He wanted to go to Mars. When told it was ‘not possible’ in India, he named his Bengaluru startup NoPo and set out to prove them wrong

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He wanted to go to Mars. When told it was ‘not possible’ in India, he named his Bengaluru startup NoPo and set out to prove them wrong

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August 25, 2026

Gadhadar Reddy’s childhood dream of reaching Mars led him to explore carbon nanotubes as a way to make future spacecraft lighter and stronger. In 2011, he co-founded Bengaluru-based NoPo Nanotechnologies after being told industrial production of the advanced material was “not possible” in India. Fifteen years later, NoPo is scaling up single-walled carbon nanotube production for potential applications in batteries, semiconductors, electronics and advanced materials, turning an ambitious space dream into a deep-tech manufacturing venture.

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