Startup Fridays S5 Ep8: Parithi Govindaraju on Okulo’s long-endurance drones for India

Startup Fridays S5 Ep8: Parithi Govindaraju on Okulo’s long-endurance drones for India

Author: Forbes India - The Startup Fridays Podcast August 2, 2024 Duration: 1:02:32

In this episode, Parithi Govindaraju, founder and CEO of Okulo Aerospace, gives us a quick update on the solar-electric hybrid long-endurance drones he and his team are developing, for what he describes as “persistent monitoring”. In this conversation, Parithi talks about the importance of such long-endurance UAVs for protecting India’s strategic assets – both civilian and military. He also touches upon his experience so far, in building a deep-tech company out of India.


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