Zerodha Co-Founder Nikhil Kamath, along with Abhijeet Pai, has invested in drone start-up Omnipresent Robot Tech through their investment arm Gruhas Proptech. This round also saw co-investments from Kavin Shah, and other high net worth individuals.
Omnipresent has completed 51 km drone flight for HPCL pipelines and it has also been serving most of the major oil companies in India including RIL, IOCL and BPCL. The company has also worked on the esteemed Chandrayaan-2 project developing perception and navigation software for the Chandrayaan-2 rover.
Kamath said, “We are excited about our investment in Omnipresent. With Omnipresent's proprietary technology and a capable founding team, we at Gruhas are confident about the impact of this scheme.”
Omnipresent provided agriculture spray drones to the government to fight the locust attacks in 2021. The company developed an integrated Agri Nerve Centre solution for monitoring diseases in crops for targeted spraying that could potentially boost crop yield by up to 20 percent.
Omnipresent's Founder Akash Sinha, an MIT TR35 Innovator and Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute graduate, shared his opinions about the investments. “We are delighted to partner with Gruhas and confident that we will disrupt the drone sector under the guidance of such eminent partners,” he said.
