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T-Hub 2.0, which is touted as the world largest innovation campus, was inaugurated by Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Tuesday evening. T-Hub 2.0 has caught the attention of one and all for its one-of-its kind infrastructure and design. The spacecraft-inspired facility is a 10-storey building designed by Korean company Space.
After the inauguration, KCR said, “I can proudly say we have created a world-class entity at T-Hub to promote entrepreneurship and innovation. Our state’s startup policy is progressive, it has helped forge fruitful partnerships with both corporates and academia. This is something very uniquely wonderful about our state.”
T-Hub has now become a national role model. It has impacted over 2000 entrepreneurs and seen 1.19 billion US dollars raised in funding by T-Hub startups, he opined
Today, we are dedicating our T-Hub 2.0 facility to young Indians across the country. If they propose to build an innovative startup, we at T-Hub will provide them with a collaborative innovation ecosystem. The next journey of T-hub starts here in Hyderabad, today. And I am glad so many of you joined us here at this event.
The presence of so many successful start-up founders in today’s function is a very positive sign that the efforts made in Telangana are getting recognised on a wider canvas. I am hopeful that you will come back to collaborate and work with us. The day is not far away when the next big breakthrough in startup innovation will come from Hyderabad. We want Telangana to be known as the start-up state of India, KCR said.
For the unversed, T-Hub, a brain child of IT Minister K T Rama Rao, was inagurated in 2015 in IIIT-Hyderabad campus with nearly 70,000 sq.ft space. In a year’s time, KTR realised the need for a much larger space for startups to grow and connect and thus the idea of T-Hub 2.0 came into being. Six years later, a 3,70,000 sq ft building, five times bigger than the earlier T-Hub, stands tall in Hyderabad’s Raidurg.
Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, who visited the place in the evening, went around the sprawling complex with his son and IT Minister KTR briefing him about the unique interior designs, working spaces, facilities etc.
Later all of them assembled for the inauguration programme. Principal Secretary (IT) Jayesh Ranjan thanked CEOs and Founders of 21 Unicorns for making it to the programme and for their active participation in panel discussions and workshops held all through the day. KCR presented shawls and mementos to each one of them. Later, it was the turn of promising start-ups or soonicorns, who are hoping to enter unicorn club in the near future. KCR also presented shawls and mementos to their founders and CEOs. Many of them touched the feet of KCR and sought his blessings. While some of them posed for selfies with the CM.
