38-year-old Astha Chaturvedi, a startup founder, moved to Bengaluru along with her family, including a kid and a pet, leaving behind San Francisco and now she feels she did the right thing. In an interview with Business Insider, Chaturvedi said the decision to return to India was made all of a sudden when she traveled to India in 2024 to hire a CTO for her startup.

When US immigration uncertainty pushed Astha Chaturvedi and her husband to leave the US for India, they had one nonnegotiable: Their mini goldendoodle had to come too.

38-year-old Astha Chaturvedi, a startup founder, moved to Bengaluru along with her family, including a kid and a pet, leaving behind San Francisco and now she feels she did the…