T-Hub

T-Hub (Technology Hub) is an innovation intermediary and business incubator based in Raidurg, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.[1] Based on the triple helix model of innovation, it is a partnership between the Government of Telangana, three academic institutes in Hyderabad (the International Institute of Information Technology, the Indian School of Business and the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research) and the private sector.

T-Hub (Technology Hub)
Formation5 November 2015
TypePublic–private partnership
Legal statusActive
PurposeBusiness incubator
HeadquartersRaidurg, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Region served
Telangana
Key people
Srinivas Rao Mahankali (MSR) (CEO)
WebsiteT-Hub Website

T-Hub provides Indian and international startups access to technology, talent, mentors, customers, corporates, investors, and government agencies. T-Hub also helps state and central government organizations build innovation ecosystems.

History
T-Hub Launch by Ratan Tata

The first phase of T-Hub was formally launched by S. L. Narasimhan, Governor of Telangana; Ratan Tata, Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons; and K. T. Rama Rao, Telangana IT & Panchayat Raj Minister on 5 November 2015.[2]

This first-of-a-kind initiative was anchored and driven by Srinivas Kollipara and Jay Krishnan as COO and CEO respectively, over the first few years, to help establish it within the Indian Startup and Innovation Ecosystem and achieve global visibility.[3]

In January 2019, Ravi Narayan was appointed CEO, his tenure running till June 2021.[4][5]

The second phase was to have been launched in 2018,[6] but the opening was postponed; in September 2020, K. T. Rama Rao stated that the new facilities will be opened by the end of 2020.[7] T-Hub 2.0 was inaugurated on 28 June, 2022, by Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao. The facility will support over 2,000 startups under one roof, with a total built-up area of 5,82,689 square feet, making it the world’s largest innovation campus.[8]

T-Hub runs various Startup incubator programs and it's flagship starup-incubator program is called Lab32[9] In March 2023, T-Hub joined hands with US-based Redberri to set up its global outpost in North America.[10]

Board of directors
  1. Jayesh Ranjan (Secretary, I. T. E. & C. Department, Telangana)
  2. P. J. Narayanan (Director, IIIT Hyderabad)
  3. Madan Mohan Pillutla
  4. Faizan Mustafa
  5. Sashi Reddi
  6. Raman Kumar
  7. Srinivasa Raju Chintalapati
  8. B. V. R. Mohan Reddy

WE Hub and Y-Hub

On the lines of T-Hub, Government of Telangana launched other incubators like WE Hub and Y-Hub.[11] WE Hub is India’s First State Led-Incubator for Woman Entrepreneurs while Y-Hub is exclusively for children and youth.[12]

See also

References
  1. "What is T-Hub and how it has helped Telangana's startups grow".
  2. "Telangana T-Hub, the biggest start-up incubator inaugurated". Indian Express. 6 November 2015. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
  3. Bhavani, Divya-Kala (1 January 2020). "How Telangana embraced the 'incubator boom'". The Hindu.
  4. Bhavani, Divya-Kala (4 February 2020). "T-Hub had to change from incubation to acceleration to scaling, says CEO Ravi Narayan". The Hindu.
  5. "Ravi Narayan to step down as T-Hub CEO". The Times of India. 10 June 2021.
  6. "Phase II of T-Hub to be ready by year-end". The Times of India. 23 March 2018. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
  7. "Telangana's T Hub II to be ready by end of 2020". Deccan Chronicle. 10 September 2020. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
  8. "T-Hub 2.0, world's largest innovation centre inaugurated in Hyderabad". Telangana Today. 28 June 2022.
  9. Correspondent, Special (24 August 2021). "T-Hub onboards 22 startups for Lab32". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
  10. "T-Hub, Redberri set up innovation base in US".
  11. "KT Rama Rao: Telangana on mission to be women entrepreneurs hub".
  12. "After T-Hub, Telangana to launch Y-Hub".
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