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Ecosystem Development · 2017

Talrop

A build, operate and transfer company creating the infrastructure, talent and companies a startup ecosystem needs.

Founded
2017
My role
Founder
Startup target
140
Base
Kochi, Kerala
Safeer at Talrop
The model

Build the ecosystem, operate it until it holds without us, then hand it over. Talrop is judged by what keeps running after we leave.

Talrop applies that model to ecosystems rather than products. Built with our capital and our engineers, operated until they hold, then handed to the government, university or corporate that will run them.

The problem

Kerala produces a very large number of graduates in IT-related fields every year, and a great many of them struggle to find a route into the industry. At the same time businesses across the world are looking for capable teams at reasonable cost. The gap between those two facts is where Talrop operates.

We do not ask students to drop out. We build the system inside the academic one, with most of our projects and infrastructure sitting on campuses, so that a degree and a working career stop being separate paths.

Four pillars
Education

Technology learning from school age, in the language students think in.

Technology

Products built in-house, then spun out as operating companies.

Jobs

Real project work routed to engineers who trained inside the system.

Entrepreneurship

Angel networks and a path for founders to start from Kerala.

Timeline
2009Left formal education after twelfth standard.
2010Joined an IT company on 1 May. The first day of the working life that replaced the classroom.
2011Started a web development company. First payroll, first clients, first real education.
2015Tegain founded, initially as a technology services company.
2017Talrop founded, with the goal of a startup ecosystem built from Kerala.
2021Steyp launched as a digital university platform for students.
2022Steyp raises ₹10 crore from 100 angel investors.
TodayVentures across ecosystem development, education, AI, capital, real estate and global delivery.
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