Anik Bhattacharya
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
MBA, IIM Amritsar · B.Tech Electrical
Leads strategy, brand and institutional sales.
LinkedInAbout Darkmatter®
A hardware manufacturer.
Not an assembler.
Darkmatter designs and manufactures drone flight electronics end to end: schematic, firmware, SMT assembly and flight testing, under one roof in Bally, West Bengal.
3,500boards a month
2in-house SMT lines
ISO 9001:2015IAF certified
DPIITrecognised startup
Our story
Two school friends from Howrah.
Anik Bhattacharya and Arnava Chakraborty grew up together in Howrah. They started Darkmatter so that drones built in India could fly on electronics designed and made in India, with support from the people who made them.
Today the Brahma flight controllers, Vishnu ESCs, matched stacks and the Nebula D receiver are designed, built and tested in our own facility, and run on Betaflight, INAV, ArduPilot and PX4.
Read our story in The Telegraph ↗Built here
Design to delivery, in one building.
Bare PCBs and semiconductors come in as raw material. Everything after that happens on our own lines, so a design change never waits on an outside supplier.
- Schematic and layoutEvery board starts as our own schematic and PCB design.
- FirmwareTargets and settings for Betaflight, INAV, ArduPilot and PX4.
- Stencil and SMTBare PCBs and semiconductors go onto our own pick-and-place lines.
- ReflowSoldered in our own reflow oven.
- Electrical testPowered test on oscilloscope and spectrum-analyser benches.
- Flight testBoards fly on our own airframes before they ship.
The team
The Darkmatter® crew.
Arnava Chakraborty
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
B.Tech Applied Instrumentation
Taught himself precision electronics manufacturing from first principles. Every board, firmware build and SMT line is his engineering.
LinkedInCore team
Where our boards fly
From training fleets to autonomous missions.
Industry and inspection
Survey, mapping and inspection airframes that need a reliable flight stack.
Training fleets
Low-cost, field-repairable electronics for drone pilot training, supported from India.
OEM supply
Flight electronics for Indian drone makers and integrators, at volume.
Autonomy
ArduPilot and PX4 missions with companion computers on the Brahma H7.
Need a board that doesn't exist yet? We design custom boards to a stated requirement, from schematic to tested hardware. Tell us what you need →
Recognition
Noticed for building in India.
Find us
Bally, Howrah, West Bengal.
Every Darkmatter® board is made here. Support, repairs and firmware help come from the same team that built it.
WhatsApp +91 80171 93277
info@thedarkmatter.in
Darkmatter®, North Ghoshpara, Bally, Howrah, West Bengal 711227, India