Ahmedabad Startup Day — Where the City’s Entrepreneurial Spirit Comes Alive
Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad Startup Day — Where the City’s Entrepreneurial Spirit Comes Alive

June 21, Saturday, 2025
5:00pm — 09:00pm (GMT+05:30)
iHub Gujarat, Prajna Puram, KCG Campus, opp. PRL, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380015.
379 slots booked.
Agenda:
eChai Ventures and iHub Gujarat are hosting Ahmedabad Startup Day. It’s a city-wide gathering of founders, investors, enablers, and startup folks coming together to connect, learn, and share.

The evening will feature six parallel tracks focused on key themes:

> Building Consumer Brands
> FinTech 
> AI x SaaS
> Hardware Startups
> Investor Roundtable
> Marketing for Startups

Each track will bring together founders and operators who are shaping these sectors through hands-on experience and experimentation. After the track sessions, everyone will come together to share key takeaways and insights.

The Investor Roundtable is open to active startup investors and key ecosystem enablers.

Participants are welcome to join any of the other tracks based on their interest and focus area.

The evening will close with an open dinner, bringing together all attendees and ecosystem enablers for deeper conversations and new connections.

If you’re building, investing, or simply staying close to the action — this is where the Ahmedabad startup community meets.

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Agenda:

> 5:00 pm to 5:30 pm – Registrations and informal networking
> 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm – Individual track sessions
> 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm – Common gathering and shared insights
> 8:00 pm onwards – Dinner with founders, investors, and key ecosystem leaders
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