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23-Year-Old Founder Shreepoorna Rao Raises $2.6M for Arctus Aerospace

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BENGALURU/NEW DELHI: Shreepoorna S Rao, the 23-year-old founder of Bengaluru-based aerospace startup Arctus Aerospace, has announced that the company has raised $2.6 million in a…

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