November 9, 2023: Global leader in digital reality solutions, Hexagon’s R&D Centre in India has launched its Startup Catalyst Programme for all startups working in the areas of Digital Reality and Autonomous Technologies.
This programme is an opportunity for startups to apply their ideas and capabilities to emerging but well-defined real-world problems in these areas, and, with Hexagon’s help, build full-scale solutions and take those to Indian and global customers. It is being launched with the support of T-Hub, the world's largest incubation hub, that will bring its knowledge of the Indian startup ecosystem, best practices, and processes, to facilitate, guide and amplify the impact of this program.
Hexagon’s technology finds use in some of the largest enterprises, in critical operations in governments and defence, in manufacturing and process plants, in building smart cities and critical infrastructure, in automotive, ship building, mining, agriculture, protecting heritage monuments, amongst others. Being at the forefront of Digital Reality and Autonomous Technologies, with a global portfolio of customers, Hexagon brings an exceptional view into the current and emergent problems in these areas.
A startup interested in building up solutions using Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and/ or Digital Reality may choose to work on any one of three precise problems by submitting their idea and approach to the program and sharing their credentials:
If the submission and credentials stand out, the startup will join a cohort of similarly chosen startups to build a full proof of concept (PoC). Each startup will have a mentor’s help during this period. The finalist from each cohort would win a prize, as well as gain the opportunity to build a full-scale solution working with Hexagon’s domain experts, on Hexagon’s futuristic technologies and platforms. Hexagon and the startups can then take these collaborative solutions to Hexagon’s customer base and scale them across geographies.
Says Navaneet Mishra, Senior Vice President and Head of Hexagon’s R&D Centre India: “Indian startups are passionate, tech savvy and hardworking. With Hexagon’s Startup Catalyst Programme, we are going to help them channel their energies and attention towards precisely defined real-world problems. We will support them with cutting-edge technology platforms, mentors to facilitate the co-solutioning, and an opportunity to access global customers. We want to help startups from India scale their innovation globally, this program is an important step in that journey.”