Wings EV was cofounded by Pranav Dandekar and his father Prakash W. Dandekar in 2018. It is funded by Venture Highway, a leading early stage venture fund in India, and several prominent silicon valley angel investors. Before founding Wings, Pranav spent 15 years in computer science and AI in the US including obtaining a Ph.D. from Stanford, working at Amazon, and building and selling a VC-funded startup in Silicon Valley. Pranav moved back to India to work on this innovative EV that he believes will help solve our growing congestion problem. Prakash is an electrical engineer and an IIT Bombay alumnus with deep expertise in industrial and automotive embedded systems. He is an entrepreneur, an academic, and an author. He spent several years as the Head of the Embedded systems group at Tata Technologies in the early 2000s where his team designed the electronics systems on some versions of the Tata Nano.
Wings EV, a VC-funded electric vehicle startup based in Indore and Bengaluru, won the best in category award for their flagship product Robin in the “NEVs, Mopeds and Bikes” category at the Micromobility Europe conference held in Amsterdam on June 8th and 9th, 2023. Micromobility Europe... (more)
