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eChai Startup Social: Bengaluru edition

eChai Ventures will be hosting the small curated gathering of founder friends from the community to connect, share and collaborate.

eChai Ventures will be hosting the small curated gathering of founder friends from the community to connect, share and collaborate.

Friday, 14 July 2023

6:30–8:30 PM IST

Hosts & speakers 8

Associate Projects, Cognizant

Prasenjeet Suradkar

2x Founder | Early @ WhiteHat Jr., Shop101

Priyanka Challa

Sr. Growth Manager at York IE

Founder, MixCommerce and STABLX

Founder & CEO, Akartha

Shailendra Patil

Marketing Director, Filo

CTO, I'm beside you Inc.

Founder, Trafficpullz® Cloud

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