₹1.7 crore pre-seed led by ajvc. Naman Kasliwal and Shiv Patil are the fund's youngest founders and both are still undergraduates at BITS Pilani Hyderabad.
Beijan builds retrofit modules rather than new platforms: vision-based navigation for drones when satellite positioning is unavailable, and automation for legacy field artillery to cut repositionin…
Its Prachand swarm ground station software is deployed with formations under the Indian Army's Southern Command, and its navigation module has letters of intent from eight military units.
It has a ₹20 lakh order for the artillery system and a ₹25 lakh research grant, with pilots at Pokhran, Secunderabad and Leh. Letters of intent are statements of interest rather than contracts.
₹1.7 crore is roughly $180,000, which funds prototypes and trials rather than the working capital Indian defence procurement cycles demand.
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