Bangalore, India, last year, Abhinandan Balasubramanian He left his job at a financial technology company headquartered in London. The startup scene is booming in his native India, and he wanted in.
The 25-year-old Mr. Balasubramanian moved to Bombay in December and did not start his own company: Altflo, an online marketplace for assets such as real estate and mutual funds.
Basing Altflo in India was an easy decision, Balasubramanian said. "The cost, expand the business is much lower in India," he said. Office space and talent are "cheaper more than in the UK"
Attracted a flow of venture capital funds, the relatively cheap labor and the size of the potential market in the second most populous country in the world, entrepreneurs and technology workers with Indian roots came in increasing numbers.
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The trend is a reversal of nature for a country that has been its ambitious long, highly skilled workers leave their fortune to look elsewhere.
"It appears that the brain drain a reservoir brain is actually", Prime Minister Narendra Modi said delivered in September in a speech in Silicon Valley. Now, he said, "looking for an opportunity." Highly skilled workers abroad to India
There were about 4,200 new companies in the country in 2015, Indian industry group NASSCOM to view technology. That's about the same as in the UK and is more than three times more than India in 2010 had.
Some try to compete globally. Others focus on the promise of India, where the spread of the use of cheap smartphones, hundreds of millions of people online for the first time. Compare optimists with China to promote the startup environment in 2008, as the adoption of large Internet has helped the creation of titanium as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
"I wanted a company to create great technology that has the fastest growing economy in the world," he said Rahul Garg, explain why he returned to India, after five years with Google Singapore and Tokyo. "It's very exciting."
Mr Garg, 36, launched Moglix, e-commerce start-up business-to-business links manufacturers and suppliers in September. Moglix, headquartered in Singapore, but works of Delhi Noida neighborhood, 60 employees last month, has said that it had received funds, Ratan Tata, one of the most famous businessmen from India and now a major investor angels.
Moglix also received support from venture capital firm Accel Partners, based in Palo Alto, California.
Kiran Jonnalagadda, Founder, headquartered in Bangalore, an industry group, start the job listings and organizes meetings for technology workers HasGeek offers. Many fund start-up felt cruel prosperous in recent years, but now more money means contractors easier.
Generally, investors pumped more than in 2015 $ 4.9 billion for the launch in India, according to VCCEdge, financial research arm VCCircle.com. This represents an increase of $ 576 million in 2010. VCCircle as Dow Jones, publisher of The Wall Street Journal is owned by News Corp ,
The Prime Minister of India, Mr. modes and its repeated statement that he wants to do to make it easier business in India, has also helped boost confidence.
"It is certainly in the right direction," said technology consultant management information Akhil Sehgal, lived in Washington, DC, for more than a decade before Mr. Sehgal to make in August return to India, 34, founded Start a team bracelets for women that serve security connected to the Internet as a device.
"As an Indian, you are still wondering, is that it will be worth it again? '" Said Sehgal. But now, he says, the market in India "explodes". He added: "Everyone is running after the start."
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Mr. Sen Sarma said in an interview at a cafe near Koramangala Bangalore, an enclave Journal Start wants to get in India early in the thriving technology industry, he and his women enjoy greater proximity their families.
Near the cafe where technology executives PowerPoint presentations seen on laptops can be review, they are the site Flipkart, the largest player in the electronic trade in the country, and ANI Technologies Pvt. Exchange Conduct Company Ltd Ola.
Qubole not disclose its revenue, but increased $ 20 million funding and last year won the job Cloud Pinterest handling, estimated the photo on the website of markers San Francisco at $ 11,000,000,000th "Return a big win for us," Sen Sarma said.
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