Pune

How Founders Use AI : Pune edition

Name: How Founders Use AI : Pune edition
Start: 2026-08-22T11:00:00+05:30
End: 2026-08-22T13:00:00+05:30
Location: DevX ABZ

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Saturday, 22 August, 11 am - 1 pm

DevX ABZ

13th Floor, B Wing, Amar Business Zone (ABZ), Swati Park, Veerbhadra Nagar, Baner, Pune, Maharashtra 411045

About

Founders and operators on the AI tools they actually use.

This edition is co-hosted by eChai Ventures, SOLO by Interakt, and DevX. 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

Host

Chaitanya Badave

Founder · Grab Or Miss

Speaker

Rupanshi Singla

Associate Director - Growth and Strategy · Jio Haptik

Who was there

Malav Warke

Co-Founder & CEO · Creatosaurus

Aakash Dilliwar

Owner of Aakashrebuilds

Aatman Jain

Aditi Patil

Founder · Trivaclothing

Aditya Survase

Founder · Boldstartai

Akarsh Raj

Creator · www.rentnama.in

Amit K

Proprietor · High Fly Travel and Tourism

Babasaheb Lokhande

Founder · Digital Ryvana

Drisha Mehta

IFA · Niveshkar

Harshal Kharde

College · JSPM's RSCOE

Kaustubh Birje

Founder · BETA SPORTS CLUB

Lalit Mohan Chandra Bhatt

Founder · Hexatic

Lokesh Purohit

Founder · Kaptor Tech

Papiha Choudhari

Business Development Professional · Nitrous Design

Ramkrushna Chavhan

Pune

Rananjay Raj

Founder · BuildWire AI

Rathod Shivamani

Founder · Dvlaro

Raunak Jha

Founding Engineer · Oneclarity.ai

Sakshi Shekhar Deshmukh

UI/UX Designer

Sk Ahmed Raza

CEO · Healcancersupport

Surbhi Somani

Junior Venture Analyst · Bluekindventures

Aditya Srivastava

Amol Misal

Anilavo Datta

Chief Commercial Officer · Teknopact Technologies

Ayush Kharvade

Founder · Roommate Finder

Python Developer · UBS

Ganesh Chavan

Govind Madhav

Student · Pimpri Chinchwad University

Hasan Qureshi

Pune

Kalyan Joshi

Business Consultant · HNMN Business Services

Khushi Kanwar

Kunal Patidar

Madhur Biyani

Aspiring Founder · NA

Manav Patel

Student · Shree Swaminarayan institute of technology

Student · Pimpri-Chinchwad University

Punit Agrawal

Punjal Chandrakar

Founders office · Unbox Robotics

Software Architect · HV

Tanishkka Gholap

Solo Founder & Student

Technotreon Intellectual Ventures

Agency Manager · Lexverse Legal

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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.