Startup Fridays Episode 3: In conversation with Awais Ahmed, co-founder and CEO of Pixxel

Startup Fridays Episode 3: In conversation with Awais Ahmed, co-founder and CEO of Pixxel

Author: Forbes India - The Startup Fridays Podcast April 30, 2021 Duration: 27:03

Ahmed and his co-founder Kshitij Khandelwal are ready to launch their first satellite into a low-earth orbit to grab hyper-spectral images of the planet. In a few years, they expect to have a constellation of 30 earth observation satellites covering the globe. They already have customers lined up and funding from marquee investors including Lightspeed and Techstars. Ahmed eventually wants to venture into deep space exploration for precious minerals and so on


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