India Space Accelerator
powered by AWS, Minfy and T-Hub
Launch your space industry startup with global leaders to accelerate your success
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India Space Accelerator
AWS and Minfy
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Applications close Dec 3rd,2023
- Space Data
- Space and ground communication system
- Earth observation & Remote Sensing
- Digital twin for space
- Manufacturing and Launch for space Infra
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Bringing you India’s first Space Accelerator, Powered by AWS, Minfy, and T-Hub.
Space provides us with many benefits that are important to how humans live, work, and thrive.
The India Space Accelerator is bought to you by AWS, Minfy and T-Hub. The 14 week program has been structured to support Space startups in India bring their idea to life with global leaders. Startups will learn about building Space solutions and accelerating Innovation with AWS, how to securely bring their ideas to life on the AWS Cloud with AWS Partner Minfy, and learn critical lessons on establishing a business, building a product, getting funding and refining their pitch from T-Hub.
This program will also include mentors, a cohort of success founders form the India Space industry to share their stories and advice. We are committed to supporting startups in their pursuit of groundbreaking new space missions and pursue global opportunities.
Why India Space Accelerator powered by AWS, Minfy and T-Hub
Space provides us with many benefits that are important to how humans live, work, and thrive. AWS provides the secure, flexible, scalable, and cost-efficient cloud solutions that will help today’s brightest startups solve some of our most complex challenges across the interconnected domains of space and sustainability. The AWS Space Accelerator is designed to help startups unlock important cloud and business resources as they bring fresh innovation to address these challenges. AWS is committed to supporting startups in their pursuit of groundbreaking new space missions.
Our goal is to empower startups across the global space industry to leverage cloud-based resources to accelerate innovation. The AWS Startup programs have a unique working backwards focus where we introduce our cohort of participating startups to large Fortune 500 customers, public sector customers, public-private organizations, venture capitalists, investors, and more. This helps startups develop a unique perspective into the needs and workings of the public sector so they can go to market faster, innovate for the right challenge, and scale their solutions.
The partnership between AWS, Minfy and T-Hub for this initiative has been structured to support Space startups in India achieve the most during the 14 week program, bringing their idea to life using cloud services to accelerate innovation, building in the cloud with AWS Partner Minfy and learn key lessons on establishing their business, getting funding and refining their pitch from T-Hub.
Program Benefits
Open Collaboration Opportunities
Extravehicular
Space Mobility
How would you collaborate with Collins to increase the intelligence of the next generation spacesuit, improving its ability to act as a scientific platform for data gathering and astronaut monitoring?
High Performance
Batteries
How would you collaborate with Collins to develop inherently safe, high-energy density, battery systems with at least 20 kWh of capacity?
Autonomy
for Small UAS
How would you collaborate with Collins to increase small UAS utility for search & rescue missions by expanding and integrating platform perception sensing capabilities?
Composites Recycling & Circular Economy
How would you collaborate with Collins to transform composite scrap into high quality products with minimal energy usage?
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About AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster.
Activation Partner: T-Hub
T-Hub (Technology Hub) is a premier innovation hub and ecosystem enabler based in Hyderabad, India. T-Hub leads India’s pioneering innovation ecosystem and strives to create an impact for startups, corporations, and other ecosystem stakeholders. Its mission is to enable and empower an ecosystem hungry for innovation.
Incorporated in 2015, T-Hub has provided 2000+ national and international startups access to superior technology, talent, mentors, customers, corporates, investors, government agencies, and other innovation ecosystem stakeholders.
T-Hub has elevated innovation for leading national and global corporations, transforming their business models for the better. Collaborating with innovation partners and enablers in Telangana, India and worldwide, T-Hub is building a future-ready innovation ecosystem.
Tech Partners : Minfy
Minfy is a Cloud Native System Integrator helping enterprises, start-ups and fast-growing businesses navigate digital journeys leveraging cloud, data and AI technologies. Our transformative services include Modernising IT, building Intelligent Applications leveraging AI, democratizing data to unlock business value, automating IT operations, solving customer problems with IP led solutions and providing world class 24/7 managed services.
With 400+ client engagements, mature cloud, data and AI practices and competencies led by 500+ bright Minfinites – we truly believe in augmenting human capabilities leveraging technology. Currently, Minfy serves customers across the United States, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, and India.
Furthermore, Minfy has earned the ‘SI Partner of the Year 2023’ award, marking the third consecutive year to receive this recognition as the foremost AWS Partner. This achievement follows our previous accolades in both 2022 and 2020.Minfy has been consistent in demonstrating customer obsession thereby earning recognition from both customers and ecosystem partners such as AWS.
FAQs
The Accelerator will accept applications from all Space startups, from prototype stage and above
The program will be delivered in a hybrid model. Some physical attendance is required to get the most from the program and maximise opportunities to meet face to face with the teams, founders and partners involved.
Startups who are accepted will receive $5k in AWS credits, involvement in the intense, guided program on building your solution on cloud and getting it ready to pitch to investors and finding your first customer as well as mention in associated press releases. Startups who successfully graduate form the program will also be entered into the Alumni program and receive additional AWS credits benefits
Startups who actively participate, build a working solution and complete workshops will be eligible to graduate from the program.
Startups will be selected based on a range of criteria. We will evaluate factors such as your solution, the market opportunity and size. The application process will run through a series of questions to provide as mush information as possible to provide you every opportunity for success. As part of the application process startups will be asked to submit a Solution brief
- It’s our version of an introductory meeting in a document format
- A 3-page document or 10 slide presentation (.pdf format preferred), with a total file size not exceeding 2 MB
- Information we’re looking for:
- Description of your solution, what problem it solves & why you think it fits for the Space Accelerator
- Unique aspects of your solution and the technology enablers to create that uniqueness
- Your capabilities – Your core team and its unique strength
- Your momentum to date – help us understand where you are in your development journey and some recent milestones and customer traction
Up to 20 Startups will be accepted to the program
To get the most from the program, founders need to be beyond the ideation stage.
To get the most out of the program, startups must have a CTO or technical lead in place.
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