eChai works with select brands as their growth partner

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.

What a year inside eChai does for your brand.

Most founders who come in as partner brands are already deeply engaged across eChai. A partnership is a year inside the network, and this is what it comes with.

Who you meet

  • Founders here get to know you.

    Over the year, founders across our cities keep running into you: at the events, in the series, on the pages they read through the week. They learn your name first, then your work, then what you are good at. So when one of them needs what you do, they come straight to you. And when somebody asks around for it, yours is the name that comes up.

  • When there is somebody you should know, we connect you.

    After seventeen years of gatherings, we have some context: who people are, what they have built, who they work with. Tell us who you are trying to reach, or we come to you when the right person shows up. Where an introduction helps, we make it, with your story and why you two should talk. And if you just need the background, we share what we know and you take it ahead.

  • You get invited to the events that are relevant to you.

    Something is happening every week across our cities: open houses, demo days, the AI sessions, FailCode, the curated socials, the smaller dinners. Some are open to everyone, and some are by invitation, depending on the format and who is in it. 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 on your story, your brand, and your business.

    We go through how you are telling your story, what your brand says to somebody new, and what is getting in the way. We do this one to one, more than once in the year. We have heard a few thousand founders by now and the patterns repeat, so you hear fairly quickly what is working, what is not, and what we would change first.

  • We share what AI has changed for us, with your team.

    Almost everything we build at eChai now has AI in the workflow. It is how a small team shipped everything it did this year. We sit with your team and go through what we tried, what worked, and what wasted our time. You take whatever is useful, and then we connect you to founders further along than us.

  • Whenever you want to know something, just ask.

    Every week, across twenty five cities, we hear what founders are building, what they recommend to each other, and what they have moved on from. Twice a year we sit down with you and go through what it means for your category. In between, ask whenever something comes up. We answer, and when we do not know, we find a founder friend who does.

Where your name runs

  • Your brand runs across everything eChai publishes, for the full year.

    Your page is on echai.ventures, and it stays up after the year ends. The block of partner logos under every page on eChai carries your mark: on the city pages, the event pages, the stories founders read through the week. Your name runs through our channels on LinkedIn, Instagram and X too.

  • You take part in the series we run online.

    We run series online through the year: How Founders Use AI, the founder conversations, the long reads. You come in where you have something real to say, like how you built your sales team, what you learned about pricing, or what AI changed in your operations. Founders remember the person who taught them something.

  • You are on eChai as a founder, not only as a brand.

    You have a founder profile on eChai, alongside founders you already know. You are in the founder directory, you are on the roster of every event you attend, and what you write here goes up under your own name. That is how your company gets a face here, and a face is what founders remember.

  • You carry the mark, stamped with the year you started.

    The verified tick goes on your eChai profile, and your company's mark appears beside your name across eChai: on the rosters, in the directory, under what you write. You get the mark for your own site and your signatures too, and access to Founder Notes, where founders across our cities write about what they are building.

The brands working with us.

The founders behind them.

If you are a growth stage founder and you want to come in as a partner brand, write to me at [email protected]. The brand fee starts at Rs. 1 lakh a year. An affiliate share runs alongside it, linked to the outcomes we drive together. Both carry GST.

Jatin ChaudharyCo-founder, eChai Ventures