New York

eChai New York Startup Mixer

Name: eChai New York Startup Mixer
Start: 2026-11-12T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2026-11-12T20:30:00-05:00
Location: Mr. Purple

3 going in 3 weeks

Update

Postponed from Thursday, 15 October to Thursday, 12 November. Same time, same venue.

Thursday, 12 November, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm EST

Mr. Purple

180 Orchard St, 15th floor, New York

Book your slot

About

An evening of founders meeting founders.

eChai New York is hosting a Startup Mixer on Thursday, 12 November, from 6.30 pm to 8.30 pm EST at Mr. Purple, the 15th-floor bar and terraces at 180 Orchard St on the Lower East Side. Aditya Mistry, who leads eChai in New York, is hosting. A mixer is the simplest of eChai's gatherings: an evening of founders meeting founders. It opens with quick introductions, so everyone knows who is around and what they are building before the conversations begin, and the rest of the evening is those conversations. The group is kept small on purpose, so the conversations stay real. It usually brings together founders at different stages, people thinking about starting up, folks from VC firms, and corporate professionals exploring the startup ecosystem. Everyone who registers gets a spot on this page with a line on what they are building and a link. Anyone who opens the page later can see who was there and reach out, so a conversation you did not get to on the evening can still happen afterwards. That line comes from your eChai profile, so it is worth filling in before you come. eChai New York has met through 2026, most recently at Magic Hour Rooftop in August. This is its first Startup Mixer. eChai Ventures is a slow founder network. It is built by founders showing up at open meetups, demo days and dinners: every week they gather somewhere across 25+ cities in 10+ countries, and have been since 2009. Sometimes what they find here matters right away. More often it matters years later, when something changes, and something always does: hiring, raising, going global, pivoting, moving city, starting over.

Good to know

Cost

Free to attend and open to all. It is on a pay-for-what-you-order basis: you order and pay for your own food and drinks at the bar.

Getting there

Mr. Purple is on the 15th floor of 180 Orchard St, on the Lower East Side. The Directions link on this page opens the exact spot on Google Maps.

Questions

Reach out to Aditya Mistry (Lead, eChai NY) at +1 (551) 358-5133.

Hosts & speakers

Host

Aditya Mistry

Lead, eChai NY

Who's going

GetCare Via

Founder · Getcarevia

Jibi John

Creative Partner · Anathoth IT Solutions

Coming up on eChai

Thursday 29 October

6:30 pm GVFL Ahmedabad

eChai Startup Demo Day GVFL Ahmedabad

96 going

Saturday 31 October 5 gatherings

11 am DevX Noida

eChai Startup Demo Day DevX Noida

93 going
11 am DevX Dynasty

eChai Startup Demo Day DevX Dynasty

78 going

4 pm Ideas To Impacts Baner

eChai Startup Demo Day Ideas To Impacts Baner

49 going

6 pm DevX Vijay Nagar

eChai Startup Demo Day DevX Vijay Nagar

10 going
6 pm DevX Paras Prime

eChai Startup Demo Day DevX Paras Prime

8 going

See all events

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.