eChai Ventures has been bringing founders together since 2009. Today, across 25+ cities in 10+ countries, founders at every stage meet at eChai meetups to discover the ecosystem, find their people, and grow together.

India

Ahmedabad 2 upcoming events Bengaluru 2 upcoming events Hyderabad 2 upcoming events Surat Delhi-NCR Mumbai Pune Indore Jaipur Rajkot Udaipur Vadodara Bhopal Nagpur Raipur

North America

Boston New York San Francisco Toronto

Global

Bali Berlin Dubai Hong Kong London Manila Melbourne Paris Singapore Tallinn
sat
20
jun
Franchise Conclave 2026 Partner event
Indias first dedicated F&B franchise forum, where serious brands meet serious investors.
10:00 AM · Shree Shakti Convention Centre · Ahmedabad
sun
21
jun
eChai's Startup Open House in Bengaluru
11:00 AM · Founder Startup House Koramangala · Bengaluru
Rahul Kumar Muhammed Hafesjee Ridhi Damani Rahul, Muhammed + 39 going
41 new RSVPs this week
sun
21
jun
eChai's Startup Open House in Hyderabad
11:00 AM · DraperU India · Hyderabad
A Vijay Ps Varshith Gaddam Akash, Vijay + 43 going
45 new RSVPs this week
thu
25
jun
eChai Startup Demo Day in Ahmedabad
Where founders show what they're building.
6:30 PM · GVFL Ahmedabad · Ahmedabad
Viraj Rajani Kush Prajapati Brajrajsingh Rao Viraj, Kush + 46 going
33 new RSVPs this week
sat
27
jun
eChai Startup Demo Day in Bengaluru
An open house where founders show what they're building.
6:00 PM · Founder Startup House Koramangala · Bengaluru
T Vishvam Mangroliya Prerna Lohani Tanish, Vishvam + 3 going
5 new RSVPs this week
sat
27
jun
eChai Startup Demo Day in Hyderabad
An open house where founders show what they're building.
6:00 PM · CoKarma Durgam Cheruvu · Hyderabad
A S Y Aravind, sai + 4 going
6 new RSVPs this week
sat
20
jun
How Founders & Operators Use AI | Hyderabad
Founders and operators on the AI tools they actually use.
Jun 20, 2026 · DevX Hitec City · Hyderabad
R Vishnu Chitanya Varshith Gaddam Ranjith, Vishnu + 40 went
sat
20
jun
Fundraising for Startups: Panel Conversation with Founders & Investors | Bengaluru
Founders and investors on what a raise actually takes.
Jun 20, 2026 · Founder Startup House Koramangala · Bengaluru
R P A Rohit, Pankaj + 31 went
sat
20
jun
Bengaluru Startup Meetup
Jun 20, 2026 · Urban Vault 477 · Bengaluru
Rahul Kumar T K Rahul, thejas + 66 went
sat
20
jun
Ahmedabad Startup Day
Founders, investors, and operators across sectors, in one place.
Jun 20, 2026 · iHub Gujarat · Ahmedabad
Malav Warke Satya Mehta Viraj Rajani Malav, Satya + 194 went
sat
20
jun
How Founders & Operators Use AI | Pune
Founders and operators on the AI tools they actually use.
Jun 20, 2026 · Ideas To Impacts Baner · Pune
Aaleen Mirza P T Aaleen, Psaxena + 5 went
sat
20
jun
Product Management Meetup | Mumbai
Product people on the actual work of shipping.
Jun 20, 2026 · DevX Dynasty · Mumbai
Pavan Chaudhari Ansh Varma Navneet Shukla Pavan, Ansh + 23 went
sat
20
jun
Delhi-NCR Startup Meetup
Jun 20, 2026 · DevX Noida · Delhi-NCR
C H P CHIRAG, Himanshu + 42 went
sat
20
jun
How Founders & Operators Use AI | Surat
Founders and operators on the AI tools they actually use.
Jun 20, 2026 · DevX Piplod · Surat
T K Hemish Pancholi Tarang, Kishan + 65 went
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sat
20
jun
dhan.dev>_ Bengaluru #02
A community meetup for developers and traders building the future of programmable trading.
Jun 20, 2026 · Bengaluru
fri
19
jun
AI x Manufacturing
Honest discussions about AI on the shop floor, pilot to production, and what is actually working.
Jun 19, 2026 · House of Starts · Ahmedabad
Viraj Rajani Brajrajsingh Rao J Viraj, Brajrajsingh + 98 went
Anuj Dalal
Ahmedabad
Anuj Dalal
Founder & CEO · Zestard

Engineer / builder and Educator / mentor, Seed and Profitable, backing Pre-seed / seed and Strategic / corporate, in SaaS + D2C / consumer + E-commerce / retail.

Hoping to meet
  • A co-founder
  • Senior hires for my team
  • A startup role I would love, at any kind
  • Growth & marketing leaders
  • Founders & operators in my city
checkmywarranty.app
Rushabh Shah
Ahmedabad
Rushabh Shah
Managing Partner · STIR Advisors

Solo founder and Advisor, Profitable, backing Strategic / corporate, in Vertical SaaS + AI/ML + Deeptech.

Building Working on a lot of interesting tech projects, alongside the Investment Banking firm

Hoping to meet
  • Enterprise / GCC buyer intros
  • Partners for my services or agency
  • Engineering leaders / CTOs
  • People obsessed with AI workflows
linkedin.com
Nadeem Jafri
Ahmedabad
Nadeem Jafri
Founder · Heartymart

Entrepreneur | Startup Mentor | IIMA Guest Speaker | Speaker.

Hoping to meet
  • Intros to paying customers
  • Enterprise / GCC buyer intros
  • Founders with US / global reach
  • Bootstrapped, profitable founders
  • Growth & marketing leaders
Nikita Lalwani
Ahmedabad
Nikita Lalwani
Founder & First Bicycle Mayor from India · Crooze Fitness App

Founder, Pre-seed, in Healthtech.

Building Fitness community of 37K users, making fitness fun through Rewards, Challenges, and National Fitness Leagues backed by DST, IT Ministry, IIMA Ventures, i-Hub & Mahindra Rise. Now pivoting to B2B2C Corporate Fitness Leagues and urgently looking for a CTO / Tech Co-founder.

Hoping to meet
  • Angel / seed investors for my startup
  • Intros to paying customers
  • A co-founder
  • Founders past $1M ARR
  • Engineering leaders / CTOs
  • Growth & marketing leaders
  • Co-founder
  • Fundraising
  • Distribution
Shrijay Sheth
Ahmedabad
Shrijay Sheth
Founder · Legalwiz.in

Founder and Solo founder, Pre-revenue / pre-PMF and Seed, in SaaS and E-commerce / retail.

Hoping to meet
  • Capital for my next round
  • Founders past $1M ARR
  • Founders with US / global reach
  • Bootstrapped, profitable founders
  • Growth & marketing leaders
  • People obsessed with AI workflows
Kush Prajapati
Ahmedabad
Kush Prajapati
COO · DI AI

Co-founder, Seed, in AI/ML and Healthtech.

Building AI that reads any health document and turns it into clinical intelligence.

Hoping to meet
  • Enterprise / GCC buyer intros
  • Founders with US / global reach
Bhavesh Patel
Ahmedabad
Bhavesh Patel
Co-founder · Brands.live

Co-founder and Advisor, Pre-revenue / pre-PMF and Series A, backing Pre-seed / seed and Growth, in SaaS + B2B / enterprise + Media / creator.

Building Building India's Most favourite Branding and Business Growth tool Brands.live which help them to go digital first in just seconds. With 10M Downloads leading the MSME content space with power of Ai for Bharat. Raised Funds from Indian Quotient and DevX. Looking for partnership.

Hoping to meet
  • Startups to invest in
  • Founders past $1M ARR
  • Founders with US / global reach
  • Bootstrapped, profitable founders
  • Growth & marketing leaders
  • People obsessed with AI workflows
  • Founders & operators in my city
play.google.com
Rahul Kumar
Ahmedabad
Rahul Kumar
Founder & CEO · Retner.ai

Co-founder, Seed, in SaaS + D2C / consumer + E-commerce / retail.

Hoping to meet
  • Intros to paying customers
  • Partners for my services or agency
  • Founders past $1M ARR
  • Founders with US / global reach
  • Growth & marketing leaders
  • Founders & operators in my city
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Ahmedabad
Abhishek Jain
Director · Naapbooks

Co-founder and Investor / angel, Profitable and Raising now, backing Syndicate / scout and Family office, in Fintech + SaaS + Web3.

Hoping to meet
  • Startups to invest in
  • Enterprise / GCC buyer intros
  • Founders past $1M ARR
  • Founders with US / global reach
J
Ahmedabad
Jayesh Kadivar
Founder · Growthnest Advisors LLP

Founder and Educator / mentor, Pre-revenue / pre-PMF and Pre-seed, in Healthtech + Deeptech + Mobility / EV.

Hoping to meet
  • Angel / seed investors for my startup
  • Startups to invest in
  • Founders with US / global reach
  • Bootstrapped, profitable founders
  • Founders & operators in my city
Anil Motwani
Ahmedabad
Anil Motwani
CEO & Founder · ATOA Technologies

Founder and Agency, Bootstrapped and Profitable, backing Pre-seed / seed and Growth, in B2B / enterprise + AI/ML + Marketplace.

Building Building technology platforms and growth systems for businesses across industries. Currently focused on helping founders create more predictable sales processes, streamline operations, and scale without everything depending on them.

Hoping to meet
  • Founders solving interesting business problems
  • Conversations around growth, sales, and scaling
linkedin.com
Utpal Vaishnav
Ahmedabad
Utpal Vaishnav
Founder · Upsquare

Founder, Bootstrapped and Profitable, backing Angel and Syndicate / scout, in Fintech + Insurtech + Deeptech.

Building Transforming my legacy tech business, Upsquare Technologies, into a Lab that does experiments with Digital & Physical AI, Robotics, and Reusable Systems, models & architectures.

Hoping to meet
  • Startups to invest in
  • Bootstrapped, profitable founders
  • Engineering leaders / CTOs
  • Product leaders
  • Growth & marketing leaders
  • Others in my exact role to swap notes with
  • Founders & operators in my city
utpalmv.com
A
Ankur Kesar
Principal Engineer · The Cloudwala

Founder and Solo founder, Idea stage and Pre-product (building), in AI/ML and Foodtech / F&B.

Hoping to meet
  • Angel / seed investors for my startup
  • A co-founder
  • Engineering leaders / CTOs
  • People obsessed with AI workflows

  • Naval and Nivi: The AI Industrial Revolution with Guillermo Rauch, Blake Scholl, Max Hodak

    Naval and Nivi: The AI Industrial Revolution with Guillermo Rauch, Blake Scholl, Max Hodak

    Naval and Nivi sit down with Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Blake Scholl (Boom Supersonic), and Max Hodak (Science) on AI as the next industrial revolution. The conversation covers software factories and waste tokens, vibe coding hardware (Blake's turbine blade), the regulatory frontier (why China's FDA is beating ours), and the autonomous company (what it means when your job becomes training the agent). Worth watching for how three founders building in very different stacks converge on the same questions.

    Jatin Chaudhary · 7 Jun 2026

  • Nikunj Kothari built Nock: a Claude Code skill that pitches like him

    Nikunj Kothari built Nock: a Claude Code skill that pitches like him

    Nikunj Kothari (partner at FPV Ventures) used Claude Code to build Nock, a personal skill grounded in his real conversations. He pulled 200+ founder pitch notes captured by Granola, narrowed to ~53 with the strongest debate, layered in his essays on the kind of founders he loves, then iterated against 5-10 real decks until the output matched what he'd actually ask in the room. Founders raising can try it at nikunjk.com/nock; VCs who want their own can build at nikunjk.com/buildnock.

    Jatin Chaudhary · 7 Jun 2026

  • Can Tech Legends Find the Liar? Mafia with Founders Fund

    Can Tech Legends Find the Liar? Mafia with Founders Fund

    Founders Fund gathered Sam Altman, Palmer Luckey, Bryan Johnson, Dylan Field, Moxie Marlinspike, Tim Urban, Ryan Petersen, Liv Boeree, Cyan Banister, Trae Stephens, Josie Zayner, and Michael Solana for an evening of Mafia, the murder-mystery parlor game. Players are secretly assigned roles and must use deception and debate to eliminate the opposing team before they are outnumbered. Worth watching for how some of the sharpest people in tech read each other under pressure.

    Jatin Chaudhary · 7 Jun 2026

  • How eChai Built a Global Startup Community from Ahmedabad

    How eChai Built a Global Startup Community from Ahmedabad

    Jatin Chaudhary on the Magenta Insights podcast, telling the story of eChai's journey from casual chai meetups in Ahmedabad in 2009 to a global network across Bengaluru, Mumbai, Singapore, London, and San Francisco. The conversation covers community-led growth, why impact matters more than numbers, the economics of running a community platform, and what most communities get wrong about sustaining engagement.

    Jatin Chaudhary · 6 Jun 2026

Founder Asks

What founders here are looking for right now. post yours, or reach out when you can help with someone else's.

All asks
Tech & engineering
Looking for a CTO / Tech Co-founder for the next B2B2C pivot of existing B2C app with 35k+ users across India. Someone who can take full product ownership. If you're a builder waiting for the right idea, the right moment, and the right mission to fuel India’s Fitness Revolution
Nikita Lalwani Nikita Lalwani Founder & First Bicycle Mayor from India · Crooze Fitness App
Reach out to Nikita
Customers & demand
We are looking to connect with food distributors in US, UK, Africa and Gulf countries.
Nadeem Jafri Nadeem Jafri Founder · Heartymart
Reach out to Nadeem
I would like to connect with someone who is doing research in Consumer Psychology who is doing research in AI use in content and its impact on buying behaviour.
Viraj Rajani Viraj Rajani Co Founder · Digipple
Reach out to Viraj
Post your ask

Polls

What the network is rating right now. pick what you'd recommend and see who else has weighed in.

All polls
Where does your team chat all day?
Anuj Dalal Ashutosh Raval Vishal Tiwari Ashish Zapadiya Amish Trivedi Apurvv Pakhmode +12
18 responses Which email service runs your work inbox?
Anuj Dalal Vishal Tiwari Apoorva Bhayani Manish Nayee Sagar Thakker Naitik Panchal +10
16 responses Which bank do you use and recommend for your startup?
Anuj Dalal Abhishek Yagnik Vishal Tiwari Ashish Zapadiya Manish Nayee Sagar Thakker +10
16 responses
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eChai Partner Brands

eChai Ventures partners with select brands as their growth partner. Together we explore new ideas, open doors, and build momentum across the startup ecosystem.

Digipple LegalWiz.in Zestard Technologies Oizom DevX Hearty Mart iKomatch Hungrito IBGrid ES Healthcare Centre