Bengaluru Startup Meetup

Happened on August 16, Saturday, 2025
6:00pm — 08:00pm (GMT+05:30)
Draper Startup House Koramangala
66 slots booked.
Mansi Baheti - Community & Operations, Draper Startup House Deepak Shiri - Freelancer Mugilan Sakthivel - Software product engineer Akanksha Kumar - Investor Eshwar Kumar - Senior SaaS Applications Admin Damodar  Hegde - AI Engineer, Zigment.ai Aditya Singh Rathore - Founder, Kick N Dare Pankaj Kumar - Senior AI Delivery Lead at Shell Ramaprasath Appaiah - Lead Software Engineer, CES Information Technologies Dhrumil Shah - Co-Organiser of GDG Ahmedabad, A Passionate Android Developer, A Techno-Freak, Great Sense of Humour (People Used to Say), Funky Guy :) Ashwani . - MiniOrange Securities Narayan Sai - Founder Rohan Verma - Growth Marketer, Neon Fund Rahul C - Founder's Office Intern at Klyra Innovations Nageshwar Singh - Co-Founder, Redforest Sanjeev Tripurari - Co-Founder - BintyByte Technologies Rainy Jain - Founder, Passionett Ashish Sharief - Founder, The Forge Academy Chihnitha Bestha - Co-Founder BegiNet Salman Baig - Apvision Technologies Aman Khatri - Product Designer Mohamed Nauman - Gen ai specialist Vishal Kumar Jha - Student Christ University Bengaluru Sanib Shaikh - Odoo Engineer Ankit Varsaney - Co-Founder, SympliChain Technology Private Limited srivatsan dashkana - Founder Akheel Sajjan - Senior Software Engineer Ashlin D cruz - Business Development Officer , Mikado Design Studio Nishant Singhal - Head - Data & Analytics Obulesh B - Founder, Cyber saviours Sourav Kanjilal - Data Engineering Lead, Tech Tiera Amar Doshi - Founder, Brixar13 Innovations Private Limited Bhanu Prakash Rao - Partner Sanjay S - Founder, PitchXP Sonika Mishra - Explorer Riteesh chowdary - Business Consultant in AI Solutions Manasa Rachakatla - BDE- Anritsu India DEBASISH PRADHAN - Asst.General Manager, Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) SHREESHAIL SWAMI - Stress Engineer Kusum sharma  - Founder of Shaarvari Raghavendra V G - Partner, Vijalapura Infrastructure Sujoy Bag - Leading Innovation Hub for Greater Asia Region, HP Aravind Sankaran - Head of Hero Fincorp, South - Structured Finance Adarsh Singh - SDE at Anonimo Tanuj Suthar - CEO @HealCompass India Pvt. Lt.d | Founder @Psychophilics Rahul Venkat - Engineer Arijit Sengupta - Full Stack Developer Dhrumil Joshi - Senior AI Engineer Samarth Gupta - Software Engineer, Eightfold Abhishek Shubhrant - Program Manager Aditya Sanwariya - Business analyst Uday Sankar - Cyber saviors Tejas Pavan - Co-Founder Jeeva Anandan - Senior Manager-HR Tanishq Gopani - Video editor,tharun speaks Shriraj Thakare - Data Scientist at DTICI Shree Harsha - Analyst Prabhav Pathak - Founder, 9x9 Digital Devesh Jetwani - E-commerce Marketing Specialist, Position2
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Agenda:

eChai Ventures is hosting the next Bengaluru Startup Meetup featuring a candid panel conversation with founders and operators building from the ground up.


The conversation will explore early wins, go-to-market challenges, team building, fundraising, and what it really takes to grow a startup in today’s ecosystem.


Beyond the panel, the meetup brings together a community of founders, operators, and startup folks to exchange ideas, share experiences, and meet others building in the ecosystem.

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