India On The Verge Of A Tech ‘Gold Rush’

The technology industry’s new Bay Area hub may be pretty far from San Francisco. The Bay of Bengal is shaping up to be the next hot startup market.

Highly skilled Indian tech workers — some unable to get U.S. work visas — are returning home from the United States or leaving Indian divisions of U.S. tech companies, eager to build their own companies in India. The country surpassed Japan as the world’s third-largest economy by a key measure this year.

India is now home to the four cities with the most tech workers on LinkedIn, according to a user study published in June by the career-focused social network. Bangalore — commonly known as the Silicon Valley of India — leads the way, followed by Pune, Hyderabad and Chennai.