Accelerating moonshot progress to push humanity forward 🚀 With ❤️ from Mangalore & Udupi
Mangalore, India
Joined June 2023
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If you are building something cool, apply to our Sprint.
🚀 Introducing the @TuluBuildFund Sprint (TBF Sprint)
We’re bringing together 100 innovators, builders, hackers, students, engineers, designers, and founders from Tulunadu and the global diaspora for a 30-day sprint focused on one thing:
BUILDING.
Over the course of one month, selected teams will go from:
💡 Idea → Prototype → Launch
The top 20 teams based on execution, progress, and momentum will move into the Tulunadu Builders Fund Accelerator.
We’re looking for:
- Builders obsessed with solving real problems
- Technical founders shipping products
- Students experimenting with bold ideas
- Hackers and innovators building the future
- Early-stage startups ready to move fast
You do not need a polished startup.
You do not need funding.
You do not need everything figured out.
You just need the willingness to build relentlessly.
Tulunadu has incredible talent across engineering, technology, design, and entrepreneurship. TBF exists to help unlock and accelerate that ecosystem, both within Tulunadu and across the diaspora.
Applications are now open.
Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Tulunadu Builders Fund retweeted
🚀 Introducing the @TuluBuildFund Sprint (TBF Sprint)
We’re bringing together 100 innovators, builders, hackers, students, engineers, designers, and founders from Tulunadu and the global diaspora for a 30-day sprint focused on one thing:
BUILDING.
Over the course of one month, selected teams will go from:
💡 Idea → Prototype → Launch
The top 20 teams based on execution, progress, and momentum will move into the Tulunadu Builders Fund Accelerator.
We’re looking for:
- Builders obsessed with solving real problems
- Technical founders shipping products
- Students experimenting with bold ideas
- Hackers and innovators building the future
- Early-stage startups ready to move fast
You do not need a polished startup.
You do not need funding.
You do not need everything figured out.
You just need the willingness to build relentlessly.
Tulunadu has incredible talent across engineering, technology, design, and entrepreneurship. TBF exists to help unlock and accelerate that ecosystem, both within Tulunadu and across the diaspora.
Applications are now open.
Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
🤖 Made with AI
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If you are a college student in Tulunadu building something cool, I want to support you and back you. I am looking to connect with college students in Tulunadu building in tech so if this happens to be you, please do reach out.
@TuluBuildFund
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Hey Sridhar, I am building @TuluBuildFund where we are building a VC/Accelerator for builders and hackers in Tulunadu and we be backing moonshot ideas. Running our first sprint and accelerator in May/June. If it goes good, I plan to do something on a national scale.
I was inspired by your tweets. I do believe we need ecosystem where we enable people in India to build whatever crazy idea they want and also allow people to solve important problems in the country.
Tulunadu Builders Fund retweeted
Big news.
For the next 3 months, My team and I are in Gurgaon working with @MastersUnion on something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time.
We’re building real-world applications on the Unitree G1 Humanoid Robot.
Not demos. Actual working prototypes.
Stay tuned. 👀
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My mission with @TuluBuildFund is to enable a culture in Tulunadu where anyone can build whatever they want and have access to capital, tools and every resource needed to bring their idea to life. It can be a normal app to a crazy moonshot. Being crazy will be normalized.
TBF is just a community for now however it is the beginning of a long term plan that I have. The accelerator that we will be running next month is an experiment where we want more folks from Tulunadu betting on themselves and building a v1 of their idea.
Tulunadu is known for its culture, hospitals, ice creams, seafood and even universities. We want to make Tulunadu a innovation hub.
Tulunadu Builders Fund retweeted
Just wrapped up an incredible showcase of our modular EV platform at Coastal Startup Fest 2026 by @AicNitte at Fiza byNexus Mall, Mangalore.
What surprised us most , people didn’t just look, they started asking where the showroom is, pricing, and when they can book. We had to remind them it’s still a prototype XD
Also saw strong interest from off-road enthusiasts wanting to use the electric pickup for trails, and some were even interested in the platform itself. That validated our platform-first approach.
Best moment was telling people this was built in Mangalore
The reactions made all the late nights worth it.
Big thanks to our team @aggukarkera.
We keep building. 🚀
@itssiliconbeach @startupindia @TiEMangaluru @TiEGlobal @akhileshb95 @rohithbhat @TuluBuildFund @fdotinc @Rainmatterin @nikhilkamathcio @Nithin0dha @nitin_gadkari @Startup_Kar @makeinindia
#EVIndia #EVStartup #MakeInIndia #StartupIndia #ElectricVehicles #Mangaluru #CoastalStartupFest2026
Normalize building crazy moonshot ideas here in Tulunadu. Experiment worh ideas and be okay with failing. The only way we move forward is when we focus on progress instead of perfection. And instead of doing it for status, we do it for the value it creates.
Tulunadu Builders Fund retweeted
This weeks update, just finished with the bonnet and front quarter panel molds along with the bed and rear quarter panels. Was a bit faster progress this time as the last couple of molds we built helped us streamline the process. Will be doing a test fit of all the molds this week and start with refining it to match our vehicle dimensions.
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Tulunadu Builders Fund retweeted
Weekly update on our electric pickup truck build. Just finished the truckbed fender molds. Had to place it vertically as it made it easier to build volume but it was a bit scary as well, as my buddy @aggukarkera had to use a ladder in order to make sure we had even spread, The buck was a bit flimsy as well and was literally hanging from the ceiling using some threads we had lying around ( like literal strings of fate from the ceiling 🤣). Now moving towards passenger compartment and bonnet.
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Here is a elevator pitch for @Flashmateshq in Tulu
Which is the most innovative university in Tulunadu? We are making a list of the best universities in Mangalore and Udupi based on the number research papers being published, startups being started and wins at hackathons.
Tulunadu Builders Fund retweeted
The greatest and biggest companies that will change the world in the coming decades will be coming out of Tulunadu. Mark my words, Tuluvas are going to change the world and I am going back them over at @TuluBuildFund.
Tulunadu Builders Fund retweeted
Krop AI are a smart AI managed container farm company Nurtured and invested in by angels from @TiEMangaluru and by @Rainmatterin
They have a strawberry test farm at their HQ near Udupi and two more strawberry farms on order as well as a leafy greens farm order in execution for @TheAvatarHotel1
They recently brought over a harvest of strawberries to The Avatar Hotel and we collaborated with @HangyoIceCream to put out some delicious winter desserts using these fabulous berries.
You can soon have access to the globally best varieties of Organic, consistent size colour and BRIX Strawberries with no season whatsoever growing in a little space in your own premises.
Innovations from Ooru are remarkable.
@akhileshb95 @rohithbhat @CaptBrijesh @dineshpaii @Nithin0dha #TieConMangaluru2026
If you are a founder/builder from Tulunadu building something cool, please do reply to this tweet about what you are building. We would love to support you in your journey and connect you with the right people in helping you build out your idea.
Tulunadu Builders Fund retweeted
Completed the work on door molds last week and started work on the pickup up truck bed along with @aggukarkera. So far doors have been the easiest to build due to the cross linked buck design. Hoping we can complete our truck bed work this week.
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