Fundraising for Startups: Panel Conversation

Happened on January 11, Saturday, 2025
6:00pm — 08:00pm (GMT+05:30)
Draper Startup House Koramangala
40 slots booked.
Saksham Garg - Failed Founder || Sr. Software Engineer Nivin  Joseph - Head of Community and Partnership Draper Startup House Karan Bahadur - Founder, Draper Startup House India Mansi Baheti - Community & Operations, Draper Startup House Yadu Krishnan - Co founder of Statbod Ashutosh raval - Cyber Security Professional & Founder RedHacks1 IT Security Vivek Natesan - Director ClodPi Labs Kumar Swapnil - Software Engineer Gitesh Batra - Founder Office Intern, School of SDR Simran - Web Developer Parv Kumar Goyal - Founder & CEO - Planetary Vimaana Research Labs Khushi Desai - Senior Category Manager, BlissClub Sushmita Sahu - Product Manager at Gameberry Labs Anirban Dam - Hardware Engineer, Intel Sonia Govindarajulu✨️ - Data analyst Ditto Mohan - Ceo @Biogrithm bioinformatics solutions Pvt Ltd Harikishan M - Co-founder, Youga Manish Maheshwari - Founder & CEO, APNA GHAR Jaydeep c - Solution architect Deepak Joshy - Startup Routes Amit Kumar Verma - Founder, Developing Bee Private Limited Jay Dev Chakravarty - CEO & Founder Agam Dogra - Data Scientist Priyanka B - Digikey Jaisurya Sundarbabu - Data Scientist, Celebal Technologies Rajat Satashiya - Associate Software Engineer, Aster DM Healthcare Arjun Ranjan - Associate Director - Plivo RAM DANE - SRD Jenish Rajput - Freelancer Priyank Khanna - MTS, Oracle Vatsal Kumar - Software Engineer Amazon Bhavesh Narayanan - Software developer Naveen Prasath - President Abhishek DG - Co-Founder & CEO
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Join us on January 11th, Saturday, for an engaging panel conversation on startup fundraising, hosted by eChai Ventures and Draper Startup House, where operators from VC firms will share their valuable insights and strategies.


Learn essential tips and hear firsthand stories about overcoming fundraising challenges, while networking with fellow founders and startup folks.

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