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SECTOR:
Aerospace & Defense
HEADQUARTERS:
Hyderabad, India

Delivering end-to-end space engineering solutions, integrating satellites, ground stations, and launching services for global civilian and defense clients.

Dhruva Space Private Limited is a full-stack Space Engineering solutions provider based in Hyderabad, India. Dhruva Space is active across Space, Launch, and Ground segments and supports Civilian and Defense clients worldwide.
Dhruva Space offers Satellite/s coupled with Earth Station/s and Launch Service/s as an integrated solution or individually as technology solutions to power space-based applications on Earth & beyond.

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A relationship built on encouragement, trust and endless support
Being part of IvyCap’s esteemed portfolio is not just an honor, but a validation of our potential as a Space company leading the privatisation of India’s Space sector. Their guidance, resources, and network will be instrumental in our growth journey, and we look forward to continuing this fruitful partnership as we strive for even greater heights.
- Sanjay Nekkanti,
CEO & Co-founder
We are grateful to the proactive and hands-on team at IvyCap Ventures for their swift participation in our Series A fundraise. We look forward to their continued support in scaling our operations and positioning our business to innovate from India for the global market.
- Chaitanya Dora Surapureddy,
CFO & Co-founder
FOUNDER
Sanjay Nekkanti
CEO and founder
He has worked on small satellite programs and stratospheric experiments across Asia and Europe, of which notable ones include the SRMSAT mission in 2011, India’s first student nanosatellite project, and the 2013 Velox-P mission in Singapore. Nekkanti has a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics & Telecommunication from Sri Ramaswamy Memorial University, Chennai. He is also an EGIDE scholar, and has two Master’s degrees; one in Space Technology and the other in Spatial Techniques & Instrumentation from Europe, through the Erasmus Mundus SpaceMaster programme.
Chaitanya Dora
Chief Financial Officer
He handles the Finance and Government Affairs at Dhruva Space, a full-stack Space engineering company and the first private Space-Technology company in India. Chaitanya has previously worked with KPMG and Safe EmlyonNetwork on strategy consulting and data science. He has also helped set up various entrepreneurial ventures in Austria and India. Chaitanya holds a Master’s degree in Physics and a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from BITS Pilani. He also holds a Master’s degree in Management from Emlyon Business School, France.
Krishna Teja Penamakuru
Chief Operations Officer
He oversees Operations and is also responsible for the complete Network Systems, Firmware and Software development at Dhruva Space. At Dhruva Space, Krishna Teja oversees the Ground Station activities. He has also supervised and managed Project Planning for the Thybolt Mission and LEAP-TD, and the company’s upcoming satellite missions. Krishna Teja has more than close to a decade of experience in Networks and Security, having worked with Cisco in the Bay Area and TeamF1 Networks in India. An alumnus of BITS Pilani and Arizona State University, USA, he has a Masters in Computer Science.
Abhay Egoor
Chief Technology Officer
He heads the Engineering (Avionics, Electronics, Mechanical, Systems, AIT, and Manufacturing & Commissioning) teams at Dhruva Space. He has a decade’s experience of working on multiple HW development projects as a part of the Embedded Team at ams AG, a VLSI sensor tech company based in Austria, and Thybolt, an electronic design lab based out of Hyderabad. He is an expert in building products around Sensor and Sensor Interfaces. Abhay holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from BITS Pilani.
Their
Winning
Edge

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Proven Space Heritage
On 24 June 2022, Dhruva Space became one of the first private companies to receive authorisation from IN-SPACe, the regulatory body for the private Space sector. The company has successfully launched eight payloads into Space, qualifying cubesat and nanosat platforms and subsystems, and three classes of launch deployers.

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A one-stop shop for any Space mission
Providing a full stack solution is Dhruva Space’s competitive advantage as we can send up missions faster, economically without impacting reliability. This is the need of the hour in the age where customers are not looking at sending just one or two satellites to Space but rather considering sending dozens of satellites to Space, to improve satellites-enabled services right here on Earth!

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Robust and reliable supply chain
Typically having a space mission in orbit entails working with many suppliers. This has a huge impact on cost, reliability and turnaround times. In order to meet the growing demand for satellites and satellite-enabled services, the global supply chain needs to be robust and strong. Dhruva Space works closely with a network of companies that supply crucial raw materials and build critical small components for manned and unmanned missions across the Indian Space Programme.
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