When Prime Minister Narendra Modi travelled aboard the Chennai Metro with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay recently, the journey also provided an unusual platform for entrepreneurs to present their ideas.

More than 15 startup founders reportedly joined the interaction, bringing innovations from fields ranging from spacetech and aviation to healthcare, agriculture and urban finance.

Here are eight companies and a closer look at the problems they are trying to solve.

During his interaction with PM Modi, Dream Aerospace Technologies founder, CEO and CTO Hari Krishnan KJ discussed the company's propulsion systems for satellites, spacecraft and re-entry vehicles. These systems provide the thrust needed to manoeuvre spacecraft.

Founded in 2022, the startup has a team of around 25 people, with an average age of approximately 25. Krishnan recalled that the Prime Minister asked about the company’s founding, team size and employees’ average age, and was surprised by how young the team was.

The conversation also covered the growing satellite industry and the company’s expansion plans. Krishnan told the PM that the startup was focusing on increasing domestic manufacturing capacity, with customer orders lined up for the next two to three years.

He also highlighted how IN-SPACe had helped private space companies access India’s space ecosystem.

Blunav Technologies is developing software to manage airport operations, bringing together information on aircraft movements, passenger services and baggage handling. Founder and CEO Suseendar Marimuthu told PM Modi that the company had designed its platform specifically for small and medium-sized airports, where replacing existing systems can be expensive.

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