Who to follow in Bangalore tech

Krish Naik

Chief ML Engineer, iNeuron · AI Educator

One of India's most-watched AI/ML educators, Krish Naik demystifies machine learning, deep learning and GenAI on YouTube with over a million subscribers. His hands-on tutorials from data wrangling to LLM fine-tuning are a go-to for practitioners in Bangalore and beyond.

Piyush Garg

Founder, Teachyst · AI Builder

Piyush Garg builds and ships AI-native products in public, sharing engineering decisions around LLM integrations, RAG pipelines and agentic systems. His honest build-log threads are a must-follow for anyone building with AI in India.

Swami Sivasubramanian

VP of AI & Data, Amazon Web Services

As the executive driving AWS's AI and data strategy, Swami's posts on foundation models, responsible AI and cloud-native ML resonate deeply with Bangalore's large AWS community. He regularly engages with Indian builders and startups on applied AI.

Ankur Warikoo

Entrepreneur · Author · Content Creator

Ankur Warikoo weaves AI productivity, personal finance and startup candour into content that reaches millions of young Indians. His experiments with AI tools in daily life make his feed unusually practical for builders curious about real-world adoption.

Arpit Bhayani

Engineer · System Design Educator

Arpit Bhayani runs 'Arpit's System Design Masterclass' and publishes deeply researched articles on databases, distributed systems and backend engineering. His newsletter and Twitter threads on internals of Redis, Kafka and Postgres are required reading for Bangalore backend engineers.

Suresh Natarajan

Principal Engineer · OSS Contributor

A long-standing voice in India's PostgreSQL and open-source database community, Suresh shares sharp takes on query optimisation, data modelling and production database war stories from his years at scale.

Rahul Shivshankar

VP Engineering, Hasura

Working from Bangalore at Hasura—whose GraphQL engine is used by thousands of engineering teams—Rahul posts incisive takes on API architecture, data access layers and developer experience at the database boundary.

Nithin Kamath

Co-founder & CEO, Zerodha

Nithin Kamath built Zerodha into India's largest retail stockbroker without a rupee of VC funding—making him a canonical reference for bootstrapped, profitable tech building. His candid threads on fintech regulation, personal health and company culture are followed by every serious founder in Bangalore.

Girish Mathrubootham

Founder & Executive Chairman, Freshworks

Girish took Freshworks from a Trichy garage to a Nasdaq IPO—one of India's most celebrated SaaS journeys—and continues to mentor the next wave of B2B SaaS founders from Chennai and Bangalore. His posts on product velocity, customer obsession and founder mental health are frank and widely shared.

Kunal Shah

Founder, CRED · Angel Investor

Kunal Shah is one of India's most quotable thinkers on consumer psychology, trust and long-term business models—coining frameworks like 'delta 4' that have reshaped how Bangalore founders think about product. His late-night Twitter threads on wealth creation and civilisational design attract founders, VCs and philosophers alike.

Deepinder Goyal

Co-founder & CEO, Zomato / Blinkit

Deepinder Goyal leads Zomato—India's listed food-tech and quick-commerce giant—and is one of the most followed consumer-tech founders on social media. His public letters and posts on quick commerce, team culture and sustainable growth set the tone for consumer-internet discourse.

NASSCOM 10,000 Startups

India's Largest Startup Initiative

NASSCOM's flagship startup programme has incubated thousands of tech ventures and runs accelerators, hackathons and industry connects across Bangalore. Follow for programme calls, pitch events and ecosystem news relevant to every early-stage Bangalore founder.

Axilor Ventures

Bangalore-based Accelerator & Seed Fund

Co-founded by Infosys veterans Kris Gopalakrishnan and S.D. Shibulal, Axilor runs one of Bangalore's most rigorous early-stage acceleration programmes focused on deep tech, healthtech and SaaS. Their cohort announcements and founder spotlights are signals of what's building in the city.

NSRCEL, IIM Bangalore

Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women · Startup Incubator

NSRCEL at IIMB is one of India's oldest and most respected startup incubators, hosting programmes for women entrepreneurs, social startups and deep-tech ventures right in the heart of Bangalore's knowledge corridor. Follow for cohort calls and ecosystem programming.

Mohandas Pai

Chairman, Manipal Global Education · Angel & VC

Former CFO of Infosys and one of Bangalore's most prolific angel investors, Mohandas Pai has backed hundreds of startups and is a fixture in every major policy, education and startup debate in Karnataka. His outspoken takes on regulation, talent and Bangalore's infrastructure are closely followed.

Sanjay Mehta

Founder, 100X.VC

Sanjay Mehta built 100X.VC into a pioneer of SAFE-based early-stage investing in India, writing smaller cheques into more startups than almost anyone else in the ecosystem. His posts on first-cheque investing, founder resilience and the realities of Indian startup exits are unusually honest.

Anupam Mittal

Founder, Shaadi.com · Shark Tank India Judge

Anupam Mittal blends sharp startup critique with genuine mentorship—his Shark Tank India appearances and Twitter feed have made him one of the most accessible angel investor voices for first-time founders across India, including Bangalore's vibrant consumer startup scene.

Prashanth Prakash

Partner, Accel India

Prashanth Prakash has been backing Bangalore's best founders through Accel India since the early days—investors in Flipkart, Swiggy and Freshworks. His perspective on what makes Indian SaaS and consumer companies fundable is essential reading for founders seeking Series A capital.

Karthik Reddy

Co-founder & Managing Partner, Blume Ventures

Karthik Reddy co-founded Blume Ventures, the Bangalore-headquartered fund that has become the reference point for seed and pre-Series A investing in Indian deep tech and SaaS. His posts on fund construction, portfolio support and the Indian startup ecosystem are measured and widely cited.

Vani Kola

Founder & Managing Director, Kalaari Capital

Vani Kola is one of India's most prominent VCs and a champion of women in technology, backing category-defining companies including Snapdeal, Dream11 and Urban Ladder from Bangalore. Her advocacy for Indian entrepreneurship and AI adoption makes her feed a strategic read.

Siddhant Varma

Senior Engineer, Meta · OSS Maintainer

Siddhant Varma is a Bangalore-based engineer at Meta and a core contributor to the React Native and JavaScript OSS ecosystem. His deep-dive threads on compiler internals, toolchain trade-offs and developer experience are influential across India's frontend community.

Hatem Buiyan

DevRel Engineer · Community Builder

An active voice in Bangalore's developer relations and cloud-native community, Hatem shares practical content on Kubernetes, observability and developer advocacy that resonates with engineers across the city's large startup-to-enterprise spectrum.

Shruti Kapoor

Senior Software Engineer, Slack · JavaScript Educator

Shruti Kapoor is a Bangalore-origin engineer at Slack and one of India's most-respected JavaScript educators on Twitter, known for clear explanations of ES features and web platform internals. Her posts consistently trend among Indian developers looking to deepen their frontend fundamentals.