What does real product growth look like when you're building from the ground up?
Join us for an engaging eChai conversation with experienced founders and product leaders as they share honest stories and practical insights from scaling their products, across early bets, pivots, challenges, and growth breakthroughs.
This session goes beyond frameworks and dives into what actually works when you're short on time, resources, and clarity. You’ll hear how different teams approached product-market fit, prioritized features, learned from what didn’t work, and aligned their teams around real outcomes.
Whether you're a founder, product manager, or builder at heart, this meetup is a space to learn, connect, and leave with ideas you can apply right away. As always, come for the insights, stay for the conversations.
Building <div>Empowering Companies to Fight Climate Change<br><br>At StepChange - We are enabling leading companies and brands to accelerate their sustainability journey by providing them an ESG SaaS platform - a one stop shop for their net zero transition.</div>
Building <div>AI Agent Engineering @ Hakimo | Ex - Amazon, WalmartLabs, Oracle | CS@IIT Bombay<br><br>Building AI Agents for physical security in Hakimo. We call it AI Operator.<br><br>Experienced Principle Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in top software companies. Skilled in developing restful APIs, scalable distributed system, platform oriented software system. Strong engineering discipline with a B.Tech + M.Tech focused in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.</div>
Building <div>2x Founder | Techstars 2019 | Refyne | ex NIRA<br><br>https://ishanvyas.co/<br><br>I'm deeply passionate about problem-solving and building organisations that can scale through clear, focused thinking, and unwavering execution. I thrive on driving growth and shaping product development from the ground up.</div>
Building <div>Have over 8 years of experience of building and growing products, as a founder as well as part of companies at the scale of Swiggy and Cuemath.</div>
Building <div>Been forever opening up toys - mechanical contraptions, musical instruments, ideas, business models, and PRODUCTS . Whiteboard junkie! eh! .... and just learned how to read and write Urdu ... <br><br>2007, cofounded and then lead for 6 years as its CEO, India's first “university onboard a train” experience called Jagriti Yatra (www.jagritiyatra.com). A decade later, Jagriti Yatra is one of the largest youth events onboard a train. ~5000 alumni who have founded ~800 start-ups and partners like Google, Dell, Tata Group, governments, and foundations. <br><br>UC Berkeley MBA and experience in silicon valley thereafter spent focused on scaling ideas into feasible products and services, managing product development processes, and study of innovation. 3 years of running various Product functions at Ola. <br><br>And last 8 years... Avanti Finance... 3 pillars - use tech to solve socially important problems at population scale!</div>
Building on the side and Product (PM), Idea stage and Pre-product (building), in Productivity.
Co-founder, Bootstrapped and Profitable, in Edtech.
eChai Ventures partners with select brands as their growth partner. Together we explore new ideas, open doors, and build momentum across the startup ecosystem.
