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.
- India: T-Hub innovation hub and ecosystem enabler inaugurates ‘world’s largest innovation campus’ in Hyderabad – 582,689 square feet across 10 floors
- India: Twitter sues Indian government in challenge to gov’t ‘block orders’ on political opposition tweets and accounts
- India: Iron Pillar reportedly raising $400M fund to boost Indian tech startups and scale-ups
- India: Vegrow B2B marketplace for fruit raised $25M Series B, connecting more than 20K farmers with aggregated wholesalers and traders in more than 100 cities
- India: 26% of Indian adults currently have a digital-only bank account, up from 22% in 2020, with digital banking adoption set to hit 39% by 2023 and 46% by 2027
- India: Finvu AA raises $2.5M with consent-based financial account aggregation, the first non-banking financial company account aggregator to gain a license from the Reserve Bank
- Twitter and free speech vs Indian gov’t: “…whether, when an unjust law unjustly applied makes it all but impossible for a company to protect speech, the judiciary will step in to protect it.”
- India: Dep’t of Telecommunications tightens rules for licences in advance of 5G rollout, limiting options for Huawei, ZTE to provide gear to Indian telecom operators
- India: Startup Karnataka partners CoinSwitch crypto exchange to host blockchain hackathon, themed around ‘Building Future Cities’
- India: Lightspeed Venture Partners raises new $500M fund, its largest, dedicated to India and Southeast Asia and looking at seed to Series B investments
- India: ‘Building Future Cities’ 2-day blockchain hackathon set for August 5th in Bengaluru
- India: Ola to invest $500M in battery innovation and R&D center, set to be one of the world’s largest battery cell research facilities
- India: Eka Care raises $15M, aiming to help digitize health records of Indian patients, building on integration with gov’t Ayushman Bharat Health Account
- $2BN in new export opportunities now open for India’s MSMEs with MOU inked between MVIRDC World Trade Center Mumbai and India Australia Strategic Alliance
- India: Meta reportedly to invest in Better Opinions, event trading platform allowing users to trade win cash with opinions on cricket, football, finance and more
- India: IIT Kanpur Startup Incubation and Innovation Centre launches NIRMAN Accelerator Program, seeking 15 startups healthcare and agriculture
- India: Tamil Nadu Startup and Innovation Mission opens applications for Tamil Nadu Startup Seed Grant Fund, aiming to boost 100 startups with backing
- SNA round-up: Twitter vs the Indian government; earned-wage-access fintech in Indonesia; China’s Weibo boosts CCP censorship efforts; Taiwan’s EVs in Thailand; Australia’s Intersekt fintech conference; agri-tech in Cambodia…
- India: Skye Air Mobility successfully tests drone delivery of frozen food to Curefoods cloud kitchen startup, covering 20 kms in under 30 minutes
GSMA: Digital Societies in Asia-Pacific – progressing towards digital nations
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