International trade has been in some upheaval with tariffs playing a significant role. For example, as per a report from Rubix Data Sciences, India emerged as Indonesia’s third-largest export destination in Q2 2025 amid trade realignment. With India overtaking Japan in Q2 2025 in this regard, the two countries are emerging as increasingly important economic partners in the region. This development comes as Indonesia recorded its fastest GDP growth in two years at 5.12% in Q2, supported by policy reforms, digital investments and strong domestic demand.
The Tech Panda looks at Indian drones flying to Germany and Indian pharma receiving UK MHRA approvals, while India’s markets attract Dutch logistics, US Fintech, and foreign grants from the likes of the Gates Foundation.
Zuppa, India’s only developer and manufacturer of Cybersecure Autopilots for intelligent unmanned systems, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Eighth Dimension, a Germany-based deep-tech startup specializing in advanced AI algorithms for autonomous systems.
“By joining forces with Eighth Dimension, we’re taking a significant step toward the future of autonomous aerial intelligence,” said Venkatesh Sai,Founder and Technical Director at Zuppa. “Their expertise in distributed AI systems and real-time context learning complements our focus on rugged, field-proven UAV platforms. Together, we aim to redefine what swarm coordination and situational awareness can achieve in both defense and industrial applications.”
Akums Drugs & Pharmaceuticals Ltd. has received its first product approval from the United Kingdom Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (UK MHRA) for Rivaroxaban, with Akums as the Marketing Authorisation (MA) holder. This approval marks a key milestone in Akums’ global expansion strategy and reinforces its commitment to delivering high-quality cardiovascular medicines to patients across international markets.
“Today’s achievement is only the beginning,” said Sandeep Jain, Director, Akums Drugs & Pharmaceuticals Ltd. “This comes shortly after our recent EU GMP approval for one of our plants and the renewal of GMP certification for another, further strengthening our global manufacturing and compliance capabilities. With this regulatory milestone, we are well-positioned to bring additional cardiovascular and other specialty medicines to European markets. It is a proud moment that validates our strategy of quality, and global reach.”
Vanderlande, a logistics process automation platform from Netherlands, has opened its India Innovation Centre (IIC) in Pune, a collaboration-led facility that reflects the company’s guiding principle of keeping customers at the heart and innovation as the heartbeat driving progress. Designed as a space where engineers can co-create, test and innovate end-to-end solutions, the Centre will drive engineering and innovations covering areas such as robotic automation, autonomous systems, artificial intelligence, and digital-physical integration across Vanderlande’s global customer base in warehousing, airports and parcel domains.
Astrid van Druten, Chief Financial Officer, Vanderlande, said, “The India Innovation Centre underscores our confidence in India’s expanding role to Vanderlande’s technology journey. For our customers, automation is no longer optional – it is essential. Our Innovation Centres are pivotal in creating smarter, more efficient solutions, guided by our core values like Every Day Better focused on continuous improvement and innovation. As our second-largest technology hub, India will further strengthen our global innovation ecosystem through this new centre.”
Aurionpro, an enterprise technology platform, announced that Vitreous Alliance, LLC, a provider of retail POS and payment services in the US, has selected Aurionpro to expand beyond traditional in-store transactions and enable faster, more transparent, and secure payments across multiple channels.
“Aurionpro gives us the flexibility to grow with the market,” said Rainier Cendaña, CEO and Co-Founder of Vitreous Alliance. “We needed more payment channels, stronger control over payment terminals, and seamless cloud integration with our existing products using our own customized platform iteration provided by Aurionpro. By working closely with a trusted and respected partner like Aurionpro, their platform has advanced our capabilities in our current suite of solutions, including advanced features in the next era of embedded payments, while meeting critical timelines and leveraging a proven solution customized to our needs, and ultimately helping us launch faster in our objectives.”
In an effort to advance health equity and reach the people that need help most, global digital health innovator Qure.ai has received a grant from the Gates Foundation.
“In a bid to reach the unreachable we have innovated our way around the world over the last 10 years, taking AI-enabled X-ray to some of the remotest regions of sub-Saharan Africa, to the heights of Everest and depths of rural Southeast Asia, tackling the detection and diagnosis of TB. This is powerful progress that has reduced diagnosis rates from 14 days to 1-2 days, without even a clinician present. Now, with this grant from the Gates Foundation, we are excited to leverage this expertise further to scale and reach more people,” states Prashant Warier, Founder and CEO of Qure.ai.
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