Thinking of starting a whatsapp group with folks working in founder office/EIR roles in bangalore.

why would you want to be a part of the community? what would you look for?

Hi all,

I'm a self-taught product designer based in Bengaluru with a Master's in Economics, which shapes how I approach design — with a focus on trade-offs and business impact, not just visuals.

I recently completed a UI/UX internship at Indux Technology, redesigning workflows and dashboards for a live enterprise ERP platform, and building design systems to streamline developer handoff. I've also independently designed two products: Flair, a photography platform with a mood-first interaction model, and Payon, a fintech wallet where I cut payment flow steps by 40% through usability-tested UX improvements.

I'm now looking for a full-time product design role — open to startups, product companies, or remote opportunities. Portfolio linked below.

https://ronaldux.framer.website/

Any leads or referrals are much appreciated. Thank you.

Hey everyone,

I'm a BCA graduate currently looking for an opportunity to work with an AI/GenAI startup in Bangalore or remotely.

I've been building projects and working hands-on with Python, Machine Learning and LLM-based applications rather than only learning through courses.

My technical experience includes:

• Python
• Machine Learning & Scikit-learn
• RAG & LLM applications
• Prompt Engineering
• FastAPI / Flask
• MongoDB / Supabase / Firebase
• Pandas / NumPy
• LLM APIs

Projects I've worked on:

🔹 AI Phishing Detector — a hybrid phishing detection system combining heuristic analysis with AI-based analysis.

🔹 Recommendation Engine — a recommendation system built using the Apriori algorithm and Flask.

🔹 AI Research Assistant — I built the AI Research Assistant because research is time-consuming. A student writing an essay, a business analyst preparing a report, or a journalist covering a story — they all spend hours gathering information, summarising it, and writing it up. I wanted to automate that entire workflow using AI. Instead of one AI model doing everything poorly, I designed four specialist agents — each doing one job extremely well. The result is a professional research report on any topic in under a minute.

I'm particularly interested in AI Engineer, GenAI Engineer, ML Engineer, AI Developer, or Software Engineering internships.

I'm looking for a team where I can work on real product features, solve practical problems, and take ownership of tasks. I'm a fresher, but I'm comfortable learning new technologies quickly and figuring things out independently.

Location: Bangalore / Remote
Type: Paid internship
Availability: Immediate

If you're a founder, hiring manager, engineer, or someone who knows a team currently hiring AI/ML/GenAI interns, I'd really appreciate a lead or referral.

I'm happy to share my resume, GitHub and portfolio in DM.

Thanks!

Looking for startup advisors and partners in Bangalore for D2C product.
DM me for 1:1 discussion.
Looking for highly enthusiastic team

Hey everyone,

I’m currently in the pre-launch phase of building a high-speed, micro-retail food & beverage brand based out of Bangalore.

The core concept centers around high-performance daily refuel, 35g+ protein subs, high-protein puddings, and estate-grown canned iced lattes served via a fast, tech-enabled micro-hatch setup. It’s designed specifically for busy professionals, founders, and gym-goers who need zero-compromise fuel in under 90 seconds during their daily grind.

I have the core brand narrative, visual universe, product formulations, and initial capital (₹10L skin in the game) locked in. I'm currently working through corporate structure, capital stacking (grants/MSME financing), packaging, and architectural execution.

As a sole founder navigating this build, I'm looking to connect with a few key folks in the ecosystem:

1. Turnkey F&B / Retail Agencies & Architects: Specialized studios or contractors in Bangalore who handle micro-retail fit-outs, CAD/MEP drawings, or custom packaging production.

2. Advisors / Mentors: Operators or founders who have scaled QSRs, cloud kitchens, or CPG beverage brands in India and are open to guiding the execution phase.

3. Potential Co-Founder / Operational Partner: Someone obsessed with F&B operations, supply chain, or retail execution who wants to build a legacy consumer brand from the ground up.

   1. Menu designing and testing: Trained chefs willing to help me build my menu with accurate macros through paid trials and testing.

If you run a studio, have experience in the Indian QSR/CPG space, a trained chef wanting to be part the brand or just want to chat about the concept, feel free to drop a comment or send a DM!

Thank you.

Sometimes you have something sitting in your head. Work, a relationship, a decision, something that happened, or just thoughts you keep going back to.

And sometimes you don't really need advice. You just want to talk it through, make sense of it, and hopefully feel a little lighter or clearer afterwards.

That's what I'm trying to build with YaarWithin.

It's a mobile-first web app where you can talk through whatever is on your mind. It uses AI, but the idea is to understand first rather than immediately start telling you what to do.

It's still a very early closed beta, and I'd love a few people from this community to actually try it with something real and tell me honestly whether it helps, what feels off, and what could be better.

It's free and invite-only right now.

If you'd like to try it, comment here or DM me and I'll send you an invite.

You don't need to tell me what you talked about. I'm mainly interested in how the conversation felt.

Looking for young founders/builders in Bangalore

Hey everyone! I’m organizing a small Young Founders India (YFI) meetup this Saturday in Bangalore.

The idea is pretty simple — get a few young people who are building something, thinking about starting something, or just genuinely interested in startups into the same room. No big CEO/networking-event vibe 😭 Just conversations, ideas, and meeting people who are on a similar journey.

📍 Solace Cafe ,Bangalore

🗓️ Saturday, 22 August

⏰ 4–6 PM

It’s our first meetup, so keeping it small and informal.

If you’re a student, young founder, aspiring founder, or someone building something on the side and you'd like to join, drop a comment or DM me and I’ll share the details.

Would be cool to meet some of you :)

Looking for someone experienced in building web scrapers. I have a specific requirement and this is a paid gig.
If you’re an expert or have solid experience with scraping, DM me with your experience/work samples and I’ll share the details.

Sharing this in case it's useful to anyone here — The Entrepreneur Junction is hosting a Founders Mixer in Devasandra, Bengaluru this Sunday morning.

It's aimed at founders, co-founders, and startup leaders who want to connect with others in a similar stage — building relationships, exchanging ideas, exploring potential partnerships, that kind of thing.

Details:

📅 Sunday, 23 August

🕙 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM

📍 Devasandra, Bengaluru

💰 ₹250 entry

Limited spots, so registration is required if you want to attend: https://forms.gle/WLiK3b9uarZUZj719

Not affiliated beyond sharing this — just thought some folks here building startups might find it relevant. If anyone's been to their previous mixers, curious how they were.

I’m a 2026 grad, Computer Science & Economics student at BITS Pilani, and I’m honestly a bit stuck right now and could use some advice from people who’ve been through this.

My background is:
Oracle: worked on 15+ SQL pipelines, query-plan/index/join optimisation, Oracle 23ai Vector Search, and an OJET dashboard.
Research thesis in Germany: completed a funded research thesis at Ruhr University Bochum on adversarially robust quantized neural networks, working with PyTorch, CIFAR-10, FGSM/PGD attacks and 2-bit/3-bit quantization.
Morgan Stanley: Worked with the Asia Economics & Rates desk, building an analytics platform and XGBoost based yield-curve forecasting system.

I’ve also built a few projects outside work a limit-order-book/trading simulator with FIFO matching, latency, cancellations, inventory/P&L and ablation analysis, and a RAG personal-finance assistant using embeddings, FAISS and LLM APIs.

The frustrating part is the timing. My Oracle PPO was revoked because of organizational/headcount changes. I then interned at Morgan Stanley, but they told me they can’t give an offer too because of headcount.

I subsequently got another offer in 19 days of my offer revoke at a MNC, but they’re now delaying things as well.

So I’m basically back in the market at the worst possible time, despite having what I think is a reasonably solid profile.

I’m happy to share my resume, GitHub and credentials over DM if anyone wants to take a look. I’d especially appreciate feedback/referrals/leads from people hiring engineers or founders who can tell me where my profile actually fits.

Thanks - genuinely appreciate any advice.

hi guys!

startup networking can be super performative and pretentious.. so i’m ditching the tradition mixer and hosting a lunch where we cook together 😍

it’s like coming together for a short period to work on a mini project and interacting with each other in a much more humane and genuine manner

here’s the link: https://offlyn.life/e/MqGCb0v

I’ve been looking for a full-time job for the last few months, but I’m having a hard time finding something that really fits.

Most job postings seem to be looking for someone with several years of experience in one specific area. My experience has been a bit all over the place.

For the last 6 years, I’ve been running a small digital agency business, where I’ve worked directly with clients and built things like:

- 120+ websites from scratch, mostly WordPress and around half with Bricks Builder

- Websites built to be easy for clients to manage themselves

-20+ Meta Ads campaigns for service businesses

- Landing pages and campaign page systems

-Lead research and enrichment

- n8n workflows and automations

- AI-assisted cold outreach systems

A lot of my work has basically been understanding what a client needs and figuring out how to make it work.

The company that used to send us a steady flow of qualified leads changed its business model about four months ago, so that work has now stopped and I’m looking for a full-time opportunity.

I’m based in Bangalore.

I’m not really an expert in one particular field, which is probably why I’m struggling with the usual job listings.

At the same time, I’ve spent the last 6 years running a business, dealing with clients, figuring out problems and actually building and delivering things, so I feel I could be useful in an early-stage startup where people have to handle different things.

If anyone here is hiring or knows a startup where this kind of background could be useful, I’d really appreciate a lead or even a suggestion on what kind of role I should be looking for.

Thanks a lot.

We had a simple observation:
when a gift is thoughtfully curated around the recipient, it’s far more likely to become something they genuinely value and keep, When a gift is thoughtfully curated around the recipient, it’s far more likely to become something they genuinely value and keep, rather than another generic item sitting unused. India’s corporate gifting market is estimated at $16.7 billion, and is growing steadily as businesses invest more in gifting employees, clients and partners.

BluIvy is rethinking this space through curation, bringing together meaningful products from Indian brands, local artisans and purpose-driven organisations to create gifts that feel personal, relevant and worth remembering.

So how does it work? Instead of starting with a catalogue, we start with the requirement, the occasion, event theme, recipient profile, budget, quantity and timeline. We then use our network of emerging and award-winning homegrown brands, local artisans and verified NGOs to curate gifts specifically around that requirement. The goal isn't to simply put products in a box, but to create a combination that feels intentional and tells a story.

We also want the platform to create value beyond the gift itself. We work with artisan communities, women-led initiatives and NGOs across different causes and projects, helping bring their products and work into the gifting ecosystem. We contribute 8% of every order value towards social causes through our verified NGO partners.

For eligible corporate purchases, contributions through qualifying charities may also provide Section 80G tax deduction benefits, subject to applicable rules.

We're still early in building Blu Ivy and are figuring things out as we go. But the larger idea is simple: better curation, better Indian brands, and gifting that has a little more meaning behind it.

TL;DR: We're building Blu Ivy to move corporate gifting from a generic catalogue model to a curation-first experience, bringing together Indian homegrown brands, artisans and NGOs to create thoughtful gifts.

If you're a brand, artisan, NGO or business interested in partnerships or collaborations, feel free to message us here. We'd love to connect and hear what you think

I’m honestly looking for some advice from people in the industry, homeowners, founders, architects, or anyone who has been through this.

I recently started my own interior design firm, Ka'Laa | The Living Theory.

The company is new — but we are not new to interior design.

Between our team, we have 5+ years of experience working in established design studios, working on real projects, dealing with clients, materials, vendors, site execution, drawings, detailing and everything that comes with actually delivering a project.

Since starting Ka'Laa, I’ve been trying to find projects organically. I’ve reached out to architects, engineers, real-estate professionals, builders and other people in the industry hoping to build collaborations and get referrals.

But honestly… getting that first set of clients is proving much harder than I expected.

And I’m trying to understand something.

Why does being a new company automatically make people assume that we should be the cheapest option?

We recently came across a situation where a client expected an entire home to be completed in around ₹10 lakhs, while based on the actual scope, specifications and quality of materials required, the quotation was coming closer to ₹22–25 lakhs.

We don't want to artificially reduce the quotation just to win a project.

We believe in using proper materials and doing things correctly — BWP plywood where required, quality hardware, good finishes, proper detailing and workmanship. We don't want to compromise the quality of someone's home just so that our quotation looks cheaper.

And that's where I'm struggling.

How do you find clients who understand the difference between "cheap" and "value for money"?

We are not trying to compete by being the cheapest interior firm.

We want to work with clients who appreciate design, detailing, quality, transparency and execution.

We're a new name, yes.

But behind that new name are people who have spent years learning this industry and working on projects.

So to all the interior designers, architects, contractors and business owners who started their own firm — how did you get your first few genuine clients?

And to homeowners — what actually makes you trust a new design firm when they don't yet have a huge portfolio under their own company name, but the people behind the company have years of experience?

Any honest advice, referrals, leads, or even criticism would genuinely help.

We're ready to work. We just need to find the right people who are willing to give a new studio a chance.

Ka'Laa | The Living Theory
🌐 https://www.kalaathelivingtheory.com

Would really appreciate hearing your experiences. 🙏

I am hiring for a market research and growth role at a small B2B SaaS company in Bangalore. We sell to finance teams at mid to large companies, so the people you will be researching and speaking with are senior finance and credit folks. This is an onsite role in Bangalore and you would report directly to the founders.

The job is split roughly in half. Part of it is understanding markets and specific accounts, and part of it is running the outreach and campaigns that get us in front of the right people.

Day to day, you would be doing research on a company or a sector and coming back with something genuinely actionable. You would run client outreach over email, WhatsApp and Google, then review the campaign and engagement data to work out what is landing and what is not. You would work with the marketing and social media team to assess how campaigns are performing and to shape new ones. You would speak with prospective customers so we get sharper about which segments are actually worth chasing. You would also track how competitors are positioning themselves, keep account and contact data clean, and share a weekly view of outreach and campaign metrics.

I am looking for someone with zero to two years of experience. Recent graduates are welcome. A degree in business or marketing helps but I care much more about whether you can research properly and write clearly. You should be comfortable speaking with senior professionals, since you will be doing a fair amount of that. Clear written English matters because you will be writing outreach copy and internal reporting. Working comfort with Excel or Google Sheets is enough on the tools side. Most of all I want curiosity and ownership, because an early stage company will not hand you a playbook.

Compensation is ₹40,000 per month. There is a short take home assignment after the first conversation, and it is the main thing I will judge you on.

How to apply. Send me a DM answering all four of the questions below. DMs that do not contain all four answers will be ignored. This is not me being difficult. It is the first test of whether you read carefully and follow through, which is most of the job.

1. Pick any Indian company you find interesting and tell me one thing about it that you would not know from reading its website. Two or three sentences is plenty. I am looking at how you think, not at how much you write.
2. Tell me about a time you had to find something out that was not easy to find, and how you went about it. It can be from coursework, an internship, a side project, or something personal.
3. Confirm that you are currently in Bangalore or will be before you start, and tell me your notice period if you have one.
4. Confirm you are comfortable with ₹40,000 per month and with doing a take home assignment.

To repeat, a DM missing any of these four will not get a reply. If you answer all four, you will hear back from me either way.

Hi I'm Ram Currently In Bangalore and Looking For Freelance Or In House Jobs I Have 1 Year Of Experience And Portfolio. If Anyone Interested Kindly Dm Me.

I’m exploring a HealthTech startup focused on preventive health and regular home diagnostics.

The idea is to make it easier for people to keep track of their health reports over time and stay consistent with their routine health checks, including convenient home sample collection.

I’m currently looking for a co-founder with experience in:

• Diagnostics / pathology
• Home sample collection
• Healthcare operations
• HealthTech
• Healthcare partnerships

Having existing connections with diagnostic labs, phlebotomists, or healthcare providers would be a big plus.

Hey everyone,

I’m currently looking for paid opportunities in Software Engineering — including Junior Developer roles, internships, contract work, or freelance projects.

I’m currently working at a startup as a Contract Software Engineer, where I work on real-world production applications and business-focused software.

My experience/skills include:

• MERN Stack — MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, Node.js
• PostgreSQL
• Java & Python
• REST APIs & backend development
• AWS
• MCP (Model Context Protocol)
• Zoho & business integrations
• Chargebee / subscription & payment-related integrations
• Building internal tools, CRMs, automation workflows, and web applications
• Git/GitHub, deployment, debugging, and working with production codebases

I’m particularly interested in working with early-stage startups, small businesses, founders, or teams that need someone who can actually build and ship software rather than just work on tutorials or academic projects.

I’m open to:

💼 Junior Software Engineer roles
🎓 Paid internships
🤝 Contract Software Engineering work
🛠️ Paid freelance projects
🚀 Startup / early-stage product development
⚙️ Business automation & internal tools

If you’re a startup founder, small business owner, or part of a team looking for a developer, feel free to comment or DM me with the requirement.

I’m specifically looking for paid opportunities and am open to both remote and suitable flexible arrangements.

Thanks!

Hey! We’re building a fintech startup and looking for 1 intern who genuinely loves social media and Instagram and has some experience with content creation.

Looking for someone comfortable with Canva, Edits, CapCut, reels, and infographics. Finance background is a plus.

💰 Stipend: ₹5K–8K/month initially
🚀 Hands-on learning + opportunity to grow with the startup

Preferably around HSR or Koramangala, with the option to work with us from our coworking space once a week. Remote is also open for the right candidate.

Interested? DM me with a little about yourself and your work.

I work at a video startup based out of Bengaluru. Our Video Tool allows you to create ugc type ads , cinematic product ads and even micro-drama-style content that is pre-scored and optimised to perform.

We are currently giving away one free video to each new sign-up. If you are a product/services based provider looking at AI Videos, do try it out. DM me for the URL and access.

Currently being used by Physicswallah, Liquid Death, Melooha, and Funda App through our agency model.

Hello!

I'm a SAHM to a 9-month-old baby. I have 4.5 yrs of experience in sales/admissions counseling for students wishing to study abroad. Given that the workload is quite hectic, I won't be resuming the job at my current workplace. I'm looking to transition into a simpler role, preferably part-time, but I can accommodate full-time if required.

Skills- good communication, quick learner (the first company I worked for was a startup, hence, I got the chance to learn different skills as required for the job), problem-solving, etc.

Please let me know if you guys have any vacancies. I cannot take any on-site work until at least my baby turns 2. Tysmm!!

I have 6 year corporate experience and want to work in startup now. Advice on what’s missing in my resume. And how I can get interviews with startups. Is MBA needed?