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....
Cheap land is easy to find in a small Kerala town. A working tech hub is not. That gap is the real story behind why Silicon Jeri sits in Manjeri, and it has less to do with the price of a desk than with how easy it is to get in and out of the town. When people hear...
Most founder stories skip the part where the idea just did not work. Nobody wants to lead with that. But if you spend enough time around a coworking hub like Silicon Jeri in Manjeri, you start to notice a pattern in the ideas that quietly stopped moving forward, and...
Most founders think mentorship means one coffee chat with someone successful. It does not. Real startup mentorship is a repeated, structured relationship, not a one-time pep talk. If you are building a company in Malappuram and searching for startup mentorship in...
The Malabar startup ecosystem is no longer just a footnote in Kerala’s tech story. For years, the conversation about startups in the state focused almost entirely on Kochi and Trivandrum. That is starting to change, and Manjeri is one of the places where the...
