Our Resident's Impact
Our Alums are crushing it! By the time they leave, many have built teams, raised early capital, and shipped products that continue beyond the program.
Dheemanth Reddy
Co-Founder, Maya Research
Raised $1.9m in seed round from SPC
When I decided to move back to India, I was thinking where to stay I will realise that my tribe is in Residency and being there was such a great advantage and leverage.
Anindyadeep Sannigrahi
Founder, LiteFold
Building the Infrastructure for Drug Discovery
Raised a $100,000 pre-seed round
After joining the residency, me and my co-founder who also happens to be a resident here, accelerated ourselves to an extent, we launched 3 major features, and also secured our first customer / design partner.
Harish Ashok
co-founded markov ai (YC S26)
Merge Grantee
From cohort 7
I've spent some of the best weeks of my life here at Residency BLR
Ananda Sai
Founder, Matrix Bridge AI
Closed a $250k pre‑seed from Jeff Dean (Google AI).
I've gotten more things done here in the last two weeks, than I did in the last four months at home working by myself
Prithvi and Bharat
Co founders of Cinic.ai Raised a 1.8 cr angel round Cohort 7
The intros made here were truly helpful, residency was truly a mindset shift
Kiran and Kushagra
Founders, Kuki Solutions
raised an angel round and won the GENESIS Grant
I've bonded with my co-founder (best friend) in ways I didn't expect, and we've built a team that feels like family—all thanks to the connections we made during our time in Bangalore.
Abhinav Gupta
Co-Founder, Breethr
Building ACs of the future
The Residency house in blr where i have lived for 4 months now, completely transformed our journey. I expanded my team, sales got 10x and we raised our seed round.
Sai and Manan
Co founders of My perro got featured in Shark Tank and landed preorders worth over ₹10L. cohort 7 residents
the support which early stage founders get here is exceptional
Vikrant Patankar
Filmmaker, Kothari Fellow
Now working on HeyClicky with Farza
Getting into the residency helped me rediscover consistency in filmmaking and pushed me to build in public. Even as a non-technical person, being surrounded by ambitious people was deeply inspiring.
Sam
Sold his first startup at age of 15 while at Residency
I went from building an AI SaaS to building a hardware company. I love it
Emon and Devansh
Founders, Mindloop Inc
AI that handles your entire WhatsApp
The residency gave us a roof where we'd code the future of communication. It helped us get into the ecosystem, network with people (blr <> sf), make cool launch videos and raise our angel round right after the cohort. We were delta ch-II finalists.
Ash
Cohort 7 Got into f.inc working with Liquid AI, Sarvam, LAION AI, KAIST
I could truly feel the acceleration. I was just 17 when I joined residency and skipped my college. it was totally worth it
We've got more: 10+ residents got $250k+ in grants from Emergent Ventures, Merge Grants and others. 3 people from cohort 7 got into EF. Total money raised by the residency companies in India is over $5m. Total valuation of the residency companies worldwide is over $600m. We've had people from Canada, USA and Switzerland join us here in Bangalore for this program.
A common misconception is that we only look for people in tech, we do not. What we look for are people willing to take on hard problems, in any domain, with the agency to actually pursue them. You could be a creative, an artist, an engineer, a scientist, or a researcher. What matters is the seriousness with which you approach the work. Many residents come in with different skill sets and often end up collaborating across domains or working on entirely different problems during the cohort. We have seen this happen multiple times.
When in doubt, apply!, we are all winging it.