Hyderabad, Jul 28 : WE HUB, India’s first and only state-led incubator by the Government of Telangana to foster and promote women entrepreneurship to start-up, scale-up and accelerate with global market access, Today launched a series of three new programs for students and tech based startups.

The programs were kick-started by the Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MA&UD) K Taraka Rama Rao, in the presence of Principal Secretary of IT department Jayesh Ranjan, and Deepthi Ravula, CEO of WE HUB, a release here said.
Followed by the launches, a Tech show was conducted where 22 tech-based startups exhibited their products. The event also included the graduation of 4 cohorts of preincubation, incubation and acceleration programs.

The graduated startups included sectors like Healthtech, Oceantech, Infratech, EdTech, Manufacturing etc got the opportunity to pitch to Mr Rama Rao.

Appreciating the diversity, range and ambition that the WE HUB’s graduating women entrepreneurs exhibited in tech events, Mr Rama Rao said, “I hope the first women-led unicorn will be from India and particularly hope it comes from WE HUB in Telangana. Through these new programs launched by WE HUB, including with the educational institutes, we will encourage innovation from a very young age across the country,” he added.

Mr Jayesh Ranjan said, “This is some of the best quality work that I’ve seen in recent years, without any doubt as we witnessed today some very precise design of solutions. We wish very best to the graduating entrepreneurs, who are part of WE HUB and we will continue to enable their entrepreneur journey.”

Mr Deepthi Ravula said, ‘’Congratulations to all the startups who are graduating today. We are extremely excited about kicking off our new programs in collaboration with WiDS, Stanford university, Mathworks and FICCI Flo along with schools and colleges in India. These programs will enable more tech entrepreneurship among girls and young women in Telangana and across India.’’(UNI)