21-year-old founder rejects CMU, drone startup raises $37M
sanjaykalra · x · 2026-08-30
21-year-old Naman Pushp turned down Carnegie Mellon University to found Airbound, a drone company that just raised $37 million. The company's technology is trusted enough that a Bengaluru hospital was designed without a diagnostic lab. He started building drones during the COVID lockdown at age 15.
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