Getting supplies to troops in the high mountains has always been a race against terrain, weather and time. Unmannd, a Bengaluru defence-tech startup founded in February 2025, has built a drone for exactly that job — one that flies itself, carries a serious load, and keeps flying where GPS cannot be trusted.
The company’s first product is Titan, and the Titan 30 variant is the workhorse of the family. The company says it carries up to 30 kg, cruises at 60 km/h, flies up to 30 km, and operates at a ceiling of 20,000 feet — the kind of altitude where thin air and cold make every kilogram and every watt count. It is fully autonomous, the company says, flying its mission, delivering its load and returning to base without a pilot at the controls.
What makes Titan different is not just the airframe, but the brain inside it. Unmannd was started by CEO Yeshwanth Reddy and CTO Hemaditya Prasad, both former defence engineers who had built and run drone operations before founding the company, and the team builds the whole stack itself: custom computer hardware, AI-driven autonomy, and multi-agent networking that lets a fleet of drones coordinate with each other. The idea, the company says, is platforms that perceive, decide and act faster than an adversary — even in harsh conditions where GPS is jammed and the airwaves are contested.
That approach has already earned the company’s first major stamp of approval. In August 2025, the company says, the Indian Army certified Titan as qualified for battlefield use — an unusually early milestone for a company only a few months old, and one that puts it in line for procurement as India’s armed forces source more unmanned systems indigenously.
Titan is only half the story. Fury, Unmannd’s counter-drone interceptor, is built on the same autonomy stack and turns the same intelligence toward defence: the company says it can detect hostile drones up to 30 km away and launch interceptors travelling at 300 km/h to bring them down. One platform carries supplies in, the other keeps hostile drones out — two jobs the Indian armed forces increasingly need done, from a single Bengaluru engineering team.
The company raised $2 million in a pre-seed round in September 2025, led by Speciale Invest and Accel, and the company says the funding is going toward commercialising Titan, pushing Fury toward deployment, and growing its team from about seven people to around 40, with early export conversations already on the roadmap. From a Bengaluru startup founded in 2025 to an Army-qualified logistics drone and a high-speed interceptor in the making, Unmannd is building the autonomous machines India wants to fly itself — machines that think ahead, work together, and operate where others cannot.
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