Astrome Technologies

Astrome Technologies is a Bengaluru company that builds millimetre-wave radios for mobile backhaul and, more recently, communications payloads for satellites. It was founded in 2015 and incubated at the Indian Institute of Science by Neha Satak, its chief executive, who holds a doctorate from Texas A&M University and was a postdoctoral researcher with the US Air Force Research Laboratory, and Prasad HL Bhat, its chairman and chief technology officer. Its lead product, GigaMesh, is an E-band radio with an electronically steered phased-array antenna that the company calls the world's first auto-aligned multi-beam E-band radio, and that Forbes India in 2021 described as India's first multi-beam E-band technology. The published capability figures have moved with the product: SiliconIndia reported in March 2021 that a single unit could carry up to 40 links of 2 Gbps or more over as much as 10 km, while the company's current product page advertises long-range connectivity of up to 20 km.

Defence has been the first substantial market. In June 2023 the Indian Army signed a contract to procure an indigenously developed tactical LAN radio from Astrome Tech Pvt Ltd under the Innovations for Defence Excellence scheme — a high-bandwidth backhaul set reported to run 48 hours on a single battery set and to use embedded frequency hopping. The company's own record adds two iDEX challenge wins, in 2019 and 2020, and an Aero India 2025 award for developing indigenous solutions for the Indian Army. On the supply side, the chipmaker SatixFy agreed in February 2023 to supply its PRIME 1 digital beamformer, a part first developed for satellite antennas with UK Space Agency backing through the European Space Agency, for Astrome's point-to-multipoint E-band radio.

The company is still small and loss-making. Entrackr reported revenue of Rs 8.29 crore for the year to March 2024, against Rs 2.71 crore the year before, with losses narrowing to Rs 1.73 crore from Rs 4.93 crore. Astrome raised a $3.4 million bridge round in September 2021 from IAN Fund, Urania Ventures, Cognizant co-founder Lakshmi Narayanan, Impact Collective, ARTPARK and a US angel consortium, and $10 million in January 2025 led by Appollo Fund with follow-on investment from IAN Group, which Entrackr put at $13.4 million raised in total.

The space side of the business has moved far more slowly than first advertised. In August 2019 Via Satellite reported that Astrome's French subsidiary had opened an initial coin offering for a SpaceWave token that pre-sold data services on SpaceNet, then described as a 198-satellite constellation carrying 24 terabits per second. SpaceNet today is not a constellation: the company sells it as a software-defined E-band satellite payload platform for other operators' micro and small satellites, and when the $10 million round was announced in January 2025, chief executive Neha Satak framed satcom as a market the company was only then entering. Its firmest space commitment came on 11 February 2026, when IN-SPACe signed Astrome, Dhruva Space and Azista Industries to develop indigenous small satellite bus platforms under its Satellite Bus as a Service scheme, each on a Rs 5 crore grant paid against milestones; IN-SPACe had announced the scheme in April 2025 and received 15 proposals by that July.

What they build and operate

• GigaMesh · Component · Operational
  Multi-beam E-band backhaul radio with an integrated phased-array antenna; the company advertises links of up to 20 km, and in March 2021 a single unit was reported to carry up to 40 links of 2 Gbps or more over as much as 10 km.^[13][6][3]
• Tactical LAN Radio · Component · Operational
  High-bandwidth backhaul radio procured by the Indian Army under the iDEX scheme, reported to run 48 hours on a single battery set with embedded frequency hopping.^[7][15]
• SpaceNet · Platform · In development
  Software-defined E-band satellite payload platform with steerable beams and an onboard regenerative modem, sold for other operators' micro and small satellites; in 2019 the same name denoted a planned 198-satellite constellation.^[14][4]
• Small satellite bus platform · Platform · In development
  Modular small satellite bus being developed under IN-SPACe's Satellite Bus as a Service scheme on a Rs 5 crore milestone-linked grant, contracted on 11 February 2026.^[2]

Funding

• September 2021 · Bridge
  $3.4 million — IAN Fund, Urania Ventures, Lakshmi Narayanan, Impact Collective, ARTPARK, US angel consortium^[5][1]
• January 2025 · Round led by Appollo Fund
  $10 million — Appollo Fund, IAN Group^[1]

Milestones

• 2015
  Founded in Bengaluru and incubated at the Indian Institute of Science.^{[10][17][5][6]}
• 15 August 2019
  Via Satellite reported that Astrome's French subsidiary had opened an initial coin offering for a SpaceWave token pre-selling data services on SpaceNet, then planned as a 198-satellite constellation carrying 24 terabits per second.^[4]
• September 2021
  Raised a $3.4 million bridge round from IAN Fund, Urania Ventures, Cognizant co-founder Lakshmi Narayanan, Impact Collective, ARTPARK and a US angel consortium.^[5][1]
• 27 February 2023
  SatixFy agreed to supply its PRIME 1 digital beamformer chip for GigaMesh, Astrome's point-to-multipoint E-band backhaul radio.^[3]
• June 2023
  The Indian Army signed a contract to procure an indigenously developed tactical LAN radio from Astrome Tech Pvt Ltd under the iDEX scheme.^[7][15]
• 27 January 2025
  Raised $10 million led by Appollo Fund with follow-on investment from IAN Group; Entrackr reported revenue of Rs 8.29 crore and losses of Rs 1.73 crore for the year to March 2024, and $13.4 million raised in total.^[1]
• 2026
  The company's own timeline records a ruggedised GigaMesh and a clean room completed at the IISc iHub.^[12]
• 11 February 2026
  IN-SPACe signed Astrome, Dhruva Space and Azista Industries to develop indigenous small satellite bus platforms under its Satellite Bus as a Service scheme, each on a Rs 5 crore milestone-linked grant.^[2]

Facilities

• Clean room at the IISc iHub · Bengaluru, Karnataka
  Satellite assembly clean room the company's own timeline records as completed in 2026, after a clean room opening listed for 2025.^[12]

Leadership

• Neha Satak
  Co-founder and chief executive officer (as of 27 January 2025)^[1][11]
• Prasad HL Bhat
  Co-founder, chairman and chief technology officer (as of 24 September 2025)^[8][11]
• Venkatesh Kumaran
  President (as of 12 June 2023)^[16][11]

Sources

1. EntrackrAstrome Technologies raises $10 Mn led by Appollo Fundentrackr.com↗
2. Business TodayIN-SPACe selects Dhruva Space, Astrome, Azista to develop satellite bus platformbusinesstoday.in↗
3. Via SatelliteSatixFy to Supply Chips to Astrome for Terrestrial 5G Wireless Backhaulsatellitetoday.com↗
4. Via SatelliteAstrome Launches ICO, Gearing up for LEO Constellationsatellitetoday.com↗
5. Forbes IndiaNeha Satak: Taking high-speed internet to Bharatforbesindia.com↗
6. SiliconIndiaBangalore based DeepTech Startup Astrome Develops Product for Low Cost Internet in Rural Areassiliconindia.com↗
7. GKTodayTactical LAN Radiogktoday.in↗
8. Marico Innovation FoundationAstrome Technologies: Powering Digital Future Of Rural Indiamaricoinnovationfoundation.org↗
9. TracxnAstrome - 2026 Company Profile, Team, Funding, Competitors & Financialstracxn.com↗
10. Astrome TechnologiesOfficial siteastrome.co↗
11. Astrome TechnologiesOur Teamastrome.co↗
12. Astrome TechnologiesAbout Usastrome.co↗
13. Astrome TechnologiesGigaMeshastrome.co↗
14. Astrome TechnologiesSpaceNetastrome.co↗
15. Astrome TechnologiesAwards and Recognitionsastrome.co↗
16. OpenPRAstrome Technologies Partners with the Indian Army to Deploy Groundbreaking E-Band Solution, GigaMesh (Astrome Technologies press release)openpr.com↗
17. LinkedInAstrome company pagein.linkedin.com↗