eChai's been bringing founders together since 2009. Melbourne's chapter is just coming online on the new platform. Put Melbourne 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 Melbourne are still joining the new platform. While that ramps up, here are founders from across eChai worth saying hi to.
About Founder, Pre-seed and Seed, in Agritech.
Hoping to meet Angel / seed investors for my startup and Connect to milk federations or large diary brands.
Going to Scaling Food Brands: Growth, Franchising, and Operations - Vadodara Edition · 13 Jun
Hoping to meet Intros to paying customers.
Going to Scaling Food Brands: Growth, Franchising, and Operations - Pune Edition · 13 Jun
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
About Co-founder, Profitable, in Media / creator.
Hoping to meet Enterprise / GCC buyer intros, Founders past $1M ARR, People obsessed with AI workflows, and Founders & operators in my city.
Pinned digipple.com
Going to AI x Manufacturing · 19 Jun
About Founder, Bootstrapped, in Climate / clean energy + Mobility / EV + Media / creator.
Hoping to meet Angel / seed investors for my startup.
Going to Scaling Food Brands: Growth, Franchising, and Operations - Ahmedabad edition · 13 Jun
Building AI that reads any health document and turns it into clinical intelligence.
About Co-founder, Seed, in AI/ML and Healthtech.
Hoping to meet Enterprise / GCC buyer intros and Founders with US / global reach.
Going to Scaling Food Brands: Growth, Franchising, and Operations - Noida Edition · 13 Jun
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.
Going to Scaling Food Brands: Growth, Franchising, and Operations - Noida Edition · 13 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
Going to Scaling Food Brands: Growth, Franchising, and Operations - Bengaluru Edition · 13 Jun
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.
eChai Ventures partners with select brands as their growth partner. Together we explore new ideas, open doors, and build momentum across the startup ecosystem.
