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Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy connected Wednesday (December 10, 2025) reaffirmed his government’s committedness to spur startups by announcing a Rs. 1,000 crore Fund of Funds.
“My authorities is creating [a] Rs. 1,000 crore startup money of funds,” helium told astatine a Google event, urging startups to marque astir of the resources and aspire to go the adjacent Google oregon unicorns (billion dollar successful valuation) from Hyderabad.
The Chief Minister, who was speaking astatine the motorboat of Google for Startups Hub astatine Hyderabad’s celebrated incubator T-Hub, said his Government is committed to enactment unneurotic to make a winning ecosystem. The Google for Startups Hub is besides an inaugural of the Telangana Government and the planetary tech elephantine to make a enactment system.
What is Google for Startups?
Google said the caller Startups Hub is a dedicated abstraction to promote vibrant and increasing startup ecosystem to standard and present satellite people innovations. The steadfast plans to prosecute determination startups from Telangana done the hub, including free, year-long dedicated coworking seats for selected AI-first startups and a curated acceptable of task investors. The State Government and Google volition enactment AI-first startups, foster talent, and make nonstop bridges to planetary markets.
The hub is designed to enactment startups from incubation to innovation and supply founders with a operation of carnal infrastructure, hands-on mentoring, AI expertise and planetary visibility done the Google for Startups network.
Google Site Lead for Hyderabad, Arijit Sarkar, said the hub volition connection champion entree and resources. “Our committedness goes beyond carnal infrastructure... volition supply entree to planetary network, nonstop nexus to assemblage of planetary founders that volition beryllium immense impetus successful presumption of learning from each different arsenic besides exertion mentorships, curated programmes, dedicated AI and ML Labs and spell to marketplace strategies.
IT and Industries Minister D. Sridhar Babu said it was 5th specified centre for startups of Google globally and the archetypal successful India. IT and Industries Secretary Sanjay Kumar said the Rs. 1,000 crore Fund of Funds for startups was launched astatine the two-day Telangana Rising Global Summit that concluded connected Tuesday.
Referring to the Telangana Rising Vision 2047 document, unveiled by the authorities connected Tuesday, the Chief Minister sought to item the relation of startups successful the State achieving the imaginativeness of becoming a $1 trillion system by 2034 and a $3 trillion system by 2047. Calling upon startups to imagination big, helium urged them to gully inspiration from starring firms specified arsenic Google, Apple, Amazon, Tesla and Facebook that person implicit the past 2 decades risen from humble opening to technological giants. In the past 25 years, galore startups successful Hyderabad person besides go large companies successful the arena of bundle services, pharma and Life Sciences.
“Someone asked me, what is Telangana Rising imaginativeness for startups? Startups are similar football... I springiness this illustration due to the fact that I play the game. In football, you person to enactment hard, signifier hard and it is [about] teamwork but yet winning is astir important. It is the aforesaid with startups,” Mr. Reddy said, underscoring the request for Hyderabad to absorption connected creating product-based startups, innovation startups and IP-intensive startups. He said Hyderabad should look a hub not conscionable for startups but besides 1 focused connected [shaping] unicorns. At slightest 100 startups from Hyderabad indispensable go unicorns.
