The Telangana government has appointed Kavikrut as the new CEO of T-Hub, the state’s premier startup incubator. Kavikrut brings 17 years of leadership experience to the role, including a decade at travel tech firm OYO. In his previous role as Chief Growth Officer at OYO, Kavikrut was instrumental in expanding the company’s presence to over 100 cities in India.
He also spearheaded OYO’s international expansion into Japan in partnership with Yahoo! Japan and SoftBank Japan in 2018. Kavikrut holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MSc in Finance from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. He started his career as a healthcare startup founder and has worked with leading firms such as Amazon and the Piramal Group.
T-Hub has supported more than 2,000 startups, focusing on fostering entrepreneurship and scaling startups through cutting-edge programs, global market access, and deep industry collaboration.
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Kavikrut’s appointment is expected to strengthen T-Hub’s mission to empower entrepreneurs, accelerate startup growth, and drive the development of world-class products from India.
Special Chief Secretary for IT and Industries, Jayesh Ranjan, stated that Kavikrut’s passion for startups, global experience, and hands-on operational skills make him the ideal leader for T-Hub. Kavikrut, who hails from Hyderabad, expressed his excitement about the opportunity to build upon T-Hub’s pioneering work. He said, “Telangana’s commitment to startups has been truly inspiring…
I am honored to have the opportunity to build upon the pioneering work T-Hub has been doing for the past decade. I am excited by the potential of Hyderabad, the city I hail from, as it steadily grows into a hub for startups building products and services for the world.”
B.V.R. Mohan Reddy, founding director at T-Hub and founder chairman of IT firm Cyient, described Kavikrut’s appointment as a significant milestone for the incubator. With Kavikrut’s appointment, the Congress government completes the appointment of heads for all three major startup ecosystem establishments in Hyderabad – T-Hub, hardware prototyping facility T-Works, and women entrepreneurship-focused WE Hub – since assuming office in December 2023.
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