VyomIC Raised $1.6M Pre-Seed in September 2025 to Build Low Earth Orbit PNT Satellites
VyomIC, a Bengaluru-based spacetech startup, raised a $1.6 million pre-seed round in September 2025, led by Speciale Invest with participation from BYT Capital and DeVC. The company is designing a low Earth orbit (LEO) positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) constellation.
The capital is directed at system development rather than satellite launches.
Founded in 2023 by Lokesh Kabdal, Vibhor Jain and Anurag Patil, who led the Avishkar Hyperloop team at IIT Madras, VyomIC plans to build a positioning, navigation and timing constellation a few hundred kilometres above Earth, far closer than the more than 20,000 kilometres separating traditional GPS satellites from the ground.
A satellite in low Earth orbit delivers a stronger signal that is harder to jam and easier to receive indoors. It also moves quickly across the sky, helping a receiver work out its position faster.
The company describes atomic clocks, encrypted signals and AI-based processing aimed at centimetre-level accuracy rather than the five-to-ten-metre accuracy of GPS.
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It has also worked on real-time kinematic positioning techniques designed for machines moving through cluttered environments rather than surveyors standing still in open fields. Target customers include drones, unmanned ground vehicles, mining machinery, urban air mobility, finance and telecommunications.
The company positions itself as complementary to India's NavIC system, built by ISRO, arguing that the applications it is targeting need accuracy and update rates beyond what any current system offers. However, no satellite has launched yet and no launch timeline has been published.
Building a satellite constellation is among the most capital-intensive undertakings in the industry, and $1.6 million funds the engineering rather than the spacecraft.
In August 2026, the founders were among those from twenty Indian space startups who met the Prime Minister on National Space Day.
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