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, saving long-form to come back to in the reading room, or sharing which AI tools they use, and for what, on HowIAI. 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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A look at what recent eChai gatherings around the network were like.
What the network is rating, looking for, and learning from right now.
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A few of the founders across the eChai network. Tap a card for the full profile, what they're building, and how to reach out.
Founder, Pre-seed and Seed, in Agritech.
Engineer / builder and Educator / mentor, Seed and Profitable, backing Pre-seed / seed and Strategic / corporate, in SaaS + D2C / consumer + E-commerce / retail.
Founder, Bootstrapped and Profitable, backing Angel and Syndicate / scout, in Fintech + SaaS + Deeptech.
Transforming my legacy tech business, Upsquare Technologies, into a Lab that does experiments with Digital & Physical AI, Robotics, Reusable Systems, models & architectures.
Product (PM), Seed.
Founder and Educator / mentor, Pre-revenue / pre-PMF and Pre-seed, in Healthtech + Deeptech + Mobility / EV.
Co-founder, Pre-product (building), in SaaS + Vertical SaaS + AI/ML.
Solo founder and Advisor, Profitable, backing Strategic / corporate, in Vertical SaaS + AI/ML + Deeptech.
Working on a lot of interesting tech projects, alongside the Investment Banking firm
Entrepreneur | Startup Mentor | IIMA Guest Speaker | Speaker.
Founder, Pre-seed, in Healthtech.
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.
Founder, Bootstrapped, in HR tech / future of work.
Founder, Pre-revenue / pre-PMF and Bootstrapped, in B2B / enterprise + AI/ML + Cybersecurity.
Founder and Solo founder, Pre-revenue / pre-PMF and Seed, in SaaS and E-commerce / retail.
Co-founder, Profitable, in Media / creator.
Founder, Bootstrapped, in Climate / clean energy + Mobility / EV + Media / creator.
Co-founder, Seed, in AI/ML and Healthtech.
AI that reads any health document and turns it into clinical intelligence.
Co-founder, Bootstrapped, in DevTools / infra and Web3.
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Co-founder, Bootstrapped and Profitable, in Media / creator.
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Founder, Series A, in SaaS + B2B / enterprise + AI/ML.
Building an operating system for businesses that integrates with ERPs and provide actionable insights on operations and workflows
Co-founder and Advisor, Pre-revenue / pre-PMF and Series A, backing Pre-seed / seed and Growth, in SaaS + B2B / enterprise + Media / creator.
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.
Co-founder, Seed, in SaaS + D2C / consumer + E-commerce / retail.
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Stories, podcasts, and notes from across eChai. A few of the most recent. tap any one to read in full.
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.
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.
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 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.
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