Piersight

PierSight Space is an Ahmedabad, India-based space technology company founded in September 2023 by Gaurav Seth and Vinit Bansal. Gaurav Seth, the company's CEO, holds a B.Tech in Engineering Physics from the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) and spent nine years at ISRO working on interplanetary and Earth observation missions, including development of India's first airborne foliage-penetrating SAR system. PierSight is headquartered at IIMA Ventures in Ahmedabad.

The company is building a constellation of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Automatic Identification System (AIS) satellites to deliver persistent, all-weather monitoring of the world's oceans for the maritime industry, serving use cases such as illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing detection, oil spill detection, exclusive economic zone (EEZ) protection, maritime insurance risk assessment, and shipping operations. PierSight has raised approximately $8 million from investors including Alpha Wave Ventures, Elevation Capital, Techstars and All In Capital.

PierSight's Varuna mission, an in-orbit SAR technology demonstrator in a CubeSat form factor, launched on 30 December 2024 aboard a PSLV on ISRO's POEM platform. The company was also the only participant to win recognition in both the US and India tracks of the DIU-IDEX Maritime Challenge for oil spill detection. In addition to its maritime constellation, PierSight has developed Vidura, a foliage-penetrating SAR payload for on-ground defence operators, currently in active trials.