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All About Fund Raising

Name: All About Fund Raising
Start: 2017-05-13T23:00:00+05:30
End: 2017-05-14T02:00:00+05:30
Location: Ahmedabad Management AssociationATIRA Campus, Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Marg

Happened

Saturday, 13 May 2017, 11 pm - 2 am

Ahmedabad Management AssociationATIRA Campus, Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Marg

Ahmedabad

About

A business without a funding source will flounder under the weight of its own debt. Funding is the fuel on which a business runs. A business can take different avenues to attain funding, and more than one option can be used. The chosen funding will depend on the business' desire to be in debt, how solvent the business owners are at the time the business is founded and the amount of money a business will need to launch and maintain itself through a variety of events. With 3 editions of Headstart’s "How to Start a Startup" National series behind us covering, we turn our attention to another vital issue, that the team and the founders at multiple stages of their startup journey face, The Art and Science of Fundraising. To combat this and help our fellow entrepreneurs, the theme for the May edition of the 6-month long series is, All About Fund Raising. This edition will see Venture capitalists and investors come in and talk about how startups can raise funds, what are the basic requisites for startups to pitch for funds and much more. To get all your Fundraising related queries solved and understand the thought process behind the great investments on startups, book your seats NOW!! Speakers: Mr. Pulkit Bacchawat, Founder, Right Pillar Advisor (CA, Investment Banker) Mr. Pulkit Bacchawat, A chartered accountant by profession, is a founder of Right Pillar Advisors. Previously, he has worked with intensive fiscal services private limited for five years as an Investment Banker. He has skills and expertise in corporate finance, financial analysis, capital markets and everything related to the finance world. He has done 30 plus M & A, Group Restructuring for companies. He was part of 3 IPO's on BSE & NSE's main bourse & 3 SME Ipo's on BSE. He has issued several Valuation Reports, Due Diligence Report, Raised Debt for Corporates in Total of plus 300 crores. Mr. Suraj Vazirani, Co-Founder & CEO at DSYH Mr. Suraj Vazirani is a renowned name in E-Commerce Seller Ecosystem. With over 15 years of experience, Suraj is the CEO of Maniacstore.com, GetyBo – Get Your Business Online and recent venture being DSYH – Don’t Scratch Your Head – which is India’s 1st S-a-a-S into Ecommerce Reconciliation Software. Suraj is also the President of All India Online Vendors Association (AIOVA) which is a 1500+ member community of E-Commerce Sellers across India. With strong domain expertise, Suraj is foraying quickly into becoming one of the young turks of India setting up a global impact on E-Commerce with DSYH. Mr. Arvind Modi Vice President (Investments & Fund Raise) - Gujarat Venture Finance Limited? Arvind handles investments in various sectors including IT, M-Commerce, Education, Clean Technology and Manufacturing sectors. His other responsibilities include Deal Sourcing, working closely with Investee Companies and Divestment. Prior to joining GVFL, Arvind has worked with HSBC where he was part of Credit Risk Management Team. He also has a significant exposure in project finance for a reputed manufacturing company. He has over ten years of experience in Venture Capital, Investment Banking and Project Financing. A Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Arvind also has a MBA in Finance from Institute of Chartered Financial Analyst of India-Hyderabad. He has undergone a "Venture Capital Development Program" at Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

Founders here come to know a few brands well.

Those are eChai’s partner brands. Over a year, founders across the network learn their names and their work, and when somebody asks around for what they do, theirs is the name that comes up.

Partner brand founders together at Zestard HQ, Ahmedabad

What a year inside eChai does for your brand.

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.

Who you meet

Founders learn your name, then your work.

Over the year they keep running into you: at the gatherings, in the series, on the pages they read through the week. So when one of them needs what you do, they come straight to you.
We introduce you to the people you want to reach.

After seventeen years of gatherings we know who has built what, and who works with whom. Tell us who you are after, or we come to you when the right person shows up, with your story and why you two should talk.
You are invited to the gatherings that fit.

Open houses, Demo Days, the AI sessions, FailCode, the curated socials and the smaller dinners, some of them by invitation. 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 with you on your story, your brand and your business.

One to one, more than once in the year. We have heard a few thousand founders, so you hear fairly quickly what is working, what is not, and what we would change first.
We take your team through what AI changed for us.

Almost everything eChai builds now has AI in the workflow. We go through what we tried, what worked and what wasted our time, and then connect you to founders further along than us.
You can ask us anything, whenever it comes up.

Every week we hear what founders are building, what they recommend to each other and what they have moved on from. Twice a year we go through what it means for your category. In between we answer, or find a founder who can.

Where your name runs

Your mark comes round under every page on eChai.

The wall of partner brands under the site's pages draws a different ten each time, so yours comes round on the city pages, the event pages and the notes founders read, all year. Your page on echai.ventures stays up after it, and your name runs through our LinkedIn, Instagram and X.
The blue tick puts you first wherever founders are listed.

The tick and your company's mark sit beside your name across eChai, and lists of founders put the blue ticks first: your city's people, the directory, and the roster of every gathering you go to, after its hosts and speakers.
Your company carries its mark on the Startup Grid.

Where your company is on a city's map of its startups, it is drawn by your mark rather than a dot, opens on your own words and pictures, and is a stop on the tour the map offers of its partner brands.
You write and speak here under your own name.

You come into the series we run online (How Founders Use AI, the founder conversations, the long reads) where you have something real to say, and you write in Founder Notes, where founders across our cities write about what they are building.

The brands working with us.

How it works.

A partnership is for growth stage founders who want to come in as a partner brand, and it runs one year at a time. The brand fee for the year is paid to eChai. An affiliate share runs alongside it, linked to the outcomes we drive together. Both carry GST.

Everything a partnership comes with

To come in as a partner brand, write to me at [email protected] and tell me what you want the year to do for your brand.