Founders on the Loose: An HSR Treasure Hunt
🗺️ Founders Treasure Hunt
Your mission begins here.
Clues. Chaos. Founders. One locked box.
Forget awkward networking.
On Saturday, August 8, HSR Layout becomes your game board.
Somewhere across the neighbourhood, clues are hidden. Challenges are waiting. A locked treasure box sits at the finish.
Your mission? Find it before everyone else.
Along the way you'll wander through Bengaluru's favourite streets, stop for filter coffee and dosa, crack puzzles, and meet founders the way they're meant to be met—while building, solving and laughing together.
🧭 Your Mission
Every team starts with one clue.
What happens after that is up to you.
Follow the trail across HSR.
Solve puzzles.
Complete unexpected challenges.
Submit proof to unlock your next clue.
Race from checkpoint to checkpoint until you reach the finish.
The first team to successfully complete every challenge takes home the Founder's Hamper (and, of course, eternal bragging rights).
👀 And yes...what's inside is worth racing for.
🗺️ Along the Trail
Every checkpoint is designed to make you experience Bengaluru a little differently.
🧩 Crack clues hidden across HSR
☕ Refuel with filter coffee, dosa and neighbourhood favourites
📍 Discover places you've probably walked past but never noticed
😂 Complete challenges that are just the right amount of ridiculous
🤝 Meet founders while solving problems together—not standing in a circle exchanging LinkedIn QRs
🔐 Collect every code needed to unlock the final treasure
👟 Who's Up for the Hunt?
This is for founders who'd rather explore than network.
Whether you're building your first company or your fifth, you'll leave with new connections, new stories, and probably a few inside jokes.
Flying solo? Perfect. We'll match you with a team.
Your packing list:
👟 Comfortable shoes
📱 A fully charged phone
🧠 Curiosity
🏆 A healthy competitive streak
📍 Mission Details
Saturday, August 8
8:00 AM – 10:30 AM
HSR Layout, Bengaluru (The exact starting point will be shared with confirmed participants).
Founders only
Limited spots
Official AI Partner
Sarvam AI – An Indian AI company building foundational language models and full-stack AI infrastructure designed for India's languages, developers, enterprises, and public-sector use cases.
Official Hamper Partners
Anthropic – An AI research and safety company behind Claude, building reliable, interpretable, and trustworthy AI systems used by millions of people and businesses worldwide.
Local Ferment Co. is on a mission to craft India's CLEANEST beverages with their range of Kombuchas, functional Soduhs & Ginger Ales. Made with 100% clean ingredients & zero preservatives, we're here to make insanely delicious beverages fun again!
Lyzr is the enterprise agent control plane — build with any framework, power with any LLM, deploy on any cloud, and govern it all centrally.
AEK Coffee is built on the idea of “Specialty Made Easy.” We serve carefully sourced coffees and handcrafted food in a space designed to make specialty coffee approachable, comfortable, and part of everyday life.
Clueso - Product videos in minutes with AI
UnboxingBLR is a collaborative platform that brings together citizens, creators, institutions and government to spotlight Bengaluru as a progressive, multicultural and constantly evolving city. Since 2023, the foundation has been rolling out initiatives that combine civic improvement, cultural programming and innovation storytelling to “unbox” Bengaluru for its residents and the world.
Harnidh Kaur – Entrepreneur, investor, and writer whose debut book, The Girls Are Not Fine, explores ambition, emotional labour, and the hidden pressures women navigate in work and life.
Bulbul Ki Bakery is a home-baking business started in 2020 by Bulbul, who's a coder by day and baker by night. She's largely self-taught through the internet, though she's also attended workshops at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris (2021) and sessions with renowned chefs in India. Her specialties include chocolate brownies, orange-lemon cake, banana bread, and a range of cookies and cakes — everything is made fresh-to-order with premium ingredients.
About the hosts
The AI Collective Bengaluru brings together founders, builders and operators through hands-on experiences and communities around AI and technology.
Agara Walks brings people together through walks, conversations and experiences rooted in Bengaluru's neighbourhoods.
⛺ Part of Basecamp
This event is part of Basecamp, a community-powered tech week in Bengaluru bringing founders, builders, and operators together. Basecamp is free for the community and powered by the community.
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