Sandbox Startups, Electronics Systems Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) Cluster has been set up in Hubballi encourage electronics startups in the north Karnataka region. This cluster will be inaugurated 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 enable startups to rapidly go from idea to prototyping, leveraging facilities for product testing and certification.
“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,” said Dr. Deshpande, Founding Trustee of the Deshpande Foundation.
To support this project, Karnataka government is playing an important role in setting up the Sandbox Startups ecosystem. The cluster would support startups in numerous verticals like automotive, instrumentation, medical and telecommunications, consumer durables, ETC.