Bhubaneswar Startup Ecosystem: Founders, Events, Investors

Upcoming People

Saturday 21 November

6 pm

eChai Startup Demo Day

Ayaskanta Mohanty <div>An enterprenure , goal to make this company one of the finest organisation in the world.<br><br>Specialties: Srategic Planning , Corporate Liaisoning , Brand Building.</div>
Nishita Baliarsingh <div>The Co-Founder and CEO of Nexus Power, Nishita Baliarsingh is a dynamic leader and a sustainability enthusiast. The brand Nexus manufactures rechargeable, bio - organic and bio - degradable batteries for electric vehicles. These Eco - friendly batteries are lithium-ion free and utilize crop residue as the raw material, efficiently managing the massive farm land waste generated in India and across the globe. The interesting part is that the batteries charge 8x - 10x faster and last 20% - 30% longer than their counterparts. Nexus Power owns a provisional patent for its lab tested working proof - of - concept.<br><br>Nishita completed her Bachelor's in Business Management with marketing majors from Xavier School of Commerce, Bhubaneswar. Currently, she is pursuing CA. She has been a recipient of multiple awards for innovation in battery technology. At such a young age, she has also featured in media stories in both print and digital medium. Nishita is actively involved in guiding young aspiring entrepreneurs and has been invited as a speaker for various events as well.<br><br>Besides her entrepreneurial interests, Nishita is an amateur photographer and an adventure freak. She also takes keen interest in art, sketching, sports, music and horse riding. She strives to build a greener planet. The company also follows the same ideology and is constantly innovating to sustain! Nishita is very active when it comes to business, leadership and travel.</div>
Swosti Mishra <div>Have worked in Financial Services Company in the Position of Sales & Operation. Successfully implemented various projects on behalf of the company.<br><br>Specialties: Startup, Social Entrepreneurship, Micro Credit, Entrepreneurship, Micro Economics, Eradicating Poverty by Profits, Social Investment, Social Investor.</div>
Sony Samal <div>I believe in every possibility and this belief keeps me going. <br>I am grateful for the opportunities that came along my way & that I could make the most of them. <br><br>My life purpose has been to make everything around me more meaningful & happier, be it my work or family. I have been immensely blessed to be working with wonderful people who believed in me, my team, my partners, and of course my loved ones.<br><br>I believe, when you are passionate about something, you put in your 100% & even more than that. <br><br>My life journey has been more profound & I am grateful that I could identify my higher Purpose of doing something more meaningful & building a value-based life.<br><br>My career has grown from a Management Trainee to a Passionate Entrepreneur.<br><br>It was the sheer passion that inspired me to create opportunities and make Brand Marketing simple and worth it. From a Creative Agency in 2014 to a Full-Service Brand Marketing Agency, I have had the greatest experience of my life with “72 DPI Skillz”. <br><br>My strongest passion is serving entrepreneurs and small-business owners. With every idea and its infinite possibilities magic is created. Their passion and belief are contagious. I think that’s where I seek maximum inspiration.<br><br>Every interaction and experience has shaped me into what I am today. I strongly believe in the power of collaborations with the right people that make us the best version of ourselves.<br><br>Through this amazing platform, I look forward to connecting, supporting, and encouraging businesses, startups, and Passionate Entrepreneurs.<br><br>Let's build something better, together<br><br>Cheers!<br>Sony</div>
Debansh Das Sharma Mybrandpitch Building MyBrandPitch — helping startups become discoverable through beautiful, investor-friendly digital profiles. Too many great founders stay invisible because they don't know how to tell their story. Currently collaborating with innovation startups, incubators, and investors.
Abinash Infophy
Bosyn Private Limited Bosyn
Jagan Tripathy Sky Eye Technology Private Limited

Founders here come to know a few brands well.

Those are eChai’s partner brands. Over a year, founders across the network learn their names and their work, and when somebody asks around for what they do, theirs is the name that comes up.

Partner brand founders together at Zestard HQ, Ahmedabad

What a year inside eChai does for your brand.

Each partnership comes with presence across eChai, introductions to the right founders, and a team that stays involved through the year. And each one is shaped around what the brand wants out of it.

Who you meet

Founders learn your name, then your work.

Over the year they keep running into you: at the gatherings, in the series, on the pages they read through the week. So when one of them needs what you do, they come straight to you.
We introduce you to the people you want to reach.

After seventeen years of gatherings we know who has built what, and who works with whom. Tell us who you are after, or we come to you when the right person shows up, with your story and why you two should talk.
You are invited to the gatherings that fit.

Open houses, Demo Days, the AI sessions, FailCode, the curated socials and the smaller dinners, some of them by invitation. When one fits what you do and who you want to meet, you are on the list.

What we do with you

We sit down with you on your story, your brand and your business.

One to one, more than once in the year. We have heard a few thousand founders, so you hear fairly quickly what is working, what is not, and what we would change first.
We take your team through what AI changed for us.

Almost everything eChai builds now has AI in the workflow. We go through what we tried, what worked and what wasted our time, and then connect you to founders further along than us.
You can ask us anything, whenever it comes up.

Every week we hear what founders are building, what they recommend to each other and what they have moved on from. Twice a year we go through what it means for your category. In between we answer, or find a founder who can.

Where your name runs

Your mark comes round under every page on eChai.

The wall of partner brands under the site's pages draws a different ten each time, so yours comes round on the city pages, the event pages and the notes founders read, all year. Your page on echai.ventures stays up after it, and your name runs through our LinkedIn, Instagram and X.
The blue tick puts you first wherever founders are listed.

The tick and your company's mark sit beside your name across eChai, and lists of founders put the blue ticks first: your city's people, the directory, and the roster of every gathering you go to, after its hosts and speakers.
Your company carries its mark on the Startup Grid.

Where your company is on a city's map of its startups, it is drawn by your mark rather than a dot, opens on your own words and pictures, and is a stop on the tour the map offers of its partner brands.
You write and speak here under your own name.

You come into the series we run online (How Founders Use AI, the founder conversations, the long reads) where you have something real to say, and you write in Founder Notes, where founders across our cities write about what they are building.

The brands working with us.

How it works.

A partnership is for growth stage founders who want to come in as a partner brand, and it runs one year at a time. The brand fee for the year is paid to eChai. An affiliate share runs alongside it, linked to the outcomes we drive together. Both carry GST.

Everything a partnership comes with

To come in as a partner brand, write to me at [email protected] and tell me what you want the year to do for your brand.