How Pune became a global startup hub riding on these companies
Source: your story The growth of Pune's startup ecosystem has been led by its wide tech talent pool, Maharashtra’s innovation-friendly policies, and other factors. The Centre for American Entrepreneurship recently identified it as an ‘emerging global startup hub’. Pune , a satellite city about 75 miles from India’s financial capital Mumbai, has picked up a few monikers over the years – ‘Oxford of the East’, ‘ Maharashtra’s cultural capital’, ‘India’s upcoming metro’, and more. Sometime in 2013, when India was on the brink of a startup revolution, a UK-based journalist travelling to the city found it “fresh and almost Californian in its energy”. “ Pune is to Bangalore what Austin, Texas, is to Silicon Valley, California — a hotbed of innovation with a more affordable standard of living, ” he wrote. And, the city has lived up to the hyperbole. In a 2018 report titled Rise of the Global Startup City , the Center for American Entrepreneurship described Pune as an emerging startup