Homing in: The startuppers who want to transform their own backyards

Jun 29, 2024 | 18:32 IST

Dinesh Baluraj and Anugraha Ganesan run Yali Aerospace from Thanjavur

Many entrepreneurs are looking beyond the charms (and problems) of big cities and building their companies out of their hometowns instead. Like Dinesh Baluraj (left) and Anugraha Ganesan (right) who run Yali Aerospace from Thanjavur

Things were going well for Hitesh Dharmdasani. After finishing a masters in cybersecurity in the US, he’d been working at a startup in San Francisco. That company did an IPO, leaving Dharmdasani with a handsome sum in his bank account. This is back in 2015 — a period he describes as a “post-recession boom” in the US startup ecosystem.

So, his plan to move back to India, and that too, his hometown of Belagavi, Karnataka, struck others as, politely speaking, sort of stupid.

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Homing in: The startuppers who want to transform their own backyards

Many entrepreneurs are looking beyond the charms (and problems) of big cities and building their companies out of their hometowns instead. Like Dinesh Baluraj (left) and Anugraha Ganesan (right) who run Yali Aerospace from Thanjavur

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