eChai Women Founders Initiative : Mumbai Edition

Happened on June 07, Saturday, 2025
11:00am — 01:00pm (GMT+05:30)
DevX Andheri East
22 slots booked.
Payal Jain - CEO, Funngro Akshi Mehta Goyal - PepperTree - Investment Banker focused on raising funds for early-stage start-ups. Archana Manjrekar - AI & Cybersecurity Growth Ops Manager | D2C Strategist Shweta Pawar - Consulting Operation Intern at Orgevo Consultancy Kaushik Mitra - Ux researcher and project manager, Tech Mahindra Saif Khan - Research Associate, Tech Mahindra Malav Warke - Co-Founder, Creatosaurus Manoj Adwani - Founder, narad.io Marmik Bhatt - Founder, Monk Tech Megha Verma - Founder Growth Iris Harsha Bhurani - Founder, HummingBird Consulting Group Ayush Palkar - Founder : The Best Tech Ashwini Palker - HR at Bhaskar Ayurvedic Serel Navgharkar - Legal Associate, Prospero Legal Services Siddharth Jha - Student, Mumbai University rohini avchar - FOUNDER of Shobha Pishwi Private Limited Rahul Bohra -  Manager ICICI BANK Tanya Pandey - Legal intern, Prospero Legal Services Suraj Singh - Software Engineer, Neptron Technologies Varun Poladiya - Head of Marketing, navan.ai Shrilatha Shripathi - Founder - Aarvi Packaging
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Agenda:

Join us for an insightful conversation with leaders of women-led businesses as they share real stories, hard-earned lessons, and key insights on building and growing successful ventures.

Learn how they navigated their entrepreneurial journeys, from early challenges to defining moments, and the strategies that helped them succeed.

This event is open to all. Whether you’re an aspiring founder, an entrepreneur, or someone who wants to support women-led ventures, you’ll find value here.

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The eChai Effect - In Their Words

"The eChai platform has been super valuable for me - it has helped me gain a deeper understanding of domains in the startup and tech ecosystem. What stands out most is the celebration of knowledge, professional growth, and entrepreneurship - it’s one of the best for the Indian ecosystem. Along the way, I’ve also been fortunate to make some great friendships and connections too."
Shalin (Shawn) Parikh - Founder, MyCPE One
Shalin (Shawn) Parikh
Founder, MyCPE One
“You don’t plan to build a company via eChai. You just keep showing up … and one day, you realize you did.” I’ve known Jatin since 2012, when I was still deciding what kind of second innings I wanted to play as an entrepreneur. Over the years, through events, chai breaks, intros, and seemingly small conversations, eChai helped shape not just Upsquare but also refined the lens through which we see collaboration. At Upsquare, we’ve hired talent, met partners, discovered co-investors, and built lifelong friendships. One of our joint ventures exists today only because a casual eChai memory sparked a deeper trust. Now, as we build House of Starts — our venture builder — eChai continues to fuel our mission: co-creating a shared future. eChai isn’t just a startup network. It’s a trust network. And for business builders like me, that makes all the difference."
Utpal Vaishnav - Founder @ Upsquare & House of Starts • Angel Investor + LP
Utpal Vaishnav
Founder @ Upsquare & House of Starts • Angel Investor + LP
"For me, eChai is a second home. I've been associated with it since the early days, when it was already setting a different tone for how startup communities could work. As a traditional business owner entering the new-age D2C space, eChai supported me in every direction. Over the years, it became my window to the startup world — and also gave me lifelong friends who continue to show up, for business and beyond."
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Pankaj Bhimani
Founder, 58miles

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