CREATE REVOLUTIONARY DRONE TECHNOLOGY WITH AWS
Nurture your tech startup under global industry leaders for transformational growth
Bringing to you India’s first Innovation Pod for Drones!
It’s time to accelerate.
AWS Innovation Pod is a five-month-long acceleration program for tech startups building innovative drone tech solutions on AWS Cloud. The program empowers startups working on relevant technologies that will impact and be useful for various public sectors. AWS Innovation Pod accelerator enables and supports these startups with AWS credits, mentorship, technical support, and other crucial resources required to build, launch and grow their solutions.
What sets AWS Innovation Pod for drones apart?
- India’s first drone tech accelerator program
- Opportunity to execute pilot with government departments and WEF
- Facilitated by industry leaders
- Enables networking & industry connects within the wider innovation ecosystem
- Provides customised guidance for business success
Benefits to the startups
- Potential pilot opportunities with the Government of Telangana.
- Opportunity to work with World Economic Forum
- Go-To-Market to pitch the solution, to public sector customers
- Access to Grassroot level stakeholders in Agribusiness
- Access to ecosystems that work towards solving complex problems for their government customers
- Mentorship from ecosystem partners and industry leaders to help define business models, regulatory pathways, business development, investment guidance, and more
- Customized business support to establish a robust foundation for entrepreneurship and innovation
- Hand Holding on Regulatory Aspects
- AWS promotional credit up to $100,000
- Access to AWS sessions
- Technical training and enablement
- Testing new ideas with Amazon’s innovation process
Be part of India’s first drone tech accelerator program. Grow exponentially under the guidance of industry leaders.
Focus Areas
Growth stage startups innovating drone tech solutions in the following focus areas will be given the preference for this program.
Urban Development
Tourism
Oil & Gas
Healthcare
Geospatial
Forest and wildlife
Agriculture
Energy and utilities
Disaster Management
Aerospace
Banking & Taxation Assets Management
Who can apply?
Eligibilities
- If your startup has some initial traction in terms of pilots/users/paying customers and working in the aforementioned focus areas
- If your company is registered in India or the extended sub-continent
- You have prior experience in Corporates/ Consulting/ Entrepreneurship
- Must demonstrate an innovative solution for public sector that addresses a current or future challenge
- Must have a mission to solve problems for public sector customers in the region
- You have a clear vision for your business and knowledge of the sector you operate
Program Schedule
Use cases for the program
Cohort Startups
Ecosystem Partners
Scale your startup to new heights through networking, cutting-edge resources and strategic insights from industry leaders.
Frequently Asked Questions
If you are struggling with the questions:
“How do I make a product that my customers would love?”, or,
“How do I find customers that would love my product?”, then this program is for you.
The program’s modules (mentoring) will help you build better versions of your product, or discover and tap market opportunities. Apart from this, you will have a team at T-Hub that’s as committed as you for the success of your company, monitoring and helping you along the way with offers and support like:
Potential connection opportunities to other start-ups, corporate and government agencies (as relevant)
Discounts and credits from empanelled service providers and other T-Hub alumni startups
Access to our growing pool of advisors
Potential connection opportunities with investors
Access to T-Hub events, and much more
Yes, based on the learning path the program team will arrange for a concerned person for you to talk to.
We will have a demo day at the flag end of the program
Based on the ask in the learning path, right mentors can be mapped. Program team to generate more visibility for their startup and increase chances of attracting investor attention. The program team will arrange additional sessions based on cohort needs, with experts. This may include funding-related topics but is not guaranteed.
We don’t invest in any of the companies we work with. In other programs, we may create investor connection opportunities, but Drone tech accelerator is not focused on fund-raising. However, we will support every opportunity that our participants may have to connect to investors or raise funding – on a case-to-case basis
Startups can raise Corporate, or Government connect requests in a specified timeline during the program. We will do our best to facilitate such connections based on suitability and availability.
You can mail to corporate.innovation@t-hub.co
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ABOUT T-HUB
T-Hub (Technology Hub) is an innovation hub and ecosystem enabler. Based out of Hyderabad, India, T-Hub leads India’s pioneering innovation ecosystem. With a mission of enabling and empowering an ecosystem hungry for innovation, T-Hub is creating impact for startups, corporations and other innovation ecosystem stakeholders. Incorporated in 2015, it has provided over 1500+ national and international startups with access to better technology, talent, mentors, customers, corporates, investors and government agencies. It has elevated innovation for leading national and global corporations, transforming their business models for better. Working in collaboration with innovation partners and enablers in Telangana, India and world, T-Hub is building a future-ready innovation ecosystem.
For more information about T-Hub, visit www.t-hub.co
About AWS Public Sector Startup Ramp
AWS Public Sector Startup Ramp is a virtual acceleration program for public sector focused startups building solutions on Amazon Web Services cloud platform. AWS Public Sector Startup Ramp is designed to provide public sector focused startup customers with resources they need to get started quickly and easily on AWS. The program assists entrepreneurs with building the next generation solutions for Defense, Space, National Security, Healthcare, Public Safety, Transportation, Transit, Citizen Engagement, Agriculture, and many other public sector verticals, all on the AWS Cloud. The goal of the AWS Public Sector Startup Ramp program is to engage and support these startups as they build, launch and grow their solutions. AWS Public Sector Startup Ramp is a global community of like-minded people and companies that are solving complex public sector problems
ABOUT TSIC
Telangana State Innovation Cell (herein referred to as TSIC) is an initiative by the Information Technology, Electronics & Communications Department, Government of Telangana. TSIC was set up in 2017 under the State Innovation Policy with a vision— to build and nurture the Culture of Innovation in the State of Telangana. Today, it acts as the first response of the State Government for identified innovators, start-ups, entrepreneurs, and innovation catalysts to foster an inclusive innovation ecosystem with State-as-a-whole-approach. TSIC is driven by three mandates
To build a culture of innovation from the school age,
To foster innovation within the Government and Administration, and
To promote the culture of innovation in the State