At eChai Ventures, we in association with BHiVE Workspace will be hosting the first Bangalore edition of our flagship program - eChai Demo Day on 5th September, Sunday form 1.45 pm to 6 pm.

eChai Demo Day is the quarterly showcase of innovative products & ventures in front of the large entrepreneurial community. eChai Demo Day provides an opportunity to entrepreneurs, mentors, investors, professionals, and students to share, connect and collaborate with each other. eChai programs are hosted all over India in more than 50+ cities - including Ahmedabad, Indore, Udaipur, Jaipur, Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot, Delhi, Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad, Cochin, Chennai, Bhubaneswar and many others.

Earlier we launched eChai's Bangalore chapter on 30th June at Christ University where we hosted the eChai Marketing Challenge. And we hosted two edition of #CoRise Bangalore where we had many awesome entrepreneurs from Bangalore participated in these programs.

Venue : BHive Workspace, 18th D Main Road, Koramangala 6 Block, Koramangala, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560095, India

Date : 5th September, Saturday. Time : 1.45 pm - 2 pm.

More info @ http://eChai.in

You can register to demo your venture as well for our consideration.

https://echai.wufoo.com/forms/echai-demo-daybangalore-edition-bhive-workspace/

The most amazing part of the eChai programs is the kind of conversations that happen among participants and smiley balls :-)

eChai programs are open for all. No registrations required to participate in eChai programs - however you can register @ eChai.in to get connected with fellow entrepreneurs from all over the world.

eChai Demo Day ( Bangalore Edition ) is greatly supported by Momz' Space, Adynor Technologies, GyanLab, AllEvents.in & BHive Workspace.

For any queries you can contact Jatin Chaudhary, CoRiser & Salesman, eChai Venturers at [email protected] or +08238968939.

- Recently at the launch of Gujarat Government's Startup Policy program, we announced our small radical initiative - #CoRise Seed Prize - The #CoRise Seed Prize is given to a promising startup from the eChai community. 100 Entrepreneurs take a pledge to support the #CoRise Seed Prize winner - by providing the Rs. 1,00,000 seed money, by being the customer/evangelist/partner of the winning startup and leveraging their business resources to help the #CoRise Seed Prize winner succeed. More info @ http://echai.in/seedprize

- In last six months we led a delegation of diverse entrepreneurs from community to visit Singapore, Sri Lanka and Bhutan to explore the possible partnership opportunities and collaborate with various stakeholders in each of these countries. Later this year we will be leading a one more delegation to visit major countries in South East Asia.

About eChai Ventures :

eChai is an offline-online social network of entrepreneurs who believe in #CoRise — Collaboratively rising together. eChai helps entrepreneurs to connect with each other with offline events and online #corise social network. It’s a platform to share insights, to have discussions, to share ideas, to collaborate with fellow entrepreneurs, and help each other to grow and succeed in their ventures.

Offline Social Network part :

- We host quarterly eChai Demo Days - which is the quarterly showcase of innovative products & ventures in front of the large entrepreneurial community. eChai Demo Day provides an opportunity to entrepreneurs, mentors, investors, professionals, and students to share, connect and collaborate with each other. We also host eChai Women In Business n eChai Business For Good programs. All these programs do 3 things well - they provide an opportunity to young entrepreneurs to showcase what are they upto, platform for experienced/successful entrepreneurs share their experiences and insights and it gives a feel of being part of the community.

- Theme-based knowledge/insights sharing sessions - Team Building, Growth Hacking, UI/UX, Sales, Communications, Digital Media, Legal & IP & many others.

- Skill-based challenges/hackathons - eChai App Challenge, Marketing Challenge, Content Challenge, UI/UX Challenge, Business Model Challenge, Business Case Challenge etc.

- Sector specific eChai RoundTables - Agriculture, Cleantech, Healthcare, Internet of Things, Food & Beverages, Sports, Media & Entertainment, Education, Arts & Culture, SMAC & many others.

- eChai After Hours aims to engage entrepreneurs, professionals and students to find solutions for other's businesses challenges in a collaborative way. At eChai After Hours entrepreneurs present their business model, their work culture and couple of significant challenges they are facing / struggling with or want to have people come up with better solutions for that. It can be anything – design challenge, business challenge, tech challenge, people challenge.

eChai After Hours is an amazing way to foster the collaboration among entrepreneurs, as they would be spending significant time and energy to help the fellow entrepreneurs.

Online social network part :

- Explore the sector wise list of entrepreneurs from the community

- Find people with same interest areas and skills set. Now that we will be hosting offline eChai programs across 100 Cities and all over the world - it will be interesting to get connected with people from the community across the world.

- Write insightful posts on eChai.in & your recommendations i.e. from where I get my business card printed, from where I get travel service provider for our group travel for eChai Diaries, our preferred hosting provider, our preferred CA and many others.

- eChai Interviews where you can ask a public question to any entrepreneur just like the QnA at eChai programs.

- Talent and Offers section where you can post your talent requirement and offers for the community.

- Featuring entrepreneurs daily with their detailed interview and what kind of support they seek from the community.

- You can follow particular entrepreneurs and get regular updates.

- We are working on a #CoRiseWall where once in a week you can post a significant update from your side which you really want to share with large number of people from the community i.e. Product Update, Hiring Requirement, Company Culture etc. - #CoRiseWall will be prominently displayed in eChai.in and showcased at eChai programs for more visibility.

- Online eChai Skills Challenges - App Challenge, Marketing Challenge, Business Model Challenge, Content Challenge etc.

- An online eChai Demo Day - where we will have 10 entrepreneurs building interesting and innovative businesses from 10 different cities/countries presenting their ventures in front of the community. We will select these 10 demo companies who will present about their ventures online ( 5 mins ) which will be followed by an interactive dialogue ( 10 Mins ) and also each of these company will will have other 20+ people from their city who'll be physically participating the program along with the demo company of the respective city. Basically they can have the good conversations after the online demos get over. This one will be broadcasted online at http://YouTube.com/eChaiTV and we'll build an interesting thing for Co.Rise. at http://eChai.in/ for better engagement among participants.

- Better integration with online-offline eChai programs.

Along with the Online social network part and offline social network part we have 3 initiatives as part of eChai Ventures.

Sweetly - where we enable 50+ rural women living in Dangs District, Gujarat to make hand-made jewelry and market these products in US & Canada. These 50+ Rural women get some sort of economic benefits from this venture and we run it as full fledged for-profit venture.

Design You City/Village - aims to to bring together Entrepreneurs, developers , designers, professionals, academicians and concerned citizens to build solutions for the society. There can be wide ranging solutions for various problems existing in the society - education, civic issues, healthcare, employment, sanitation and many others. The city has several issues that need immediate intervention. And there are budding entrepreneurs and concerned citizens with ideas that can solve these problems.With Design Your City/Village programs n online platform we aim to share and collaborate with communities to come up with ideas and sustainable solutions for the problems faced by different communities.

The Loo Project - helps you find clean loo around you by creating digital public toilet map. It Includes public toilets and shops, cafes, institutions which can let anyone use their facilities. The Information is gathered by Municipal Corporations, Village Councils, Open Government Data, Partner organizations, and citizens.

Mapping of data is just the beginning and there are many amazing things can be done once we have that data. 'Design Your Loo' initiative to bring people together to build affordable toilets and coming up with actionable data insights to build solutions for public toilets and sanitation.

eChaiTV : A web television featuring inspiring entrepreneurs.

Initially when we started up six years back, we used to eChai meetups at roadside Tea Stalls. When we started getting momentum we started hosting eChai programs at friends' office premises. They were pretty generous to extend their resources for our programs. After some time we started collaborating with educational institutions, industry associations and incubators to host our programs. earlier collaborated with some of India’s most prestigious educational institutions ( MICA, IIM Ahmedabad, S P Jain Institute of Management & Research, Government of Gujarat, Vivekanand Education Society, Entrepreneurship Development Institute, Ahmedabad ( EDI ), CEPT University, icreate, Nirma University, NID and many others ) and industry associations & accelerators ( Assocham, CII, GCCI, FICCI, Startup Oasis, TLabs, IAMAI, Sankalp Forum, and many others ) for various entrepreneurial programs.

We are pretty hopeful to have #eChai100Cities by the end of the year 2015 to spread the idea of doing good things.

About BHive Workspace :

BHIVE is largest Coworking space network in Bangalore and Community of Startup entrepreneurs which is a hybrid of a workspace and a startup accelerator. BHIVE currently is managing 3 Coworking spaces covering 35,000 Sq.Ft with 700 people capacity.

BHIVE provides an incredible workspace with round the clock security, high speed internet, UPS & generator backup, open office environment, laser printer, scanner, free flowing coffee & tea, game room, media room, video conferencing, conference rooms, discussion rooms, phone booths, cafeteria, flexible lounge areas with Wifi connectivity.

More @ http://bhiveworkspace.com/