Airbus signs contract with two Indian startups

Airbus and its subsidiary Navblue, Thursday announced contracts with two Indian startups Neewee and Eflight for solutions in the European plane-maker’s manufacturing programmes.

“Neewee’s solution, called procuSense, will enhance certainty to manufacturing supply chain and procurement operations at Airbus, using advanced analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence,” Airbus said in a statement.

“EFlight’s trip support solution will offer a comprehensive suite of services that allows business jet pilots to optimise plans for fuel, time, route and weather. The startup has also signed an exclusive partnership with an Airbus subsidiary to jointly address some opportunities in India,” it added.


The two start-ups were part of Bizlab India, Airbus’ startup accelerator programme. The Bengaluru-based companies were part of five startups chosen a year back from the second season of the Airbus Bizlab technology acceleration programme that got 137 applications from nine countries.