How Founders & Operators Use AI : Bengaluru edition

Name: How Founders & Operators Use AI : Bengaluru edition
Start: 2026-08-06T18:00:00+05:30
End: 2026-08-06T20:00:00+05:30
Location: Founder Startup House Koramangala

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Thursday, 6 August, 6 pm - 8 pm

Founder Startup House Koramangala

No.384, 1st A Main Rd, 7th Block, Koramangala, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560095

From How Founders & Operators Use AI : Bengaluru edition

About

Founders and operators on the AI tools they actually use.

A gathering of builders who are actively working with the latest AI tools across coding, product, marketing, sales, and internal operations. The conversation centers on what tools people are trying, how they decide what to adopt, and how they stay current as things keep evolving. Founders share the stack they rely on, what they have dropped, and what has genuinely improved speed or output. Operators walk through the workflows they use day to day, how they structure prompts, where automation fits in, and what still requires human judgment. If you are experimenting with AI or already using it in your daily work, this is a space to compare notes, discover new tools, and learn how others are building practical workflows around AI.

Hosts & speakers

Founder · B2B SEO Services

Retention Lead · Rocket.new

Speaker

Jaynil Patel

Co-founder & CEO · Listable Labs

Speaker

Kalgi Sheth

Co-Founder & CMO · Listable Labs

Speaker

Krunal Shah

Founder & CEO · Qarmatek

Who was there

Khaliqe Mohammed

FOUNDER · Scalee.in

Aathif Aarifeen

Founder · Intertising

Abhinand Varma

AI Solutions Architect · Dvara E Dairy

Abhishek Kumar

Aspiring Founder · Currently exploring startup ideas

Abrar Aslam

Full Stack Developer AI CRM · Open to work

Aloor Chinmaya

Partner · Cheer On Ventures

Anand Kumar

Developer · N/A

Anand Siddharth

Sales Manager · Chargebee

Benson Ranjith K

Founder · BeyondZ

Debasis Maharana

Full Stack Developer | AI Engineer · Salesforce

Devdutt Shah

Analyst · Lateralus Capital

Hament Sharma

Founder · Frooty.ai

Harsh Rabadiya

Developer · Bengaluru

Hrishikesh Manekar

Founder · starredmonk

Jae Pasha, MSc

Jeet S

Jenil Satani

Founder · Saral AI Tech

Joshua Soans

Founder · Simplesurface AI

Keshav Chavan

keshav chavan · kolifian

Keshav Lakhotia

Ex-Founder's Associate · ICODOS

Krunal Shah

Zerokai Solutions

Madhu Nag Shetty

Business Growth Advisor · Bengaluru

Nishad Shaik

Founder & CEO · Fymble

Nitin Vinayachandran

Head of BD · Scribble.Network

Pavan Vinay Kumar Chadaram

Bpmlinks

Renjith V P

Senior Lead, Content Marketing · Kyndryl

Freelance developer · Mashmonk

Siddhant Trivedi

Product Manager · KPMG

Siddiq Moideen

CEO · aXtrLabs

Smriti Suri

Marketing & Comms · pyse.capital

Sreeraj Promod

Sales · Ploecues Software

Suraj Bhanu Cheethirala

Founder & CEO · Sonderverse

Suresh Kannaiyan

Founder · Menmozhi Technologies Private Limited

Product Manager · Orange Health Labs

Founder & CEO · Rome GEO

Giridaravendan M

Program Manager · Afthonia lab

Kubera Raja

Madhur Biyani

Aspiring Founder · NA

Mitesh Katariya

Mohammed Maaz

Marketing Specialist · Dexlerenergy

Mrinalini Sen

Marketer · Buidlerstribe

Nihal Sudheep

Founder’s Office Aspirant

Nupur Dave

Founder · NRI compass

Pavithra Narra

Founder & CEO · Ebenezer Global Fund I

Founder & Creative Lead · 1510creatives

Sumedha Vishnoi

Sunil

Engineer · Inventic.AI

Upahar

Founder · Snezzi

Venkat Ramakrishnan

Chief Quality Officer · Individual Industry Consultant

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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.