Former
ISRO engineer turned entrepreneur Dhinesh Kanagaraj was always interested in the field of composite materials.’ During his three-year stint with the national space organisation, he was also pursuing and ideating along similar lines.
A graduate of IIT-Madras, Dhinesh, and IIT-Delhi alumnus Abhijeet Rathore met in ISRO in 2011, and worked on popular missions such as
GSLV Mk-III and Chandrayaan-II. After leaving his job at ISRO, Dhinesh along with his colleague Abhijeet launched
Chennai-based Fabheads Automation in 2015 for building automated solutions for fabricating composite products.
Abhijeet Rathore, Dhinesh Kanagaraj, and Akshay Ballal, Co-Founders of Fabheads Automation
[Image Credit: Fabheads]
They were joined by Akshay Ballal from BIT-Mesra, who started as an intern at Fabheads straight out of college, but later continued in the organisation full time, and is now the Chief Product Officer.