Forbes India – August 4, 2017

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NuMa

Church Street

Bengaluru

NUMA Bengaluru was one of

the first co-working spaces to

sprout in the city in its previous

avatar as Cobalt. Now a part of

the prestigious NUMA Paris,

with branches in eight cities

worldwide, it offers incubation

and acceleration programmes

to selected early-phase startups.

The co-working space is abuzz

with the previous seasons’

alumni networking furiously

amid the small companies

that work out of here.

Workbench projects

halasuru metro station

Bengaluru

When Anupama Gowda and

Pawan Kumar were trying to set up

NumberNagar, a math activity centre

in 2012, they had difficulty trying to

find space to prototype the project.

In 2014, they bid for an empty

cavernous space beneath under the

Halasuru metro flyover, and took it

on rent for six years from BMRC to

create a fabrication lab for tinkerers,

innovators and entrepreneurs.

Workbench Projects gives any

interested person access to a host

of machines, tools and co-working

facilities with Wi-Fi access, storage

(for personal belongings and

prototypes), and a funded, three-

month residency programme.

Gowda and Kumar are also using

the same space to host a team

of 20 to 30 members from six

institutions in helping Hyperloop

India build their Orcapod.

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