Facebook is partnering with T-Hub to launch the second edition of the India Innovation Hub Accelerator program, focused on ‘AI for Social Good’. This edition of the accelerator program aims to support startups that are focused on building products and services, which are solving complex social problems, using AI in the domains of Gender Equality, Decent Work and Economic Opportunity, Innovation Infrastructure, Climate Change, and Peace and Justice.
Startups selected for the program will receive support to scale their efforts and improve their products and services, to better tackle fundamental challenges facing the region, as well as scale internationally. Facebook will provide technical support, mentorship, training on the use of Facebook products and tools, and access to dozens of experts within the company. Through various interventions, Facebook and T-Hub will help startups refine their methodology and playbook, accelerating their growth.
Empowering Startups to Build with AI for Social Good
FOCUS AREAS
Gender Equality
Decent Work and Economic Opportunity
Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure
Climate change
Peace and Justice & Strong Institutions
PROGRAM BENEFITS
- Mentorship from Facebook’s engineering and product teams
- Impactful Training Sprints at Facebook & T-Hub
- Access to Facebook Programs FbStart & Resources
- Access to T-Hub’s ecosystem partners
ARE YOU EXCITED TO BE A PART OF IT?
WHO SHOULD APPLY?
- Each team must have at least 1 full time employee.
- The product or service is generating recurring revenue.
- The product or service provides a functionality or capability not currently available in any off the shelf product, or a functionality/capability that can be demonstrated to possess a significant advantage over current offerings in some aspect.
- The product or service represents original ideas wholly owned with freedom to use or is licensed by the team.
- The team is based in India, and is working to serve the Indian market; teams aren’t limited to working in India, but must have customers in India.
- The team has formed or is a part of a recognized, legal entity for the company structure.
PROGRAM TIMELINE
STORIES FROM INDIA INNOVATION HUB ACCELERATOR PROGRAM 2018
ABOUT T-HUB
T-Hub enables and empowers an ecosystem hungry for innovation. Based in Hyderabad, India, it leads India’s pioneering innovation ecosystem that powers next-generation products and new business models. It uses the Triple Helix model of innovation based on interaction and collaboration between industry, academia and the government. Incorporated in 2015, it has provided over 1100 national and international startups with access to better technology, talent, mentors, customers, corporates, investors and government agencies. T-Hub also provides thought leadership for Telangana and other state and central government organisations to build innovation ecosystems. It has elevated innovation for leading national and global corporates, transforming enterprise business models for the better.
For more information, visit: www.t-hub.co
ABOUT FACEBOOK
Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. People use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what’s going on in the world, and to share and express what matters to them.
For more information, visit: www.facebook.com
Supported by Govt. of Telangana
