EP10: {Bala of Kawa Space} on creating applications for enabling easy use of satellite data and Space tech

Stars & Startups

EP10: Writing code at the age of 12 to now creating applications that enables easy use of satellite data {Bala Menon, Co-founder of Kawa Space}

Bala Menon is a tech entrepreneur who started writing code at the age of 12 and has built products across various industries and now, space. As the co-founder & Chief Product Officer he speaks about how Kawa Space aims to make space technology accessible to everyone; enabling the intelligence from space consumed at scale by businesses.

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The opportunity provided by Space, especially in Low Earth Orbit is a large and an exciting one, with India alone having over 300 companies focused on this market. Kawa is one of the latest in that lot and believe that eventually satellite data will be commoditised and there would be a point where the cost would tend towards zero.

Timeline

02:24 — Entering the Orbit: Kawa

05:44 — Launching Satellites vs getting satellite data

11:19 — Space and making sense of managing satellite data

15:52 — Commoditising the Data and Monetizing the Business

21:03 — Competitors and Kawa’s USP

28:48 — Becoming a Data Point for public as the Use Case

33:50 —Monetizing for Use Cases

36:24 — Space tech landscape in India

40:01 — Creating a moat

44:27 — Monitoring and rules of usage

47:23 — Onboarding the right team

Kawa is said to be working on a service that would make it extremely easy to work with satellite data and offer a platform that would require very little technical help or time for clients to get started. We get a little technical in this episode with Bala Menon of Kawa.Space where he shares the opportunity in the space of Space & what Kawa is building.

Kawa Space had recently raised funds from Speciale Invest and a sum from Paytm founder Vijay Shekar Sharma.

If you’re looking to partner or work with Kawa you can reach out to [e-mail] or [e-mail]

Bala is also easily accessible on LinkedIn and Twitter