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 71 founders · 20 events Hyderabad 10 founders · 3 events Surat 7 founders · 2 events Bengaluru 5 founders · 3 events Pune 3 founders · 2 events Delhi-NCR 2 founders · 1 event Jaipur 2 founders · 1 event Indore 1 founder · 1 event Mumbai 1 founder · 1 event Udaipur 1 founder · 1 event Vadodara 1 founder · 1 event Bhopal 1 event Nagpur 1 founder Raipur Rajkot

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Global

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sun
14
jun
eChai's Startup Open House in Bengaluru
11:00 AM · Founder Startup House Koramangala · Bengaluru
Sidheswar Apata P S Sidheswar , Prem + 13 going
15 new RSVPs this week
sun
14
jun
eChai's Startup Open House in Hyderabad
11:00 AM · DraperU India · Hyderabad
Silaparasetty Ashritha S V Silaparasetty , Subhash + 47 going
49 new RSVPs this week
fri
19
jun
AI x Manufacturing
Honest discussions about AI on the shop floor, pilot to production, and what is actually working.
6:30 PM · House of Starts · Ahmedabad
Viraj Rajani H Sumit Kasardekar Viraj, Hiranmay + 21 going
20 new RSVPs this week
thu
25
jun
eChai Startup Demo Day - Ahmedabad Edition
An open house where founders demo their startups to the community.
6:30 PM · GVFL Ahmedabad · Ahmedabad
Kush Prajapati Viraj Rajani S Kush, Viraj + 14 going
15 new RSVPs this week
sat
13
jun
eChai After Party of 21by72 Private
An eChai after party alongside 21by72. tea, snacks, and easy networking.
Jun 13, 2026 · Surat
Harsha Bhurani Anuj Dalal Rahul Kumar Harsha, Anuj + 16 went
sat
13
jun
Bengaluru Startup Meetup
Jun 13, 2026 · Founder Startup House Koramangala · Bengaluru
Sidheswar Apata D K Sidheswar , Don + 26 went
sat
13
jun
Scaling Food Brands: Growth, Franchising, and Operations - Udaipur Edition
Jun 13, 2026 · DevX Paras Prime · Udaipur
Ritwik Joshi K H Ritwik, Kailash + 7 went
sat
13
jun
Scaling Food Brands: Growth, Franchising, and Operations - Bengaluru Edition
Jun 13, 2026 · Urban Vault 477 · Bengaluru
Jatin Chaudhary S S Jatin, Saravanan + 27 went
sat
13
jun
Scaling Food Brands: Growth, Franchising, and Operations - Indore Edition
Jun 13, 2026 · DevX Vijay Nagar · Indore
V S Akash Rathore Veer, Sachmeet + 1 went
sat
13
jun
Scaling Food Brands: Growth, Franchising, and Operations - Vadodara Edition
Jun 13, 2026 · DevX Vadodara · Vadodara
Malav Warke Koumal Kalantry Ojas Gandhi Malav, Koumal + 8 went
sat
13
jun
Scaling Food Brands: Growth, Franchising, and Operations - Bhopal Edition
Jun 13, 2026 · IBT Pvt Ltd · Bhopal
Riya Shah Anshuman Sharma R riya, Anshuman + 2 went
sat
13
jun
Scaling Food Brands: Growth, Franchising, and Operations - Hyderabad Edition
Jun 13, 2026 · DevX Hitec City · Hyderabad
Vishnu Chitanya Silaparasetty Ashritha S Vishnu, Silaparasetty + 20 went
sat
13
jun
Pune Startup Meetup
Jun 13, 2026 · Ideas To Impacts Baner · Pune
S Vedant Jadhav E Sparsh, Vedant + 9 went
sat
13
jun
Scaling Food Brands: Growth, Franchising, and Operations - Mumbai Edition
Jun 13, 2026 · DevX Atrium · Mumbai
H N Shreyans Panchal Hariom, Nishit + 16 went
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Bhavesh Patel
Ahmedabad
Bhavesh Patel
Co-founder · Brands.live

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.

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

Find me

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, and Founders & operators in my city.

Pinned play.google.com

Went to eChai Social with eChai Partner Brand Founders · 1 Jun

Anil Motwani
Ahmedabad
Anil Motwani
CEO & Founder · ATOA Technologies

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.

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

Find me

Hoping to meet Founders solving interesting business problems and Conversations around growth, sales, and scaling.

Pinned linkedin.com

Went to AI x Marketing · 12 Jun

Utpal Vaishnav
Ahmedabad
Utpal Vaishnav
Founder · Upsquare

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

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

Find me

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, and Founders & operators in my city.

Pinned utpalmv.com

Went to AI Cafe · 5 Jun

Prajaktaa Parab
Mumbai
Prajaktaa Parab
Founder · Leafy Crave

Building Food Technologist,Founder & CEO of Leafy Crave,a functional food startup.We mfg moringa & millet based products that make nutrition convenient & accessible.Leafy Crave focuses on addressing iron and calcium deficiency through innovative products like soups, cocoa blends,latte etc

About Founder and Educator / mentor, Seed and Bootstrapped, in B2B / enterprise + D2C / consumer + Foodtech / F&B.

Find me

Hoping to meet Angel / seed investors for my startup, Capital for my next round, Startups to invest in, Intros to paying customers, A startup role I would love, at any kind, Founders with US / global reach, Bootstrapped, profitable founders, Product leaders, Growth & marketing leaders, Others in my exact role to swap notes with, and Founders & operators in my city.

T
Tanay Chaturvedi
Co-founder · Durgastra Innovations Pvt Ltd

About Co-founder and Engineer / builder, Pre-revenue / pre-PMF, in AI/ML and Deeptech.

Find me

Hoping to meet Angel / seed investors for my startup, Capital for my next round, Intros to paying customers, Partners for my services or agency, A co-founder, Senior hires for my team, A startup role I would love, at any kind, Engineering leaders / CTOs, and Product leaders.

Going to eChai Startup Demo Day - Ahmedabad Edition · 25 Jun

Utsav Upendra
Utsav Upendra
Founder · Insigage

About Founder and Solo founder, Idea stage, in SaaS + D2C / consumer + E-commerce / retail.

Find me

Hoping to meet Intros to paying customers, Bootstrapped, profitable founders, Engineering leaders / CTOs, Product leaders, and Growth & marketing leaders.

B
Bhargav Ram
Founder

About Co-founder and Aspiring founder (exploring an idea), Idea stage and Pre-product (building), in SaaS + AI/ML + DevTools / infra.

Hoping to meet A startup role I would love, at any kind.

J
Jitendra Bakliwal
Lalgarhia Cold chain

About Co-founder and Engineer / builder, Idea stage and Bootstrapped, backing Family office, in D2C / consumer + Foodtech / F&B + Deeptech.

Hoping to meet A co-founder, Bootstrapped, profitable founders, and 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

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

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