Building and Scaling on Ecommerce : Ahmedabad Edition

Name: Building and Scaling on Ecommerce : Ahmedabad Edition
Start: 2026-05-22T18:30:00+05:30
End: 2026-05-22T20:30:00+05:30
Location: GUSEC, Atal-Kalam Research Park Building, University Area, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380009.

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Friday, 22 May, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

GUSEC, Atal-Kalam Research Park Building, University Area, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380009.

Ahmedabad

About

Ecommerce in India has moved past the marketplace and D2C boom phase. Customer acquisition is harder, margins are thinner, and the basics of brand building matter again. At the same time, more founders from outside pure consumer brands are looking at ecommerce as a serious channel to add, whether they are coming from services, manufacturing, B2B, or offline retail. This session brings founders together for an honest conversation on what it takes to build and scale on ecommerce today. The room gets into picking the right channel mix across marketplaces, D2C, and quick commerce, getting to the first 1,000 customers, unit economics, paid and organic mix, building repeat purchase, working with manufacturers and supply chains, handling returns, and scaling revenue meaningfully. Open to founders already running ecommerce, D2C, and consumer brands, and also to founders from other categories thinking about adding ecommerce as a channel. Useful for anyone trying to figure out whether the channel fits their business and how to build it without burning capital. Format is conversational. A few founders share what they are working on, the rest of the room jumps in with questions and notes from their own building. Bring a problem you are sitting on, leave with sharper ways to think about it.

Hosts & speakers

Speaker

Anuj Dalal

Founder & CEO · Zestard

Who was there

Ayyan Karmakar

Founder · TAFCO

Abbas Kapasi

Founder · The 2x Mission

Arjav Shah

Founder · Impixal Media

Hetul Patel

Business Manager · Dirghah Capital Pvt. Ltd.

Piyush Patel

CEO · Dropit

Prem Patel

Founder at Nex Automations. I build AI-powered workflows & systems for growing teams. · Nex Automations

Puja Patel

Freelancer · Education

Satyen Engineer

Founder · Yhonk Tech Pvt Ltd

Sumit Kasardekar

Founder · The Harsmit Ventures

Business Development Specialist · No

Ritesh Patel

Founder · Tech

Sunny Bhuva

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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.