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20-Something Mavericks Building Fighter UAVs, Cancer-Sniffing Dogs & Rs 600 Flights—A Look Inside India’s Deep-Tech Revolution

Swarajya Staff

May 19, 2025, 07:55 PM | Updated 08:08 PM IST


India’s youngest founders are rewriting the rules

Audaciously young founders tackling complex technological challenges in India
Audaciously young founders tackling complex technological challenges in India

Dear reader,

What happens when India’s brightest twentysomethings skip the corporate queue and go straight for the moonshot?

  • Arctus Aerospace – “unmanned fighter jets” that climb to 45,000 ft and stay aloft for 36 hours.

  • Dognosis – cancer-sniffing dogs scoring 96 % sensitivity in hospital trials.

  • Yotuh Energy – battery-powered truck-coolers cutting fuel bills by 75 %.

  • Waterfly Technologies – ground-effect craft promising Chennai-to-Kolkata in ₹600.

  • BioCompute – DNA vials that can store entire data-centres on a lab bench.

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