Corporate Venturing & Innovation Group

Our Innovation Philosophy

STARTUPS

We are a digital infrastructure services enabler serving Fortune 500 and large Enterprises globally, looking for disruptive start-up innovations. If you can help us drive that digital, hybrid environment of the future, then we promise to help you scale faster on back of our global market reach.
Our promise.

Network | Cloud | Security | IoT and Mobility

CUSTOMER AND PARTNERS

We are looking for ecosystem partners to collaborate with. Whether you are an Innovative Enterprise, VC / CVC, accelerator or trade group, if you have an idea or an innovative start-up looking to scale, then we’ll listen. We have an established program to engage with your portfolio in an agile way.
Let’s engage.

Collaborate | Co-create | Disrupt | Scale

EMPLOYEES

We believe innovation is a skill, not a talent. We employ a continuous, interactive, experiential learning and creation program called “Shape the Future”. We empower and fund our employees to incubate their startup ideas and take them to product-market fit and scale or spin out.
We create value.

Daring | Responsive | Inclusive | Venturing | Ethical

“STF enables its portfolio of startups to act with the irrational exuberance required to innovate and break paradigms. It is difficult for a corporate startup incubator to promote that type of revolutionary mindset when the parent usually has more of an evolutionary mindset, but Tata Communications STF has managed to do it.”

Galeal Zino

Associate Vice President

Innovations Group – Netfoundry

Core Themes

Internet / Connectivity

Cloud / UC enablement

Cyber Security solutions

Cross-border Mobility / IoT

AI / Analytics

API Economy

Internal Ventures

“Shape the Future” program, focused on creating disruptive new businesses and a culture of innovation, right from our annual employee start-up competition to start-up incubation and acceleration, funding, scale up / spin out, and, employee-driven innovation clubs. Innovation starts from within.

Our Startups

External Venturing

We partner with a wide-range of ecosystem players from VC firms to corporate venture and innovation teams, disruptive start-ups, universities, accelerators and industry bodies to drive innovation. Our diverse and flexible partnership arrangements allow us to create truly collaborative relationships that add value to our customers in their digital transformation journey.

Startup Partnerships

Ecosystem Partnerships

“Innovation is about being daring. People remember your successes, not your failures.”

Ankur Jindal

Global Head – Corporate Venturing & Innovation

Tata Communications