Aspera AI

Aspera Industries is a Bengaluru-based aerospace startup building Eureka, an autonomous amphibious cargo aircraft designed to take off and land directly on water , positioning itself between ocean shipping that takes weeks and conventional air freight that most shippers cannot afford. The launch matters because Aspera is targeting a middle tier of logistics that has effectively not existed, using coastlines, rivers, and lakes as runways so that cargo can move between ports and inland waterways without airport infrastructure. The aircraft is built to autonomously carry a 1,000-kilogramme payload, cruising at around 6,500 feet, with a stated range of 2,000 kilometres , and Eureka is a fixed-wing, pilotless aircraft built to take off and land on water using retractable hydrofoils rather than the stepped hull that older seaplanes relied on . It features a carbon-fibre body , and the founder frames the economics by noting that flying a tonne of cargo costs about 20 times more than shipping it , a gap the company argues can be closed through airframe efficiency rather than new engines or fuels. Aspera was founded in June 2025 by Khushi Mittal, who dropped out of a physics and computer science degree at the University of Alberta to start the company, and has raised $750,000 in seed funding from Inuka Capital . The Eureka reveal is the company's first public product announcement, and Aspera is currently hiring engineers to build out the autonomy stack and airframe program in Bengaluru.