India, March 2 -- The founder of a strategy consulting firm has claimed that she convinced a client to move their headquarters from Kolkata to Bengaluru - a decision that increased the company's valuation by 50%. Piyu Dutta, the London-based founder of Anthropia, said that her client's Kolkata address was affecting the firm's valuation.

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Bengaluru, often dubbed the "Silicon Valley of India," has cemented its status as the nation's leading technology and startup ecosystem. It is the city that gave rise to success stories like Flipkart and Myntra. According to Asian Times, Bengaluru has over 67,000 registered IT companies and more than 7,500 startups.

"Convinced a...