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Skyroot Aerospace is India's first private launch vehicle company, developing a family of small satellite launch vehicles.
ACTIVEHyderabad-based Skyroot Aerospace develops the Vikram family of small satellite launch vehicles. It launched India's first private rocket, the suborbital Vikram-S, in 2022, and its Vikram-1 reached orbit on its first flight on 18 July 2026, making Skyroot the first private company to launch a rocket to orbit from India.
Hyderabad-based Skyroot Aerospace develops the Vikram family of small satellite launch vehicles. It launched India's first private rocket, the suborbital Vikram-S, in 2022, and its Vikram-1 reached orbit on its first flight on 18 July 2026, making Skyroot the first private company to launch a rocket to orbit from India.
Provisional: the latest data refresh looked incomplete and was held, so these scores use inputs measured 2026-10-10.
Rank 58 of 156 ranked companies. With the pillars we have not measured for this company filled at the 10th and 90th percentiles of the companies we did measure, and every other company held at its published total, the rank is likely between 45 and 71.
5 of 7 inputs measured · Medium confidence · 81% of applicable weight backed by data
Not measured: Reported revenue
Not measured: Open-role change (90 days)
A pillar score averages the company’s percentiles among the tracked companies with a value: relative standing, not a grade. Inputs measured 2026-10-10 (UTC) · methodology v6. Every input, its value and percentile · How it is computed
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2 private rounds on record. Debt, grants, state capital, owner funding and acquisitions are listed under Funding history by class and not added in.
Small satellite launch vehicle with an all-carbon-composite structure and a restartable liquid upper stage; first orbital launch succeeded on 18 July 2026.
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Compiled Oct 12, 2026 from 7 public records. Every figure links the record it comes from.
Latest sourced round
Equity round: $60.0M
Co-led by GIC and Sherpalo Ventures
Source: SpaceNews
Announced May 7, 2026
Sourced rounds on record
5 rounds, $153.5M disclosed
Every round has a disclosed amount
Published rounds with a source link only, on the same rules as the funding tracker. Each round links the source that states its figure; amounts in other currencies are converted to dollars at the rate shown on the funding tracker.
Source: SpaceNews
Latest round May 7, 2026
Also: Inc42, SpaceNews (GIC release), Inc42, The Tech Portal
Launches flown as provider
1 since Nov 18, 2024
none failed. Latest: Vikram-I | Demo Flight
Our launch record starts Nov 18, 2024; earlier launches are not counted here. Every kind of launch in the feed counts, crewed, lunar and station missions included.
Source: Launch Library 2 launch record
Latest launch Jul 18, 2026
APA
SpaceNexus. (2026, October 12). Skyroot Aerospace: Company dossier [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/skyroot-aerospace
Chicago
SpaceNexus. "Skyroot Aerospace: Company dossier." Data as of October 12, 2026. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/skyroot-aerospace.
BibTeX
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author = {{SpaceNexus}},
title = {{Skyroot Aerospace}: Company dossier},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
howpublished = {\url{https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/skyroot-aerospace}},
url = {https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/skyroot-aerospace},
urldate = {2026-10-12},
note = {Data as of 2026-10-12; each fact links its primary source}
}Sherpalo Ventures
Co-led Equity round (May 7, 2026)
SpaceNews, May 7, 2026
Wami Capital
Co-led Bridge (Jan 27, 2022)
Inc42, Jan 27, 2022
Greenko Group founders (Anil Chalamalasetty, Mahesh Kolli)
Recorded as lead of Series A (May 20, 2021)
The Tech Portal, May 20, 2021
Mukesh Bansal
Took part in Series A (May 20, 2021)
The Tech Portal, May 20, 2021
Neeraj Arora
Took part in Series A (May 20, 2021)
The Tech Portal, May 20, 2021
Solar Group
Took part in Series A (May 20, 2021)
The Tech Portal, May 20, 2021