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Expatskey helps Indians living abroad find their community, get settled in a new country, and look after the things that still matter back home in India, all in one place. It's built by people who have made the same move.
Built by Indian expats for Indian expats
When I first arrived in Europe, I carried two suitcases and a head full of plans. What I didn't carry was a map to the Indian community around me.
That first week I spent hours on map apps and buried forum threads, trying to answer questions that should have been simple:
The answers existed, but they were scattered across WhatsApp groups I hadn't been invited to, Facebook pages I couldn't find, and friends of friends I hadn't met yet. After twenty years of leading technology teams, the irony was hard to miss: I could stream a cricket match live from Mumbai, but I couldn't find a South Indian restaurant three kilometres away.
So we built the place I was looking for.
Not a generic expat forum and not a government portal, but somewhere that knows what ghar jaisa means. Somewhere that understands the difference between a Tamil Sangam and a Telugu Association, between Pongal and Baisakhi, between a Jain-friendly kitchen and a pure-veg one.
It started as a list of temples and grocery stores. It has become the place to find your people, get your paperwork done, and look after your family in India, from wherever you live now.
About 37 million people of Indian origin live outside India (Wikipedia), one of the largest and most connected communities in the world. Yet every new arrival rebuilds the same knowledge from scratch.
You land in Frankfurt, Toronto or Melbourne and cannot find a nearby temple, an Indian grocery store or this month's community events in one trusted place.
Map and review apps are built for everyone, so they don't know a Punjabi dhaba from a South Indian tiffin room, or which bank will open an account before your residence permit arrives.
It lives in group chats you haven't joined and in conversations you haven't had yet. It is hard to find, hard to trust, and gone when the thread scrolls away.
Someone has just moved from India to a new city. Within five minutes of opening Expatskey, they should have found:
Bengaluru ✈️ EssenWith the brands from home
And the community around it
To get registered, in order
If their parents need help in India
Why we exist
“Within five minutes of opening Expatskey, someone who has just moved from Bengaluru to Essen should have found an Indian grocery store, a temple nearby, and the three things they need to do this week to get registered. And if their parents need help back home, they should have found someone there they can trust.”
We exist to make every Indian abroad feel at home, wherever in the world they are. Not by replacing the communities they left behind, but by helping them find the ones that already exist around them, and by looking after the ones they left.
Four things people come to Expatskey to do. Each one is live on the site today.
Indian restaurants by regional cuisine, grocery stores with the brands you grew up with, temples, gurdwaras, mosques and churches, cultural associations and sports clubs, and what's on this month, from Diwali and Garba nights to cricket and concerts.
A step-by-step settle-in checklist, from before you land to rooted (Germany first, with more countries coming). Essential services such as banks, money transfer, mobile and SIM, insurance, doctors, lawyers and certified translation, compared on the facts that decide it. And if you'd rather talk it through, talk to us, free.
India Services for the family you left behind and the life you still run there: NRI banking, investing in India, elder care for your parents, couriers both ways, and food and festival boxes.
Courses and coaching from editor-checked teachers and schools, covering language, music, dance, tuition and professional skills, online or near you. Plus city guides and articles written for Indians abroad, by people who've done it.
Restaurants, temples, associations, teachers and service providers, in your city or in India, can list for free, claim and correct their page, post events and offers, and see how people find them. Writers can publish guides for the community.
Map and review apps are built for everyone. We are built for one community, and it shows in what we list.
Our 33 kinds of place include things a map app doesn't separate out: gurdwaras and temples, cultural associations from Tamil Sangams to Telugu associations, Indian grocery stores, NRI banking, elder care in India, and Indian TV and streaming.
Expatskey was born from one Indian expat's first week abroad, not from a corporate side project. Every feature starts with one question: would this have helped me in my first week?
We use technology, including AI, to find places from public information, and people to check and correct them. We tell you which is which, instead of calling everything verified.
We list providers so you can make a decision without guessing. That only works if the order of the list, and the facts in it, can't be bought.
No business can pay to move up. Whether we earn a referral fee is not an input to ranking, and an automated test fails our build if it ever becomes one.
Where we earn a fee if you follow a link, the link tells you at the moment you decide. Where we earn nothing, it says that too.
Published facts carry their source and the date they were checked. What a provider told us about itself is labelled as such.
Families arranging care for a parent in another country are making one of the hardest decisions we cover. We will not earn a fee from steering it.
Students, professionals and families preparing to leave India. Start with the checklist before you land.
Your first weeks: registration, a bank account, a SIM, the nearest temple and grocery store, and people who speak your language.
Find what's new, bring your children to classes and festivals, and give back by adding what you know.
Banking, investments, elder care, couriers and food boxes, arranged from wherever you live.
Businesses, temples, associations, teachers and India-side providers who want to be found by the people they serve.
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We started in Germany, where the founder's journey began. Today the community is adding places from Auckland to Amsterdam, and every city starts with someone adding the first one.
Expatskey is built and operated by Anantham Krithrimam Technologies (OPC) Private Limited, a company registered in Telangana, India. We work between Europe and India, which is, after all, where our users live.
Whether you arrived yesterday or have been abroad for decades, find the little piece of India that makes your new city feel like home.
Not sure where to start? Talk to us, free →
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