He wanted to go to Mars. When told it was ‘not possible’ in India, he named his Bengaluru startup NoPo and set out to prove them wrong

Gadhadar Reddy’s childhood dream of reaching Mars led him to explore carbon nanotubes as a way to make future spacecraft lighter and stronger. In 2011, he co-founded Bengaluru-based NoPo Nanotechnologies after being told industrial production of the advanced …