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Incorporated 1981; India's largest independent manufacturer of rear drive-axle assemblies, HQ & Mysuru unit-based. Supplies Ashok Leyland, Tata Motors, Volvo, BEML, Mahindra Navistar, SML Isuzu. NSE/BSE-list...
Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI)
Established 1950 in the Maharaja-donated Cheluvamba Palace; India's premier food-science R&D lab (CSIR). Food processing, preservation, packaging, safety; incubates food entrepreneurs and runs the M.Sc Food ...
DRDO
Established 1961; DRDO lab developing convenience/packed-ration and combat foods for the armed forces — India's leader in military convenience foods; recently developed ~45 space-food items for ISRO's Gagany...
Global Education Centre (corporate campus)
Infosys' 337-acre Mysuru campus houses the Global Education Centre (opened 2005), the WORLD'S LARGEST CORPORATE TRAINING facility — ~1.4M sq ft, 200+ classrooms, capacity to train 14,000+ freshers at once; h...
Mysuru Cluster
Karnataka Digital Economy Mission's Mysuru cluster under the 'Beyond Bengaluru' push and IT-BT Policy 2025-30. Targets IT-ITES, ESDM and cybersecurity growth (ESDM alone projected ~43,000 direct jobs over 5 ...
Mysore Silk Factory (Karnataka Silk Industries Corp.)
Founded 1912 by Maharaja Nalvadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar; handed to Karnataka's KSIC PSU in 1980. Only Indian unit doing the full silk cycle — reeling to weaving — under one roof; GI-tagged 'Mysore Silk' saris w...
Mysuru campus
Larsen & Toubro's engineering & LTTS ER&D delivery centre in Mysuru — embedded systems, automotive, industrial IoT, medical engineering. A major Mysuru IT/engineering employer alongside Infosys. NOTE: L&T/LT...
heritage tourism economy
Mysore Palace is among India's most-visited monuments and, with the 10-day Mysuru Dasara festival, anchors a large heritage-tourism economy (hospitality, crafts, transport, events). Tourism is one of Mysuru'...
Mysuru is synonymous with sandalwood — the GI 'Mysore Sandal Soap' & sandalwood-oil legacy, plus a large agarbatti (incense) and Cauvery-emporium handicraft/rosewood-inlay cluster. NOTE: the flagship maker K...
Sid Mookerji
Retail-focused IT & back-office services firm. Mysuru-native founder Sid Mookerji built the delivery operation in his home city ('I always knew I'd do it in Mysore'), though the parent was US-registered (Atl...
education belt
University of Mysore (1916, Manasagangotri) plus JSS Science & Technology University (rooted in SJCE, est. 1963) and The National Institute of Engineering (NIE, 1946) form Mysuru's talent pipeline. SJCE-STEP...
Mysuru operations (IT + Wipro Lighting/Consumer)
Wipro runs IT delivery operations near the Infosys/L&T Hebbal belt and has consumer/lighting manufacturing links in the region. Adds to Mysuru's IT-delivery cluster. NOTE: Bengaluru-HQ'd — Mysuru is a satell...
Angel-investor arm of TiE Mysuru, formed to fund ideas from the Mysuru region. Enables local founders to pitch to member angels (e.g. at TiECON pitch rooms). One of the few home-grown angel channels in the city, though early-stage and th...
A Mysuru angel network operated by StartupLanes. Provides business-plan feedback, funding, mentoring, angel/professional networking and incubation space, with monthly investor meetings where startups present proposals. A private-platform...
One of India's oldest STEPs, established in 1985 at the JSS Technical Institutions campus with support from DST (Govt. of India), Govt. of Karnataka and IDBI. Over three-plus decades it has promoted 150+ entrepreneurs. Focus areas span d...
Startup and incubation arm of NIE (est. 1946), one of India's oldest engineering colleges with 35,000+ alumni. Supports student entrepreneurs with mentorship, funding, and infrastructure across 9 thrust areas, bridging academic research ...
The University of Mysore's Career Hub houses an Incubation Centre offering structured mentoring, networking, business-idea validation and seed funding for select ideas, plus a Design Hub with prototyping facilities. A state Coding Academ...
CFTRI (est. 1950, under CSIR) is India's premier food-tech research institute and hosts multiple food/biotech incubation platforms. The BIRAC-BioNEST incubation centre (inaugurated Apr 2026) supports food/biotech startups in nutraceutica...
NIE's Innovation, Incubation & Startup Centre bridges academic research and entrepreneurship, supporting student and early founders with mentorship, funding, infrastructure and an IPR cell (an incubation centre was inaugurated at NIE-IT)...
A specialised NIE centre doing applied/pioneering work in renewable microgrids, bio-gasification, BioCNG, biodiesel, rainwater harvesting and WASH. It signed an MoU (with NxtLeap, Bengaluru) to commercialise in-house research and boost c...
A DST-funded technology business incubator (NIDHI-iTBI scheme) inaugurated Nov 2024 with a ~Rs 3.75 crore central grant. Housed in a ~9,000 sq ft facility (Maker's Lab) with capacity for 30 startups, focused on Food Processing, Agro Proc...
Technology Business Incubation department at VVCE (an autonomous engineering college, est. 1997). Provides free incubation space and industry mentoring for student/early ventures. Institutional, student-facing incubator; depth is modest ...
The Innovation Incubation Centre at ATME College of Engineering (est. 2010, NAAC A+). Supports student entrepreneurs in converting ideas into revenue-generating companies; reported early student-startup conversions in 2023-24. Student-fa...
A New Age Incubation Network (NAIN, now branded District Innovation Hub) established 2017-18 at SBRR Mahajana First Grade College under the Karnataka startup policy. Nurtures student/scholar/alumni ideas with mentoring and state project ...
Branded as Mysore's first coworking junction, with multiple hubs including V2 Hub (Saraswathipuram, cabins + shared desks) and a Cohabitat hub in Jayalakshmipuram. Serves freelancers, remote workers and early startups in the western/acad...
A multi-location Mysuru coworking operator (Landmark Hub, Midway Hub, Navarang Hub) concentrated around Vishwamanava Double Road and Kuvempunagar. Offers open desks, cabins and meeting rooms for startups and small teams.
A central-Mysuru coworking space on the fourth floor of Mall of Mysore, seating ~85 with views of the Mysuru Golf Course and Chamundi Hills. Located on the MG Road commercial spine, convenient for startups and remote teams.
eChai maintains an auto-generated 'Explore Mysore's Startup Scene' landing page, but Mysore is NOT a listed eChai chapter city and no dated meetups, local hosts, or featured Mysuru founders appear. Represents an aspirational/nascent foot...
TiE India's 23rd chapter, launched Aug 2018. ~150 members. Runs monthly meetings, TiECON Mysuru, TiE Top Entrepreneur Awards, TiE U (college accelerator), TYE (young entrepreneurs), and University Pitchfests. Has mentored 60+ startups an...
Bengaluru-based CEDAT runs a nexus of startup meetups, pitch nights and community meets and occasionally hosts Mysore editions (e.g., Startup Founders Meetup by CEDAT Nexus, listed on Eventbrite). The closest analog to eChai's informal f...
KDEM's flagship Beyond Bengaluru cluster event, 5th edition, at the Infosys Mysuru campus on 23 Jul 2026. Sessions span policy, AI, cybersecurity, GCC, ESDM/electronics, startup ecosystem and talent. KDEM unveiled its 'Spoke-Shore' GCC s...
Prior edition, theme 'Believe | Invest | Grow'. 80+ startups, 60 innovation booths, 1,100+ delegates from six countries. Set the $10B-by-2030 digital-economy goal; top Mysuru BLUE 2025 startups (Swayam Analytics, Meladath Auto Components...
Three-day TiE Mysuru flagship (17-19 Apr 2026). 50+ early/growth startups showcased, 20+ investors/VCs (Nuvama, Chiratae, Motilal Oswal, Ideaspring, PeerCapital, BugleRock), 100+ speakers incl. Zoho CEO Sridhar/Kumar Vembu and IT Ministe...
CSIR-CFTRI + NSIC roadshow bringing 150+ stakeholders together to connect food/allied-processing technologies with MSMEs, entrepreneurs and industry. Anchors Mysuru's food-tech entrepreneurship niche.
Informal 'chill and meaningful' founder/co-founder/MSME gathering run by Bengaluru-based CEDAT, with Mysore editions surfacing on Eventbrite. Small (20-150), free-to-low-cost, real-talk format — the nearest existing parallel to an eChai ...
Co-founder, Excelsoft Technologies
Co-founder (with Dhananjaya Sudhanva) of Excelsoft Technologies, Mysuru's flagship edtech/assessment SaaS firm founded in 2000, which listed publicly in November 2025. One of the most substantive verified wo...
Co-promoter, Kaynes Technology
Co-promoter (with husband Ramesh Kunhikannan) of Kaynes Technology, the Mysuru-HQ'd integrated electronics/ESDM manufacturer that IPO'd on NSE/BSE in November 2022 and has become one of the city's most valua...
Women In Small Enterprise (Mysore Chamber of Commerce & Industry Women's Wing)
The genuinely Mysuru-local women-entrepreneur body — the women's wing (WISE) of the Mysuru Chamber of Commerce & Industry. Runs Women Entrepreneurship Development Programmes and exhibitions, and hosts visiti...
State-level women-entrepreneur infrastructure that Mysuru founders plug into. AWAKE (Association of Women Entrepreneurs of Karnataka, est. 1983, 1,200+ members) offers counselling, training and mentorship; W...
Mysuru's flagship technology belt, on the NH-275 corridor north of the city and one of the KIADB industrial areas around it. Infosys runs its Global Education Centre here on a 337 acre campus, the largest corporate training facility in the world, with capacity for more than 14,000 trainees at once, and L&T Technology Services and Wipro run delivery operations on the same stretch. Two of the city's own companies, Excelsoft and Skanray, also sit on this belt.
6 companies
Strong in IT/ITES, SaaS
A KIADB manufacturing and engineering belt north west of the city, dense with precision machining, components and food processing units. Automotive Axles, the listed maker of rear drive axle assemblies that supplies Ashok Leyland, Tata Motors and Volvo, has its plant here, and aerospace, defence and electronics vendors have set up alongside. It is an industrial locality rather than a software one.
2 companies
Strong in Automotive, Manufacturing
The corridor running north out of the city along KRS Road, from CFTRI at the city end to the KIADB estate and the dedicated food industrial estate at Metagalli. Kaynes Technology, the electronics manufacturer that listed in 2022, runs plants here alongside bakeries and food processing units. The GSSS technology business incubator, funded by the Department of Science and Technology in 2024, is on the same road at Metagalli.
3 companies 4 coworking
Strong in Foodtech, agritech
Answers about the Mysuru startup scene
What does the startup ecosystem in Mysuru look like?
It is an industrial and research ecosystem more than a venture backed one. IT services and SaaS lead by company count, but the city's distinction is hardware, with Kaynes Technology in electronics manufacturing and a medical devices cluster around Skanray and S3V Vascular. Underneath sit CFTRI and the defence food laboratory, which give Mysuru a food science bench few cities its size have. Most of the smaller companies here are bootstrapped or early stage. The companies list above shows who is building what, filterable by vertical.
Why is Mysuru called Karnataka's second IT hub?
Because of the Hebbal belt north of the city. Infosys runs its Global Education Centre there on a 337 acre campus, the largest corporate training facility in the world, with more than a million engineers trained on it, and L&T Technology Services, Wipro and Theorem run delivery operations nearby. Mysuru is second in the state for software exports, at roughly Rs 5,700 crore in FY2023-24. Worth knowing that these are campuses of companies headquartered elsewhere, not Mysuru firms.
Which companies from Mysuru have listed publicly?
Kaynes Technology, the electronics manufacturer promoted by Ramesh Kunhikannan and Savitha Ramesh, raised about Rs 858 crore in its IPO in November 2022 and has since moved into semiconductors. Excelsoft Technologies, founded in 2000 and the city's first software company, listed in November 2025. Automotive Axles, incorporated in 1981, has been listed far longer.
What is CFTRI, and what does it mean for founders here?
The Central Food Technological Research Institute, a CSIR laboratory set up in 1950 in the Cheluvamba Mansion on KRS Road, and India's principal food science research body. For founders it is the incubation stack around it. Its BioNEST centre, backed by BIRAC, has supported 26 startups across nutraceuticals, precision fermentation, probiotics and botanicals with 12 patents filed, and a Nutra-Phyto incubation centre has run since 2016 alongside a food business accelerator. The Defence Food Research Laboratory, a DRDO lab at Siddharthanagar working on combat rations and space food, sits in the same city.
Which incubators and coworking spaces are in Mysuru?
SJCE-STEP on the JSS campus is the oldest, established in 1985 with support from the Department of Science and Technology, and has backed more than 150 ventures; its focus now runs to electric mobility, IoT, robotics and drones. CFTRI covers food and biotech, and the GSSS technology business incubator opened in 2024 with a central grant of about Rs 3.75 crore and space for 30 startups in food, agro processing and healthcare. NIE, VVCE, ATME and the University of Mysore run student facing incubators. Coworking is local rather than national brand, and the spaces are listed below.
Are there investors and VCs in Mysuru?
This is the thinnest part of the ecosystem. No venture fund is headquartered in the city. The local channels are the angel arm of TiE Mysuru and the Mysore Angels network run by StartupLanes, both early stage and modest in deal volume, alongside the investor connects that the Karnataka Digital Economy Mission runs through its Beyond Bengaluru programme. Most rounds are raised in Bengaluru, about 150 km away. The investors section below lists what is active locally.
Where do founders network in Mysuru?
TiE Mysuru is the most active body, launched in August 2018 as TiE India's 23rd chapter with around 150 members, running monthly sessions and the three day TiECON Mysuru in Vijayanagar. The Karnataka Digital Economy Mission runs the Mysuru Big Tech Show at the Infosys campus through its Beyond Bengaluru programme, and CFTRI runs a Tech Connect roadshow for food processing. The free, informal founder meetup layer is thin, and what exists is largely organised from Bengaluru. The communities section below lists them.
Does eChai run events in Mysuru?
No. eChai has no Mysuru chapter and has not run events here, so this page is a map of the city's ecosystem rather than an events page. If you are building in Mysuru and want to help start free, open founder meetups in the city, get in touch. eChai is free and open wherever it runs, with no application or membership fee.
Want to help launch eChai Mysuru?
eChai does not run a chapter in Mysuru yet. If you are a founder or community builder who wants to convene the first free, open eChai meetup here, get in touch. TiE Mysuru, the city's chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs and the most active founder network here today, is a natural partner for a launch. No membership, no fee.
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