Success of Skyroot and Dhruva spawns spacetech startup wave in Hyderabad
A decade ago, Hyderabad’s spacetech ambitions largely revolved around pioneers such as Skyroot Aerospace and Dhruva Space. Now, there is a surge of founders — many of them former ISRO scientists and ex-Skyroot and Dhruva employees — building companies across orbital computing, space debris removal, satellite cybersecurity, communications, testing infrastructure and critical space components.
The result is what founders, investors and ecosystem enablers describe as India’s most diverse private spacetech cluster. They attribute this to the success of early movers such as Skyroot and Dhruva, which proved that globally competitive space companies could be built from India.
