As the economy ground to a halt in March last year, Nikhil Kurele and Harshit Rathore were about to start a new business. T
They had responded to an email from IIT Kanpur, their alma mater, inviting proposals from start-ups to make ventilators to fight the pandemic.
They had responded to an email from IIT Kanpur, their alma mater, inviting proposals from start-ups to make ventilators to fight the pandemic.
Neither had seen a ventilator before, but as they figured out how to keep their two-year-old, Pune-based start-up, Noccarc Robotics, afloat, they reasoned ventilators were the need of the hour.
“If had we not taken that chance, we wouldn't have survived,” says Kurele with cheery confidence exactly a year into the journey.