EPlane

Incubated by IIT incubation cell at IIT Madras Research Park, The ePlane Company started by IIT Madras professor Satya Chakravarthy and his student, Pranjal Mehta, aims to make electric planes for civilian transportation within cities, enabling door-to-door, or rather roof-to-roof, travel. The company is set to begin testing initial models from July 2021 and has recently raised an undisclosed amount in seed funding from investors such as Speciale Invest, IIM Ahmedabad’s CIIE.CO, FirstCheque, JavaCapital, and Sharechat co-founder Farid Ahsan.