Every winter, India faces a grim, predictable reality: toxic smogs engulf cities, millions of students miss school, shop floors choke, and air pollution drives US$4.5-6.1 trillion, in global economic losses every single year (Source: World Bank). The global playbook for clean air has always been simple, expensive, and fundamentally flawed: buy plastic HEPA filter purifiers, replace them every 6 months, and throw tons of hazardous fiberglass waste into landfills. In 2017, Angad Daryani who built his first 3D printer at age 13, looked at this crisis during his sophomore year at Georgia Tech. He founded @Praan_inc with a radical moonshot question: What if we completely eliminate physical filters and treat clean air as a filterless, abundant utility? What They Are Doing..... - Praan is building the world’s most advanced, patented filter-less air purification and atmospheric AI stack. - Praan’s industrial-grade units pull in toxic air, charge particulate matter (PM2.5, PM10) in flight, and isolate them into dry collection trays without using a single HEPA filter. Zero recurring filter replacement costs, zero plastic filter waste, and near-zero maintenance. - Designed for real estate, homes, and offices, these units work silently as an integrated "clean air infrastructure" layer. - An AI engine paired with computer vision sensors that maps air pollution dynamics in real-time across factories, identifying toxic hotspots before workers inhale them. - Beyond particulate dust, Praan’s R&D team is engineering low-cost, scalable reactors for direct-air carbon capture targeting gigaton-scale CO2 removal. - All Praan products are manufactured in Maharashtra with locally sourced raw materials ensuring complete supply chain sovereignty and low carbon footprints during production. What started in a college dorm grew into a network of engineers and designers with experience building electric cars, rockets, drones, and semiconductors at companies like Tesla, Apple, SpaceX, and Microsoft. Supported and advised by industry leaders, including Harsh Mariwala (Marico Innovation Foundation) and advisors from Tesla's Autopilot AI team. Praan raised $1.85M+ across seed rounds led by Social Impact Capital, Avaana Capital, Better Capital, and Aera VC, alongside strategic capital from Kirloskar Family, Thyssenkrupp India, Brookfield, and Dhaval Shroff (Autopilot AI, Tesla). It already quintupled production capacity across its facilities in Maharashtra to meet exploding industrial and commercial demand. The multi million dollar real estate partnerships (including Superb Realty) deploying autonomous air infrastructure across 1M+ to 6M+ sq. ft. of commercial space is a real game changer. They are already exporting hardware globally across the US, Singapore, Hong Kong, and the Middle East. Traditional appliance companies built expensive plastic purifiers that sell us recurring filter replacements forever. Praan assembled engineers from SpaceX, Tesla, and Apple to build a physics-driven, filterless hardware stack made right here in Maharashtra.