The people who make this real.
LocalNetwork is its members. We don't have a content team or a marketing budget - we have ~1,400 people across six cities who show up, ship things, and tell other people about it.
Six cities, one network
01 · Who's here
Eight kinds of people. One conversation.
Builders
Engineers shipping at scale or solo.
Designers
Product, brand, type, motion.
Founders
Pre-seed to Series B, mostly.
Researchers
Universities, labs, AI residencies.
Operators
Heads of growth, ops, finance.
Students
Undergrads who already ship.
Writers
Essayists, journalists, doc-makers.
Investors
Angel, scout, fund - the curious ones.
02 · Featured members
A handful of voices.
Aanya Mehra
Co-founder, Sift AI
Building developer tools that don't get in the way. Three exits, one current company.
@aanya
Rohan Iyer
Principal Eng, Razorpay
Distributed systems, payment rails, and the unglamorous infrastructure most of India runs on.
@rohan_i
Imani Johar
Designer, Fold
Design without apology. Spent five years convincing founders that taste compounds.
@imani
Karthik B.
Founder, Floc Labs
Second-time founder. First company sold to a name you'd recognise; he doesn't bring it up.
@karthik
Devika Suresh
PM, Linear (India)
One of the first PMs Linear hired in India. Quietly opinionated about product writing.
@devika
Pallavi N.
Founder, Niqo Robotics
Hardware founder in a SaaS-default ecosystem. Building robotics for Indian agriculture.
@pallavi
Vivek Aithal
Founder, FrappeCloud
Running an OSS company from India, profitably, since 2018. Still surprised it works.
@vivek
Sahil Kapadia
Researcher, AI4Bharat
Indic-language NLP, multilingual evals, and the politics of building AI for non-English India.
@sahil
03 · In their words
"Finally a community in India that doesn't feel like a sponsored event. I leave every event with three follow-up calls scheduled."
Aanya Mehra
Co-founder, Sift AI
"Build Night is the only place I've found where I can sit next to a Razorpay engineer and a college junior and they're both shipping the same evening."
Karthik B.
Founder, Floc Labs
"The episodes alone changed how I think about Indian product writing. The events are a bonus."
Devika Suresh
PM, Linear (India)
04 · Partners
The orgs that make rooms possible.
We do take sponsor briefs, and we do partner - for venues, research access, and city-by-city operations. None of these relationships shape our editorial.
BHIVE Workspace
Venue partner
91springboard
Venue partner
T-Hub
Venue partner
Cars24 Engineering
Community partner
Razorpay
Community partner
Antler India
Community partner
AI4Bharat
Research partner
FoundersClub
Community partner
The door's open.
No application, no tier, no tax. Drop your name and we'll add you to the network - first event in your city, you'll hear from us.