Startups Serve India's Defence, And Profitably

IdeaForge located in Bangalore makes the NETRA UAV (Representational Image)



Last January, when the Pathankot district in Punjab came under cross-border firing, the Indian army depended heavily on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The soldiers used them for border surveillance. Those UAVs were built by IdeaForge, a small 100-people, Mumbai-based venture that was started in 2008 by three