Here's what made Infosys invest in this drone startup incubated at IIT-Bombay and IIT-Ahmedabad

Infosys recently made an investment in ideaForge, an Indian startup focused on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle solutions.

IdeaForge has built a globally ompetitive UAV solution featuring fully autonomous operation, cutting edge fail-safe technology, high endurance, image intelligence with live feed, and support for complex payloads such as thermal and high-resolution imagery.

IdeaForge’s UAVs have been widely deployed by the Indian Armed Forces for surveillance, crowd monitoring and rescue operations, and offer a compelling solution for commercial applications in verticals such as energy, utilities, telecom and agriculture.

"ideaForge’s high performance UAVs, which have been designed and built in India, have significant potential in industrial use cases. We are looking forward to working with ideaForge and bringing their technology, expertise, and solutions to our clients to unlock new business insights from operational data that has previously been difficult to obtain," said Ritika Suri, Executive Vice President & Global Head of Corporate Development & Ventures at Infosys.

"We are very excited to have Infosys as an investor and a partner for exploring UAV services and solutions for global customers. This partnership will play an important role in our industrial expansion to address a wide variety of data acquisition and analysis needs," said Ankit Mehta, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at ideaForge.

The investment is subject to receipt of regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.