We plan to bring eChai across 100 cities in India. The next eChai Startup Demo Day is on 29 August in Bengaluru and Pune. The next after that is on 26 September, all in person, with 11 cities confirmed and 468 founders registered. See your city
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21 gatherings upcoming ·across 11 cities

Nothing coming up in Kolkata yet, so here's what's happening across the network.

This week

110 RSVPs

8 gatherings · 4 cities

  1. THU 27 AUG Ahmedabad Women Founders x AI : Ahmedabad edition 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm · Nehrunagar Ruhi SalhotraHumera ShaikhKomal PrajapatiPuja Patel 4 going Apply to join
  2. FRI 28 AUG Ahmedabad AI Cafe : Ahmedabad edition 4 pm - 7 pm · House of Starts Jatin ChaudharyEkta ShahRuhi SalhotraAditya Diwan 15 going Book your slot
  3. SAT 29 AUG Pune FailCode Pune: Failure lessons from startups and operators 11 am - 1 pm · DevX ABZ Piyush Adwani 2 going Book your slot
  4. SAT 29 AUG Pune eChai Startup Demo Day in Pune 4 pm - 6 pm · Ideas To Impacts Baner Aakash DilliwarAbhijeet AdhavAry DaundAzlan Kaniyanpuram 24 going Book your slot
  5. SAT 29 AUG Bengaluru eChai Startup Demo Day in Bengaluru 6 pm - 8 pm · Founder Startup House Koramangala Abhijeet TomarAbhishek GuptaAshraf AliAwanish Vishwakarma 50 going Book your slot
  6. SUN 30 AUG Hyderabad eChai's Startup Open House in Hyderabad 11 am - 1 pm · DraperU India Lenin kVeera Shankara Ravindra Reddy Kakarla 7 going Book your slot
  7. SUN 30 AUG Bengaluru eChai's Startup Open House in Bengaluru 11 am - 1 pm · Founder Startup House Koramangala Abrar AslamAmar YahiyaMd RashidSumanth 8 going Book your slot
  8. SUN 30 AUG Bengaluru Partner event Startup & Investors Summit 2026: Bengaluru Edition 11 am - 5:30 pm · Scaler School of Technology · via allevents.in Register →
All 21 events →
Proposed 1 city

We plan to run these events in these cities. Nothing is booked yet: we have no venue or host in any of them, so each becomes a real event once 20 founders there show interest, and everyone who did is registered.

eChai's Kolkata Startup Mixer Kolkata · Dec 2025 The MSME - Startup Technology Mixer | MyOperator - Bitrix24 India Kolkata Event Kolkata · Apr 2025 Heyo - Mixpanel | Kolkata Product Mixer Kolkata · Mar 2025 How to 'GROW' your Sales | Heyo & eChai Ventures Collaboration Kolkata · Mar 2025 Marketing Strategies for Startups: Kolkata Edition Kolkata · Jan 2025 eChai D2C Day in Kolkata Kolkata · Jul 2024 eChai Startup Demo Day in Kolkata Kolkata · Sep 2023 CoRise Women Entrepreneurs Circle in Kolkata x Offbeat CCU Kolkata · Jun 2022 Startup Growth Stories from Kolkata Kolkata · Dec 2021 Startup Growth Stories from Kolkata Kolkata · Apr 2021 Startup Growth Networking Meetup in Kolkata x TaxMantra Kolkata · Jan 2020 Startup Growth Networking Meetup in Kolkata Kolkata · Aug 2019
  1. 1 Dec '25 Kolkata eChai's Kolkata Startup Mixer
  2. 26 Apr '25 Kolkata The MSME - Startup Technology Mixer | MyOperator - Bitrix24 India Kolkata Event
  3. 30 Mar '25 Kolkata Heyo - Mixpanel | Kolkata Product Mixer
  4. 16 Mar '25 Kolkata How to 'GROW' your Sales | Heyo & eChai Ventures Collaboration
  5. 25 Jan '25 Kolkata Marketing Strategies for Startups: Kolkata Edition
  6. 6 Jul '24 Kolkata eChai D2C Day in Kolkata
  7. 30 Sep '23 Kolkata eChai Startup Demo Day in Kolkata
  8. 4 Jun '22 Kolkata CoRise Women Entrepreneurs Circle in Kolkata x Offbeat CCU
  9. 18 Dec '21 Kolkata Startup Growth Stories from Kolkata
  10. 20 Apr '21 Kolkata Startup Growth Stories from Kolkata
  11. 18 Jan '20 Kolkata Startup Growth Networking Meetup in Kolkata x TaxMantra
  12. 17 Aug '19 Kolkata Startup Growth Networking Meetup in Kolkata
  13. 13 Jul '19 Kolkata Building A Winning Startup Team and Company Culture x Kolkata
  14. 8 Jun '19 Kolkata How To Scale Your Startup? x Kolkata
  15. 4 May '19 Kolkata Founder Stories from Kolkata [Webinar] - 1st Edition Mehul Joisar
  16. 20 Apr '19 Kolkata Digital Marketing Strategies For Startups x Kolkata
  17. 15 Dec '18 Kolkata Sales Strategies for Startups x Kolkata
  18. 16 Nov '18 Kolkata CodeUp Kolkata - Evolving AI & IoT
  19. 28 Apr '18 Kolkata UpStart Kolkata - Starting Up Right.
  20. 17 Mar '18 Kolkata Ease Of Doing Startup In Kolkata
  21. 3 Mar '18 Kolkata ★ eChai's Startup Hustle Series in Kolkata x EasyDaftar ★
  22. 20 Jan '18 Kolkata Skills of Bootstrapping – An experiential workshop
  23. 15 Dec '17 Kolkata Tinker Fest 2017
  24. 9 Dec '17 Kolkata Opportunities & Challenges in Fashion Industry
  25. 25 Nov '17 Kolkata Startup Collaboration Project in Kolkata
  26. 13 May '17 Kolkata Startup Saturday Kolkata-All About Fund Raising
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