Startup Profile
AstroGate Labs
Legal entity: AstroGate Labs Private Limited
Laser communication terminals for satellites and high-speed space data downlink.
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Founders
- Nitish Singh
Co-founder and CEO of Astrogate Labs. IIT Kharagpur graduate who previously led mission planning and operations at Team Indus during its Google Lunar X Prize campaign, where he identified the satellite data downlink bottleneck that the company was built to solve.
- Aditya Kedlaya
Co-founder of Astrogate Labs, described as an IIT alumnus and former Team Indus engineer.
- Yogeshwaran J
Co-founder of Astrogate Labs, listed among the founding team in 2025 funding coverage.
- Subhajit Chakraborty
Co-founder of Astrogate Labs, listed among the founding team in 2025 funding coverage.
Funding rounds
- Pre-Series2025-02-27₹10.79 CrLed by Piper Serica Angel Fund
- Pre-Series A2020-11-24—Led by Speciale Invest
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Timeline
- 2025-02-27USD 1.3 million pre-Series round led by Piper Serica — Raised USD 1.3 million in a pre-Series funding round led by Piper Serica Angel Fund to accelerate development of laser communication terminals for space, terrestrial and airborne applications and to scale partnerships with space agencies and defence organisations.
- 2023Graduated Seraphim Space Accelerator APAC programme — Astrogate Labs graduated from the Seraphim Space Accelerator APAC programme and was recognised under the DRDO Dare to Dream 4.0 initiative.
- 2020-11-24Pre-Series-A round led by Speciale Invest — Raised a pre-Series-A round led by Speciale Invest with Anicut Angel Fund, SuprValue.vc and FirstCheque; total funding to date reported at about USD 750,000 (roughly INR 5.5 crore). Management cited a target of USD 60-70 million in revenue over five years.
- 2017Company founded in Bengaluru — Astrogate Labs founded by Nitish Singh and co-founders to build laser-based optical communication terminals for satellites, addressing the data downlink bottleneck Singh encountered at Team Indus.