T-Hub, ISB launch India’s first ‘AI Factory’ to drive deep-tech startups
Agrima Didwania | October 28, 2025 | 07:50 PM IST | 1 min read
Based at ISB campus in Hyderabad, the platform unites entrepreneurs, alumni, policymakers, and industry leaders to drive innovation.
T-Hub, the world's largest startup incubator, has strengthened its collaboration with the Indian School of Business (ISB) to take forward the country's first-of-its-kind AI Factory. The initiative is being facilitated through DLabs, ISB's incubation arm.
The AI Factory is a unique platform that converts India's AI potential into market-oriented, scalable businesses. The project brings entrepreneurs, researchers, policymakers, and industry leaders together to drive innovation at the crossroads of science, technology, and business. It specifically addresses the development of AI-driven, deep-tech, and research-based startups.
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Driving India's AI future and enabling founders with market opportunities
This collaboration represents a strategic milestone in India's AI and innovation agenda, bringing together ISB's academic excellence with T-Hub's network of applied innovation to create inclusive, technology-driven entrepreneurship and establish India as a global AI innovation hub.
By this partnership, startups will be able to access T-Hub's extensive network of mentors, investors, and corporates. Co-hosted demo days, innovation showcases, and joint ecosystem engagement programmes are also a part of the partnership.
Collaboration between T-hub and ISB
The one-year collaboration reflects institutions' common vision of connecting academic research with actual commercialisation, thus promoting growth of AI solutions across major industries like healthcare, sustainability, digital transformation, and industrial AI.
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“Our relationship with ISB goes back a decade, and with initiatives such as AI Factory, we are going deeper to help founders build in AI with direct access to research, real expertise, and market validation - enabling them to scale sustainably from India for the world,” said T-Hub CEO Kavikrut.
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