Sridhar Vembu, founder and CEO of Zoho Corporation, made an announcement that company will be investing in Yali Aerospace. The Tamil Nadu based drone startup has built a fixed wing drone with vertical take off and landing capabilities.
With a payload of 7 kg, range of 150 km, and maximum speed of 155 km/hr, the drone can be utilised into delivering medicines and organs to remote hospitals, thereby bypassing the problems of emergency road transport.
Yali Aerospace, led by husband and wife duo – Dinesh Baluraj and Anugraha – who returned from Netherlands to build startup in their own hometown, Thanjavur. The husband has an engineering background as he studies Aerospace and completed his masters from Technical University of Munich.
Vembu has always been a motivation for pushing rural and local growth and has been continuously working towards growing tier 2 and 3 cities. Zoho has opened up over 25 satellite offices in these tier cities.
