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eChai's Startup Open House in Bengaluru

Join us for eChai's Startup Open House in Bengaluru on May 10, Sunday.

Connect with fab startups and network with like-minded entrepreneurs in a vibrant, informal setting.
 
Discover new opportunities, share your ideas, and build meaningful relationships within the startup community. 

Sunday, 10 May 2026
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM IST
Draper Startup House Koramangala, Terrace, Startup Lane, No.384, 1st A Main Rd, 7th Block, Koramangala, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560095.
Bengaluru
Amar Yahiya Sibisiddharth I ᯅ Mohammed Ziyan Amar, Rohit + 5 others went See who came
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Operations Where does your team work from?
Ferry Lin Aishwarya N Tushar Prajapati Rahul Sharma Pragnesh Shah Anil Motwani Ritwik Joshi Rushabh Shah +1
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Work from home 4 votes · 40%
DevX 1 vote · 10%
WeWork 0 votes · 0%
Awfis 0 votes · 0%
91springboard 0 votes · 0%
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People & Hiring Where do you hire your team from?
Mannoj Tewari Nandan Shukla Mr Mujtaba
LinkedIn 1 vote · 20%
Wellfound 1 vote · 20%
Referrals 1 vote · 20%
A recruitment partner 1 vote · 20%
Internships converted to full-time 1 vote · 20%
Naukri 0 votes · 0%
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Essentials Where does your team chat all day?
Ahesan Ali Himanshu Patel Jignesh Thakkar Rakesh Hansrajani Sharib Sultan Aryan Panchal Hirva Bhatt Tushar Prajapati +36
WhatsApp 23 votes · 43%
Microsoft Teams 12 votes · 23%
Google Chat 6 votes · 11%
Slack 5 votes · 9%
Zoho Cliq 3 votes · 6%
Discord 1 vote · 2%
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Sales & Marketing What do you use for forms and surveys?
Ahesan Ali Harsh Luhar Sharib Sultan Akshay Solanki Anmol Parimoo Haripriya Epuri Rohit Jain Yash Shah +5
Google Forms 10 votes · 63%
Microsoft Forms 2 votes · 13%
Typeform 1 vote · 6%
Zoho Forms 1 vote · 6%
Others 1 vote · 6%
Youform 1 vote · 6%
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Money & Legal Which bank do you use and recommend for your startup?
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ICICI Bank 14 votes · 36%
HDFC Bank 10 votes · 26%
Kotak Mahindra Bank 9 votes · 23%
IDFC First Bank 2 votes · 5%
State Bank of India 1 vote · 3%
Yes Bank 1 vote · 3%
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Product & Engineering What is your website built on?
Harsh Luhar Anuj Dalal Pragnesh Shah Nandan Shukla Ritwik Joshi
A custom build 2 votes · 33%
HTML 2 votes · 33%
WordPress 1 vote · 17%
Shopify 1 vote · 17%
Wix 0 votes · 0%
Squarespace 0 votes · 0%
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Product & Engineering Which cloud or hosting is your product on?
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AWS 4 votes · 33%
Google Cloud 2 votes · 17%
Others 2 votes · 17%
Cloudflare 1 vote · 8%
Railway 1 vote · 8%
Supabase 1 vote · 8%
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Operations Which cloud telephony runs your business calls?
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Knowlarity 0 votes · 0%
MyOperator 0 votes · 0%
Servetel 0 votes · 0%
Ozonetel 0 votes · 0%
Kaleyra 0 votes · 0%
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Money & Legal Who handles your GST and tax filing?
Akshay Solanki Amish Trivedi Harry Rajput Pragnesh Shah Anil Motwani Nandan Shukla Rushabh Shah
My CA handles it 7 votes · 100%
ClearTax 0 votes · 0%
Zoho Books 0 votes · 0%
IndiaFilings 0 votes · 0%
Quicko 0 votes · 0%
TaxBuddy 0 votes · 0%
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Operations Which internet provider keeps your team online?
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Jio (JioFiber / Jio Business) 9 votes · 50%
Airtel (Xstream Fiber / Airtel Business) 7 votes · 39%
BSNL 2 votes · 11%
ACT Fibernet 0 votes · 0%
Tata Play Fiber 0 votes · 0%
Spectra 0 votes · 0%
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Asks

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Fundraising & investors I'd value help building a tight list of the right investors to approach. Sudheer Panyam

Podcasts

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Getting there
Draper Startup House Koramangala, Terrace, Startup Lane, No.384, 1st A Main Rd, 7th Block, Koramangala, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560095.
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