Prapti Labs

Attainment of
Cryptographic
Sovereignty.

Prapti — meaning attainment in Sanskrit — reflects our mission: attaining cryptographic independence for India before the quantum deadline arrives.

Founder

Pulugulla
Karteek.

Cloud security platform engineer with production experience across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Architect of 10-module security systems covering CSPM, compliance automation, vulnerability assessment, and multi-cloud security posture management at enterprise scale.

While building multi-cloud security infrastructure, I identified that India's legacy defence and financial assets face a quantum threat that no indigenous solution addresses. Foreign PQC vendors offer the technology but introduce sovereign risk — trusting foreign code to protect national secrets. Vajra was designed to close that gap before the window closes.

Strategic Alignment
iDEX Open Challenge 2026
Defence Innovation Organisation — Ministry of Defence. SPARK grant applicant for Project Vajra.
National Quantum Mission
Aligned with NQM 2031 objectives for indigenous quantum-safe infrastructure.
Aatmanirbhar Bharat
100% indigenous codebase. No foreign IP, no export control restrictions, no foreign key jurisdiction.
NIST FIPS 203 / 204
ML-KEM-768 and ML-DSA Dilithium — August 2024 final standards. Not pre-standardization drafts.
The Why

Why Prapti Labs
Exists.

Problem_01

The Clock Is Running

CRQC arrival is projected between 2030 and 2035. India has 8,000+ legacy tactical assets and a Rs. 20,000 Crore hardware replacement bill it cannot pay in time.

Problem_02

Foreign Solutions Create Risk

Thales, IBM, and PQShield offer PQC — but using foreign closed-source code to protect national secrets replaces one vulnerability with another.

Solution

Indigenous and Transparent

Vajra is 100% indigenous, fully auditable, and transparent — wrapping existing systems at 10% of hardware replacement cost.