Companies, institutes and initiatives Srikanth Kodeboyina has founded or leads — together carrying more than $200M in projects in progress.
Blue Eye Soft Corp (Blue Space)
Service-disabled veteran-owned deep-tech company building AI for space-weather intelligence, satellite resilience (SAFER™), medical imaging (BlueDocAI™), quantum technologies and critical-infrastructure resilience.
BES Space Private Limited
Blue Eye Soft's India arm, developing Space Weather Prediction Centres and large-scale space-ecosystem projects with Indian state governments and IN-SPACe.
Gagan Vihar – Space City of India
A planned integrated space-innovation district combining a space experience centre, startup zones, R&D, manufacturing, education and international collaboration. MoUs signed with IN-SPACe and the Government of Andhra Pradesh, with a Tamil Nadu track. Part of more than $200M in projects in progress.
International Institute for Space Studies & Research (IISSR)
An institute for space education and research that signed a strategic MoU with T-Hub, India's largest innovation hub, at the National Defence & Aerospace Innovation Summit in 2024.
Space Weather Prediction Centres
Research centres forecasting space-weather impacts on satellites and power grids, training more than 35 research interns.
Mana Mantada Foundation
An education fund supporting students from his home village of Mantada in Andhra Pradesh.
Blue Eye SoftAccomplishments
SAFER™ — satellite anomaly AI
Space Anomaly Forensics & Environment Resolution predicts and diagnoses satellite anomalies from space-weather and telemetry data. Developed under CRADAs with AFRL and Los Alamos; being adapted (SAFER-BOM) for Defense Department multimodal data fusion.
Space weather & the power grid
AI forecasting of geomagnetic disturbances and decision support for utilities and grid operators, protecting transformers and transmission infrastructure.
BlueDocAI™ — medical imaging AI
Chest X-ray AI licensed from the University of Dayton Research Institute in 2020 to help triage COVID-19; the subject of U.S. Patent 11,087,883 B1. Won an InnoVision COVID-19 Response award.
Space Weather Prediction Centres
Set up a centre in Mumbai (2025) with U.S. Commercial Service support, training more than 35 research interns, and a second centre with Andhra University.
Funding & partnerships
Funded by U.S. Air Force SBIR Phase I/II and TACFI awards, with research agreements at AFRL and Los Alamos and MoUs with satellite operators Hispasat, Hisdesat and GeoSat.
Accelerators
Selected for the AFRL / U.S. Space Force "Soft Landing" space-tech accelerator in New Mexico (2021), NYU Tandon Veterans Future Lab (2020) and DOE BOOST (2026).
RecognitionCompany honors
- UCF Space Ideation Challenge — 3rd place, Open category ("SpaceShield America") (2026)
- Climatebase Fellowship, Cohort 10 (2026)
- 40 Under 40
- Export Achievement Certificate (Blue Eye Soft) (2023)
- Minority-Owned Small Business of the Year (Blue Eye Soft) (2023)
- InnoVision Award — COVID-19 Response, Technology Deployment (Blue Eye Soft) (2021)
- Selected, AFRL / U.S. Space Force "Soft Landing" accelerator (Blue Eye Soft) (2021)
- South Carolina Minority Small Business Person of the Year (also described as SC Young Entrepreneur of the Year) (2019)
- SC SBDC New Business of the Year (2018)