A ZilCubator batch in Manjeri finishes its final pitch day, the mentors head home, and the founders pack up their laptops. On paper, the program is over. In practice, something else keeps running underneath it. Batchmates still call each other about a tricky hire, a...
A few people who first walked into Silicon Jeri to work for someone else’s company have since walked out to start their own. That is not an accident. It is what happens when a coworking campus keeps founders, developers, and early employees close enough to talk...
A company based at Silicon Jeri in Manjeri recently filled an engineering role with someone who lives 400 kilometers away, in a small town most people outside Tamil Nadu have never heard of. That engineer has never visited Manjeri. He has no plan to move there either....
Ask most people what Kerala’s startup policy has done for the state, and you will hear about Kochi’s IT corridor or the capital’s incubators. Almost nobody mentions a town like Manjeri. That gap is not an accident, and it is not permanent either. Key...
Most tech hiring in India quietly assumes two things: that you studied in English, and that someone in your family already works an office job. Walk into a classroom in and around Manjeri and both assumptions fall apart. Many students here studied in Malayalam-medium...
