India's Biggest Space Startup: Awais Ahmed, Pixxel - Backstage with Millionaires
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 4 июн 2024
- Listen to this podcast as audio: open.spotify.com/episode/2DWc...
In this episode of the Backstage With Millionaires podcast, we sit down with Awis Ahmed, founder of Pixxel, to discuss his entrepreneurial journey.
00:00:00 Intro
00:02:41 Building the pod
00:06:25 Working at SpaceX
00:07:31 Why Awais chose asteroid mining
00:14:11 Why no one got into hyperspectral commercial space
00:22:23 Raising funds to build a satellite
00:32:58 Building the first satellite
00:43:54 Raising funds during the pandemic
00:49:41 How Pixxel generates revenue
00:50:21 Launching the satellite
1:09:58 Outro
Pixxel is a space data company building a constellation of the world’s highest-resolution hyperspectral earth imaging satellites and the analytical tools to mine insights from the data.
The images gathered by Pixxel's satellites will provide global coverage every 24 hours and help detect, monitor, and predict global phenomena across agriculture, mining, environment, and energy use cases.
About Awais Ahmed:
Awais Ahmed started his professional journey at HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited), as a research intern.
Around the same time in 2016, he was also the founder member and engineering lead at Hyperloop India.
He started Pixxel in 2019.
Connect with us:
Twitter: / bwmillionaires
LinkedIn: / backstagewithmillionaires
Instagram: / backstagewithmillionaires
Podcast: open.spotify.com/show/5rGPalo...
#startup #entrepreneur #space
Have never seen an interview from start to end. Such an inspiring story. Hats off to Awais for his vision and Caleb for the wonderful interview
He belongs to Chikmagalur Karnataka India. That's my home town . Am proud of him ❤
Very very impressive... Thanks to backstageM for bringing such inspiring people. Bring this person every 6 months and we want to listen updates. It will also be a good documentation for pixxel
Haha I'd love to have Awais back again someday. Maybe in a year or so, let's see - if he agrees to return. -Caleb
The point where he said that we didn,t have internet connection at our house , it really reminded me of my 2 neighbours who used to study really hard and turned out to be scientists at ISRO. They didn,t have any facilities and made it to the IIST without any coaching and they were toppers in their streams.
Awais is a wonderful human being, great sense of humor, fair and considerate... Pixxel has developed an amazing culture of open collaboration and rooted in being a health monitor for the planet... I've enjoyed my time immensely with Pixxel - EVERYONE here counts and is treated with respect. Please inquire!
1:03:12 US Gov is a client 🔥🔥🔥
This podcast is one of the best I have ever watched 😍😍😍 thanks Caleb!
It's wierd Indian Govt. only trusts ISRO, they promote space startups, but they entrust mission only to ISRO.
Just finished my final year exams at BITS. Seeing guys like this doing insane stuff right out of BITS is extremely motivating, Hats off to the Pixxel team!
RVCE kids built digantara a situational space awareness startup while they were in college stop making it a bits thing I mean almost everyone in your college has tons of social capital intergenerational privilege the least diverse set of students socially and you guys have 0 attendence right peak privileges that other students dont get life is not just about building startups but developing a well rounded personality kids from rural backgrounds are winning us medals at CWG and olympics
@@tejassuresh8221 fyi, there's no source like that RVCE kids built it
Please stop spreading misinformation without proper sources or facts backing up your claim. I've seen that if people build something from Private institutes, they immidiealty shifts the name to someone else. But if it was from IIT, I can bet that you wouldn't actually say that.
@@tejassuresh8221lol! RVCE guys coping
One of the best founder's Journey i have listened to. It was beautifully articulated by Awais. Often we say " Zero to One" but this was "Before Zero to One" startup journey story. Thanks Backstage with Millionaires for this
What a pleasure it was to listen to Awais Ahmed give a run down of his startup to the point where it is now. I wish the entire Team of PIXXEL the very best.
Ahmed podcast seems pro, and the clarity and way he explains the tech to business.Speechless!!!! Good luck Awis!
Thanks Ahmed for sharing your startup journey with us👍 . Thanks BWM team for this podcast 🔥
A truly multidisciplinary endeavor. Designing sensors and instruments, planning trajectories, communicating and processing high throughput data. There are few companies like this around the world. Kudos to these skilled and intrepid entrepreneurs!
When someone at isro who had experience about 40 years say it can't be happened...and a guy just 21 years made it ...its just awesome
thats the beauty called innovation
Thanks to the BWM Team the podcasts help me a lot in seeing the world more broadly. Keep it up guys
Thanks a lot Shivam 🙂 -Caleb
Truly aspiring. Watched the full podcast, really informative. Amazing to watch such startups grow.
Once you start, momentum takes you Along. Wise words.
Great work Awais and congrats to your whole team, I hope soon you will be able to provide high quality hyper-spectral image of India to normal customers as well so that they can also build things on top of that.
Simply amazing; great communicator, equally good executor and a visionary!!
It’s great to hear from him happy to know he is from Karnataka.
ಹ್ಮ್
Inspiring, more power to people like ahmed!!🎉🎉🎉🎉
Soo freakin inspiring!! Damn. Its mind blowing to know the amount of variables that you can and cannot be mindful of while building a startup from scratch and that too from one random idea.
Wow, great and inspiring podcast. I recently encountered your channel, watching from Colombia and this got me really interested and started to investigate the startup world and opportunities in India. Thank You and a pleasure watching your content. ❤
Wow, so cool to know that you're watching these videos from Colombia! I've never been, but spent many years of my life in Argentina and Peru. Thanks for stopping by, and looking forward to seeing you down here in the comments going forward! -Caleb
These guys reached out to me some time back with a job and my god have they changed
If the team spoke with the confidence they have now, would have definetely considered them.
Super proud of what they have accomplished.
- Fellow BITSIAN (it truly is magic)
PS: I had some personal responsibilities as well that anchored me, would have definetely tried them out
Yep, BITS seems to be one of those colleges that excels at creating entrepreneurial thinkers. It's still early days for Pixxel, I'm sure they're hiring in case your responsibilities have diminished! -Caleb
Simple & True content, loved the insights between funding rounds.
Congratulations... U r an inspiration..May Almighty bless u with abundance in all the good deeds..
this is not the India biggest space startup. please don't write this kind of word. it is doing brilliant work. and Skyroot aerospace is known as most famous top startup in space. yeah, on space image based, you can tell this is top company, but not in entire space.
Woaahhh!!! That was a music to my ear🎉🎉. Most amazing episode ❤
Last part where he said we need hardware to go with software, can't only focus on software alone
💯💯
incredibly impressive indeed, It demonstrates that Indians are also not left behind. Keep it up; we enjoy witnessing success.
Most impressive, fantastic, amazing and inspiring. Wow, thanks
Hi BWM this is my first video of your channel and i must say I loved it a lot then any other video on RUclips i watched till date.
Awais bhai anytime someone in industry begins to throw their weight around regarding how many years of experience they have or their experience is greater than your age, that is a sign you are onto something and that individual is just being insecure about why they never thought of that. Great going and I wish you best of luck in future journey!!
It’s quite impressive effort and ups and downs struggle all the best guy. Trusting ur self and making other people trust u whole different ball game ..
❤ congratulations wishing you guys all the success 🎉.
Congratulations and best wishes Awais and team for continuing successes.
a hidden gem on the internet about a hidden gem in Indian startup ecosystem
Wow! That was amazing, Thank you team BSM for this.
Absolutely drp star, thanks for watching! -Caleb
GREAT WORK AWAIS KEEP UP... KEEP GIVING THE PRIDE MOMENTS TO INDIA!!!
So much clarity at such young age. I'm blown. Hope he achieve his dreams and makes everyone proud.
That was an awesome interview Caleb. Very inspiring journey by Awais, Indias Elon Musk to be👍.
Thanks so much bkmarksuser! Glad you enjoyed it. -Caleb
Wow! Impressive interview as always from BWM!
There is always someone who says it's impossible and then there's always someone breaking that barrier.
Absolutely - we need more such people! -Caleb
@@backstagewithmillionaires True!
Its inspiring to see how they have been able to crack deeptech.
Amazing person, amazing very creative startup. He is a real smartass. Congrats man for your satellite. you will definitwly do asteroid mining someday.
I have same opinion and agree with Awais that we need to take the manufactring to space and other plantes rather than spolining earth env. till it reaches a point of no return. Human must starting thinking more scientific and have good ethics to stop frictions which hampers the growth and progress. Great thinking
Very smart guy.. Thanks for the lovely interview
More power to you bhai! 🙏 🇮🇳
Remarkable journey. All the best.
-There are 3 types of spectral data
RGB HyperSpectral and MultiSpectral
-Hyperspectral imagery is used to analyze compostion of rocks, asteroids etc...
- Material - Abeyyss?
-While building a sattelite - one builds a engineering model then qualification model then flight model....
Just got to know that they secured the 36 mil Dollar in Series B
Nice🎉
Very inspiring interview and a great success story. It is amazing how Elon has inspired a new generation of entrepreneurs!
Very rare find that we gave up on them but something positive to look about and emulate 😮😮😮😮 guys follow him not cult
i watched full podcast , i am from chikmaglur , we are proud of u
We’ll be cheering for you awais . 🎉
Incredible podcast. Hopefully government can integrate young minds and do innovative stuff to be in league of big boys on the table. Current big boys being China and US
What an accomplishment! I guess this is the India Abdul Kalam was envisioning in India 2020.
Inspiring....Congratulations 👏
A very inspiring Journey, Ahmed has many ingredients to be highly successful.
The struggle that Ahmed went through to collect 7 cr and thereon 700 mil US $ is a sharp contrast to the HNI wealth pool that we have in India. Startup's are the future of India if we have to have economic miracle. A time has come when the government, the rich to chip in and hand hold startups in a way which no other country has done. This mindset has to dawn.
Thanks for this podcast
Inspirational 👏
Awais I sincerely wish you the best for the future. your extremely well thought out and structured plan is sure to beat fruit and I will be one of the first in line to celebrate asteroid mining with you. All the best brother. 🎉🎉🙏
Great perseverance
Awesome. I love Bangalore
super interesting!
I believe, you should read the book "The Futurepreneur" , which covers pixxel's story as well as many other indian deep tech startups story.
- i am currently reading it.
India will have many more such success stories if somehow we can tell young middle class entrepreneurs that they can get access to a huge pool of funds from the Startup India Initiative. That fund is severely underutilized and the government is itching to give away the money.
Yes, you are right and other educational institutions should learn from bits of pilani, how they can make students risk taking, and access to such resources.
Amazing vision!
Please do more videos on Hard-Tech start-ups.
Thank you for this video link
Truly amazing, Don't say it's india Space X, coz this startup maybe inspiration,, but it has it's own glory.
Excellent interview. Enjoyed it very much. Thank you 🙏🏼
What a journey. Truly inspiring. This is the future of India. Thanks you for the video. Look forward to more similar success stories.
I've been following Awais for some time now and he's definitely very hard to reach out to! Thanks Caleb for inviting Awais!
He's quite approachable on Twitter
Loved the podcast 👏
I am so proud of this son of India
Govt should help these talents. Make policies favourable to them.
Struggles and perseverance, backed by confidence in their knowledge resulted in Pixxels' success. The journey ahead will be more exciting considering what can be done with the hyperspectral imaging data when combined with Gen AI.
We need more space startups to run in space race
Amazing
21 years old guy’s getting 20 km images from space impressive. How many mega pixel Is camera?
If this guy doesn't get distracted by the things other young adults get distracted from he will make it big... Really big
Amazing!
Pushing the algorithm ❤
Awesome
Really an inspiring and motivating pod...
Thanks Vasupatel! Glad you enjoyed it 🙂 -Caleb
please invite Agnikul cosmos they are a great space tech startup.
Wow let's go
His success story is so smooth
my boy is on a different level....
Right?! -Caleb
I've never seen too long podcast but this made me stuck.
Plz bring founders of agnikul and dhawan also
Nice
keep going
Great Interview. Please interview more of these technical entrepreneurs instead of some ecommerce businessmen.
Cool
BITSian in the house💪🏻
I don't get it people always say that thing, glorifying their colleges if they see someone from it doing good . Same case with other colleges too. Can someone please explain, like what will you get from it.
@@SwaritShuklait is because of colonial mindset of respect/authority on institution and lack of focus on individualism
You don't see Stanford people bragging about Stanford in comment section of elon musk RUclips video.
America cherishes individual liberty/freedom so you won't see people associating themselves with institution rather they focus on themselves.
@@yono4633 ohh that's what it is thanks though for the information.
Putting down others is what they achieve may be? Or may be they want to associate with someone who has more power? It is human tendency
@@SwaritShukla I’m proud that he’s my college senior and it inspires me to work hard and do more.
proud
Now I know why people root for bits even more than IITs........
What is the current valuation of pixxel?
I don't think that is a public figure at the moment. -Caleb
This guy is the second Kalam
Hey bro good luck also for yt channel
Indian spaceX is Skyroot aerospace
This is the kind of mentality we need to change. We need to stop calling our places and inventions like "Indian Silicon Valley", "Indian SpaceX". We do not need another Silicon valley or SpaceX here if those things are as original and done by our folks.
🦋👌👌👌