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Events

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Next week 1 gathering
  1. Proposed eChai Startup Demo Day in Guwahati
    6 pm - 8 pm
    1 of 20 interested
1 DEC 2025 · Guwahati eChai's Guwahati Startup Mixer
7 JAN 2023 · Guwahati eChai Startup Social in Guwahati w/ QuickGhy
18 JAN 2020 · Guwahati Startup Growth Networking Meetup in Guwahati

Meanwhile, across eChai

Ahmedabad · Thu 24 Sep eChai Startup Demo Day in Ahmedabad Ahmedabad · Thu 24 Sep eChai Startup Demo Day in Ahmedabad : SBR Edition Bengaluru · Fri 25 Sep The Great Product Festival 2026 Hyderabad · Fri 25 Sep AI Builders Meetup : Hyderabad edition Delhi-NCR · Sat 26 Sep eChai Startup Demo Day in Delhi-NCR Mumbai · Sat 26 Sep eChai Startup Demo Day in Mumbai

People

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Gaurav Medhi
Gaurav Medhi
Founder Director, QuickGhy · Guwahati
Sandeep Das
Sandeep Das
Founder · Tasty Treats

On the map

Christian Basti 5

Ulubari 5

Bhangagarh 3

Chandmari 3

  • Asomiya Pratidin Top news from Assam and around the world- Asomiya Pratidin delivers breaking news, latest headlines, and in-depth reports on politics…
  • Assam Gramin Bank AGB offers affordable loans, deposits, and digital banking services across Assam. Banking solutions for every stage of life.
  • Assam Tribune The Assam Tribune - Latest breaking news from Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim…

Dispur 3

  • Assam Tea Foodtech / F&B in Dispur
  • Sitemaker Lab Web Design Sitemaker Lab builds high-performance custom websites for ambitious businesses. Guwahati-based, globally recognized.
  • Tea Bro Agritech in Dispur

Khanapara 2

  • Mergen BioLogics Biotech in Khanapara
  • Studio Zeng Studio Zeng is an animation and design studio based in Guwahati, Assam with a shared love for storytelling and filmmaking.

Bamunimaidam 1

Beltola 1

Betkuchi 1

Boragaon 1

Ganeshguri 1

  • News18 Assam Stay Updated with Latest News on News18: Catch Breaking News, Top News Headlines from India and Around the World.

Geetanagar 1

Gopinath Nagar 1

  • Kishlay Foods Crafting premium snacks with traditional flavors and modern innovation since 1995

Kahilipara 1

Kamakhya 1

  • Annapurna Group (Head Office) Annapurna Group has been a leader in the food and dairy industry since 1952, committed to purity. Leading FMCG Group in Eastern India.

Lokhra 1

  • Eastern Networks At Eastern Networks, we provide advanced CCTV surveillance solutions designed to protect homes, offices, shops, institutions…

Rehabari 1

Sarumotoria 1

Silpukhuri 1

Six Mile 1

  • Tattva Creations Tattva Creations - Leading digital marketing agency in Delhi & Guwahati. SEO, social media, brand management & event management agency.

Super Market 1

  • SIQES SIQES is a leading software development & IT company in Guwahati, Assam.

Uzan Bazar 1

Zoo Road 1

  • Pratidin Time Pratidin Time - Leading News Channel of Assam | Breaking News Assam | Pratidin Exclusive News | Pratidin Time Live TV | Latest News Assam

Across the city 1

  • Glad Studio Join Glad Studio in Guwahati for hands-on animation, VFX, and graphic design courses…

Where the city gathers

Campuses 54

Cafes 17

Communities 12

Coworking spaces 9

Investors 2

Startups

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Aromica Tea tea-tech

Guwahati-based D2C tea-tech brand launched 2018 by Ranjit Baruah (ex-McLeod Russel, ~2 decades in tea). Sells ~26 tea blends including six Assam varieties direct-to-consumer online. Represents the Assam tea-...

Da Spatio Rhobotique Laboratory (DSRL) deeptech

IIT-Guwahati-incubated deeptech/defence startup building AI-driven robots for real-time border surveillance across difficult terrain, with multi-sensor threat detection. Undergoing field trials with the Indi...

Dawai Lo healthtech

Guwahati healthtech / e-pharmacy delivering medicines door-to-door with prescription verification, founded by Pankaj Maheshwari and Abhimanyu Modi. Serves a Northeast market historically under-served by nati...

Event Planet Technologies eventtech

Event & wedding-aggregator platform founded 2024; raised USD 250,000 angel funding from US-based NRI investor Virendra Prasad at a ~Rs 30-crore valuation. One of the region's larger recent angel rounds. (HQ:...

Olatus Systems deeptech

Guwahati hardware/deeptech startup (Parash Borthakur, Nilotpal Rabha) manufacturing Arduino-compatible boards, sensor modules and robotics kits — feeding the local maker/edtech-hardware and IoT ecosystem.

PicknDel foodtech

Guwahati food-ordering and hyperlocal delivery app founded by Tullika Batra — a woman-led consumer-tech venture serving the local Guwahati market against national aggregators.

Quintinno Labs cleantech

Cleantech/EV-energy startup founded 2023 by physicist Divasjyoti Parashar. Its flagship QUINT is a compact, portable, modular clean-energy unit that doubles as an EV power bank and a diesel-genset replacemen...

AgSpert Technologies Agritech

Siddhartha S. Bora, Dhritiman Talukdar, Kookil P. Goswami (+ IIT-G alumni)

Agritech incubated at IITG BioNEST; built AgSpeak, a multilingual AI farming-advisory app, plus on-demand UAV/drone and smart-robot services for crop spraying, scouting and phenotyping, and ML yield predicti...

Assam Oil & Gas Oil & Gas

Oil India (OIL), ONGC, Numaligarh Refinery (NRL)

Assam is India's oldest oil province. OIL (HQ Duliajan) produces ~3 MTPA crude, ~5 MMSCMD gas; ONGC's Assam Asset runs ~15 oilfields; Numaligarh Refinery (Golaghat district, ~250 km east of Guwahati; OIL-own...

Boober D2C

Keshav

Founded September 2016; D2C bamboo-products brand spanning pen-holders to furniture — a "bamboo as green gold" NE sustainability/handicrafts play. (HQ listed as Assam; exact Guwahati address not fully confir...

Brahmaputra Fables (The Bellsmith Co.) D2C

Dhruba Jyoti Deka

D2C / ecommerce marketplace founded 2017 by Dhruba Jyoti Deka connecting ~3,000 Northeast artisans, weavers and organic farmers to national buyers (handloom sarees, eri/mulberry silk mekhelas, bamboo/bell-me...

Cubical Labs Deeptech

Dhruv Ratra, Swati Vyas & Rahul Bhatnagar *(HQ FLAG: now New Delhi)

Founded 2013 by three IIT Guwahati students and incubated at IITG TIC (seeded by a Rs 25 lakh IIT-G loan); Home IoT platform converting ordinary appliances into smart devices, later backed by Hike CEO Kavin ...

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VCs

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Assam Start-up Venture Capital Fund Managed by SIDBI Venture Capital for Government of Assam, Guwahati

A SEBI-registered Category-I AIF (Venture Capital Fund) set up by the Government of Assam to invest in scalable, innovative early- and growth-stage startups and MSMEs based in Assam. It provides a state-backed equity funding channel comp...

Assam Startup Angel Network c/o Assam Startup – The Nest, Ambari, Guwahati

An emerging angel network initiated by Assam Startup – The Nest, which convened Guwahati HNIs (from May 2019) to formalise angel investing in the state; angel-network backing recognised by Startup Assam is a criterion for state benefits....

Incubators

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Assam Startup G.N.B. Road, Ambari, Guwahati (adjacent Pragjyotika Assam Emporium)

Assam's first state-owned startup incubator, launched 20 January 2019 under the Assam Startup Policy 2017 and co-created with IIM Calcutta Innovation Park. Selected startups are incubated free of cost for six months with intensive mentor...

AIC-NIPER Guwahati Foundation NIPER Guwahati

Atal Incubation Centre (launched 2023, backed by Atal Innovation Mission / NITI Aayog) providing mentorship, seed funding, lab facilities and business support to startups in pharma, healthcare, biotech, agri and water. Deeptech/lifescien...

IIT Guwahati Technology Complex, IIT Guwahati, Amingaon, North Guwahati-781039

Established in 2009, TIC is the pioneering technology incubator of North East India, spread over ~4,000 sq m within IIT Guwahati's Technology Complex. Sector-agnostic but strong in AI, robotics, electronics, clean energy, healthtech and ...

IIT Guwahati Research Park IIT Guwahati campus, Amingaon, North Guwahati-781039

The first research park established in North East India (approved by the Ministry of HRD), created to foster leading-edge innovation. It offers customised space, shared equipment, incubation, mentorship and funding to technology-based en...

IIT Guwahati BioNEST Bio-incubator Research Park, IIT Guwahati, Amingaon, North Guwahati-781039

A BIRAC-supported bio-incubator (BioNEST scheme) launched in 2022 and now the leading biotech incubator in North East India. Spread over 12,000 sq ft at the Research Park, it supports 60+ startups with lab infrastructure, mentorship, see...

IIM Calcutta Innovation Park (IIMCIP) HQ Kolkata; operates NE-wide, co-created 'The Nest' in Guwahati

A Section-8 incubator under IIM Calcutta that is a major force in the North East despite being Kolkata-headquartered (not Guwahati-based). It has nurtured 1,000+ NE ventures and facilitated ₹75+ crore for 300+ startups, co-created state ...

Assam down town University Sankar Madhab Path, Gandhi Nagar, Panikhaiti, Guwahati-781026

A university-based incubation centre at Assam down town University running government-backed programs — SFURTI (MSME), TIDE 2.0 (MeitY, grants of ₹4L/₹7L for ICT startups), plus in-house tracks 'dtVL Ideation' (interest-free loans up to ...

Startup Assam (Assam Startup Policy) Industries & Commerce Dept., Government of Assam, Guwahati

The Government of Assam's flagship initiative to build a startup ecosystem in the state, operationalised through the Assam Startup Policy 2017. It provides recognition, monetary benefits, incubation access and a single-window portal for ...

Assam Science Technology and Environment Council (ASTEC) Bigyan Bhawan, G.S. Road, Bhangagarh, Guwahati

Autonomous S&T council under the Government of Assam (established 1986-87) that initiates, funds and coordinates research, innovation and technology programs in the state. It supports science popularisation, renewable energy and R&D proj...

Coworking

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Communities

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The Nest Assam Startup — The Nest, Ambari, Guwahati

The capstone of each Nest incubation cohort: top investors are invited to consider funding the ventures pitched by incubated startups. Guwahati's flagship investor-facing pitch event, tied to The Nest's cohort cycle (e.g., Cohort 4.0). I...

Startup Adda (The Nest) Assam Startup — The Nest, Ambari, Guwahati

A monthly gathering The Nest runs especially for non-incubated startups to interact with industry experts and get guidance on entrepreneurial challenges. The closest thing to a recurring open founder meetup in Guwahati — but tied to the ...

Assam Startup Fest Guwahati

A multi-day state-level startup festival (2023 edition ran 23–25 Aug) with power talks, masterclasses and networking to inspire and empower NE youth and entrepreneurs. One of the larger community-facing startup events in the Guwahati cal...

UDGAM IIT Guwahati, North Guwahati

The Northeast's most prominent annual entrepreneurship summit, run by E-Cell IIT Guwahati; 17th edition in Jan 2025. Anchors sub-events like Disrupt (NE's largest startup bootcamp, 4 months of mentorship), Internfair (60+ companies, 150+...

TiE Guwahati Guwahati

A TiE Global chapter for Guwahati/Assam (VERIFIED — guwahati.tie.org is live), one of the newer chapters in the TiE family. Delivers TiE's five pillars — Mentoring, Networking, Education, Funding, Incubation — guiding NE startups via Ind...

Startup Assam (community) / Startup Saturday Guwahati Talks Guwahati

A grassroots founder initiative started Jan 2015 with the dream of making Guwahati the NE startup capital. Ran the popular 'Startup Saturday Guwahati Talks' — 30+ month-on-month programs and pitching sessions connecting founders to mento...

MeetChief Guwahati / Northeast India

A community specifically for startup founders of Northeast India, running founder meetups. Signals live demand for a peer-founder network in the region — a potential ally or model as eChai considers a NE gateway chapter.

The Assam Royal Global University Opposite Tirupati Balaji Temple, Betkuchi, N.H.37, Guwahati-781035

A private university in Guwahati with an active entrepreneurship cell, dedicated innovation labs and incubation facilities, and regular hackathons. It is a formal MoU partner of IIM Calcutta Innovation Park for co-incubation, positioning...

Girijananda Chowdhury University (GCU / GIMT) Hatkhowapara, Azara, Guwahati-781017

A UGC-recognised private university (evolved from GIMT) in Guwahati that emphasises entrepreneurship development, startup incubation and applied engineering projects. Contributes to the education-to-startup pipeline in the western part o...

Women founders

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Jahnabi Phookan tourism

Jungle Travels India & Assam Bengal Navigation

Guwahati's best-known woman entrepreneur. She co-founded Jungle Travels India (1989) and pioneered Brahmaputra river cruising with Assam Bengal Navigation (2002). She became National President of FICCI FLO (...

Nilotpala Sahariah ecommerce

GrowHub (Connecting B2B)

Founder & CEO of GrowHub (founded 2024), a Guwahati B2B ecommerce platform that turns agricultural waste and natural fibres (banana fibre, bamboo) into handcrafted products, empowering rural artisans — parti...

Sulakshana B. Bhuyan D2C

Zangfai

Founder of Zangfai, a premium traditional-Assamese jewelry brand rooted in the region's cultural heritage. Represents the strong Guwahati women-led craft/lifestyle-D2C scene.

Kangkana Bora & Lipi B. Mahanta healthtech

RogNidaan Technologies (co-founders)

Two of RogNidaan Technologies' four co-founders are women scientists. RogNidaan builds automated clinical-diagnostics AI; its PapScanner screens Pap-smear images for early cervical-dysplasia detection. An ex...

FICCI FLO North-East Chapter (Guwahati) women-network

The Northeast chapter of the FICCI Ladies Organisation, headquartered out of Guwahati (founder vice-chair Jahnabi Phookan, est. 2007). Runs handloom village-adoption programmes and hosted a 4-day, 350-delega...

WICCI Assam State Councils women-network

State chapter of the Women's Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (national women's business chamber, ~60,000 India members). Assam sits in WICCI's Eastern Region; sector councils include the Assam Fashion ...

Neighbourhoods

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IIT Guwahati & Amingaon

The deeptech end of the map, on the north bank of the Brahmaputra. IIT Guwahati's Technology Incubation Centre has run since 2009 across about 4,000 sq m of the Technology Complex, and the BioNEST bio-incubator at the Research Park, backed by BIRAC and open since 2022, carries 60 or more startups with wet lab space. The Guwahati Biotech Park and the Brahmaputra Industrial Park sit in the same Amingaon belt, which makes this stretch both the research base and the industrial one.

10 companies 6 coworking

Strong in Deeptech, AI

G.S. Road, Bhangagarh & Dispur

Guwahati's main commercial artery and the address for most of what a founder needs day to day. The coworking spaces cluster around Christian Basti and Bhangagarh, NEDFi House at Dispur manages the North East Venture Fund, and the Guwahati Tea Auction Centre and the Assam Secretariat sit on the same belt.

1 company 3 investors 3 coworking

Strong in SaaS, Fintech

Beltola & Basistha

The fast growing commercial and residential belt in south Guwahati, an overflow from the crowded G.S. Road core where smaller brands and service firms sit near residential density. North East Small Finance Bank is registered at Beltola, and the Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship, set up in 1993 to work across the Northeast, is at Lalmati on the NH-37 bypass.

1 company 1 coworking

Strong in Fintech

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Answers about the Guwahati startup scene

What does the startup ecosystem in Guwahati look like?

Guwahati's ecosystem is strongest in deeptech, ecommerce and D2C, with a deeptech share that is unusually large for a city this size because so much of it comes out of IIT Guwahati. The companies list above shows who is building what, filterable by vertical.

Why is IIT Guwahati so central to the startup scene here?

It is the single biggest source of companies in the city. The Technology Incubation Centre has run on campus since 2009 and the BioNEST bio-incubator at the Research Park has carried 60 or more startups since 2022. Most of the robotics and diagnostics companies on this list started there, including DSRL, whose surveillance robots have been in Indian Army field trials, and BetaTANK, whose robots clean crude oil tank sludge without anyone entering the tank.

Is Assam's tea economy part of the startup story?

Mostly through brands. The Guwahati Tea Auction Centre has run in Dispur since 1970, is one of the largest auction hubs for CTC tea anywhere, and sold a record 169 million kg in 2024-25. The same supply base has produced direct to consumer tea companies, among them Ésah Tea, the first tea startup from Assam to raise venture capital, and Aromica Tea, started by a former McLeod Russel executive.

Which incubators and coworking spaces are in Guwahati?

Assam Startup, The Nest, at Ambari is the state incubator and the anchor of the ecosystem, co-created with IIM Calcutta Innovation Park, and IIT Guwahati runs the Technology Incubation Centre, the Research Park and BioNEST at Amingaon. The coworking section below lists the private spaces, most of them on G.S. Road around Christian Basti.

Who funds startups in Guwahati?

Regional and state vehicles more than private venture funds. NEDFi, headquartered on G.S. Road at Dispur, manages the North East Venture Fund, a SEBI registered Rs 100 crore fund that has put about Rs 56.8 crore into 37 startups, and the Assam Start-up Venture Capital Fund is run for the state government by SIDBI Venture Capital. The investors section below lists what is active locally.

Where do founders network in Guwahati?

Around institutions more than independent meetups. The Nest runs a monthly Startup Adda for founders who are not in its cohort, E-Cell IIT Guwahati runs UDGAM, the largest annual entrepreneurship summit in the Northeast, and TiE Guwahati is the chapter to know. The communities section below lists them.

Does eChai run events in Guwahati?

Not at the moment. eChai Guwahati held a growth meetup in January 2020 and a Startup Social in January 2023, and the chapter has been quiet since. The events section shows anything upcoming, and if you would like to help start it up again, get in touch.

Which are the top startup verticals in Guwahati?

Deeptech leads, then ecommerce and D2C, with agritech, climate tech and healthtech close behind. Use the vertical chips above to browse the companies in each.

Want to help restart eChai Guwahati?

eChai's Guwahati chapter ran a couple of meetups, the last in January 2023, and has been quiet since. If you are a founder or community builder who wants to convene free, open meetups here again, get in touch. No membership, no fee.

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