About us

A materials company, built next to the lab.

Founded in 2026 and anchored at IISc CeNSE in Bengaluru, we build the material layer that sits above infrastructure that already exists.

About us

A materials company, built next to the lab.

NanoHarvestX started from a straightforward observation: the world keeps installing energy infrastructure, and almost none of it performs as well as the physics allows. A solar panel is bought once and then quietly underperforms for twenty-five years. A satellite is designed around a power budget that its own surfaces are wasting.

We build the material layer that sits above that infrastructure. Not a replacement for it — an upgrade to what is already there, and to what is already qualified. That constraint shapes everything: it is why SPAL is a retrofit film rather than a new panel, and why the orbital variant is fully inorganic rather than the easier organic chemistry.

The company is anchored at IISc CeNSE in Bengaluru, India's foremost nanofabrication facility, with our scientific work led by faculty there. That proximity is deliberate. Materials claims are only worth what an independent measurement says they are, and we would rather be built beside the instrument that settles it.

Founded
2026 · Bengaluru
Entity
NanoHarvestX Technologies Private Limited
CIN U72100DL2026PTC467477
R&D
IISc CeNSE, Bengaluru
Scientific lead
Dr. Aditya Sadhanala
Faculty, IISc CeNSE · PhD, Cavendish Laboratory

Measure before claiming

Every performance figure on this site is labelled as a target until an independent measurement replaces it. We would rather be slow and correct than quotable and wrong.

Work above what exists

Infrastructure that already works is the hardest thing to displace and the easiest thing to improve. We build for adoption, not for replacement.

Earn the hard environment

Orbit and the lunar surface do not forgive shortcuts in chemistry. Designing for the harshest case first is what makes the ordinary case durable.

Team

Materials scientists, and people who ship.

Mehul Kumar

Mehul Kumar

Founder & CEO

Strategy, fundraising and commercial partnerships. Managing Director.

Dr. Aditya Sadhanala

Dr. Aditya Sadhanala

Scientific Advisor & CSO

Faculty, IISc CeNSE. PhD, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. Quantum-dot photophysics and thin-film devices.

Kamna Sagar

Kamna Sagar

Co-Founder & COO

Operations, commercialisation and supply chain.

Dr. Nalin Sharma

Dr. Nalin Sharma

R&D Head

PhD Nanoengineering, former IISc IoE Fellow. Thin films and nanomaterials.

Roadmap

What happens next, in order.

2026 · NOW

Build and validate

MVP programme underway at IISc CeNSE. Pre-seed round closing. Patent filings in preparation, with freedom-to-operate review ahead of filing.

Q1–Q2 2027

Certified measurement, then first pilots

Certified power-conversion-efficiency measurement at IISc CeNSE. This is the gate: it converts the design target into a number we can stand behind. Rooftop pilots with SolarSquare and ArkaHub begin once it lands.

H2 2027

First field data and first revenue

Coated-versus-control field results from live installations. Conversion of pipeline LOIs into commercial agreements.

2028 onward

Manufacturing-line integration and space qualification

Integration with panel manufacturers at production stage. Space variant progresses toward environmental qualification and an in-orbit demonstration.