Tsalla Aerospace raises $1 Mn in maiden funding round

Tsalla Aerospace has raised $1 million in its first external funding round led by Sunny Stalnaker, executive VP at ASML, with additional support from SIDBI and equity-free grants from the Ministry of Defence’s Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX) programme. 

The proceeds will be used to expand its autonomous systems platform and scale deployment for defence and industrial use cases.

Founded in 2019 and incubated at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Tsalla Aerospace builds an AI-based autonomy stack for drones and unmanned systems. Its AI…