Most people in Manjeri still ask what Silicon Jeri actually is. But a small number of visitors from outside Kerala, and a few from outside India, have started asking a different question. They want to know if this can become a real tech hub. That is a fair question....
A dead laptop charger does not care how good your startup’s pitch deck is. It just needs a replacement, and it needs it today. For most founders working out of Silicon Jeri in Manjeri, that replacement does not come from a courier or an online order. It comes...
Manjeri does not look like a tech town at first glance. Then you walk past Silicon Jeri, and you see a second structure taking shape next to it. That second structure has a name now: Zil Park. Zil Park is not a finished product. It is the next phase of Silicon...
Six months ago, the ground behind a school in Manjeri sat empty most evenings. Now it fills up by 6 p.m. with software engineers still in their work shirts, chasing a football or arguing about a cricket lbw call. Key takeaways Silicon Jeri’s young workforce...
Nobody is paying these founders to talk. That is the whole point. A handful of founders working out of Silicon Jeri in Manjeri have started their own podcasts, newsletters, and regular posts about what it actually feels like to build a company from a small Kerala...
