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Sandbox Startups Electronics Systems Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) Cluster, a facility set up at the Sandbox Startups in Hubballi to encourage electronics startups in the North Karnataka region, is to be inaugrated by K J George, Karnataka Minister for IT & BT, Science & Technology and Large & Medium Scale Industries, on July 17.
The 6,000 sq ft Sandbox ESDM Cluster will reduce iterations of the product development lifecycle by enabling startups to rapidly go from idea to prototyping, leveraging facilities for product testing and certification.
According to Dr ‘Desh’ Deshpande, Founding Trustee of the Deshpande Foundation, “the new facility will particularly benefit technology entrepreneurs in North Karnataka in the space of electronics system design and manufacturing (ESDM) and put them on a par with their counterparts in a big city like Bengaluru, where such a facility exists.”
“About half a dozen startups being incubated in Sandbox Startups in Hubballi will be the immediate beneficiaries of ESDM cluster,” he added.
The Karnataka government has been supporting the Sandbox Startups ecosystem in north Karnataka. “We thank the government for its support in setting up the ESDM cluster outside Bengaluru, which would help nurture young electronic entrepreneurs in North Karnataka,” said Dr Deshpande.
Gaurav Gupta, Karnataka Principal Secretary, IT & BT department; Dr ‘Desh’ Deshpande; Vivek Pawar, Chief Executive Officer of Deshpande Foundation; and C M Patil, Chief Executive Officer, Sandbox Startup are to attend the inaugural. The cluster would support startups in various verticals including automotive, consumer durables, instrumentation, medical and telecommunications, among others.
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