To encourage new start-ups and handhold existing ones, the city will soon see cafes exclusively for entrepreneurs.

Modeled around the lounge concept, the 1,000-1,500 sqft cafes will have consultants and advisers giving pep talks to budding enterprises.

There will thus be a place where business ideas can get nurtured and incubated, strategies chalked out, and entrepreneurs can get services that help in incorporating their businesses like company registration, account opening, trademark registration and addressing of various legal modalities.

Start-ups can also get assistance in finding cheap office spaces, access to funding, loans and various softwares.

Bangalore is often touted as the start-up capital in India, with anywhere between 1,000-1,200 new ventures shaping up every year across verticals like clean technology, food, education, healthcare, micro-finance, transport, mobile and cloud technology.

“Entrepreneurs planning to start on their own can just walk in to the cafes, meet mentors and advisers and seek their inputs on putting together or steering ahead an enterprise,” says Gaurav Marya, chairman of Franchise India, which is planning to start five cafes in the city in the next few months.

The cafes would also have daily sessions where entrepreneurs can network with mentors and consultants over breakfast or lunch and chop off their teething troubles.

Entrepreneurs say hand-holding support is essential for new ventures as they often have to run from pillar-to-post to set things up.

“It proves expensive to find a decent place to put up the first office, get high bandwidth internet connection and infrastructure like audio-video conferencing facility, etc,” says Phanindra Sama, CEO of Domlur based start-up redBus.

Start-ups in the city have time and again emphasised on the need for centres, a la Silicon Valley, where they can avail of common infrastructure like audio-video facility, software and have access to lawyers, chartered accountants and advisers.

Recently, the IT industry body Nasscom, as part of its 10,000 start-up programme, announced starting a warehouse in the city where technology start-ups can start their operations. The warehouse will provide them with a 150-seat facility apart from necessary software and infrastructure that is needed to commence early operations.