AERAYAN
Aerayan Group
(01)Intro

Engineeringthefrontieracrosseverydomainthatmatters.

Aerayan is a research-led technology group. Six divisions — AI, compute, bio, aerospace, quantum and systems — building the platforms of the next century.

Fig. 01 — The group Live
INTEL001COMPUTE002BIO003AERO004QUANTUM005SYSTEMS006
Research divisions under one group06
Flagship platforms in active build05
Shared engineering core & standard01
Founded with a century-long horizon2024
Foundation ModelsAutonomous SystemsHigh-Performance ComputeGenomicsProtein StructureFlight SoftwareOrbital MechanicsQuantum AlgorithmsPost-Quantum CryptographyDistributed SystemsScientific SimulationReinforcement LearningFoundation ModelsAutonomous SystemsHigh-Performance ComputeGenomicsProtein StructureFlight SoftwareOrbital MechanicsQuantum AlgorithmsPost-Quantum CryptographyDistributed SystemsScientific SimulationReinforcement Learning
(02)Company

Aerayanisatechnologygroupbuilttotakeontheproblemsthatmattermost—andthatnooneelseisequippedtosolve.Werunindependentdivisionsacrossintelligence,compute,biology,aerospaceandquantum,unitedbyoneengineeringcoreandonestandardofrigour.

RK
Rohan Kumar
Founder & Chief Executive

“We are building for the next century, not the next product cycle.”

We are not an agency and we are not a single-product startup. Aerayan is a parent company that incubates, funds and operates research divisions — each with a flagship platform and a long-horizon mandate.

Every division shares the same compute, security and engineering foundation, so progress in one field immediately strengthens the others. That is how a small, deeply technical group can work across the frontier without spreading thin.

Mission

Accelerate humanity’s technological progress by building the systems no one else is equipped to build.

Operating principles06 / 06
.01

First-principles thinking

We reason from fundamentals, not from convention or trend.

.02

Science-driven engineering

Every technical decision is grounded in evidence and experiment.

.03

Extreme reliability

Systems that matter cannot fail — we design for fault from day one.

.04

Long-horizon vision

We build for the next decade, not the next product cycle.

.05

Interdisciplinary by default

Breakthroughs live between fields, so our teams do too.

.06

Open research culture

We publish, share and teach what we learn along the way.

(03)Divisions

Six divisions. One group.

Each division is a focused research company inside Aerayan — its own mandate, team and flagship platform, built on a shared engineering core.

001. / Artificial Intelligence

Aerayan Intelligence

Fig. 001
Division 01 / 06
Field
Artificial Intelligence
Flagship
Luminary
Stage
Research preview

Foundation models, autonomous reasoning and multi-modal systems built for the rigour of science — from fine-tuning to reinforcement learning at scale.

Flagship — Luminary
Foundation modelsAutonomous agentsMulti-modal reasoningEvaluation
002. / Scientific Infrastructure

Aerayan Compute

Fig. 002
Division 02 / 06
Field
Scientific Infrastructure
Flagship
AeraCloud
Stage
In development

High-performance, distributed infrastructure for simulation, training and petabyte-scale data — the substrate every other division runs on.

Flagship — AeraCloud
HPC clustersDistributed storageSimulationObservability
003. / Biotechnology

Aerayan Bio

Fig. 003
Division 03 / 06
Field
Biotechnology
Flagship
BioForge
Stage
In development

Computational biology — genomics, protein structure and AI-driven discovery pipelines that move science from bench to bedside faster.

Flagship — BioForge
GenomicsProtein structureDrug discoveryBioinformatics
004. / Aerospace & Space

Aerayan Aerospace

Fig. 004
Division 04 / 06
Field
Aerospace & Space
Flagship
OrbitalOS
Stage
Concept → prototype

Flight and ground software for satellites and missions, engineered redundancy-first for environments where failure is not an option.

Flagship — OrbitalOS
Flight softwareOrbital mechanicsMission controlGround systems
005. / Quantum Computing

Aerayan Quantum

Fig. 005
Division 05 / 06
Field
Quantum Computing
Flagship
NexaLM
Stage
Research

Quantum algorithms and hybrid quantum–classical architectures, preparing optimisation, chemistry and cryptography for the hardware ahead.

Flagship — NexaLM
Hybrid algorithmsCompilationSimulationPost-quantum crypto
006. / Advanced Engineering

Aerayan Systems

Fig. 006
Division 06 / 06
Field
Advanced Engineering
Flagship
Group-wide tooling
Stage
Operational

The group's engineering core: distributed systems, security and the shared tooling that lets every division ship production-grade software.

Distributed systemsSecurityDeveloper platformReliability
(04)Platforms
05 flagship platforms · 2024 — ongoing

Every division carries one flagship platform from first principles to production. They share infrastructure, security and tooling — and each one is built to stand on its own.

P—01Aerayan Intelligence
Artificial IntelligenceResearch preview

Luminary

A foundation model platform for scientific discovery.

Multi-modal models trained on scientific literature, experimental data and domain structure — built to reason across disciplines rather than within one.

Multi-modal
Text · structure · imagery
Grounded
Citation-first answers
Tunable
Domain fine-tuning
Foundation modelsReasoningResearch tooling
Platform brief
P—02Aerayan Compute
Scientific InfrastructureIn development

AeraCloud

Cloud infrastructure engineered for extreme workloads.

Purpose-built compute for research institutions and deep-tech teams — long-running simulations, petabyte-scale data and GPU-dense training.

GPU-dense
Fabric-interconnected clusters
Tiered
NVMe + cold object storage
K8s-native
Workload orchestration
HPCDistributed storageOrchestration
Platform brief
P—03Aerayan Bio
BiotechnologyIn development

BioForge

A computational platform from sequence to candidate.

Genomic analysis, protein structure prediction and AI-assisted target discovery in one pipeline — shortening the path from molecule to medicine.

End-to-end
Reads → variants → targets
Structural
Protein folding models
Compliant
Clinical-grade data handling
GenomicsDrug discoveryBioinformatics
Platform brief
P—04Aerayan Aerospace
Aerospace & SpaceConcept → prototype

OrbitalOS

Mission-critical software for orbit and beyond.

A hardened software stack for satellite systems, orbital mechanics and mission control — designed redundancy-first for the most hostile environment there is.

Real-time
Deterministic scheduling
Triple-mod
Redundant fault tolerance
Secure
Ground-link comms stack
Flight softwareEmbeddedReal-time
Platform brief
P—05Aerayan Quantum
Quantum ComputingResearch

NexaLM

One interface for quantum–classical computing.

A unified programming layer for hybrid algorithms — optimisation, cryptography and molecular simulation — portable across quantum backends.

Hybrid
Quantum–classical runtime
Portable
Multi-backend transpiler
PQC
Post-quantum primitives
QuantumOptimisationCryptography
Platform brief
(05)Method

From hypothesis to production.

One method, used by every division. It is how a research question becomes a production system — and how each system makes the next one better.
.01Question

Research & definition

Every programme starts with rigorous inquiry — the problem space, prior art, constraints and what success must mean before a line of code exists.

  • >Domain research
  • >Problem framing
  • >Feasibility
.02Prove

Experiment & de-risk

We prototype fast, run experiments and stress-test assumptions until the core technical approach is validated — science-driven iteration, not guesswork.

  • >Proof of concept
  • >Model evaluation
  • >Architecture trials
.03Build

Engineer for production

Production-grade engineering: fault-tolerant, observable and secure. The systems we build matter too much to cut corners.

  • >System build
  • >Verification
  • >Integration testing
.04Compound

Deploy & scale

From lab to production — then continuous improvement. Each platform feeds its learnings back into the group, so every division gets stronger.

  • >Launch
  • >Monitoring
  • >Shared learnings
(06)Structure

How the group is built.

06Research divisions

Independent teams with deep domain focus, sharing one engineering core and one standard of rigour.

05Platforms in build

Each division carries a flagship platform from research question through to production system.

01Shared core

Compute, security and tooling built once by Aerayan Systems — so every new division starts ahead.

∞Time horizon

We measure work in decades. Everything we build is designed to compound in knowledge and capability.

(07)Stack

Built with precision. Battle-tested tools.

One shared stack across the group, maintained by Aerayan Systems — so every division inherits the same reliability, security and speed from day one.

PyTorchJAXCUDAHugging FaceRayRustGoTypeScriptPostgreSQLgRPCKubernetesTerraformAWS / GCPKafkaPrometheus
We connect research-grade tooling into one system, eliminating duplicated effort across divisions.
Intelligence
Models & scientific compute
  • PyTorch01
  • JAX02
  • CUDA03
  • Hugging Face04
  • Ray05
Engineering
Reliable, high-performance services
  • Rust01
  • Go02
  • TypeScript03
  • PostgreSQL04
  • gRPC05
Infrastructure
Research-scale cloud
  • Kubernetes01
  • Terraform02
  • AWS / GCP03
  • Kafka04
  • Prometheus05
(08)Leadership

Led by builders who think in decades.

L—01RK
Strategy · Research direction

Rohan Kumar

Founder & Chief Executive

Rohan founded Aerayan on a single conviction: the most important problems in science and technology are still unsolved. He sets the group's research direction and builds the divisions that take them on.

“We are not building for the next product cycle. We are building for the next century. Everything we do is designed to compound — in knowledge, in capability, and in impact.”
L—02DA
Product engineering · Design

Ditin Agrawal

Co-Founder & Head of Engineering

Ditin leads engineering and design across the group — turning complex systems into products that feel effortless. A self-taught engineer with years of shipping full-stack products.

“Great technology should be invisible. I obsess over every pixel and interaction — because the best interface is one you never have to think about.”
(09)Contact
Response within 48h

Build the frontier
with us.

Whether you are a research partner, an investor or an engineer — if the work is hard and matters, we want to hear from you.

hello@aerayan.com
PartnersResearch institutions and enterprises co-developing with a division.
InvestorsLong-horizon capital aligned with decade-scale programmes.
TalentScientists and engineers who want the hardest problems.