Hyderabad · 2026 · First Web3 Pre-Accelerator

Hyderabad
is rewiring
itself.

35 years ago this city made a bet on IT and won.
The engineers who built India's software industry are the same people who will build its Web3 protocols. They just need a place to start.

Join Cohort 1 Our Mission

9.46L IT professionals
in Hyderabad

₹3L Cr IT exports
FY25

~Zero Web3 startups
from Hyderabad

$7.4B Global Web3 VC
invested in 2024

$1B+ Annual hackathon
grants available

Signal

31%

India's SW exports from Telangana

171+

Engineering colleges in Telangana

India IT exporter city

2026

Year the rewrite begins

Hyderabad didn't become India's IT capital by accident.

It became one because a generation of engineers chose to build.

That generation built for someone else's roadmap.

The next generation gets to own the protocol.

Web3 doesn't need more employees.

It needs Hyderabad founders.

The Gap

The talent
is here. The direction
wasn't.

Hyderabad has 9.46 lakh IT professionals. India's second-largest IT exporter. Yet its presence in global Web3 grant ecosystems — Colosseum, ETHGlobal, Binance Labs — is near zero. Not a talent problem. A direction problem.

Employee-first culture

30 years of IT services built a deeply embedded employee mindset. The infrastructure for founders simply doesn't exist yet. Until now.

Web3 = only trading

In Telugu states, Web3 is seen as crypto speculation. No infrastructure, no dApps, no serious builder culture has emerged from Hyderabad — yet.

Zero structured support

No pre-accelerator. No mentorship. No MVP support. The gap between Web3 curiosity and actually building is too wide to cross alone.

$1B+ unclaimed annually

Solana, Ethereum, Binance, a16z pour billions into Web3 startups every year. Hyderabad teams are absent — not because they can't compete, but because no one showed them the door.

The Parallel

History
repeating.

35 years ago a city made a bet on IT exports. That bet became India's software industry. Web3 is the same bet — placed earlier.

1990

The IT era

IT exports FY25₹3 lakh crore

India rank#2 IT exporter

Share of India SW exports31%

IT workforce9.46 lakh

StatusMission accomplished

2026

The Web3 era

Global Web3 VC 2024$7.4 Billion

Q1 2025 Web3 funding$4.8 Billion

Web3 market by 2034$100 Billion+

Annual grant pools$1 Billion+

Hyd Web3 startups today~Zero · The gap

Who We Build With

The frustrated
engineer. The hungry
student.

IT Employees

The builder
trapped inside.

9.46 lakh IT professionals across Hyderabad — the largest talent concentration in South India
Already in the Telegram groups, already reading the protocols, already watching Colosseum streams
Skill gap is zero. Missing: a structured build environment and a first team
Strong savings, stable employment — can experiment without betting the house
A decade of shipping features on someone else's roadmap. Ready to own one.

GEN

Engineering Students

The generation
that skips Web2.

171+ engineering colleges across Telangana — the largest student concentration in the Deccan
GenZ already trading onchain, exploring NFT communities, building on testnets in their spare time
No interest in the standard campus placement pipeline — looking for the alternative
Native to digital-first, community-governed, permissionless systems
Best moment to shape a career: before the first job offer, not after the tenth

The Opportunity

$1 billion
on the table.
Hyderabad not
in the room.

Program

Annual Pool

Hyd Present?

Solana / Colosseum

$3M–5M / event

Absent

ETHGlobal

$500K–5M / event

Absent

Binance Labs

$50M+ / year

Absent

a16z Crypto

$10M+ / year

Absent

ETHIndia — Bangalore

$200K / event

Active

HydWeb3 · 3yr target

₹100 Crore+

Building now

Bangalore
participates.
Hyderabad next.

Over $1 billion in Web3 grants flows through global programs every year. Bangalore is in the room. Hyderabad is not — not because of talent, but because no one built the gateway.

HydWeb3 is that gateway. Cohort 1 is where Hyderabad's name goes on the leaderboard for the first time.

What Every Team Gets

Infrastructure,
not promises.

No gatekeeping. Every team in every cohort gets the same stack from Day 1.

Micro-Grants

Cash disbursed against verified milestones. No equity taken at grant stage. Yours to build with.

₹50K–₹2L

Real Users From Day One

Access to SaveMyPay's active network of salaried professionals as your pilot audience. Real spending behaviour. Real feedback. Not synthetic test users.

50K+ users

Cloud & RPC Credits

Full developer infra stack provided. Build without paying for infrastructure in your first sprint.

Expert Mentors On-Site

Engineers and founders with live protocol experience. Not lecture-style — working sessions, code reviews, architecture calls. People who have shipped on Solana, won at Colosseum, raised from ecosystem funds. In the room with you.

Hackathon Space

Dedicated venues in Hyderabad's tech corridor. Build with your cohort in person.

Direct Submission Pipeline

Warm introductions to Colosseum, ETHGlobal, pump.fun BIP, and Binance Labs. Not just links — relationships.

3-Year Mission

100 startups.
First unicorn
by 2030.

Now

2026

Year 1

Light the signal.

2 cohorts · 20 teams each

10 engineering college partnerships

3 hackathon spaces in Hyderabad

First Hyderabad teams on Colosseum leaderboard

₹20 Crore in grants won by cohort teams

2027

Year 2

Build the density.

4 cohorts/year — 160 teams building

First batch raising $100K–$500K pre-seed

HydWeb3 DAO governance launched

3+ global VCs as permanent demo day partners

30 MVPs in production · 5 VC-funded startups

2028

Year 3

Rewrite the map.

100+ startups supported cumulatively

₹100 Crore+ in VC and grants facilitated

Hyderabad = India's recognised Web3 hub

First unicorn target from our cohort

Franchise: Vizag, Warangal, Chennai

The Ecosystem

HydWeb3 isn't alone.
It's the first node.

HydWeb3 operates alongside SaveMyPay — a collective savings platform for salaried India built on Solana. Same workforce. Different moment. One compounding flywheel.

Venture 01

HydWeb3

Converts IT professionals and students into protocol builders. Produces hackathon winners, funded founders, and Web3-native vendors for the ecosystem.

Cohort teams become vendors on SaveMyPay's platform

Web3-literate community becomes SaveMyPay's most sophisticated early users

Raises from Web3 ecosystem funds and government schemes independently

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Flywheel

Venture 02

SaveMyPay

Collective savings platform for salaried India. Solana-powered onchain rewards. Launching June 2026. The financial layer for the same workforce HydWeb3 is building.

50K+ salaried users become the MVP pilot audience for HydWeb3 teams

HR Services B2B channel provides direct cohort recruitment access

Raises from fintech and consumer VCs independently