Zomato founder prepares to deliver jet engines
Deepinder Goyal, the founder behind Zomato, Blinkit, and now LAT Aerospace, has announced a bold new initiative to build indigenous gas turbine engines in India — a feat the country has long pursued but never fully achieved.
In a post on LinkedIn, Goyal wrote, “India has tried building gas turbine engines before. And we’ve come close. At LAT, we want to get past the finish line.”
To make that vision a reality, LAT Aerospace is assembling a propulsion research team in Bengaluru focused on designing and building lightweight, efficient, flight-ready gas turbine engines entirely from scratch — all “Made in India.”
What sets this effort apart, Goyal noted, is a radically different approach to R&D. “We’re giving engineers the freedom to think, build, break, and repeat,” he wrote. LAT’s dedicated research centre will house advanced labs for combustion, turbomachinery, thermal systems, and materials — creating a rapid iteration environment meant to break away from bureaucratic bottlenecks.
“This team will be led by engineers. No waiting around for approvals from ‘business’ people. No chasing slides or meetings. Just hands-on problem solving, running bench tests, working with suppliers, building hardware from scratch — and pushing the limits of design and physics every day,” Goyal emphasised.
