eChai Social with Hari Balasubramanian

Name: eChai Social with Hari Balasubramanian
Start: 2026-08-19T14:00:00+05:30
End: 2026-08-19T16:00:00+05:30
Location: DevX Capital One

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Wednesday, 19 August, 2 pm - 4 pm

DevX Capital One

2nd Floor, Capital One, Ashok Vatika, Sanidhya, Ahmedabad

By application

This is a small group of founder friends, so we keep it to founders who are actively building and can make the full two hours on a Wednesday afternoon.

Approval only. We'll email you when you're in.

From eChai Social with Hari Balasubramanian

About

Hari Balasubramanian is in Ahmedabad for the NRAI Summit, and we are getting a small group of founder friends together with him over the afternoon. Hari is a Bengaluru based angel investor. He backed Rapido, Wow! Momo and Spinny in their early days, and has invested in many other companies since. It stays informal throughout. Everyone shares what they are building, Hari talks about how he looks at early stage companies and what he has seen work across the ones he has backed, and it opens up from there into whatever the group wants to get into.

Hosts & speakers

Mentor & Angel Investor · Indian Angel Network

Speaker

Umesh Uttamchandani

Managing Director · DevX

Who was there

Amish Trivedi

CEO · Workplate

Anil Motwani

CEO & Founder · ATOA Technologies

Anuj Dalal

Founder & CEO · Zestard

Bhavesh Patel

Co-founder · Brands.live

Jash Gor

Promoter · Riddhicorporate

Jayesh Kadivar

Founder · Growthnest Advisors LLP

Koumal Kalantry

Founder CEO · Bignano Ventures Private Limited

Nikita Lalwani

Founder & First Bicycle Mayor from India · Crooze Fitness App

Rahul Kumar

Founder & CEO · Retner.ai

Rushabh Shah

Managing Partner · STIR Advisors

Vikas Mundhra

Founder · Magenta Connect Private Limited

Viraj Rajani

Co Founder · Digipple

Ekta Shah

Co-founder · Biziverse Pvt. Ltd.

Balkrishna Agarwal

Founder · Teziapp

Ishani Dave

Founder & CEO · Shaadi Vibe

Nandan Shukla

Founder · Dicot Innovations

Satya Mehta

Co-Founder · MealPe - RoomPe

Founder & CEO · Mutanex Inc.

Harsh Joshi

Co-founder & CEO · Cligent Aerospace

Mitesh Shethwala

Founder · Currently

Murtuza Badami

Director · Murtuza Foods Pvt Ltd

Nikhil Suthar

Lead Partnerships · India Accelerator

Nirav Raval

Co-founder · Mobio Solutions

Sagar Thakker

Co-Founder · NoKo - First character who lives with your child.

Shyam Parmar

Founder, CEO · RehabVeda

Sweety Patel

Founder · FactsScan

Twinkle Barot

Founder · Lightbox | ReviewAnalytics

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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.