Why startups are choosing Belagavi over Bengaluru
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People still speak about the monsoon of 2006,” says Bondada, co-founder of embedded software tool provider Vayavya Labs She and her husband had just relocated from the US and the relentless rain and the difficulty in finding a good house in the city of 6,00,000 nearly made her regret their decision to shift. Since they were developing the software from scratch, there was no real need to be based in Bengaluru, he adds.Belagavi, a former British cantonment, which is the headquarters of the Maratha Light Infantry Regiment and which Karnataka is promoting as the state’s second capital, seemed a better alternative. Good infrastructure , improving internet speed and an airport with flights to and from Bengaluru also helped.Abhishek Latthe, co-founder of wearable devices startup SenseGiz , also zoomed in on his hometown of Belagavi as the headquarters for his company, which exports 80% of its products to the US and Japan. “We considered Bengaluru, but since most of our sales were overseas, it didn’t make much of a difference where we were located,” says Latthe, 28.SenseGiz, set up in 2013, has sold 35,000 units of its flagship product Find, which lets you keep track of the object it is attached to (or even your pet) via your phone’s Bluetooth. It has snagged $5,00,000 in pre-series A funding from Karnataka Semiconductor Venture Capital Fund.Four-hundred kilometres to the south, in the coastal town of Udupi , Rohith Bhat, Robosoft’s founder, had a very pragmatic reason for shifting from Mumbai.
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