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Space start-up plans to build India's first private GPS constellation
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....pace start-up plans to build India's first private GPS constellation<BR>PTI News<BR>Dated:- 23-9-2025<BR>PTI<BR>New Delhi, Sep 23 (PTI) A Chennai-based start-up VyomIC on Tuesday said they are planning to build India's first private global satellite constellation to provide high-precision positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) services. The start-up, founded by alumni of IIT-Madras, has raised....
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.... USD 1.6 million in pre-seed funding as the first step towards realising their dream of putting in low earth orbit (LEO) satellites for providing PNT services. The pre-seed round for VyomIC was led by Speciale Invest, with participation from BYT Capital and DeVC. "The funds will be used to advance the development of VyomIC's LEO-based PNT payload, support its spaceborne demonstration mission, ....
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....and scale team hiring and business development efforts," a company statement said. The start-up has been founded by Lokesh Kabdal, Vibhor Jain and Anurag Patil, who led India's student-led hyperloop initiative and also dabbled in commercial drone swarm deployments. "We are not just building an Indian alternative to GPS – we are building a next-gen global system, engineered for autonomy, secu....
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....rity and precision," said Vibhor Jain, co-founder of VyomIC. The start-up aims to provide centimetre-level positioning and nanosecond-level timing – critical for applications in defence, finance, telecom, and autonomous systems. VyomIC's technology aims to deliver spoofing-proof and jamming-resistant signals, overcoming the fragility of existing systems like GPS and GLONASS. With LEO satelli....
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....tes, the system offers high precision, faster convergence, stronger signal power, and better coverage in urban and signal-contested environments," the statement said. Additionally, VyomIC's constellation would also unlock indoor PNT enabling navigation in closed spaces and buildings that were previously inaccessible, it added. "In a world increasingly shaped by autonomy, defence tech, and time....
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....-critical infrastructure, resilient navigation becomes non-negotiable. VyomIC's vision of a sovereign constellation addresses this need head-on. We're thrilled to back a team that's executed ambitious projects and is now taking on one of the most foundational layers of modern civilization—PNT," Vishesh Rajaram, Managing Partner at Speciale Invest, said. The startup's long-term vision includes ....
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....launching a full-fledged constellation to serve global users with secure, real-time navigation and timing services – laying the foundation for the autonomous systems and sovereign infrastructures of the future. PTI SKU RT<BR> News - Press release - PIB....