EP09: {Jaspreet of Visual AI} on hacking drones to having three-fourth of all Indian solar businesses as clients

Stars & Startups

Jaspreet talks candidly about how he started hacking together quadcopters for the fun of it in the college lab & sold those crude copters to make some pocket money. When quadcopters started becoming accessible and extremely powerful there were very few who knew how to monetize and even fewer who went ahead and tried their hand at it.

Now Visual AI manages over 35% of Indian solar assets, with a set of impressive client - comprising of 27 of the 35 companies in the solar space. The data science solutions help monitor geographical areas using its proprietary software. Clients include Adani Enterprises, Tata Power, Azure Power and ACC Cement.

Also a little bit about what he's been upto during the lockdown.

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Timeline:

23:10 — Insight on cracking large enterprise sales

27:35 — Hardware vs Software business

30:04 — Operating a drone business

31:50 — Autonomous drones without control — what about the future?

35:12 — Drone use cases

37:23 — Opportunities globally for drones

39:42 — Team, growth & prediction for future of the business

44:30 — Drone racing & rules on flying a drone

47:20 — Challenges being solved by drones

In 2017 they had raised an undisclosed amount of capital from the Mumbai Angels Network.

Jaspreet is extremely accessible on social channels, so do reach out to him via LinkedIn or Twitter if you’d like to have a chat. Or you can follow WeDoSky