Indian Startup Map - Which cities are startup friendly?
Wonder which Indian cities are the most startup friendly? Which city offers facilities, manpower, infrastructure, environment etc to startup folks, so as to enable them to kickstart their ventures? While this is by no means a scientific poll, the Tata - NEN hottest startup awards (which incidentally has completed its public voting phase) offers valuable insights on this question. Check out the Indian startup map - this shows the various Indian cities from which the Tata-NEN awards have got their nominations.
Bangalore - 48
Delhi - 34
Mumbai - 36
Chennai - 24
Hyderabad - 14
Pune - 9
Ahmedabad - 5
The interactive map is housed on the Tata-NEN page on Livemint. Check it out here…
Notwithstanding the somewhat controversial way in which voting and nominations for the awards have progressed, I think the above data is a reasonable representation of the city-wise representation of Indian startups. Although I am surprised by the omission of cities like Kolkatta, Trivandrum etc. Surely we should have seen a few nominations from those places.
Question to readers - In your opinion, is this map/data a true representation of where Indian startups are coming up? Which cities are under or over represented? And can you think of reasons why this may have happened?
Rizzi on Nov 10, 2008
Mumbai is second…am happy….
But do the figures also take into account the availability of smart/cheap labour and office space rental.
john on Nov 19, 2008
Nice survey,happy to know banglore at the top.
Indigo on Nov 23, 2008
Not much happy with this survey! Bangalore is ahead of Delhi??? And Mumbai is close to Delhi.
We really need to find some logic how come Bangalore is leading and on what basis.
Also how come Delhi and Mumbai are almost on same level? Just as a layman argument- compare the infra cost for setting up a startup in Delhi and Mumbai!
sheetal on Jan 8, 2009
i think bangalore deserve so its on top… but said for ahmedabad
Pooja Ahuja on Aug 16, 2009
I am haapy that pune has a lot of scope for growth and it will grow as it is an emerging one