eChai SF : International Women's Day - Bring Your +1

Name: eChai SF : International Women's Day - Bring Your +1
Start: 2026-03-08T14:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-03-08T16:00:00-07:00
Location: 1 Oz Coffee, 3051 Tasman Dr, Santa Clara, CA 95054, United States.

Happened

Sunday, 8 March, 2 pm - 4 pm PDT

1 Oz Coffee, 3051 Tasman Dr, Santa Clara, CA 95054, United States.

San Francisco

About

🌸 Bring Your Plus One A Women's Day Gratitude & Amplification Gathering This International Women's Day, we're doing something different. No panels. No pitches. No performative networking. ***Just bring her. Make sure you share this invite with her. Both of you needs to be registered.*** Your mentor. Your manager. Your co-founder. The friend who forwarded you the job posting. The woman who advocated for you when you weren't in the room. The one who looked at you and said you belong here before you believed it yourself. Behind every woman who made it, there's another woman who made it possible. Here's how it works: Every attendee brings her Plus One, the woman who changed her trajectory. We'll share stories of impact, sit in honest conversation, and close with one question: How will you become someone else's Plus One this year? We'll go wherever the room takes us. Career pivots. Leadership lessons. The loneliness of being first. Immigration stories. The quiet struggles that don't make it onto resumes. Unfiltered and unhurried. The Details 🗓 Saturday, March 8 · International Women's Day This isn't a networking event. It's a recognition moment. A ripple effect. A room where gratitude turns into momentum. If you've ever said "I wouldn't be here without her" — this is your chance to say it out loud, and to her face. Come ready to celebrate. Come ready to be seen. Come ready to give credit where it's long overdue.

Coming up on eChai

Today, Thursday 29 October

6:30 pm GVFL Ahmedabad

starts in 11 h 33 min eChai Startup Demo Day GVFL Ahmedabad

157 going

Friday 30 October 3 gatherings

4 pm House of Starts

AI Cafe House of Starts

17 going

6 pm DraperU India

The Strategic Room: Decoding the Cart, Inside Flipkart DraperU India

14 going

7 pm House of Starts

What the DPDP Act Means for Startups and Businesses House of Starts

21 going

Saturday 31 October 2 gatherings

11 am DevX Noida

eChai Startup Demo Day DevX Noida

124 going
11 am DevX Dynasty

eChai Startup Demo Day DevX Dynasty

107 going

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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.