Kalam Labs

About Kalam Labs

Kalam Labs is an Indian deeptech startup headquartered in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. The company was founded in 2018 at BITS Pilani by Ahmad Faraaz, Sashakt Tripathi, and Harshit Awasthi, originally under the tagline 'ISRO For Kids', as a gamified educational platform that taught school students about space through a multiplayer virtual environment featuring guided 'tours' of the solar system led by space instructors. In its early phase, Kalam Labs built consumer and B2B SaaS products around space-themed STEM learning, generated early revenue from Indian schools and parents, and was selected for Y Combinator's S21 batch, raising approximately USD 2 million in seed funding. The company later pivoted from edtech into deep-technology hardware, focusing on near-space and high-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles. In its current avatar, Kalam Labs designs and manufactures UAVs capable of operating at altitudes of up to 100,000 feet, with deployments reported at strategic locations including Pokhran and along the Indo-China Line of Control. The company's product roadmap covers surveillance, reconnaissance, and stratospheric platforms aligned with Indian defence and dual-use applications. Indian fresher and early-career hiring at Kalam Labs typically targets aerospace, mechanical, electronics, embedded-systems, software-engineer, and operations roles, sourced through direct applications and campus referrals at Indian engineering institutes.

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