Most founders who build something big move away from their hometown. Sabeer Nelli did the opposite. The Zil Money CEO built Silicon Jeri, a coworking and tech campus, in Manjeri, the same small town in Malappuram, Kerala where he grew up, instead of Bangalore, Kochi,...
Every founder who has ever raised a seed round gets the same question: why are you not in Bangalore? For a lot of founders in Kerala, that question used to end the conversation. Now it starts one. Key takeaways Bangalore still wins on investor density, scale, and a...
