eChai

Ranchi

Bevendee (Surya Bharti Electronics Pvt Ltd)

41 startups on the map where they work.

Events

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Next week 1 gathering
  1. Proposed eChai Startup Demo Day in Ranchi
    6 pm - 8 pm
    2 of 20 interested

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People

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Roshan Kumar
Roshan Kumar
Co-Founder · Roxonic Private Limited
Bijeet Kumar
Bijeet Kumar
Ranchi
Anshu Prasad
Hirenex HR Solutions

On the map

Kokar 5

Circular Road 4

  • Allengers Medical Systems Incepted in 1987, Allengers Medical Systems Ltd, headquartered at Chandigarh, India…
  • Arena Animation Join Animation, VFX, Graphic Design, Web Design, Digital Marketing Course. Learn from the Best Arena Animation Institute in Jharkhand
  • Dzinex Technologies Internship program/ full stack development
  • Timezone Nucleus Mall Strike up the fun at Timezone Nucleus Mall with arcade games…

Namkum 4

Harmu 3

Ratu 3

Dhurwa 2

Hatia 2

Morabadi 2

Argora 1

  • Encoders Software Custom software, mobile apps, AI/ML, ERP, cybersecurity, hosting and training. ISO 9001:2015 certified, since 2019, Ranchi.

Bahu Bazar 1

Booty More 1

Club Road 1

Dangratoli 1

Doranda 1

Hindpiri 1

  • SMAG Gaming in Hindpiri

Hinoo 1

Kathal More 1

Kutchery 1

Main Road 1

Nayasarai 1

Purulia Road 1

Sahjanand Chowk 1

Upper Bazar 1

  • RANI ENTERPRISES Connect with Nature Step Into the EnergyRevolution Open the Door to a Brighter Future with Endless Possibilities. Ignite the Future!

Across the city 1

Where the city gathers

Campuses 59

Communities 9

Cafes 8

Coworking spaces 3

Incubator 1

Startups

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Birla Institute of Technology (BIT) Mesra Education

Est. 1955 by industrialist B.M. Birla; a Deemed University and Ranchi's flagship engineering/tech institute (NIRF 2025: ~51 engineering). Runs an active Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC) and is the mai...

National Institute of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (NIAMT, formerly NIFFT) Education

Est. 1966 (Govt of India + UNDP/UNESCO) to serve India's foundry & forge industries; upgraded to Deemed University in Feb 2024 and renamed NIAMT. Directly tied to the metals/manufacturing economy of the region.

National University of Study and Research in Law (NUSRL) Education

National Law University of Jharkhand — the region's premier law school, feeding legal/policy talent into the ecosystem.

1Stay Technology proptech

Proptech venture ('Your Perfect Long Term Stay') founded by Mukesh Kumar Mandal, focused on long-term rental/stay accommodation. Featured in Startup Jharkhand's 'Rising 25' Most Promising Startups; Ranchi-HQ'd.

Bulk Mockup SaaS

SaaS tool founded by Vikash Kumar Prajapati that automates print-on-demand seller workflows (bulk product mockups). Listed in Startup Jharkhand's 'Rising 25' Most Promising Startups; Ranchi-HQ'd — part of a ...

CustKart (Custkart Merchandise Pvt Ltd) E-commerce

Incorporated June 2020. B2B customized-merchandise startup (T-shirts, bags, caps, corporate gifts) with in-house manufacturing, serving 25+ engineering/medical colleges and corporates in tier-2/3 India; ~1 l...

GamerThred gaming

'Engagement-first game discovery platform' founded by Umanand Mishra, aimed at helping players discover games. A consumer-internet/gaming entry in Startup Jharkhand's 'Rising 25'; Ranchi-based.

Veritasco SaaS

Business-operations software startup ('Simplifying Operations. Amplifying Growth') founded by Rehan Suman, targeting operational efficiency for SMBs. Recognised in Startup Jharkhand's 'Rising 25' list and Ra...

Central Coalfields Ltd (CCL) Mining & Metals

Est. 1956 (as NCDC); a Mini-Ratna Category-I subsidiary of Coal India Ltd. Operates ~65 mines and 6 washeries across seven Jharkhand coalfields (East/West Bokaro, North/South Karanpura, Ramgarh, Giridih, Hut...

Central Mine Planning & Design Institute (CMPDI) Mining & Metals

Est. 1975; Mini-Ratna Category-I, a fully-owned Coal India subsidiary. India's premier mine-planning, mineral-exploration and mining-geology/hydro-geology consultancy. Ranchi-HQ'd; central to the entire coal...

MECON Ltd Mining & Metals

Est. 1959 (as CEDB of Hindustan Steel). Central PSU under the Ministry of Steel — multidisciplinary engineering & project-management consultancy for steel, mining, infrastructure, power, oil & gas. Granted M...

Startup Jharkhand (foundation) Ecosystem

Founder/community foundation set up Nov-Dec 2023 (team incl. Manglesh Ranjan, Shubham Raj, Manik Kumar) running "Entrepreneurial Connect" events (50-120+ participants through 2024). Reflects the still-nascen...

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VCs

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Momentum Jharkhand Ranchi

Jharkhand's marquee state investor summit, first held 16-17 Feb 2017 in Ranchi with 1,000+ delegates, inaugurated by Union ministers with M.S. Dhoni as brand ambassador. A high-visibility government investment-promotion brand rather than...

Communities

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Entrepreneurial Connect (EC 3.0) Ranchi

Jharkhand's largest startup summit, run by Startup Jharkhand. EC 2.0 (co-organized with Jharkhand University of Technology) drew 250+ startups, investors and officials; EC 3.0 is scheduled for 30 May 2026 in Ranchi with partners includin...

Young Entrepreneur Program (YEP) Ranchi / Jharkhand (schools)

A 4-week startup bootcamp igniting entrepreneurial thinking in school and early-college students, with cash rewards and incubation support. Part of Startup Jharkhand's grassroots pipeline.

GDG Ranchi (Google Developer Groups) Ranchi

Google Developer Group chapter for Ranchi, running tech and startup-crossover events including 'Startup Success Days Ranchi'. A useful developer-audience partner for cross-promotion of founder meetups.

Headstart Ranchi Ranchi

Local chapter of Headstart Network, a decade-old volunteer-run startup community (Startup Saturday format). Has a Ranchi page and past collaboration with NIFFT's E-Cell, but activity nationally and locally is now sparse — more legacy bra...

Software Development Community (SDC) Ranchi Ranchi

A local software-developer community in Ranchi organizing tech meetups and skill events; a potential grassroots partner for reaching technical founders and early builders.

Women founders

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Palash / JSLPS tribal-produce

Rural & Tribal Women Enterprise Brand

State-run umbrella brand (Dept. of Rural Development, Govt. of Jharkhand, via JSLPS) launched 2020 to market goods made by rural and tribal women's Self-Help Groups under one identity. Spans 29+ product cate...

FICCI FLO Jharkhand & WICCI Jharkhand women-network

Women Business Networks

The two principal women-in-business networks active in the state, both Ranchi-centred. FICCI FLO (women's wing of FICCI, national body of 15,000+ members across 20+ chapters) runs Jharkhand-chapter programmi...

Shobha Kumari handicraft

Srijan Handicrafts

Ranchi-based woman entrepreneur who founded Srijan Handicrafts to make hand-crafted dolls from clay, sawdust and cloth depicting Jharkhand's tribal attire and communities; premium dolls reportedly sell for u...

Madhumita Shaw handicraft

Pipal Tree

Founder of Pipal Tree (est. 2016), a social enterprise financially empowering tribal women across Jharkhand through craft-based livelihoods. Included as a diversity data-point for the state; HQ-flag: it is a...

Neighbourhoods

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Lalpur, Circular Road & Kutchery Road

The commercial and professional services spine of central Ranchi, running from Lalpur Chowk through Circular Road and Kutchery Road. It carries the densest coworking and shared office stock in the city, including Boxally at Pranami Heights in Lalpur and TBL Space at Mahabir Tower, alongside banks and the accounting and legal firms early teams start with. Central Coalfields is headquartered at Darbhanga House on Kutchery Road.

1 company

Strong in Mining & Metals

HEC & Dhurwa

The public sector township built around Heavy Engineering Corporation, established in 1958 as one of India's largest integrated engineering complexes, covering casting, forging, fabrication, machining and turnkey projects for steel, mining, railways, power, defence and space. Dhurwa also holds the state secretariat, and the HEC land bank is the site earmarked for Ranchi Smart City's greenfield development.

2 companies 1 coworking

Strong in Education, Mining & Metals

Central Ranchi & Suchna Bhawan

The institutional core of the city. IIM Ranchi has operated from Suchna Bhawan on the Audrey House campus off Meur's Road, and the STPI node and state innovation support units sit nearby, offering workspace, mentoring and investor introductions to early stage teams. Grid and SafEarth both took their first addresses in this part of the city.

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Strong in Education

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Answers about the Ranchi startup scene

What does the startup ecosystem in Ranchi look like?

Small, recent and built beside a much larger public sector economy. The heft in Ranchi is mining and metals, and the startup layer that has formed alongside it is concentrated in dairy and agritech, D2C and merchandise, and a thin bench of B2B software. The companies list above shows who is building what, filterable by vertical.

What is Ranchi's economy actually built on?

Mining, metals and the engineering around them, most of it in central public sector hands. Heavy Engineering Corporation at Dhurwa is one of India's largest integrated foundry and forge complexes, Central Coalfields runs the coalfields across the state from Kutchery Road, and MECON and CMPDI are the steel engineering and mine planning consultancies. Alongside that sits the tribal and forest produce economy, tasar silk, lac and handicraft, which the state corporation JHARCRAFT was set up to build markets for.

Who are the best known startups from Ranchi?

Osam Dairy is the clearest result. Four friends started it around 2012, built it to roughly Rs 225 crore in revenue, and sold it to the listed Dodla Dairy in July 2025. Grid, a no code data and operations platform for mining, manufacturing and infrastructure companies, has raised about 3.5 million dollars and is the closest thing the city has to a deep tech company. Puresh Daily runs a fresh milk subscription across Ranchi, Ramgarh and Bokaro, and SafEarth, the industrial solar procurement platform, was founded here in 2017 before its operations moved to Bengaluru.

Which incubators and coworking spaces are in Ranchi?

The incubation layer is campus and state led. BIT Mesra runs BIT-STEP and its entrepreneurship development cell, Jharkhand University of Technology runs the EKJUT technology business incubator at Namkum, XISS runs CIINEX on Purulia Road, and the state's own master incubator, the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Innovation Lab, is on Ratu Road. Private coworking is modest and clusters on the Lalpur and Main Road belt, where Boxally, Shive Coworking, TBL Space and Magic Touch take most of the early teams.

Are there investors and VCs in Ranchi?

No resident fund, and no standing angel network in the city today. Jharkhand Angels was founded in Ranchi in 2021 to back tier two and tier three founders, and its founders have since relocated, so it now operates largely out of Bengaluru. Founders here raise through state schemes, campus incubators and investors based elsewhere.

What does the Jharkhand government offer startup founders?

The Jharkhand Startup Policy 2023 is the framework, replacing the 2016 policy and setting a target of 1,000 startups by 2028. It carries an idea stage stipend of Rs 15,000 per member a month for up to 12 months, scale up grants of up to Rs 10 lakh, seed funding routed through approved incubators, and stated preference for women, tribal and differently abled founders. It is administered by the Department of Industries at Nepal House and through ABVIL's portal.

Where do founders network in Ranchi?

Mostly through I-Hub Startup Jharkhand, the not for profit accelerator started in late 2023 that runs a monthly meetup capped at 15 to 20 founders and Entrepreneurial Connect, the largest startup summit in the state. Beyond that it is campus programming, the entrepreneurship cells at BIT Mesra and IIM Ranchi, and developer groups such as GDG Ranchi and the Software Development Community. There is no TiE chapter in the state.

Does eChai run events in Ranchi?

Not yet. eChai runs free, open founder meetups across 25 or more cities and has never held one in Ranchi. This page maps the ecosystem and is an invitation to help start the first meetup here. Until then, I-Hub Startup Jharkhand's monthly meetup is the closest thing in the city to the same format.

Want to help launch eChai Ranchi?

eChai does not run a chapter in Ranchi yet. If you are a founder or community builder who wants to convene the first free, open eChai meetup here, get in touch. In the meantime, I-Hub Startup Jharkhand runs a monthly founder meetup in the city and is the natural partner for a launch. No membership, no fee.

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