Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, IT Minister D. Sridhar Babu at the Google for Startups Hub in Hyderabad on Wednesday (December 10, 2025)
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Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Wednesday (December 10, 2025) reaffirmed his government’s commitment to spur startups by announcing a Rs. 1,000 crore Fund of Funds.
“My government is creating [a] Rs. 1,000 crore startup fund of funds,” he told at a Google event, urging startups to make most of the resources and aspire to become the next Google or unicorns (billion dollar in valuation) from Hyderabad.
The Chief Minister, who was speaking at the launch of Google for Startups Hub at Hyderabad’s famous incubator T-Hub, said his Government is committed to work together to create a winning ecosystem. The Google for Startups Hub is also an initiative of the Telangana Government and the global tech giant to create a support system.
What is Google for Startups?
Google said the new Startups Hub is a dedicated space to encourage vibrant and growing startup ecosystem to scale and deliver world class innovations. The firm plans to engage regional startups from Telangana through the hub, including free, year-long dedicated coworking seats for selected AI-first startups and a curated set of venture investors. The State Government and Google will support AI-first startups, foster talent, and create direct bridges to international markets.
The hub is designed to support startups from incubation to innovation and provide founders with a combination of physical infrastructure, hands-on mentoring, AI expertise and global visibility through the Google for Startups network.
Google Site Lead for Hyderabad, Arijit Sarkar, said the hub will offer best access and resources. “Our commitment goes beyond physical infrastructure… will provide access to global network, direct link to community of global founders that will be huge impetus in terms of learning from each other as also technology mentorships, curated programmes, dedicated AI and ML Labs and go to market strategies.
IT and Industries Minister D. Sridhar Babu said it was fifth such centre for startups of Google globally and the first in India. IT and Industries Secretary Sanjay Kumar said the Rs. 1,000 crore Fund of Funds for startups was launched at the two-day Telangana Rising Global Summit that concluded on Tuesday.
Referring to the Telangana Rising Vision 2047 document, unveiled by the government on Tuesday, the Chief Minister sought to highlight the role of startups in the State achieving the vision of becoming a $1 trillion economy by 2034 and a $3 trillion economy by 2047. Calling upon startups to dream big, he urged them to draw inspiration from leading firms such as Google, Apple, Amazon, Tesla and Facebook that have over the past two decades risen from humble beginning to technological giants. In the last 25 years, many startups in Hyderabad have also become big companies in the arena of software services, pharma and Life Sciences.
“Someone asked me, what is Telangana Rising vision for startups? Startups are like football… I give this example because I play the game. In football, you have to work hard, practice hard and it is [about] teamwork but finally winning is most important. It is the same with startups,” Mr. Reddy said, underscoring the need for Hyderabad to focus on creating product-based startups, innovation startups and IP-intensive startups. He said Hyderabad should emerge a hub not just for startups but also one focused on [shaping] unicorns. At least 100 startups from Hyderabad must become unicorns.
Published – December 10, 2025 02:32 pm IST
