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IIM-A-incubated firms boost defence firepower.
Chitra Unnithan, TNN | Jun 3, 2011, 04.09am IST
AHMEDABAD: Given the secrecy around it, sealing business deals with Indian defence organisations is a benchmark most companies dream to create. Three start-ups incubated at IIM-Ahmedabad's Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) have done something large companies strive to achieve supply products to the Indian armed forces.
So, India's much-awaited light combat aircraft 'Tejas' will have an Ahmedabad connection. The aircraft, which will be inducted into the Indian Air Force by next year, will use ceramic sensors supplied by a company incubated at CIIE, Ants Ceramics.
"Our sensor project for the aircraft began eight months ago," said Ashiwini Jain, co-founder of the company which is a venture by IIT-Kharagpur faculty and graduates to manufacture high-end ceramic components for industrial applications.
The company also supplies custom-made ceramics to Defence Research and Development Organisation, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and Gandhinagar-based Institute of Plasma Research and has half-a-dozen patents on its techniques.
Gridbots is an artificial intelligence start-up which manufactures a suite of robotics products, supplies robots to the Indian Navy, Indian Army, BARC, among others.
The company, incubated at CIIE since 2009, has products such as a combat robot equipped with camera and GPS navigation that can be used in hazardous environments and is designed to carry heavy payloads.
The robot can also carry armour and light guns which can be remotely operated. "We supply products to the armed forces and have also been exporting a few products. If it were not for CIIE, it would have taken us a long time to reach where we are today," said Pulkit Gaur, founder, Gridbots.
Another firm, Baruni Systems supplies operations management and domain awareness solutions including mobile devices to armed forces.
Incubated at CIIE in July 2010 33 companies have been incubated here Baruni Systems has been founded by two former defence personnel, an architect and an entrepreneur.
IIM-A-incubated firms boost defence firepower - The Times of India
Chitra Unnithan, TNN | Jun 3, 2011, 04.09am IST
AHMEDABAD: Given the secrecy around it, sealing business deals with Indian defence organisations is a benchmark most companies dream to create. Three start-ups incubated at IIM-Ahmedabad's Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) have done something large companies strive to achieve supply products to the Indian armed forces.
So, India's much-awaited light combat aircraft 'Tejas' will have an Ahmedabad connection. The aircraft, which will be inducted into the Indian Air Force by next year, will use ceramic sensors supplied by a company incubated at CIIE, Ants Ceramics.
"Our sensor project for the aircraft began eight months ago," said Ashiwini Jain, co-founder of the company which is a venture by IIT-Kharagpur faculty and graduates to manufacture high-end ceramic components for industrial applications.
The company also supplies custom-made ceramics to Defence Research and Development Organisation, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and Gandhinagar-based Institute of Plasma Research and has half-a-dozen patents on its techniques.
Gridbots is an artificial intelligence start-up which manufactures a suite of robotics products, supplies robots to the Indian Navy, Indian Army, BARC, among others.
The company, incubated at CIIE since 2009, has products such as a combat robot equipped with camera and GPS navigation that can be used in hazardous environments and is designed to carry heavy payloads.
The robot can also carry armour and light guns which can be remotely operated. "We supply products to the armed forces and have also been exporting a few products. If it were not for CIIE, it would have taken us a long time to reach where we are today," said Pulkit Gaur, founder, Gridbots.
Another firm, Baruni Systems supplies operations management and domain awareness solutions including mobile devices to armed forces.
Incubated at CIIE in July 2010 33 companies have been incubated here Baruni Systems has been founded by two former defence personnel, an architect and an entrepreneur.
IIM-A-incubated firms boost defence firepower - The Times of India
