eChai x GVFL Startups and Investors Mixer in Surat

Happened on May 08, Thursday, 2025
6:00pm — 08:00pm (GMT+05:30)
Provyz Coworking Vesu
40 slots booked.
Devrishi Arrora  - Founder & CEO - EVIFY Nishma Singhal - Founder & CEO, Zoivane Pets Saurabh Nair - AVP, GVFL Arjun Kava - CEO, videosdk.live Sohil Kapadia - Founder & CEO, Zero Cow Factory Saurabh Agarwal  - Founder & CEO, GROWiT Parini Kapadia - Founder & Chief Scientific Officer, Zero Cow Factory Pragya Mittal - CO FOUNDER EVIFY LOGITECH PVT LTD Manoj Adwani - Founder, narad.io
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Join us for an evening of insights, stories, and real fundraising playbooks.


eChai and Provyz are hosting GVFL, one of India’s pioneering venture capital firms, for a candid mixer-style event. The GVFL core team will share how they evaluate early-stage startups and support them post-investment.


You'll also hear from GVFL’s Surat-based portfolio founders — Growit, Evify, VideoSDK, Zero Cow Factory, and Zoivane — as they reflect on their fundraising journey, what clicked, and what they wish they knew earlier.


This is a great opportunity for founders who are exploring venture capital and want to learn directly from investors and funded founders.


Let’s decode fundraising together with real stories and real conversations.

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