — Autonomous stratospheric UAVs

Kalam Labs has developed autonomous spaceplanes, capable of flying from 100,000+ ft altitude to conduct upper atmospheric sensing, currently limited to non-maneuverable balloons and expensive satellites. We are one of the world's highest flying UAVs, and have $330 Mn+ contracts from global goverments to deploy the autonomous spaceplanes and replace traditional satellites and ground-borne UAVs

Kalam Labs is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2021 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Autonomous Stratospheric UAVs. The founders listed are Ahmad Faraaz (Founder), Sashakt Tripathi (Founder), Harshit Awasthi (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, July 10, 2021).

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Kalam Labs

New accelerator entry · 2021-07-10 · the record

Summer 2021
batch
10
people
Early
stage
India
region
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BatchSummer 2021
Announced2021-07-10
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size10
IndustryIndustrials
Sub-industryIndustrials -> Aviation and Space
SectorsArtificial Intelligence, Hard Tech, Hardware, Drones, Aerospace
RegionsIndia, South Asia
BasedIndia
HiringYes
Sitehttp://www.kalamlabs.in
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Kalam Labs has developed autonomous spaceplanes, capable of flying from 100,000+ ft altitude to conduct upper atmospheric sensing, currently limited to non-maneuverable balloons and expensive satellites. We are one of the world's highest flying UAVs, and have $330 Mn+ contracts from global goverments to deploy the autonomous spaceplanes and replace traditional satellites and ground-borne UAVs

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