Everlasting-owned Zomato’s founder, Deepinder Goyal’s aviation startup LAT Aerospace, has acquired a Gurugram-based early-stage defence robotic startup named Sharang Shakti as the corporate plans to spice up its indigenous defence capabilities, in line with a social media submit on X.
Deepinder Goyal, in his current submit, introduced LAT Aerospace’s current acquisition transfer on Tuesday, 24 February 2026, and stated that this transfer marks step one in direction of constructing indigenous defence capabilities.
“LAT Aerospace has acquired Sharang Shakti, an early-stage defence robotics startup primarily based in Gurgaon. That is our first transfer towards constructing indigenous defence capabilities alongside our long-term mission of growing next-generation civil aviation platforms from India,” stated Goyal in his submit.
‘Slowly however absolutely’ — LAT Aerospace’s objective
Deepinder Goyal, who’s the founding father of LAT Aerospace, additionally stated that “slowly however absolutely” the corporate goals to construct on its in-house capabilities to lastly deploy the developments throughout each defence and civil applications over time.
“By bringing Sharang Shakti into LAT, we’re constructing these capabilities in-house, from first rules, with the intent to deploy them throughout each defence and civil applications over time,” stated Deepinder Goyal in his submit on X.
The founder additionally highlighted that the civil aviation and defence sector in Indian is usually thought of separate, however on the core stage, the expertise is shared throughout the autonomy, notion, sensing, navigation, steering, and management methods.
Goyal’s concept behind the startup
Mint reported earlier in January 2026 that Deepinder Goyal’s ‘radical’ concept is to develop expertise in an effort to remove the necessity for elaborate airport infrastructure in India.
In a podcast with YouTuber Raj Shamani, Deepinder Goyal revealed his concept behind the aviation startup that he goals to alter the aviation sector by offering providers like takeoff and touchdown capabilities inside 20 metres.
“Takeoff and touchdown inside, as an instance 20 metres, which is able to in flip remove the necessity for the frilly airport infrastructure. This has by no means been achieved on this world. That is radical when it comes to aviation,” stated Goyal.
This concept comes on the backdrop of how persons are travelling to an airport and ready to board, taking 3 hours earlier than one other 3-hour-long flight. Goyal known as it ‘mindless’ as it’s the identical time taken to drive from Delhi to Chandigarh.
In accordance with the corporate web site, LAT Aerospace is an aviation startup which was collectively based by Deepinder Goyal and Surobhi Das in January 2025. The corporate is constructing a brand new technology of Quick Take-Off and Touchdown (STOL) plane, which can be designed to function compact air-stops relatively than typical airports.