[ Founder Name ] didn't set out to build a drone company. They se out to understand why 60% of pesticide applied by hand-operate sprayers never reached the crop. After watching their family's yiel drop for the third consecutive season, they started asking whethe there was a more precise way to deliver inputs — and whether tha precision could be affordable enough for smallholder farmers

That question became SkyKraft Drones. Inside ADYPU's incubatio programme, [ Founder Name ] spent the first three months not building drone, but interviewing farmers across Vidarbha and Marathwada. The dat was unambiguous: over-application, drift, and timing failures were costin small farms 15–20% of input budgets every season

The first prototype flew in month four. It crashed twice. The third fligh completed a 2-acre test plot in 11 minutes — something that would take manual operator six hours. DGCA certification followed 14 months later making SkyKraft one of a handful of student-founded ventures in India t achieve it.

Today, SkyKraft operates across Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, with 200 farmer partnerships and ₹1.2Cr in seed funding. [ Founder Name ] is workin on a leasing model that removes upfront cost barriers for farmers — the nex version of the same question they started asking in that Vidarbha field