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    What is it about this start-up that has got Infosys, Qualcomm and Blackstone’s former India head so excited?

    IdeaForge founders (from left) Rahul Singh, Ashish Bhat, Vipul Joshi & Ankit Mehta

    Synopsis

    The company’s drones or UAVs have completed 23,000 missions working with 3,300 pilots or end users. One of ideaForge’s drones takes off every six minutes, the company says, in the service of either the defence and security establishment or commercial users like oil companies, Indian Railways, or conglomerates like Adani and L&T.

    Weight matters.In the freezing and inhospitable battlefield of Galwan Valley in Ladakh where some of the ridges could be 14,000 feet high and a fast flowing 80-km-long river with sub-zero temperatures gushes below, even a difference of 5 kilograms can help accomplish a mission or bungle it.And that’s what it came down to when the Indian army was picking between global manufacturers for its largest vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) mini
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