Manjeri wants to become a tech town, but hubs start with ten-year-olds, not offices. Here is how coding and robotics clubs could reach students before college, and what parents can do this month.
Manjeri wants to become a tech town, but hubs start with ten-year-olds, not offices. Here is how coding and robotics clubs could reach students before college, and what parents can do this month.
Somebody had to be the first company to bet on an empty coworking campus in Manjeri. Here is the honest story of what that usually looks like, and what happens next.
A two-year-old startup with no track record used to be invisible to a bank. Malappuram’s lenders are starting to notice Silicon Jeri’s founders anyway.
No one in Manjeri read about Silicon Jeri in a newspaper first. Most heard about it in a WhatsApp group or an Instagram reel from someone they know.
Sabeer Nelli could have built his tech campus anywhere. He built it minutes from where he grew up, and that choice explains more about Silicon Jeri than any brochure.
Read two stories about the same coworking campus in Manjeri and you might think they are about two different towns.
Some workers do not return to Manjeri just once. They leave, come back, leave again, and come back a second time.
Before Silicon Jeri opened, a steady job in Manjeri usually meant a bank or a school. Today it can mean a cafe counter or a security post.
A ZilCubator rejection email is not a verdict on your idea. Plenty of founders who got that email later reapplied and got in.
A desk at Silicon Jeri costs almost nothing. A Series A check still costs a flight to Bangalore and weeks of meetings.