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Beijan has raised ₹1.7 crore in a pre-seed round led by ajvc, the day-zero fund run by Aviral Bhatnagar. Its founders are the youngest in the fund's portfolio, and both are still undergraduates.

Naman Kasliwal and Shiv Patil started the company in 2025 while studying at BITS Pilani's Hyderabad campus, where it still operates from the CORAS Lab. It builds modules that add autonomy to defence equipment the Indian Armed Forces already own, rather than asking them to buy new platforms.

The Beijan Autonomous Navigation Module is a plug-and-play board that attaches to a drone and provides edge computing and navigation using onboard vision when satellite positioning is unavailable. The Autonomous Artillery Positioning System applies computer-vision-assisted ballistics, positioning and motorised actuation to legacy field guns, cutting the time needed to shift between targets. The company is also building DOOAF for ground-station fire correction, and secure mesh networking so battlefield assets can communicate without depending on infrastructure that can be disrupted.