About Embassy Group - The Developer Behind Embassy Biome
Embassy Biome is developed by Embassy Group, a Bengaluru-headquartered real estate group founded in 1993 and led by Chairman & Managing Director Jitendra (Jitu) Virwani. Over three decades, Embassy has grown from a Bengaluru office-park developer into one of India's largest and most institutionally-credible real estate platforms - spanning commercial, residential, hospitality, retail, services, and education, with a ~85 million sq ft developed/managed portfolio. It is the only Bengaluru residential developer that also created and listed a REIT. This page covers the group's history, structure, leadership, portfolio, and what distinguishes Embassy as the developer of the ~200-acre Embassy Knowledge Park township.
Company snapshot
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Display name | Embassy Group |
| Real estate developing entity | Embassy Property Developments Pvt. Ltd. |
| Listed residential platform | Embassy Developments Ltd. |
| Founded | 1993 |
| Headquarters | Bengaluru, Karnataka |
| Chairman & Managing Director | Jitendra (Jitu) Virwani |
| MD, listed residential platform | Aditya Virwani |
| Total developed / managed portfolio | ~85 million sq ft |
| Residential portfolio | ~53 million sq ft |
| Flagship REIT | Embassy Office Parks REIT (India's first listed REIT) |
| Active geographies | Bengaluru, Mumbai, Pune, NCR, Chennai; international (incl. Serbia) |
Heritage and corporate structure
Embassy Group was founded in 1993 by Jitendra Virwani, who remains Chairman and Managing Director. The group's defining contribution to Indian real estate is the creation of the Grade-A office-park category - Embassy Manyata Business Park and Embassy Tech Village in Bengaluru are among the largest and best-occupied IT campuses in the country, anchoring the tenancy of global technology majors and shaping the way North-East and Outer-Ring-Road Bengaluru developed.
In 2019, Embassy partnered with Blackstone to launch Embassy Office Parks REIT - India's first publicly listed Real Estate Investment Trust and, by leasable area, the largest office REIT in Asia. The REIT listing established Embassy as the institutional benchmark for commercial real estate in India and gave the group a permanent capital-markets profile, with the disclosure discipline and governance standards that listing requires.
The residential business now operates through Embassy Developments Ltd., the listed platform created via the merger of Embassy's residential assets (NAM Estates) with Indiabulls Real Estate. Jitendra Virwani serves as Chairman of the listed entity and Aditya Virwani as Managing Director. This is significant for a residential buyer: it means the developer of Embassy Biome's residential component sits inside a listed, publicly-disclosed structure rather than an opaque private SPV - a level of transparency that very few Bengaluru developers offer.
Leadership
Jitendra (Jitu) Virwani - Chairman & MD. The architect of Embassy's rise from an office-park developer to a diversified ~85-million-sq-ft platform. He led the launch of India's first listed REIT and introduced WeWork to India in 2017. Under his leadership, Embassy built the commercial campuses that defined Bengaluru's IT-office geography and then extended the same master-planning discipline into residential townships.
Aditya Virwani - MD, Embassy Developments Ltd. Drives the listed residential platform's growth, fundraising, and project pipeline. The leadership continuity across the commercial and residential verticals means the township-and-office logic that underpins Embassy Knowledge Park is executed by people who have run it before.
Portfolio - Bengaluru and beyond
Integrated townships
- Embassy Springs - the ~288-acre integrated township at Devanahalli with ~82% open spaces; villa plots, apartments, row houses, villas, the Embassy Knowledge Business Park, and group social infrastructure. The largest single township address in North Bengaluru and the strategic proof-point for Embassy Knowledge Park.
- Embassy Knowledge Park / Embassy Biome - the ~200-acre Palm-Jumeirah-inspired mixed-use township near Stonehill International School; ~115 acres Grade-A commercial plus the Embassy Biome residential estate (855 apartments + 218 villas).
Luxury & branded residential
- Embassy Boulevard - uber-luxury gated villa community in North Bengaluru, the group's villa benchmark and the reference point for the Embassy Biome Riparian villas.
- Embassy Lake Terraces - luxury sky-condominium towers at Hebbal, among Bengaluru's tallest residential addresses.
- Embassy Grove - luxury villas in central Bengaluru.
- Embassy Verde / Embassy Edge / Embassy Greenshore - apartment and plotted offerings in the Devanahalli airport corridor.
Commercial (reference)
- Embassy Manyata Business Park - one of India's largest IT parks, North Bengaluru.
- Embassy Tech Village (ETV) - among the most sought-after Grade-A campuses in the city, on the Outer Ring Road.
- Embassy GolfLinks, Embassy One, Embassy TechZone (Pune), Embassy 247 (Mumbai) - the broader office and mixed-use book.
Education and lifestyle verticals
Embassy's owned social infrastructure is a genuine differentiator for its North-Bengaluru townships - not borrowed landmarks but group-anchored institutions:
- Stonehill International School - an IB World School on a 34-acre campus in North Bengaluru, founded 2008, in Embassy Biome's immediate catchment. The school's presence is the single most credible proof that Embassy is the dominant master-developer of this micro-market.
- Embassy International Riding School - a full equestrian facility on the corridor.
- Padukone-Dravid Centre for Sports Excellence - within the Embassy Springs ecosystem.
These institutions lift the lived amenity value of every Embassy address in the corridor and are a reason families choosing Embassy Biome are choosing more than a home.
What distinguishes Embassy Group
1. Institutional capital and disclosure
Embassy is one of very few Indian developers to have created and listed a REIT, and to run its residential business through a listed platform. For a buyer committing crores to a pre-launch township, the developer's access to institutional capital and its obligation to public disclosure are the strongest available proxies for delivery confidence. Embassy does not depend on discounting inventory to fund construction.
2. Proven township-execution capability
Embassy Knowledge Park is a ~200-acre mixed-use township - a complex, capital-intensive, long-horizon undertaking. Embassy has already executed exactly this kind of plan at the ~288-acre Embassy Springs on the same corridor. The master-planning, the phased commercial-and-residential delivery, the green-and-amenity programming, and the township operations are a repeat of a proven playbook, not a first attempt.
3. The commercial demand engine
As the creator of Manyata and Tech Village, Embassy understands better than any Bengaluru developer how Grade-A office absorption drives residential demand. The ~115-acre commercial component beside Embassy Biome is not a speculative add-on; it is the demand logic the group has built its entire commercial business on, now applied to its own residential township.
4. Owned social infrastructure
Stonehill International School, the riding school, and the sports facilities are group assets in the catchment. Few residential developers anywhere in India can point to an IB school they own next to the homes they are selling.
Financial standing
- Sponsor of Embassy Office Parks REIT, a publicly listed instrument with quarterly disclosure and an institutional shareholder base (Blackstone among the foundational partners).
- Residential business runs through the listed Embassy Developments Ltd., providing balance-sheet transparency uncommon among Bengaluru developers.
- ~85 million sq ft developed/managed portfolio - execution scale at the top of the Indian market.
- Long, continuous operating history (1993 onward) through multiple property and credit cycles.
As a buyer-due-diligence step, request the project-specific RERA filings once Embassy Biome is registered - these include audited project finances and escrow-account compliance - and review the listed Embassy Developments Ltd. disclosures for the residential platform's standing.
A note on branding and entity
For this microsite, the developer is credited as Embassy Group in body copy. The real estate developing entity is Embassy Property Developments Pvt. Ltd., and the listed residential platform is Embassy Developments Ltd. The specific project SPV for Embassy Biome / Embassy Knowledge Park is not yet public at pre-launch; this microsite therefore avoids asserting a project-specific Pvt. Ltd. name. Embassy Biome should not be confused with the group's other Devanahalli projects - Embassy Springs, Embassy Edge, Embassy Verde, or Embassy Greenshore - which are distinct developments. The visual branding used on this microsite is provisional pending an official Embassy brand kit.
How to engage with Embassy
Sales enquiries for Embassy Biome are handled by the Embassy sales team. To register an Expression of Interest, request the rate card, ask about the villa-launch timeline, or schedule a site visit, reach out via the contact page. For the broader Embassy portfolio, the corporate site (embassygroup.com) and the listed residential platform (embassyindia.com) carry the group's full project list and disclosures.
Prospective Embassy Biome buyers who want the best read on Embassy's long-term construction and community-management quality should visit a delivered Embassy residential community - for example within Embassy Springs on the same corridor - and speak to residents directly. A delivered, lived-in Embassy address is the highest-information signal available before Embassy Biome itself is built.
Usage notes for this microsite
When referencing the developer across the Embassy Biome pages, the house style is: credit "Embassy Group" in narrative copy and the precise entity ("Embassy Property Developments Pvt. Ltd." or "Embassy Developments Ltd.") only where the regulatory context calls for it; lead buyer-confidence framing with the institutional credibility (the REIT, the listed residential platform, the township-execution record) rather than with marketing adjectives; and acknowledge corridor-stage trade-offs honestly, because Embassy's buyer base is informed and senior. The combination of a three-decade operating history, listed-entity transparency, proven township delivery on the same corridor, owned social infrastructure, and a commercial demand engine is, in sum, the strongest developer profile available on the Devanahalli corridor - and the central reason Embassy Biome merits serious evaluation even at the pre-launch stage.
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Embassy Group - Frequently Asked Questions
Embassy Biome is developed by Embassy Group, a Bengaluru-headquartered real estate group founded in 1993 and led by Chairman & MD Jitendra (Jitu) Virwani. The real estate developing entity is Embassy Property Developments Pvt. Ltd., and the residential business runs through the listed Embassy Developments Ltd.
Embassy Group was founded in 1993 in Bengaluru. It has grown into one of India's largest real estate platforms with a ~85 million sq ft developed/managed portfolio across commercial, residential, hospitality, retail, services and education, including a ~53 million sq ft residential book.
In 2019, Embassy partnered with Blackstone to launch Embassy Office Parks REIT - India's first publicly listed Real Estate Investment Trust and the largest office REIT in Asia by leasable area. For a buyer, the REIT and the listed residential platform mean institutional capital and public-disclosure discipline, which are strong proxies for delivery confidence.
Yes. Embassy has executed the ~288-acre Embassy Springs integrated township on the same Devanahalli corridor, with villa plots, apartments, row houses, villas, a business park and group social infrastructure. Embassy Knowledge Park / Embassy Biome is a repeat of a proven township playbook, not a first attempt.
The developer is credited as Embassy Group in body copy; the specific project SPV for Embassy Biome / Embassy Knowledge Park is not yet public at pre-launch. The visual branding used on this microsite is provisional pending an official Embassy brand kit. Embassy Biome is distinct from Embassy Springs, Embassy Edge, Embassy Verde and Embassy Greenshore.