T-Hub 2.0 partners Hexagon to build geospatial experience centre

HYDERABAD: T-Hub 2.0 announced its partnership with Hexagon, a global leader in digital reality solutions, combining sensors, software and autonomous technologies to build a Geospatial Experience Centre at T-Hub on Friday. With this collaborative partnership, both organisations aim to further accelerate India's growing startup ecosystem by providing technology expertise to startups.

Hexagon, a leading geospatial technology corporation, would provide an array of opportunities to startups, such as access to technology expertise (both hardware and software), co-creation and co-innovation of products, support in building pilots and Proofs-of-Concept (POCs) and providing mentorship wherever required. Hexagon would also build a sandbox environment to help startups in building solutions. Besides this, the Geospatial experience centre would be leveraged to identify innovative ideas, individuals and startups while also boosting technological capabilities for startups, such as facilitating open innovation for early and growth stage startups, experiments for developing POCs in the fields of Geospatial technology, networking and partnership exposure and accelerating their proficiencies

CEO of T-Hub, MSR, said, "We are excited to have Hexagon join our innovation ecosystem and look forward to working with them to shape the future of the geospatial industry in a connected and sustainable way. The Experience Center would help create breakthrough solutions with knowledge and expertise to create more value for startups and our partner."

GM of Hexagon Capability Center India (HCCI), Navaneet Mishra, said,'' HCCI is the single largest R&D hub of Hexagon globally, and we are fortunate to be working on all of Hexagon's business units and technologies. To expand our innovation beyond our employee base, we have decided to collaborate with T-Hub and open a Geospatial Experience Centre Hub that would be open to relevant startups. They would be able to build on top of our platforms and solutions and scale while solving real world problems."

CTO, Hexagon AB, Dr Burkhard Boeckem, "Hexagon is a global leader in smart digital reality with core capabilities in sensors, software, and autonomous solutions. India has a booming startup ecosystem, and we strongly feel that we can collaborate with the budding geospatial startups to help them in their respective journeys and learn in the process."