Heading to Dubai! 🌍✈️

All set for SaaSBoomi Qafila ‘24 -  a three-day exclusive initiative aimed at building an India-Middle East SaaS corridor.

At TechBridge Nation'24, we’re thrilled to showcase how Plutomen can be your strategic partner in XR-powered workforce transformation. The GCC market presents immense potential, and we’re eager to share insights on how Plutomen can contribute to the tech landscape in this region.

Join us from Jan 28th to Feb 6th in Dubai 📅!! Looking forward to connecting with industry leaders, innovators, and fellow enthusiasts. 🤝

In a year filled with remarkable moments, we are honored to be recognized by eChai Ventures as the Consumer Tech Company of The Year!

This journey has been more than just milestones; it's been about connecting communities and bringing people together through #events. We are thrilled to have touched lives globally, aligning perfectly with our mission of making sure people can discover events whenever, wherever.

We are incredibly grateful to the event organizers and attendees who have been a part of our journey. Your unwavering passion and dedication breathe life into every event, making them truly special. You are the real MVPs, the heartbeat of what we do!

As we enter 2024, let's carry the warmth of shared experiences forward.

Remember: Live. Don't just exist.

It was a pleasure hosting the #ProductsGrowthMeetup at eChai Ventures.

- Incredible crowd, such a vibrant atmosphere!
- Met new product development founders
- Connected with innovative new product development founders.
- Valuable insights shared by experienced product managers.
- Met future founders back from the USA, gearing up to build in India.
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Big Thanks to Jatin for believing in me to host the event!✨
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Place: HustleHub

Two clients.
Two stalls.
Two awards.
One team - Because 💙💛

#BecauseWeCan #GIHEDPropertyShow

Last week, I got an opportunity to Co-host eChai Demo Day with Viraj Rajani of Digipple.

Heatmaphero and SarvDhan shared their story and the problem they are trying to fix followed by insightful questions from the audience.

Later, we discussed fundamentals of starting a company from team building to finding co-founders and from fund raising to identifying the ideal clients.

Another interesting thing I witnessed was that a lot of students from Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology and L.D. College of Engineering had also joined in. These folks were early in their education journey and were present to explore the startup ecosystem.

Thank you eChai Ventures for the opportunity and IIMA Ventures for the venue.

If you are interested in joining interesting meet ups in your city, consider following eChai Ventures and Jatin Chaudhary. 

They are free and a great use of your time.

I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as "Director of Growth" at WebOsmotic Private Limited!
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Here is the background story 📖

- June 2022 : I first met Vipul Jain, CEO of WebOsmotic Private Limited in a networking event

- Oct 2022 : I introduced PEPC, a course tailored for growing IT companies, to provide them fundamental principles of Project Management

- April 2023 : I got invited to deliver the PEPC course for employees of WebOsmotic. During the course, I developed a strong connection with Vipul and his team

- Sept 2023 : Vipul recognized the need to streamline the Processes, KPI's and SOP's and I joined WebOsmotic as a Part-time consultant to enhance the company's operational framework

- Dec 2023 : As the collaboration flourished, I and Vipul decided to explore further possibilities for Growth and Synergy

🎈 Jan 2024 : Thrilled to announce the new role and launch of a 

#saas product - narad.io | The Intranet

Vipul - Appreciate your trust in me. Lets Grow together 🚀

Many thanks to all the team members of WebOsmotic Private Limited for giving me such a warm welcome 🙌

Location Courtesy : Skydeck - Rooftop premium lounge 🥂

It's an event of miracle when you find Friends who are Visionaries and Founders who are Friends. But the rarest event is when you find all of it together.✨

Hosted an eChai Ventures Masterclass on Agri Startups with one such team of The Farm - P Ritesh Sarvesh Ghangale and @Dinesh Mandhare.

Talked about the power rural entrepreneurs can bring to the startup economy. And inspired many to start their Agri Startup.

Very interesting and insightful! One of the Houseful and Loved eChai Meetup in PCMC!

Thank You Pimpri Chinchwad Startup Incubation Centre Uday Deo and Aditya Masare for making this Masterclass Successful! 🚀💯💯⚡

It takes years of consistent faith in yourself to build a community for others for their growth ,in which you find your fulfillment.

Thank you for building eChai Ventures Jatin Chaudhary - It is truly the place to be for anyone willing to be themselves and learn - such supportive ecosystem for #startups is much appreciated.

Happy National Start Up Day to everyone who dreams of having their own enterprise one day or is a founder or co-founder or wants to be part of building an extra ordinary enterprise-each one of you is special

Gratitude to Kumar Manish Jaydip Parikh Syed Nadeem Jafri Pankaj Bhimani for being welcoming and gracious always.

We are hiring! 

We have the following open positions (minimum 2 years experience for all profiles) 

- Social Media Manager
- Backend Javascript Developer (NodeJS) 
- Salesperson for closing x 3 (On high commission basis) 

Location: Remote 
Role: Full Time

If you have experience in SaaS industry, then you will be preferred 

🚀 Inspired by the unwavering resilience of Indian founders and the boundless energy of Bangalore's startup ecosystem! 💪 Exciting to witness engineers, designers, bankers, and innovators alike, all fueled by the dream of launching their own startups in yesterday's eChai Ventures Demo day and fireside chat hosted by Puneeth Suraana .

💡 Ideation is at its peak much higher than 2007. Being a Startup Founder myself, I so much relate to the potential mistakes an emerging founder can avoid fundraising and pitching to VCs. I am grateful for the opportunity to connect, learn and exchange ideas with these fellow enthusiasts.

🌆 Bangalore, a melting pot of talent and ambition, continues to be the heartbeat of India's startup revolution. Looking forward to continued collaboration and impact in the space through my learnings from Tinkerly and via platform of Warmup Ventures 

Yesterday, I attended eChai Ventures startup demo day at IIMA Ventures and was truly impressed. 🚀 From innovative student ideas to seasoned founders' implementations and exits, there was much to learn. 🎓 The host, Yash Shah, was fantastic, keeping the session engaging and highlighting crucial factors from his journey. 🌟

A key takeaway was identifying the target audience. 🎯 Whether in product or service, not everyone can be your audience. 🎯 Specificity is crucial in selecting your market. 🎯

Starting with identifying urgent problems is essential, as is the focus on saving time and money while generating revenue. ⏳💰

The startup ecosystem revolves around the team, founder, product, sales, and funding. 🔄 Encouraging the team leads to better performance, which drives sales and attracts funding, further fueling business growth. 💼💡

Interns play a vital role, bringing enthusiasm and quick learning to the team. 🎓 Their presence enhances teaching and training skills, contributing to overall team development. 👩‍💼👨‍💼

Importantly, while a good product is necessary, it's not sufficient for success. 🏆 Much more goes into building a thriving startup. 🌱

Last but not the least, pitches from various startups were indeed engaging the audience. Personally, I liked the product presentations from Heatmaphero about giving website page insights and informative dashboard and SarvDhan about identifying customer centric rural finance needs and bridging the gap between unorganised sector and #Banks 🏦/ #nbfcs🪙.

I'm grateful to eChai Ventures, Yash Shah (Host) and Jatin Chaudhary for conducting such a wonderful event and providing an interactive platform for learning and networking. 🙏

Last Min Announcement! 📢

It's eChai Startup Demo Day every last Saturday, but this month was a bit of a rollercoaster.

Normally, I'd be weeks ahead, sorting out the venue, locking down slots, and maybe even convincing someone cool to speak. But life happened, and I got swamped with my own stuff. 😅

Just when I thought, "Uh-oh, what now?

Enter Cynthia, our superhero! Just when things seemed dicey, she swooped in, offering not just a venue but also the bonus of bringing in some awesome investors 🤩

Golden ticket vibes, right? 🎟️

Now, we've got the venue locked, and the excitement is building! Oh, and if you're itching to pitch your startup, we've got 2 slots waiting for you!

If you're hearing about eChai Startup Demo Day for the first, here is the small heads up 👇🏻 

eChai Startup Demo Day is not your average event; it's where cool ideas collide, connections spark, and startups get their cheer squad. 🎉 Founders, it's your spot to validate ideas, MVPs, and business models with a community that's got your back.

Join us for an evening of dreams turning into reality. Slide into my DMs if you're ready to pitch – let's make this Demo Day YOUR moment! 💪🏻

Special thanks to our venue partner - Sevika Tech.

Time : 4:00 - 6 :00 PM

Little Late Post but full of gratitude for the 2023..


It was a great opportunity for Crooze App to be the part of 40 Fitness, Health & Wellness startups cohort pitching at the 

#FitPitch during TheFitExpo at Kolkata in first week of December.
Thanks to Aaquib Hussain and his wonderful team at FreeFlow Ventures for seamless execution and amazing experience for all of us.. and most importantly making us meet all the founders who are building to make India Fit & Healthy..
Which is by far the most difficult task for anyone.. to make people work towards their fitness and health.. and on the top of it make a sustainable business around it..
Hats off to all the amazing founders I met there - Shweta Thakur Dishita Choudhary Srishti Srivastava Swagatika Priyambada Vishal Nigam, Building WTF , Modernizing Gyms Sahil Pruthi Vipen Jain Manti Pathak Vivek Krishna Karishma Chavan Prapa G. Nilashis Roy Pratik Saraogi Amith Vir @amit k.
@Sriram G from The Whole Truth Foods

it was great catch up with amazing friends from the ecosystem Eashita Maheshwary Vasishta Chary and meeting a great team member of Crooze Deepjoy Ghosh 😊

May the fitness startups tribe go bigger and bigger as we need many more solutions and the market the really big with pie for all ✌️

There can’t be anything better than  interacting with 150+ young aspiring New India on entrepreneurship & gaining excellence on eve of 75th Republic Day at St Xavier’s college in #Ahmedabdad! 

Nadeem Jafri of @Heartymart, @jatin10 of @eChaiVentures and yours truly shared learnings & unlearnings of life.  

Three things we emphasised on 
- create opportunities for yourself, don’t wait for opportunities
-  be a OG in your chosen field. 
-  read, read and read. Be a Voice. 

#RepublicDay2024

Intellectual Properties are so fascinating. Most of us relate the unique creations to revenue streams, asset building, opportunities to license or ways to curb competition.

Well, for some, they are the only identity and legacy that families wear as a badge of pride.

MotiMahal, an iconic restaurant in Delhi, and most famous for it’s world-admired recipes like ButterChicken and DalMakhani is now in legal battle with a competing restaurant Daryaganj for misusing its website and restaurant layout, and claims over the creation of these iconic dishes.

Interestingly, while it is relatively new in business, owners Jaggis relate to original Moti Mahal owners trio - Kundan Lal Gujral, Kundan Lal Jaggi and Thakur Das Magu.

The matter is with the Delhi High Court, and it would be interesting to see how it unfolds. 

Story by Aditya Kalra and Arpan Chaturvedi at Thomson Reuters, worth a read!!

https://www.reuters.com/world/india/who-invented-butter-chicken-indian-judge-rule-dispute-over-global-favourite-2024-01-24/

Wizzy.ai launched query based CTR and Conversions ratios for top trending searchs.

We did pilot of this feature to optimise top search queries in selected brands of India with an estimate sales of ~$10m a month in all together. Deep efforts by our team helped all of these brands to improve query conversion in range of 13% to 27%.

Our feature impacted and in total generated extra sales of ~$1.8m for all of these brands.

Had an amazing time at the eChai Ventures fundraising social meet-up, where a small group of founders came together to discuss their fundraising & exit journeys.

From navigating the complexities of pitch meetings to overcoming unexpected hurdles, the discussions were rich with valuable insights.

Jatin Chaudhary | Amit Panchal | Yash Shah | Bhavesh Patel | Syed Nadeem Jafri | Koumal Kalantry | Bhavik Makwana | Aalap Sanghvi | Harsha Bhurani | Shalin (Shawn) Parikh | Mitesh Shethwala | Faraz Wadhwania

Learnt so much from a very inspiring talk last week!
 
Thank you Saurabh Garg of the famed unicorn NoBroker, for sharing your valuable guidance for how Biziverse can also accelerate towards becoming a unicorn! 😊

Thank you very much eChai Ventures and VentureStudio for facilitating such valuable interactions!

“Valay, we got our first cheque”

I remember saying these words, full of excitement & somewhat emotional.

It was 31st Dec, New Year's Eve, almost a decade back. That evening was like stepping into a new life for us.  (Me & my younger brother and Co-Founder Valay)

Entigrity wasn't just a dream anymore; it became a reality.

But before getting this first check, I went on to meet 300+ CPAs/accountants door to door and well nobody wanted to trust us.(Offshoring back then was like rocket science). Also we were new, I probably didn’t know how to present myself.

Each meeting was a story in itself, filled with hope and often met with a polite, yet firm 'no.' With each ‘no’ you feel like giving up. But someone within was not ready to quit, maybe that someone was immensely scared of being tagged as failure in life, (That fear of failure probably kept me going).

Jack Owens, CPA out of Orlando, FL after the 2nd meeting told me that “Shawn, I like you buddy let’s get started” And that’s how he wrote us our first check. A 68 year old CPA trusted us and became our first client.

I will always remain deeply grateful to Jack for that trust and belief that he kept on us. Thank you would never be enough to express my gratitude to him. Jack and his team still continue to work with us.

Never forget people who have put early faith in you when you were nobody. Those people might hold no significance to your size of work and stature today but, I always believed that “Don't forget those who supported you when you were nothing”.

This is where the journey of Entigrity started for me in the US and for my brother & Co-founder Valay in India.

I learned that sometimes being naive is an asset. It allows you to see possibilities where others see dead ends.
When everyone around me said, especially some of my relatives in the US, "It's the holiday season, nobody's going to sign up now, people don’t work ” I chose to listen to the voice that mattered most - my own.

It’s with Immense pride I would say that Entigrity's first cheque wasn't signed by a venture capitalist or an angel investor, but by a CPA and that too on the eve of New Year.

Looking back, I'm overwhelmed with gratitude. Grateful to every CPA & Accountant 

- Who partnered with Entigrity and reposed their trust on us.
- Even those who started but couldn’t continue to work with us.
And lastly who said ‘No’ to us,
- Looking back I would say we got lucky in more ways than we could have ever Imagined.

One such luck was getting your First Cheque from a CPA and not from VC/Angel Investor. 

(In fact, in early days of Entigrity whenever we went to raise some money, we never got it. With the benefit of hindsight, it was a blessing in disguise. Today at this stage fortunately a lot of people are ready to invest in us. Life is strange when you needed them the most nobody gave you and now when you don't really need everyone is ready to write a check). 

Congratulations to

Yash Shah

  and

Anupama Panchal

, Co-Founders on the successful acquisition of Clientjoy the operating system for agencies. Your dedication and the impact of your SaaS-based CRM in facilitating this achievement are truly commendable.

Wishing you continued success in your endeavours.

Thank you

Jatin Chaudhary

 for inviting at eChai Social event.

In mid 1998 I had joined a vernacular daily based out of Madhya Pradesh, as a resident sales executive in Ahmedabad. Post MBA, this was my first job. As a trainee I was recruited at a salary not worthy of mentioning here. It was my first week in the office, and I was required to pick up my director from the airport and take him to a prominent communications school of Ahmedabad. He was invited by the institute to deliver a lecture on the success story of the newspaper launch in the neighbouring state. 

For a novice and non-entity sharing a dias with my director, I went through mixed emotions. This was a time when power points hadn’t conquered the boardrooms and professionals relied on slide presentations - which were transparencies projected on the screen through a slider. My role was to ensure that the slides were kept in the right order. I had no role in the razzmatazz of the presentation which made me feel small and irrelevant. At the same time, it ignited a fire in me and took my aspirations to new high. Now I wanted to be in the boardrooms of these schools, delivering sessions on my entrepreneurial journey.

Finally, I was invited on 1st October 2019 to be a speaker at #IIMA in The Red Brick Summit, prior to this I had the opportunity to take guest sessions at the #IIMA couple of times and I was also a speaker at their MDP Program. 

But #TRBS experience gave me a new kick as I was on the same platform where many thought leaders and successful entrepreneurs delivered their ideas in the past. And it also made me realise that if you aspire high you achieve new heights. Keep your aspirations high in life and strive hard and you would conquer.