As India readies its own deep tech startups policy, this is episode six in a short series of conversations with some of the entrepreneurs and investors who are building this ecosystem in the country. In today’s episode, Maruthi Amardeep Sri Vatsavaya, co-founder and CEO of BluJ Aerospace, talks about how he and his friend Utham Kumar Dharmapuri want to build a 10-seater hydrogen-electric passenger aircraft that has a range of up to 1,000 km. 

While that aircraft is about five years away, BluJ is also working on an autonomous aircraft, think of it as a large drone, that can carry commercial payload of up to 100 kg – Amar expects to run the first tests of a full-scale prototype in the coming months. BluJ, based in Hyderabad, is backed by investors including Endiya Partners and is currently in the market for a series A round of funding.