தமிழ்preneur — a mission to create 1,00,000 Entrepreneurs in Tamilnadu by 2025.

#1 Community for தமிழ் 🎙️speaking entrepreneurs across the Globe 🌎

1200+

Members

65+

Events

₹25,000 Cr.

Combined valuation

2000+

Participants

The Founding Story

As per the NASSCOM State Startup Report 2019, Tamilnadu was not even in top 20 in the rankings.

Inspired by an interaction with a sugarcane juice seller, our founder Shyam realized that by assisting budding entrepreneurs with awareness, motivation and capital, we would be able to bring more entrepreneurs from Tamilnadu.

The journey of tapping the regional talent, helping them succeed and bringing 1 Lakh Tamil speaking entrepreneurs began. Tamil + Entrepreneur - Tamilpreneur.

We humbly began as an Instagram page to create awareness about startups and its scalability potential. We started interviewing Tamil speaking seasoned entrepreneurs, brought them into the limelight, shared their lessons and success stories. This inspired thousands of people to get into entrepreneurship.

Today Tamilnadu ranks in Top 10 in the State Startup Ranking. We are proud to have a played a pivotal role in making this happen

Meet Shyam, Founder & CEO and Praveen, Co-founder and CMO of Tamilpreneur.
2019
Mar: Instagram page covering Startup news in Tamil
Oct: Tamilpreneur Podcast interviewing founders
2020
Mar: 1000 followers on Instagram
Apr: Podcast Listener base in 50+ countries
2021
Apr: 5000 followers on Instagram
July: Listener base in 100+ countries
Aug: TP Fellowship Program
Dec: Launch of Tamilpreneur Club at ₹999/year
2022
Jan: 100 Signups for Tamilpreneur Club
Mar: First offline event with 60 members.
Apr: 10,000 followers on Instagram
Jul: Recognition form Govt. of Tamilnadu.
Nov: 1000 signups for Tamilpreneur Club
Dec: Grand Sangamam with 600 members.
2023
May: Launch of Trusted Partner program
June: Launch of club+
Sep: 2000+ club members
Oct: 100+ online and offline events
2019
- March: Instagram page covering Startup news in Tamil

- October: Tamilpreneur Podcast interviewing founders
2020
- March: 1000 followers on Instagram

- April: Podcast Listener base in 50+ countries
2021
- March: 1000 followers on Instagram

- April: Podcast Listener base in 50+ countries
2022
- April: 5000 followers on Instagram

- July: Listener base in 100+ countries

- August: TP Fellowship Program

- December: Launch of Tamilpreneur Club at ₹999/year
2023
- May: Launch of Trusted Partner program

- June: Launch of club+

- September: 2000+ club members

- October: 100+ online and offline events

Our Vision for Tamilprenuer

15 years from now, you are sipping your coffee alongside with your mother and your son. Your son reads the newspaper, folds it and says "Appa, I want to start my own venture and solve this problem. What should I do next?"

"You should check out Tamilpreneur" your mother's voice and your voice speaks in unison. You look back at your mother and smile gently.

This is our vision for Tamilpreneur. When someone mentions the word Entrepreneurship inside your home or, outside in a dinner, or any form of interaction where two people talk about Startups,

Tamilpreneur will be there.

Our Vision for Tamilnadu

In the 20th Century, When there was a War, each family sent atleast one person to the battleground fighting for the nation.

Entrepreneurs are the new age freedom fighters.

For Tamilnadu, we would like to see one entrepreneur in each family.

All of us don't have to build a Billion dollar startup or a unicorn. Out of 8 Crore people in Tamilnadu, consider just 1000 startups which are worth $100 Million. This itself would contribute 10% to Trillion dollar GDP of the state.

Think of the magnitude of impact it can have on the employment opportunities, problem solving and overall growth of the economy.

That's what we envision for TamilNadu

Our Team

Shyam Siddarth
Founder
Praveen Krishna
Co-Founder

Our Advisors

Srinath Ramakrishnan
Founder & CEO, Facilio Inc.
Srinath Ramakrishnan
Founder & CEO, Facilio Inc.
Srinath Ramakrishnan
Founder & CEO, Facilio Inc.
Srinath Ramakrishnan
Founder & CEO, Facilio Inc.

Our Partners

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