Facts

• Segment: Defense
• Country: India
• Founded: 2025
• Website: https://apollyondynamics.com/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Products
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Commercial
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Team
• Context tags
• Sources

Summary

Apollyon Dynamics develops high-speed defence UAVs and deployable drone infrastructure in India. Its systems include kamikaze and strike drones built for military users, with work spanning fast iteration, field deployment and mobile drone production support.

Market context

Apollyon is an early-stage but unusually fast-moving Indian defence drone builder, moving from campus prototypes to Army-facing UAV supply within months. Its relevance is in rapid domestic development of high-speed strike drones, FPV drone production infrastructure and field-adapted manufacturing support for Indian defence users. Independent company founded by BITS Pilani Hyderabad students. Apollyon designs and builds high-speed kamikaze drones, FPV systems and deployable drone infrastructure for the Indian Army and Indian defence users.

• Capability: High-speed kamikaze UAV development. FPV drone assembly and repair. Deployable mobile drone lab operations. In-house carbon-fiber frame and mold manufacturing. Precision payload UAV design. Frontline militar…
• Strategic position: Early-stage Indian defence UAV builder with rapid Army-facing delivery trajectory. Focused on fast domestically produced strike and FPV drone systems for Indian military units, supported by field-ada…

Products

• Nightshade ADX-1 - high_speed_strike_uav

Facts

• Website: https://apollyondynamics.com/
• HQ: Hyderabad, Telangana, India
• Founded: 2025
• Segment: Defense
• Known funding rounds: 2

Funding

• 2026-05-05 - Pre-seed - $480K - Apollyon Dynamics raises ₹4 Cr pre-seed round led by Naandi Ventures - source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
• 2025-08-03 - Seed support - $35K - Apollyon Dynamics receives ₹30 lakh NIDHI seed support at ₹20 Cr valuation - source: fortuneindia.com

Investors

• Agnikul Cosmos - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-05-05
• Dhruva Space - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-05-05
• Naandi Ventures - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-05-05
• Skyroot Aerospace - Participant - Strategic Industrial - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2026-05-05
• NIDHI Seed Support Program - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-08-03
• PIEDS - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-08-03

Commercial

1 commercial event; 1 commercial order; latest event 2025-07-22

• 2025-07-22 - Commercial order - Apollyon Dynamics delivers high-speed kamikaze drones to Indian Army units - source: indiatimes.com

Defence unmanned systems company

Apollyon Dynamics develops autonomous strike platforms and deployable drone infrastructure for contested defence environments.

• Target environment: Defence field operations, contested airspace, tactical launch environments and unmanned aerial system missions.
• Deployment model: Defence UAS platform development through autonomous aircraft, launch systems and deployable drone infrastructure.
• Customer context: Defence users, security organizations, tactical operators and agencies seeking unmanned aerial systems.
• Workflow context: Autonomous strike platform operation, mobile launch, field deployment, reconnaissance support and tactical unmanned missions.
• Commercial maturity: Early-stage defence robotics company with public tactical UAS and deployable drone-infrastructure positioning. Scaling depends on flight validation, procurement traction, production readiness, and f…
• Market position: Defence robotics company developing tactical unmanned aircraft and deployable drone infrastructure.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on flight validation, safety, military procurement, export controls, production scale and operational reliability.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes defence UAVs, autonomous strike platforms, mobile launch systems and tactical unmanned systems.
• Source confidence: medium

Events

• 2026-05-05 - Funding - Apollyon Dynamics raises ₹4 Cr pre-seed round led by Naandi Ventures - Apollyon Dynamics raised ₹4 Cr in pre-seed funding led by Naandi Ventures.
• 2026-01-29 - Capability - Apollyon Dynamics builds mobile drone lab for Indian Army field support - Apollyon Dynamics built a truck-mounted mobile drone lab for Indian Army field support.
• 2025-08-03 - Funding - Apollyon Dynamics receives ₹30 lakh NIDHI seed support at ₹20 Cr valuation - Apollyon Dynamics received around ₹30 lakh under the NIDHI Seed Support Program through the BITS Pilani incubator socie…
• 2025-07-22 - Commercial Order - Apollyon Dynamics delivers high-speed kamikaze drones to Indian Army units - Apollyon Dynamics delivered indigenous high-speed kamikaze UAVs to Indian Army units after demonstrations to d…
• 2025-05-01 - Company Formation - Apollyon Dynamics founded by BITS Pilani Hyderabad students for defence UAV systems - Apollyon Dynamics was founded in May 2025 by BITS Pilani Hyderabad students Jayant Khatri and Sourya…

Team

• Jayant Khatri - Co-founder and CEO
• Sourya Choudhury - Co-founder and CTO

Context tags

• Tactical drone payload delivery - Capability - Apollyon systems support tactical payload delivery and strike capability.
• Defence drone OEM - Stack Layer - Apollyon builds complete defence and tactical drone systems.
• Defence FPV drone builder - Peer Group - Apollyon Dynamics builds FPV strike drones and deployable drone infrastructure.
• Deployable drone infrastructure - Workflow - Apollyon develops field-deployable drone production and launch infrastructure.
• Unmanned aircraft OEM - Stack Layer - Apollyon builds complete unmanned aircraft systems.
• Loitering precision strike - Workflow - Apollyon systems support loitering and precision strike missions.
• Pilot deployments - Commercial Stage - Apollyon has public development and field tests for drone infrastructure.
• Defence UAV builder - Peer Group - Apollyon positions itself around autonomous defence UAV platforms.
• Defence robotics operators - Customer Environment - Apollyon serves defence and field robotics operators.
• Autonomous drone operations - Capability - Apollyon platforms support autonomous drone operations.
• Contested defence environments - Customer Environment - Apollyon systems operate in contested defence environments.