qualcomm recently announced the winners of the seventh edition of its design in india challenge said to be indias longestrunning hardware startup incubation programme launched in collaboration with nasscom and startup india out of 145 applicants this time 12 startups were selected to receive incubation support in the areas of technology development business model and intellectual property rights ipr out of the 12 three were selected by a jury of industry leaders as the winner and two runners upwinner techeagle innovationsfounded by iit kanpur alumni vikram singh meena and anshu abhishek gurugram based techeagle innovations is a leader in dronebased logistics in india they provide an ai5g enabled ondemand drone delivery airline to save and improve lives they recently launched a hub and spoke service in meghalaya to deliver medicines to the remote hilly areasvikram who is also ceo said their team worked tirelessly to develop a 5gbased command and control system that allows for drone control from anywhere in the world and live video streaming through 5g connectivity we are eager to expand our operations globally and we believe our cloudbased drone fleet management system can make a significant positive impact on society he said 1st runner up react labsfounded by mahek mody and mohit sharma in 2021 and located in bengaluru react labs makes smart connected home appliances they design and productionise modern products under the brand up leveraging firmware and software capabilities to deliver unique experiences to consumers mahek said with the help of powerful multichannel connectivity and compute that qualcomm chips provided they were able to successfully test their product and train the up ai in natural use cases at a fast pace2nd runner up irov technologiesstarted in kochi in 2017 by johns t mathai and kannappa palaniappan irov offers an unmanned autonomous surface vehicle which can do bathymetry measurement of depth of water in oceans seas or lakes surveillance and data collection to be deployed in dams rivers and lakes for various applications including inspections the company has also developed underwater remotely operated vehicles