T-Hub sets up ‘world’s largest innovation campus’ in India

T-Hub (Technology Hub), an innovation hub and ecosystem enabler creating impact for startups, corporations and other innovation partners, has announced the inauguration of the “world’s largest innovation campus” in Hyderabad.

The new innovation campus is T-shaped, with a total built-up area of 5,82,689 sq. ft. and 10 floors, making it the world’s largest innovation campus - the second largest being Station F based in France – that will empower the thriving start-up ecosystem and support the entrepreneurs in their growth journey.

The innovation campus will act as a robust platform that will support over 2,000 start-ups by providing them with access to 6Ms (mentors, market, motivation, manpower, money and methodologies) and 2Ps (partnerships and policy advisory). T-Hub also added that it aims to impact at least 20,000 startups through its various program interventions in the next five years.

Mahankali Srinivas Rao, CEO, T-Hub, said, “T-Hub has been created with the philosophy that innovation can thrive only with collaboration. The innovation campus will bring together all the start-up ecosystem stakeholders to create sustainable businesses with a special focus on verticals like EV/ mobility, healthtech, enterprise tech, gaming and artificial intelligence.

He added that it will continue to establish Telangana as a centre for technology and innovation at a global level, encouraging new technologies, guiding entrepreneurs, and creating investment opportunities.”

Built on the approach of hybrid work models and new industry parameters, the innovation campus is equipped with world-class standard fixed, flexi and private office spaces, meeting rooms, floor pantries, and a cafeteria.

“T-Hub has evolved from a start-up incubator to an innovation hub in India and beyond in the past six years. It has emerged as a strong organisation that is focused on outcome-driven initiatives, and it is well-positioned to back the global aspirations and ambitions of our entrepreneurs,” K. Chandrashekar Rao, Chief Minister of Telangana, said, inaugurating the facility.

From its inception in 2015, T-Hub has supported more than 1,800 start-ups and over 600 corporates like Facebook, Boeing, Otis, and Uber among others, through various programs and initiatives. The new phase of T-Hub will have an enhanced focus on internationalisation and capacity building with new foreign partnerships with Bangladesh and Uzbekistan. The new building will have the presence of international partners from Japan, Korea, and Dubai, among others.