Co-founder, Bootstrapped and Profitable, in Media / creator.
Building eChai.Ventures
- Engineering leaders / CTOs
- Product leaders
- Growth & marketing leaders
- People obsessed with AI workflows
eChai Ventures and CIIE.CO, IIM Ahmedabad are hosting the July 2023 edition of eChai Startup Demo Day in Ahmedabad on 29th July, Saturday from 7 pm to 9 pm.
eChai Ventures and CIIE.CO, IIM Ahmedabad are hosting the July 2023 edition of eChai Startup Demo Day in Ahmedabad on 29th July, Saturday from 7 pm to 9 pm.
Co-founder, Bootstrapped and Profitable, in Media / creator.
Building eChai.Ventures
Building <div>Manager || Ex PwC || Ex GT [CA, DipIFR (ACCA UK), M.Com] - A Curious, Learner, Helper, Mentor & Auditor - Likes playing with numbers!<br><br></div>
Building <div>Forbes 30U30 Asia 2021 | Shark Tank India, Building Alpino and Changing the India’s habit to Eat Healthy and Stay Healthy<br>...<br><br>Real. Rooted. Refreshing.<br><br>Alpino aims to revolutionize the health food segment of India by providing healthy breakfast options that are authentically sourced & hygienically prepared that keeps you energetic & refreshing throughout the day.<br><br>Alpino is one of the initial purveyors of health food segment in India, providing healthy & protein-rich food products. With its Head Office in Gujarat, India, Alpino has established itself as a notable name for products that are real, rooted, & refreshing.<br><br>Alpino, mostly known for it’s Peanut Butter is now infiltrating the breakfast market with a wide range or product categories to start your day with.</div>
Building <div>Wandering on the paths curiosity takes me to.<br><br>Learning how the world works through patterns and outliers with a sense of wonder.<br><br>Found my first start-up which provided photocopies and printouts completely free using advertisements as fuel. Failed after 2 years of execution due to covid disruption.<br><br>Founder of an Agritech startup which helps farmers sell their produce directly to the agri-comodity businesses. Bull has crossed GMV of 25 Crores INR since 18 months of operations, having connected to 15 thousand farmers onboard digitally and 3000 active paying farmers and operational in 4 districts of Gujarat.</div>
Founder, Pre-revenue / pre-PMF and Bootstrapped, in B2B / enterprise + AI/ML + Cybersecurity.
Building <div>I worked in the pharmaceutical sector in various roles with a focus on business development, account management in the first part of my career between 2000 to 2015 in India and Europe. Priya and I started indiabizforsale.com together in the year 2013 as a company and launched as a platform in early 2014. <br><br>We started indiabizforsale because we experienced and painfully learnt (at that time) that M&A for a small to medium size business is very, very challenging in India, and we decided to do something about that. <br><br>We launched indiabizforsale.com as a discovery platform (with confidentiality so no one knows which business is looking for an exit or partial exit) for businesses and investors. <br><br>Gradually we started building services on top as we realised that the end goal is a successful business transaction and secured discovery is only the part of the process (large though). <br><br>Now we provide discovery, on-demand services and also advisory services with help of trusted and experienced professionals across India. </div>
Building <div> A nonprofit professional with over a decade's experience at senior management level in the private, public and voluntary sectors. Specialist knowledge in areas like: entrepreneurship, education, skill enhancements, livelihood development etc. Extensive experience working with local government leadership teams, with senior officials across Gujarat and at board level with private sector partners. <br><br>His personal skills centre on the ability to motivate organisations around a set of critical outcomes and get things done. He posses extensive knowledge of social diversity and equal opportunity issues and have the ability to demonstrate this throughout all aspects of practice.</div>
Building <div>CEO at Biziverse Pvt. Ltd.<br><br>I'm an engineer and an entrepreneur. I'm passionate about creating software applications that empower businesses to perform more efficiently and effectively.<br><br>Biziverse is an online platform to help businesses <br>make their customers happier, and <br>find new business opportunities<br>by streamlining the B2B interface, and <br>by building a reliable B2B network.</div>
Building <div>Independent Consultant<br><br>Former VC, DevX Venture Fund<br><br>Former Chief Investment Officer, Intents Mobi<br><br>An intellectual, hard-working, non-political value-adding member of the team. I have worked for more than FIVE different sectors just to understand that it requires you to be agile and enthusiastic to learn & contribute. <br><br>An MBA from Institute of Management, Nirma University I started working on my venture right from my graduation days and by the time I cleared the course, I already had my business up and running. <br><br>An entrepreneur turned ecosystem supporter trying to help budding startups in their journey that justifies my position that talks about "Innovation" and "Investment".<br><br>I am always up for a conversation over a coffee to discuss more about your startup!<br><br>It's your ability to produce leaders that make you stand out from others in the race.<br><br><strong>DevX Venture Fund portfolio:</strong><br><br>- Quixote Automotive Technologies: Connected Cars (Exited to Spinny)<br>- BigSpoon Foods: Cloud Kitchen<br>- Financepeer: Fintech (EdTech Lending) (Exited)<br>- The Healthy Company: D2C (Nutritional Healthcare)<br>- ExtraaEdge Technologies: Edtech Marketing SaaS<br>- Intents Mobi Technologies: Mobility & Transportation<br>- Plutomen Technologies: AR/VR for Enterprise SaaS<br>- SupplyNote (AdCount Technologies): HoReCa SaaS Platform<br>- Flo Mobility: Autonomous Tech Platform for Micro-mobility <br>- Apeksha Gourmet Jar (TGJ): D2C (Food & Beverage)<br>- Growfitter: Health & Wellness<br><br>Apply on: https://devx.work/accel/devx-venture-fund/<br><br>- Deal Sourcing and Curating suitable Startups for Accelerator Program & DVF<br>- Connecting with Angel Investors and VC’s to onboard them to DVF for co-investing opportunities.<br>- Strategising and supporting Fund avenues at DVF.</div>
Founder, Bootstrapped, in HR tech / future of work.
Co-founder, Seed, in AI/ML and Healthtech.
Building AI that reads any health document and turns it into clinical intelligence.
Building <div>Pankaj Bhimani is owner of Orion Inc, a corporate T Shirt company , who manufacture high quality and premium garments for corporate and had a distribution network of 750 + resellers who are supplying to corporates. He also co-founded Iris Techsol a cloud telephony solution company and eResto, a SaaS ERP for restaurants. <br><br>Pankaj has product development experience of around 4 years and sales experience of around 12+ years. Before the entrepreneurship bug, he has worked with Companies like AudienceMAP, Bose audio, Actis, where he got experience of dealing with premium segment customers.</div>
Solo founder and Advisor, Profitable, backing Strategic / corporate, in Vertical SaaS + AI/ML + Deeptech.
Building Working on a lot of interesting tech projects, alongside the Investment Banking firm
Building <div>Startups | Corporate | Innovation | Investment<br><br>Swarup has been an active Startup ecosystem member for more than eight years. His interest is to network with various industry experts. Currently, He's a Manager- Seed & Acceleration. Prior to the current assignment, he served in business accelerators like iCreate (Govt. of Gujarat entity) and Wadhwani Foundation (National Entrepreneurship Network) for planning and executing various accelerator programs & campaigns for Startups and to bridge between startup needs and mentors/industry experts to facilitate the support. He understands the need of the entrepreneurs and works closely with them to provide advisory support. During eight years of his journey, he has conducted various community events, various National and International conferences.</div>
Co-founder, Profitable, in Media / creator.
Solo founder, Bootstrapped, in HR tech / future of work.
Building Building HAIRA, an AI recruiting agent for companies hiring at scale. Cuts recruitment time by up to 80% with zero human interaction needed. Talking to HR leaders and founders about what hiring looks like at their scale right now.
Content creator, in Media / creator.
Co-founder, Pre-seed, in B2B / enterprise.
eChai Ventures partners with select brands as their growth partner. Together we explore new ideas, open doors, and build momentum across the startup ecosystem.