Why Indore — and what it means for your career

The best talent in Central India still leaves for the metros. Here is the case for staying — told through what is actually happening in Indore right now.

Indore is quietly becoming a serious startup city

This is not wishful thinking. Indore recently hosted the BRICS Youth Entrepreneurship Working Group meeting. The TiE Global Summit 2026 — one of the world’s biggest entrepreneurship gatherings — comes to the city this December. Stanford Seed runs founder sessions here. Madhya Pradesh has declared 2027 its Year of Youth. Our co-founder Arti Gupta Agrawal, who sits in many of these rooms, puts it plainly: MP is going from a place people leave to a place people build in.

Anaxee is built into that ecosystem

We are a Stanford Seed company, and our leadership is active across the local network rather than off in a corner. Join Anaxee and you join a company plugged into the people building Central India — the mentors, the founders, the investors passing through. That proximity is hard to put a price on when you are early in your career.

And women build here

Arti chairs the TiE Women Program, which backs early-stage women founders across the state with mentorship, funding access and a global stage. The ecosystem she helps run is actively trying to get more women from here to build large companies, not just local ones. If that is the room you want to be in, it is being built in Indore.

Where work becomes more than work

After her last birthday, Arti wrote something that stuck with a lot of us.

That is not a line for a careers page — it is what a small, mission-driven team in one city actually feels like. The people you work with become part of your everyday life. You are not a badge number here.

So if you are weighing the metros

You can do work that reaches 540 districts, learn inside a national startup network, and still build it from home. That trade used to be impossible. In Indore, right now, it is not.