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Headquartered in Udaipur; India's (and the world's) largest integrated zinc-lead-silver producer, a subsidiary of Vedanta Ltd. Operates the giant Rampura Agucha mine plus Zawar (Udaipur dist.) mines and the ...
Technology Business Incubator (incorporated 2016) at IIM Udaipur, backed by DST-NSTEDB. Runs cohort programs ('Launch n Zoom', Women-in-Tech accelerator) and a Startup India Seed Fund; portfolio startups hav...
Udaipur node (Govt. of Rajasthan)
State-government startup platform with a presence in Udaipur alongside other Rajasthan cities, offering grants, mentorship, iStart nest incubation and government procurement access (e-Bazaar) to local founde...
Singhal family (founder P.P. Singhal; Salil Singhal, Chairman Emeritus)
Origins in Udaipur as Mewar Oil & General Mills (1946), later Pesticides India / PI Industries — now a listed agri-sciences and custom-synthesis (agrochemical) major. Its Udaipur unit is converted into an R&...
Government-of-Rajasthan mining PSU headquartered at 4 Meera Marg, Udaipur. Mines and markets rock phosphate (notably Jhamarkotra, Udaipur dist. — a major Indian rock-phosphate source), plus limestone, gypsum...
Iconic luxury heritage hotel on an island in Lake Pichola, operated by IHCL (Taj). Not Udaipur-HQ'd (part of the Mumbai-based Tata/IHCL group) but a marquee property that anchors Udaipur's high-end tourism a...
Ultra-luxury lakeside resort on Lake Pichola, run by EIH/Oberoi Group (Delhi-HQ). Not Udaipur-HQ'd; included as a flagship of the city's luxury-tourism and MICE/wedding economy. Alongside Taj and the Leela/T...
(Udaipur)
Early-stage enterprise 'AI workforce' SaaS positioning itself around automating operations to cut client OPEX; small team (~11-50). Representative of the nascent AI-SaaS activity emerging from Udaipur; scale...
Amar Singh Chouhan
Established Aug 2022. Emerging Udaipur IT-services company led by founder Amar Singh Chouhan, with roots in SEO/digital marketing expanding into broader web/IT services. Small, early-stage services shop.
(edtech founders, Udaipur)
AI-powered 'ready-to-teach' edtech SaaS ecosystem for private tutors and small/mid-size tuition businesses — freemium tools for teaching management, student-learning personalization and operational automatio...
Udaipur-HQ data-management, analytics and BPO/tech-services firm supporting growing companies with content, data and process operations. One of the larger genuinely Udaipur-based tech employers; bootstrapped...
Udaipur-HQ D2C fashion brand (men's-led casual apparel), founded 2017. Raised ~$4.89M Series A in 2023 and a strategic investment from the Abu Dhabi royal office (Sheikh Tahnoon Bin Saeed Al Nahyan). ~3M+ cu...
Local chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs, one of the more active TiE chapters in Rajasthan. Delivers mentoring, networking, education, incubation and funding connects across the five TiE pillars, plus programs like TYE (youth entrepreneu...
Udaipur node of the Government of Rajasthan's iStart Nest incubator network, run under the Department of IT & Communication. Offers free/subsidised incubation seats, mentoring, and links to state grants and investors for early-stage star...
Engineering college under Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture & Technology (MPUAT), the city's strongest technical institution and talent pipeline. Runs incubation/innovation support, an entrepreneurship cell, and PRISM-linked supp...
Southern Rajasthan's largest state university (est. 1962), covering a broad set of faculties. Operates a campus incubation centre to help students launch ventures, and its Faculty of Management Studies runs startup-ecosystem panels and e...
Private university (est. 2010, PAHER Society) whose Entrepreneurship & Incubation Cell runs alumni-founder interactions, startup-opportunity sessions and student incubation support through Pacific Institute of Management. Activity is edu...
Private residential university founded by the JK Cement group, located ~40 km east of Udaipur city near Bhatewar. Its research and incubation centres work with industry to develop technologies and foster entrepreneurial thinking among st...
Rajasthan's flagship integrated startup platform (registration, DPIIT/state recognition, grants, QRATE assistance, market access, iStart Nest incubators). Headquartered in Jaipur but the core policy/scheme layer every Udaipur founder plu...
State industrial development corporation providing land, industrial sheds and infrastructure. In Udaipur it administers industrial areas (Mewar, Kaladwas, Madri) hosting MSME clusters — stone processing, mineral grinding, general enginee...
Government of India (Ministry of MSME) institute providing project profiles, techno-economic and managerial consultancy, market/economic surveys and entrepreneurship/skill programs for MSMEs. Flagged: the institute is headquartered in Ja...
National coworking-cum-accelerator brand (founded 2017, Ahmedabad) that opened a ~25,000 sq ft, ~300-seat space in Udaipur. Beyond desks it runs hackathons, seminars and industry events and positions itself as a startup accelerator, givi...
Home-grown Udaipur coworking space serving entrepreneurs, freelancers, startups and creators, with memberships from ~₹3,500/month and day passes available. One of the more established local (non-chain) shared-office options in the city.
Local Udaipur coworking hub in Shobhagpura offering flexible plans aimed at early-stage founders and solo operators who want to try coworking before a long-term commitment. Small, community-oriented space.
One of the first coworking spaces in Udaipur, run as a coworking + book-cafe hybrid. Doubles as a venue for meetups, community events and interactive sessions, giving the local founder/creator community an informal gathering point rather...
Private workspace/office-solutions provider marketing an incubation-centre and managed-office offering in Udaipur (fit-outs, plug-and-play seats, meeting infrastructure). More of a serviced-workspace/facilities play than a mentorship-dri...
eChai's Udaipur chapter is part of the free, open founder network eChai has run since 2009 (founded in Ahmedabad by Jatin Chaudhary & Kunal Chaudhari, now 25+ cities). In Udaipur it brings founders, operators, students and enablers toget...
One of the earliest traced eChai Udaipur outings — co-hosted with D2C brand Beyoung at its HQ. Growth-stage founders from the community shared insights and mixed with early-stage builders. Speakers: Kunjpreet Arora (Angirus), Piyush Jain...
A small, curated gathering of founder friends from the Udaipur community to connect, share and collaborate — the intimate end of the eChai format. Nine builders featured, including Ajay Prajapat (Apple), Saurabh Patwari (Rajasthan Super ...
eChai Demo Days run monthly-style in Udaipur — a platform for promising startups from the community to present their ventures, get early feedback and engage with founders, enablers and the wider community. Hosted by Ritwik Joshi at DevX....
A candid panel meetup with founders and operators building from the ground up — early wins, go-to-market, team building and fundraising — followed by open networking. Part of eChai's steady 2025 Udaipur cadence at DevX, free and open to ...
Candid founder-and-operator panel on what it really takes to grow a startup today, plus community networking. Featured Ritwik Joshi (Ability Advocacy, Genie AI Canada). Recurring eChai Udaipur format at DevX — open, free, and community-f...
A women-focused edition of the eChai Founders Meetup — founder stories, idea-validation and relationship-building over open networking with chai and coffee. Welcomes founders at any stage plus ecosystem supporters. Signals eChai Udaipur ...
A distinct and notably vibrant TiE chapter (separate from TiE Rajasthan/Jaipur), built on the five TiE pillars — mentoring, networking, education, incubation, funding. Held its 2024-25 AGM with plans for an incubation/pre-acceleration pr...
South Rajasthan's premier business association (est. 1965), spanning manufacturing to tourism. Runs seminars, training, roundtables, award ceremonies and job fairs, and co-organized the first Rajasthan International Trade Expo (RITEX 202...
TiE Udaipur's annual flagship conference gathering founders, investors and mentors — the chapter's marquee networking-and-education event, a signal of an active, self-sustaining local TiE presence.
Co-founders, Beyoung
Two of the four co-founders of Beyoung, Udaipur's best-funded D2C fashion brand (founded 2017 with Shivam Soni and Shankar Mali). Shivani Soni has publicly represented the company on building a D2C brand fro...
Founder, Sadhna (women-artisan enterprise)
Founded Sadhna in 1988 as a 15-woman collective that has grown to 600-700+ women artisans producing tie-dye, applique and textile products. It is an artisan-owned social enterprise where surplus flows back t...
The most locally-rooted women-entrepreneur body in the city, running events and support to help Udaipur women entrepreneurs solve business problems. Unlike the national networks, UWCCI is Udaipur-specific, m...
Coverage layer for women entrepreneurs. UCCI (Udaipur Chamber of Commerce & Industry, est. 1965) is South Rajasthan's primary business body and hosts local activity. FLO (FICCI Ladies Organisation) and WICCI...
Udaipur's talent and incubation spine. CTAE, the engineering college under MPUAT, supplies most of the local engineering graduates, Mohanlal Sukhadia University anchors general higher education for southern Rajasthan, and IIM Udaipur's incubation centre at Balicha runs the cohort programmes and the Startup India Seed Fund money.
1 company 5 coworking
Strong in Incubator/Ecosystem
The city's expansion frontier on the northern edge, newer than the old core and greener. Gated development and serviced apartments here draw remote workers and visiting teams, and the belt has picked up office and IT services space along with them. Orbkraft's coworking space is in Shobhagpura.
1 company 1 coworking
Strong in workation, remote-work
Udaipur's economic signature. The lakes and palaces carry the hotel, wedding and F&B economy the city is known for, with the HRH group's heritage properties, the Taj Lake Palace on Pichola and the Oberoi Udaivilas all here. The same waterfront havelis and cafes double as informal workspaces for the founders and remote teams who base themselves in the city.
3 companies
Strong in Hospitality/Tourism
Answers about the Udaipur startup scene
What does the startup ecosystem in Udaipur look like?
Smaller than its reputation and honest about it. The real weight in Udaipur is mining and minerals, manufacturing and tourism, and the venture backed layer on top is a handful of companies rather than a crowd. What it does have is a working community, a state incubator, IIM Udaipur's incubation centre and a coworking scene that has grown quickly. The companies list above shows who is building what, filterable by vertical.
Who are the best known startups from Udaipur?
Three have raised institutional money from the city. Beyoung, the D2C apparel brand founded in 2017, has raised around $5.65 million. GoodDot, founded in 2016, took the first VC cheque into Indian plant based meat. SkinInspired, a dermaceutical skincare brand started in 2022, raised a Rs 24 crore Series A. WoodenStreet was founded by an Udaipur family and is often called an Udaipur company, though it is registered in Jaipur now.
Which are the top startup verticals in Udaipur?
IT services, SaaS and D2C lead among the smaller companies, sitting on a base of mining and minerals, manufacturing and hospitality that is much larger in revenue and headcount. Use the vertical chips above to browse the companies in each.
Is Udaipur a good base for a remote founder or a small team?
It has become one. Living costs are well below the metros, broadband in the urban pockets is good, and the co-living stays and cafes around the lakes work as informal workspaces alongside the managed spaces in the city. That workation pull is what brings in founders who have no other reason to be in Rajasthan, and it is the most distinctive thing Udaipur offers early teams.
What are the best startup events and meetups in Udaipur?
The upcoming events block above is live: RSVP to the next Udaipur meetup. eChai's events are free and open, and beyond them TiE Udaipur runs TiECon Udaipur, IIM Udaipur's incubation centre and its Saksham cell run Prarambh and the Startup Showcase and Pitch Day, and the state runs its iStart Ideathon here.
Which incubators and coworking spaces are in Udaipur?
iStart Nest, the Rajasthan government's incubator, sits near the Collectorate and offers free or subsidised seats, and IIM Udaipur's incubation centre at Balicha is the heavyweight, running cohort programmes and Startup India Seed Fund money. CTAE has the strongest engineering side of it. On coworking, DevX runs a roughly 300 seat space at Paras Prime, with Habitus in Hiran Magri from around Rs 3,500 a month, Orbkraft in Shobhagpura and House of Words as the older coworking and book cafe hybrid.
Are there investors and VCs in Udaipur?
No fund is headquartered here. Early stage capital reaches founders in Udaipur through state schemes such as iStart and the Startup India Seed Fund, through IIM Udaipur's incubation centre, and through national networks and investors based in Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru. TiE Udaipur is the strongest local founder and investor connector, and the Rajasthan Angel Investors Network co-sponsors Prarambh at IIM Udaipur. The investors section below lists what is active locally.
How do I join the startup community in Udaipur?
eChai is free and open: pick an upcoming Udaipur event above, RSVP, and walk in. Meetups run at DevX on the fifth floor of Paras Prime in Railway Colony, and have since 2022. There is no application or membership fee, and first time founders and people who have been at it for years end up in the same conversation.
New to Udaipur's startup scene? Start here.
eChai runs free, open founder meetups in Udaipur at DevX. No membership, no fee, just show up. RSVP to the next one and meet the people building the city.
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