Deepinder Goyal’s LAT Aerospace acquires defence robotics startup Sharang Shakti

LAT Aerospace, based by Zomato founder Deepinder Goyal and its former COO Surobhi Das, has acquired Sharang Shakti, an early-stage defence robotics startup based mostly in Gurugram, to construct shared expertise for sensing, navigation, and management programs.

In a put up on X on Tuesday, Goyal said that the intent is to construct in-house capabilities and deploy them throughout each defence and civil programmes over time.

”That is our first transfer towards constructing indigenous defence capabilities alongside our long-term mission of creating next-generation civil aviation platforms from India,” he mentioned within the put up.

Goyal resigned because the Managing Director and Group CEO of Everlasting—the father or mother entity of Zomato and Blinkit—final month to pursue what he termed “new concepts that contain considerably higher-risk exploration and experimentation.”

He was appointed because the vice chairman of Everlasting.

“LAT Aerospace has acquired Sharang Shakti, an early-stage defence robotics startup based mostly in Gurgaon. That is our first transfer towards constructing indigenous defence capabilities alongside our long-term mission of creating next-generation civil aviation platforms from India,” Goyal wrote on X.

He noticed that whereas civil aviation and defence are sometimes considered as separate sectors, the core expertise stack is shared throughout autonomy, notion, sensing, navigation, steering, and management programs.

“By bringing Sharang Shakti into LAT, we’re constructing these capabilities in-house, from first rules, with the intent to deploy them throughout each defence and civil applications over time. Slowly however absolutely,” Goyal concluded.

Based in January 2025 by Goyal and Das, LAT Aerospace is constructing a brand new technology of brief take-off and touchdown aircraft-engineered to function from compact air-stops somewhat than standard airports.