Recently, an intern at a tech company in Bengaluru texted his boss that he doesn’t need the internship anymore since he got funding for his AI startup.

Shantanu Deshpande, CEO of Bombay Shaving Company, likened Bengaluru’s startup culture to Kota’s coaching scene for IIT-JEE exams in his LinkedIn post, “The ecosystem delusion.”

In Bengaluru's HSR area, an automatic Pani Puri vending machine called "What The Flavors" went viral after a social media post. It allows users to choose different water flavors for their puris.

A techie working outside a WOW Momo stall in Bengaluru sparked a banter session on tech professionals' priorities. X user Kritika Kumari shared the photo with a sarcastic caption.

On August 7, Karnataka IT minister Priyank Kharge welcomed Zepto, a quick commerce startup, to Bengaluru, glorifying the city’s status as India’s top startup hub.

Founded in 2021 by BITS Pilani alumni Sancheti and Harish Uthayakumar, Bengaluru-based bluelearn to shut down and return 70% of the capital they raised back to investors.

Bengaluru based TheCodeWork, founded by Ashish Singh and S. Koushik Debroy helps build and scale digital products for businesses and e-commerce enterprises using AI, Digital Twin Solutions and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions.

Beauty workers at Urban Company protested in Bengaluru against favouring new beauticians and complained of long hours without extra pay and the risk of ID blocks.

Bengaluru, tied with Sydney at 21st, and Delhi and Mumbai at 24th and 37th respectively, feature in the Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2024. Chennai ranked 18th in Asia and 21-30 in emerging ecosystems.