eChai's been bringing founders together since 2009. Manila's chapter is just coming online on the new platform. Put Manila on your profile to show up here, invite a founder you know in the city, or meet founders from across the network meanwhile.
Across eChai
Founders from Manila are still joining the new platform. While that ramps up, here are founders from across eChai worth saying hi to.
Building eChai Ventues
About Co-founder, Bootstrapped, in DevTools / infra and Web3.
Hoping to meet Product leaders, Growth & marketing leaders, and Founders & operators in my city.
About Founder and Solo founder, Pre-revenue / pre-PMF and Seed, in SaaS and E-commerce / retail.
Hoping to meet Capital for my next round, Founders past $1M ARR, Founders with US / global reach, Bootstrapped, profitable founders, Growth & marketing leaders, and People obsessed with AI workflows.
Went to eChai AI Soundboard · 9 Jun
Building eChai.Ventures
About Co-founder, Bootstrapped and Profitable, in Media / creator.
Hoping to meet Engineering leaders / CTOs, Product leaders, Growth & marketing leaders, and People obsessed with AI workflows.
Pinned eChai.Ventures
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.
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
About Co-founder, Pre-product (building), in SaaS + Vertical SaaS + AI/ML.
Hoping to meet Capital for my next round, Growth & marketing leaders, and People obsessed with AI workflows.
Going to AI x Marketing · 12 Jun
Hoping to meet Enterprise / GCC buyer intros, Senior hires for my team, Founders past $1M ARR, Founders with US / global reach, Engineering leaders / CTOs, and People obsessed with AI workflows.
Hoping to meet Enterprise / GCC buyer intros.
Went to eChai Soundboard · 8 Jun
About Founder and Engineer / builder, Pre-revenue / pre-PMF and Seed, in SaaS + D2C / consumer + E-commerce / retail.
Hoping to meet A co-founder, Senior hires for my team, and Growth & marketing leaders.
Network
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.
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