Founder Notes

What founders on eChai are building, what broke and what they learned, in their own words.

Founders Curated Sections

Sections
AI What is being built with AI, how it is put to work, and what happens when it goes wrong.
Fundraising & VC Raising money: rounds, investors and terms, and how a company decides whether to raise and from whom.
Fintech Payments, lending, insurance and banking, and the rules the companies building them work under.
D2C & consumer Brands that sell to consumers: products, food, stores and marketplaces, and how they reach the people who buy.
SaaS & B2B Software sold to businesses: building it, pricing it, and keeping the customers who pay for it.
Sales & marketing Finding customers and keeping them: positioning, channels, pipeline and the first sales.
Hiring & teams Co-founders, first hires and growing teams: who companies look for, and how they find them.
What founders use The software and services founders run their companies on, and what they recommend to each other.
Ecosystem Where founders meet: gatherings, communities, incubators, accelerators and the spaces they work from.
Health Healthcare and biotech: the companies building them, and the approvals and evidence they need.
Deeptech Hardware, semiconductors, robotics, space and defence: companies built on engineering and research.
Climate Clean energy, electric vehicles, carbon and recycling: the companies working on climate.
Collections
Built with Astra The demos, the films and the recipes, each in the builder's own words.
Wrong Gone AI Hallucinated citations, prompt injections, agents let loose, case by case.
Deciding with Jev What people built with Jev in its first days, and what they argued about, in their own words.
Global Fintech Fest 2026 What people posted from Global Fintech Fest 2026 in Mumbai, day by day, curated on eChai.
OpenAI DevDay 2026 What was launched, what was shown, and what people made of it, in their own words.
The Navier-Stokes Week A warning, a rumour, a result and an argument, in the words of the people who wrote them.
From the gatherings
Every gathering held