eChai Startup Forum in association with eSpark-Viridian

Name: eChai Startup Forum in association with eSpark-Viridian
Start: 2016-03-04T21:15:00+05:30
End: 2016-03-05T00:30:00+05:30
Location: eSpark-Viridian Accelerator, 4th Floor, Gift One, Gift City, Gandhinagar, Gujarat.

Happened

Friday, 4 March 2016, 9:15 pm - 12:30 am

eSpark-Viridian Accelerator, 4th Floor, Gift One, Gift City, Gandhinagar, Gujarat.

Ahmedabad

About

We are super excited to announce our association with eSpark-Viridian to host various eChai programs and collaborate for other entrepreneurial initiatives. With this we will be hosting the monthly eChai program with eSpark-Viridian - eChai Startup Forum - on 4th March from 4 pm to 7 pm at GIFT City. The monthly eChai Startup Forum in association with eSpark-Viridian is a platform for promising startups from Gujarat to present their ventures, get early feedback and engage with the community. We'll be joined by awesome founders from the community. We'll have 7 growth stage entrepreneurs joining in to share their insights.<ul> <li>Darshan Dasani, Founder, Tea Post</li> <li>Abhishek Desai, Co-Founder, Digicorp</li> <li>Ruchit Surati, Co-Founder, Locanix</li> <li>Pratik Machchar, Founder, Vyaap Technologies</li> <li>Amit Panchal, Ruchit Patel, Co-Founders, AllEvents.in</li> <li>Ruchir Brahmbhatt, Co-Founder, Ecosmob Technologies</li> <li>Mahendra Sharma, Co-Founder, Matrubharti </li> </ul>Following 5 promising startups from the community will be showcasing their ventures :<ul> <li>Bhukkads</li> <li>GyanConnect</li> <li>1Platform</li> <li>PlayLabs</li> <li>CircuitGyan</li> <li>SmartSync </li> </ul> We'll also be joined by Murali Hariharan, Global Head (Venture Strategy), Viridian Group to share his inights and interact with the participants. About eChai Ventures : eChai helps you discover and connect with the startup ecosystems across the world thru online social network, curated stories and offline events. eChai has recently introduced eChai Membership Program - where one can pay Rs.100/per year to become the eChai Member. Checkout the membership benefits and all the other things about eChai at <a href="http://eChai.in">http://eChai.in/</a> eChai Startup Forum in association with eSpark-Viridian: Venue : eSpark-Viridian Accelerator, 4th Floor, Gift One, Gift City, Gandhinagar, Gujarat. Date : 4th March, Friday Time : 3.45 pm to 7 pm About eSpark-Viridian : Espark-Viridian is a business accelerator for early stage and growing ventures. A joint initiative between Entrepreneurial Spark, UK, and Viridian Ventures, India, it aims to be a game changer. Entrepreneurial Spark, UK, has successfully enabled more than 450 start-ups during the course of the past four years. Over 82 per cent of the companies that have been incubated at Entrepreneurial Spark continue to be in business today, and are profitable. A venture catalyst in the start-up and SME space, Viridian Ventures is engaged in the development of a vibrant and effective ecosystem that is intrinsically linked to innovation and entrepreneurship in high impact social and commercial ventures. More info @ <a href="http://www.espark-viridian.org/">http://www.espark-viridian.org/</a><div class="medium-insert-buttons"> <a class="medium-insert-buttons-show">+</a> <ul class="medium-insert-buttons-addons"> <li><a class="medium-insert-action"></a></li> <li><a class="medium-insert-action"></a></li> </ul> </div>

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.