Nikhil Kamath, Co-founder of Zerodha, along with Abhijeet Pai, has invested in drone startup Omnipresent Robot Tech through their investment arm Gruhas Proptech.

First reported by PTI, the funding round also saw participation from Kavin Shah and other high net worth individuals.

Founded by Aakash Sinha, an MIT TR35 Innovator and Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute graduate, Omnipresent Robot Tech works in the area of Robotics, electronic sensing and Intelligent Electronics.

The startup has developed state of the art Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, River Cleaning Robots, Sensing, Navigation and Perception software for robots.

Omnipresent Robot Technologies

The startup has completed a 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.

Its drones are deployed at several ADB plants, UltraTech Cement plants, and also at Adani Green Energy. During the locust attacks in 2021, Omnipresent provided agriculture spray drones to the government to fight the locust attacks. Omnipresent Robot Tech 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 per cent.

Speaking about the development, Nikhil Kamath said,

“We are excited about our investment in Omnipresent. With Omnipresent’s propriety technology and a capable founding team, we at Gruhas are confident about the impact of this scheme.”

Earlier this month, Nikhil Kamath had invested in the influencer marketing platform Kofluence. The platform said it raised $4 million in funding led by Kamath.

As per Kamath, while content creators captured eyeballs, there was a gap created by monetisation tools, which left creators wanting help and infrastructure to make a sustainable living out of their content or creativity.

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