Delhi: NextUnicorn Global StartUp Battle, India Series

Name: Delhi: NextUnicorn Global StartUp Battle, India Series
Start: 2025-07-12T10:00:00+05:30
End: 2025-07-12T13:00:00+05:30
Location: IIT Delhi, R&I Park, IIT Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi – 110016.

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Saturday, 12 July 2025, 10 am - 1 pm

IIT Delhi, R&I Park, IIT Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi – 110016.

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<div>🚀 THE BATTLE FOR THE NEXT UNICORN WILL BE IN DELHI, INDIA! WE ARE ON MISSION TO BACK NEXT UNICORN STARTUP's INDIA STARTUP BATTLE SERIES:  5 Weeks, 5 Cities, 1 Champion Over the course of six weeks, the NextUnicorn team will travel to major cities across India, hosting a startup battle every Saturday. For the first five weeks, we’ll identify the top startups from each region.  At every city stop, founders will have the opportunity to pitch in front of renowned Unicorn Judges. The India Series Champion will receive funding and full backing from NextUnicorn.Fund 🎤 For Startup Battle Participants: For early-stage StartUp's (up to Pre-Series A); This is your unique opportunity to stand out from the rest.        🚀   Pitch in front of a jury of legendary startup founders     🏆   Win the prestigious “NextUnicorn Startup Award”     ✨  1st Winner gets a ₹50,000 Reward, 2nd Winner will get ₹40,000 Reward & 3rd winner will get ₹30,000 Reward    ✨  1st Winner will participate in final India Series Battle, scheduled for 26th July in Bangalore    💸   India Series Winner will get VC funding / a spot in the NextUnicorn Accelerator      🚀  Series winner will be backed by NextUnicorn.Fund     🏆 $1 million in exclusive perks and benefits, including up to $150,000 in Azure credits, Up to $10,000 DigitalOcean credits, Up to $10,000 HubSpot credits etc.,    💸 Further potential to get funded, between $200K-$700K    ✨  Get recognised by Global Funds    👉 Apply for pitching in StartUp Battle & get Funded:      Step1:     <a href="https://nextunicorn.fund/r/4Dq">https://NextUnicorn.Fund/r/4Dq </a>      Step2:    To attend event, Please use "Register" button on this page (Applications for NextUnicorn StartUp Battle will close by 1PM on the day prior to the event. If you are shortlisted for pitching in NextUnicorn Global StartUp Battle, you will be notified via Email, on or before the event date.  Visitor registrations continue to stay open till seats last) 👥 For Visitors : Want to attend and make meaningful connections?      🤝 Face-to-face time with VCs, judges, and Unicorn founders      🗣️ Pitch your idea & efforts to NextUnicorn team directly      💡 Pitch informally, gain advice, explore funding options      👉 Apply as Visitor:  Please use "Register" button on this page Join us for an electrifying startup showdown where top early-stage founders will pitch live to legendary judges and VC's.  Expect bold ideas, fierce competition, and powerful networking with investors, Unicorn founders, and ecosystem leaders. Be there to witness the rise of the next big thing! 🌍 The future Unicorns, of the world are being recognised now - be there to get recognised, pitch, or connect!</div>

🚀 THE BATTLE FOR THE NEXT UNICORN WILL BE IN DELHI, INDIA! WE ARE ON MISSION TO BACK NEXT UNICORN STARTUP's INDIA STARTUP BATTLE SERIES: 5 Weeks, 5 Cities, 1 Champion Over the course of six weeks, the NextUnicorn team will travel to major cities across India, hosting a startup battle every Saturday. For the first five weeks, we’ll identify the top startups from each region. At every city stop, founders will have the opportunity to pitch in front of renowned Unicorn Judges. The India Series Champion will receive funding and full backing from NextUnicorn.Fund 🎤 For Startup Battle Participants: For early-stage StartUp's (up to Pre-Series A); This is your unique opportunity to stand out from the rest. 🚀 Pitch in front of a jury of legendary startup founders 🏆 Win the prestigious “NextUnicorn Startup Award” ✨ 1st Winner gets a ₹50,000 Reward, 2nd Winner will get ₹40,000 Reward & 3rd winner will get ₹30,000 Reward ✨ 1st Winner will participate in final India Series Battle, scheduled for 26th July in Bangalore 💸 India Series Winner will get VC funding / a spot in the NextUnicorn Accelerator 🚀 Series winner will be backed by NextUnicorn.Fund 🏆 $1 million in exclusive perks and benefits, including up to $150,000 in Azure credits, Up to $10,000 DigitalOcean credits, Up to $10,000 HubSpot credits etc., 💸 Further potential to get funded, between $200K-$700K ✨ Get recognised by Global Funds 👉 Apply for pitching in StartUp Battle & get Funded: Step1: https://NextUnicorn.Fund/r/4Dq Step2: To attend event, Please use "Register" button on this page (Applications for NextUnicorn StartUp Battle will close by 1PM on the day prior to the event. If you are shortlisted for pitching in NextUnicorn Global StartUp Battle, you will be notified via Email, on or before the event date. Visitor registrations continue to stay open till seats last) 👥 For Visitors : Want to attend and make meaningful connections? 🤝 Face-to-face time with VCs, judges, and Unicorn founders 🗣️ Pitch your idea & efforts to NextUnicorn team directly 💡 Pitch informally, gain advice, explore funding options 👉 Apply as Visitor: Please use "Register" button on this page Join us for an electrifying startup showdown where top early-stage founders will pitch live to legendary judges and VC's. Expect bold ideas, fierce competition, and powerful networking with investors, Unicorn founders, and ecosystem leaders. Be there to witness the rise of the next big thing! 🌍 The future Unicorns, of the world are being recognised now - be there to get recognised, pitch, or connect!

Hosts & speakers

Speaker

Pras Hanuma

General Partner, NextUnicorn.Fund · San Francisco

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.