Moments from the network

The one where eChai hosted D2C founders with Arjun Vaidya at iconic Times of India Building, Fort Mumbai

The one where eChai Toronto opened its doors with top founders at TBDC, Toronto

The one where the eChai Women Founders Initiative came to life

The one where eChai Partner Brand founders came together at Zestard HQ

The one where eChai turned Draper Startup House Singapore into a full house

The one where eChai and CoKarma give early stage founders a monthly launch pad in Hyderabad

The one where eChai took AI to the business leaders of Karnavati Club, Ahmedabad

The one where London founders met for the eChai Mixer at Temple of Arts, London

The one where CA Mehul Shah hosted an eChai Social at his home with top founders from Surat

The one where founders from 20+ countries joined eChai at Draper University, San Francisco

The one where eChai teamed with WeWork to bring Hong Kong founders together

The one where Whatfix CEO Khadim Batti hosted the eChai founders social at Whatfix Towers

The one where Pratiti Desai brings eChai Women Founders together every month at Mauji Cafe

The one where eChai hosted a startup mixer for Bali's digital nomads at Draper Startup House

The one where eChai hosted founders and business leaders from Manila at Draper Startup House Manila

The one where eChai lit up the Mr Purple Rooftop Bar with founders in New York City

The one where eChai and City of Melbourne hosted global founders at The Couch

The one where Ocean Protocol's Bruce Pon showed up for the eChai Berlin launch at WeWork

The one where 100s of founders show up monthly for Ahmedabad Startup Day

The one where eChai brought international founders together at the Startup Social, Dubai

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In-person events, dinners and demo days across 25+ cities in 10+ countries, since 2009. Explore upcoming events, the cities, and what founders are building.

Where founders meet, since 2009

eChai Ventures has been bringing founders together since 2009. Across 25+ cities, founders at every stage meet at eChai to discover the ecosystem, find their people, and grow together. Explore events by city and see who's going, meet the founders behind them, and catch what the network's rating in polls, looking for in asks, learning the hard way in FailCode, watching and recommending on the watchlist, trading takes on the books and podcasts worth your time, studying the best startup videos, saving long-form to come back to in the reading room, or getting to know How Founders Use AI. Bring a real question to Starting Up and get the best of the internet on it. See the startups founders are showing, and the ones the network's backing, on Demo Day. The gallery shows what these gatherings are actually like. Create your profile so other founders know what you're building.

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  1. Bengaluru eChai's Startup Open House in Bengaluru
    11:00 AM - 1:00 PMFounder Startup House Koramangala
    Anoop VenugopalBharath S Prachet (PY) YerramallaKiran Babu 67 going
  2. Hyderabad eChai's Startup Open House in Hyderabad
    6:00-8:00 PMDraperU India
    Ajay ArmugamTohid HaqueSiri DasariSaishanker Swantham 38 going
  3. Ahmedabad AI Cafe : Ahmedabad edition
    4:00-7:00 PMHouse of Starts
    Harshil MantriAshutosh RavalKunal ChauhanKevin g 7 going
  4. Delhi-NCR eChai Startup Demo Day in Delhi-NCR
    11:00 AM - 1:00 PMDevX Noida
    Adv Vishavjeet RaghavAnushka KumarPriyanshuDurgesh Pandey 43 going
  5. Mumbai eChai Startup Demo Day in Mumbai
    11:00 AM - 1:00 PMDevX Dynasty
    Chinmayi DsNoopur  JhaParth NarkarAnantha Narayanan 56 going
  6. Pune eChai Startup Demo Day in Pune
    4:00-6:00 PMIdeas To Impacts Baner
    Vijay NikamChaitanya BadaveKapil NeurgaonkarShrikesh Dixit 32 going
  7. Bengaluru eChai Startup Demo Day in Bengaluru
    6:00-8:00 PMFounder Startup House Koramangala
    Aditi GandhiJoshua SoansNiveditha SubrahmanyamKartik Singh 82 going
  8. Hyderabad eChai Startup Demo Day in Hyderabad
    6:00-8:00 PMCoKarma Durgam Cheruvu
    Nirvaan MohtaRatnakar NandangiB. Pavan KumarSatyanand Indukuri 75 going
  9. Surat eChai Startup Demo Day in Surat
    6:00-8:00 PMYanolja Cloud Solution
    Ronit RathodHenil ChopdaNaitik PanchalMehun Satikuvar 13 going
  10. Rajkot eChai Startup Demo Day in Rajkot
    6:00-8:00 PMDevX Nana Mava
    Devang BrahmbhattKirtan BagdaiBharat TrivediJay Mehta 14 going
  11. Vadodara eChai Startup Demo Day in Vadodara
    6:00-8:00 PMDevX Vadodara
    Bhushan ShahNaitik PanchalNisarg PatelDhairya Shah 14 going
  12. Indore eChai Startup Demo Day in Indore
    6:00-8:00 PMDevX Vijay Nagar
    Veer PorwalManish PithwaVirat Kumar 7 going
  13. Udaipur eChai Startup Demo Day in Udaipur
    6:00-8:00 PMDevX Paras Prime
    Khushal Parashar 1 going
  14. Ahmedabad eChai Startup Demo Day in Ahmedabad
    6:30-8:30 PMGVFL Ahmedabad
    Kunjan AtaraRohan ShahBhavesh TalatiNeha Pandya 84 going
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