Pune Tech

Since coming back to Pune, I have been trying to get a hang of the tech scene in Pune. From the campus recruitments at IITB, my view is that Pune has a good tech ecology developing. We have had some startups working on exciting products coming to the campus. This just seems to be the right time to be in Pune.

Last week, I attended the monthly meet of the Pune Open Coffee Club (POCC). POCC is a group which seeks to promote startups, provide a platform for people with ideas to meet, seek advice, get in touch with VC, etc. and be noticed. Last week's meet was a good experience. There was a panel discussion on bootstrapping of startups with Anand Soman, Tarun Malaviya, and Shridhar Shukla and a showcase of a new startup in Pune. You can find a liveblog of the proceedings here.

A very useful resource to keep track of the tech scene in Pune is punetech.com. On the wiki, you can find links to various companies based in Pune and interest groups like the Pune Google Technology Users group. There is also a calendar, which lists all the tech events scheduled in and around Pune. All this is ofcourse community edited, so its for us techies in Pune to build on this initiative.