Forbes India – August 4, 2017

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dialogues Café
Koramangala
Bengaluru
It looks charming enough to evoke
visions of a laid-back and leafy
Bengaluru, with cane chairs and
hammocks. Dialogues Café was
started by four friends who came
together after quitting their jobs
in different parts of the world in

2016. “The café was born out of a
      personal need,” says co-founder
      Ankit Gupta, as they found most
      co-working spaces too formal and
      cramped. “We took ideas from
      cafés and co-working spaces and
      combined them.” You are charged
      for the time you spend at the café,
      while F&B, Wi-Fi and board games
      are free. “We believe everyone is
      an entrepreneur, so why limit you
      to a dedicated seat?” says Gupta.

the hive

Vr Bengaluru

Whitefield, Bengaluru

When Virtuous Retail set out to

“build new age community spaces to

provide social infrastructure at cost-

competitive rates”, they intended it

to be the size of a mall with retail,

F&B and entertainment. And it is no

less. For a fee of `10,000 a month,

you have access to a dedicated desk

at the co-working space running

across three floors, and also to the

sky deck with a swimming pool,

a fitness centre and a rooftop bar.

Then there are serviced apartments

on each floor—for which members

get discounted rates—besides

restaurants and a cinema theatre.

The likes of Airbus and iD Fresh

Foods work out of The Hive’s units.

Construkt

Startup hostel

Indiranagar

Bengaluru

Shashikiran Rao and Karan

Bahadur—they worked at The

Indus Entrepreneurs, a non-profit

fostering entrepreneurship in

Bengaluru, and founded Startup

Festival in 2013—founded Construkt

Startup Hostel in May 2016, with

20 beds and a self-catered kitchen

Says Bahadur, “A lot of people come

here for two weeks to three months.

We help them connect with other

KoRamangala startups and angel investors.”

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