Day 38 of 100 · Industrial AI

Detect Technologies

Undergraduates built a sensor for pipeline inspection and ended up serving global oil majors.

Started atIIT Madras
Founded2016
FoundersDaniel Raj David, Tarun Kumar Mishra & Harikrishnan AS
CountryIndia

How it started

The technology came out of an IIT Madras lab and was commercialised while the founders were still students.

The lesson for your campus Industrial problems pay well and few students look at them.

Why every campus needs an Innovation-Hub

Why we are telling this story

The next company on a list like this one has not been founded yet. Right now it is a student in a lecture hall with an idea nobody has asked about, and no room to build it in. Innovation-Hub is that room: a permanent space inside your institution where students from every department explore, experiment, collaborate and prototype.

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Ask the Founder

Pick a question — or write your own — and get a grounded answer about how Detect Technologies was actually built.

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The next one comes from your campus

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