Startup incubator T-Hub yesterday launched India’s first-ever Family Office Alliance by Anthill Ventures. The event aimed to elevate Telangana and India’s startup landscape, providing unparalleled opportunities for entrepreneurs to scale rapidly with global support.
The event took place at T-Hub and brought together distinguished European and Indian family offices to cultivate cultural connections, facilitate networking relationships and explore investment opportunities between the vibrant ecosystems of India and Europe.
Chief Guest D Sridhar Babu led a panel on Telangana, emphasising the state’s vast entrepreneurial potential for global investors and entrepreneurs. The panel, featuring luminaries such as Parvathi Reddy, Srinivas Rao Mahankali and Honourable Principal Secretary ITE and Commerce Jayesh Ranjan, provided insights into the region’s burgeoning startup ecosystem.
D Sridhar Babu, IT Minister of State, remarked, “Telangana stands as a beacon for global investors and entrepreneurs, offering vast opportunities in our dynamic and thriving startup ecosystem. This was followed by an address by the Philip von Wulffen, Founder, Family Office Alliance and Prasad Vanga, CEO and Founder, Anthill Ventures on the manifestation and evolution of the Family Office Alliance.
T-Hub, through its robust innovation ecosystem, has nurtured over 3,000 startups, engaging with 150 mentors, collaborating with 350 corporate partners and resulting in a $1.9 billion raised investments by its startups.
Mahankali Srinivas Rao, CEO, T-Hub, remarked, “The event solidifies our commitment to nurture innovation and fostering global collaborations. The Family Office Alliance is a testament to our vision of creating a conducive environment for businesses to flourish, and we are excited about the transformative impact it will have on the entrepreneurial landscape of India.”
The event served as a platform for collaboration, solidifying connections and paving the way for future engagements between European and Indian Family Offices.
Prasad Vanga, CEO and Founder, Anthill Ventures, said, “The support that this incredible country and the state of Telangana offers to the visionaries of tomorrow — brave entrepreneurs manifesting ideas that contribute to smart and better living across a series of industries for generations to come from now to Gen Z, Gen X and beyond — deserves a platform like this. We are here to back this vision through these focussed alliances that will allow the industry to #scalewithspeed with the intent to bring the best of great companies and prescient entrepreneurs across Urban Lifestyle and Urban Tech.”
