T-Hub, Suzuki Motor Corp ink pact to accelerate growth of Indian startups

T-Hub, an innovation hub and ecosystem enabler, on Monday announced its partnership with Suzuki Motor Corporation (SMC), a leading corporation in the automobile sector to accelerate the growth of the Indian startup ecosystem.

With the collaborative partnership, both firms aim to mentor and support Indian entrepreneurs to access Japan's ecosystem, read a statement from T-Hub.

Suzuki Innovation Center (SIC), which is an open innovation platform, will provide growth opportunities to T-Hub incubated startups. In addition, SIC provides an open platform for new connections and innovation between India and Japan among academia, industries, and start-ups.


Mahankali Srinivas Rao, chief executive officer T-Hub, said, "Through our partnership with Suzuki Motor Corporation, we are aiming to address broad challenges on and beyond mobility, in India and Japan, on top of the synergistic combination of technology and design."

The partnership will empower T-Hub entrepreneurs to scale globally providing homegrown technology startups with access to mentorship, and guidance from Suzuki Innovation Centre, he further said.

"Our partnership with T-Hub will synergise the startup ecosystem between India and Japan. Suzuki's latest initiative, 'Suzuki Innovation Center (SIC)' will play an instrumental role in promoting open-innovation with startups along with support of partners like T-Hub," Kinji Saito, director and senior managing officer, global automobile marketing, SMC said.