Sanjay Nekkanti
CEO
Dhruva Space
Satellite Manufacturing
ISFC-2026-00008Satellite Manufactureractiveprivate
OPERATIONAL — commercial missions flying; one launch-vehicle-caused loss
About
Overview
OPERATIONAL — commercial missions flying; one launch-vehicle-caused loss
Technology
Products — P-30 nanosatellite platform
Products — Project Garud satellite platform
Products — Ground Stations as a Service
Products — AstraView commercial imagery
Products — Orbital deployers and separation systems
Products — Spacecraft solar arrays
Project garud: ₹105 crore RDI-funded programme targeting ~600 satellites/year. Egoor describes it as 'the industrialisation of satellite manufacturing from India' — aimed at constellation-scale comms, intelligence and strategic missions, with a stated path to MEO and GEO-class buses.
Funding
Total raised: ~$27.7 million across 12 rounds from 137 investors
Valuation: ~$215 million post-money (reported)
History — ₹123 crore Series A (A1 ₹45.51 cr + A2 ₹78 cr, incl. SIDBI ₹10 cr and TDB ₹14 cr venture debt)
History — ₹105 crore RDI Fund grant for Project Garud, May 2026
History — ₹60 crore from the Antariksh Venture Capital Fund, 13 July 2026 — AVCF's maiden cheque
History — $4.2M pre-Series B tranche in progress
Future plans
Next milestone: SAR satellite constellation, targeted late 2026
Partnerships
ICEYE (Finland) — satellite bus manufacturing MoU
Sodern/ArianeGroup — HORUS star tracker on LEAP-2
Zero-Error Systems (Singapore) — on-board computer subsystems
Kinéis
NSIL — solar panels
Exotrail (contract signed during Macron's February 2026 India visit)
Manipal Academy — ASCENT Centre, targeting an interplanetary tech demo by 2035
Import provenance
Imported from IFSC Archive dataset v5.0, research snapshot 2026-08-16.
People
Chaitanya Dora Surapureddy
Abhay Egoor
CTO
Krishna Teja Penamakuru
Timeline
Polar Access-1 LOST
launch
Polar Access-1 LOST — PSLV-C62 launch vehicle failure destroyed 4 satellites and 5 separation systems including LACHIT-1 (with Assam Don Bosco University), which would have been the Northeast's first satellite
LEAP-1
launch
LEAP-1 — first commercial mission on Falcon 9, hosting Akula Tech's Nexus-01 AI module and Esper Satellites' Esperesso hyperspectral imager
LEAP-TD aboard PSLV POEM
launch
Thybolt-1 and Thybolt-2
other
Dhruva Space founded
founding