Upcoming eChai events in Nagpur
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People in the Nagpur eChai community
Some of the founders who've been to eChai meetups in Nagpur over the years. Always more to add.
Startups building in Nagpur
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MIHAN
Air India's aircraft Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul (MRO) facility at MIHAN — leverages the SEZ's direct airport linkage; a cornerstone of Nagpur's aviation-hub ambition. (HQ: Air India, Delhi/Tata; FLAG fac...
MIHAN
Dassault Aviation–Reliance JV plant in MIHAN producing Falcon business-jet and Rafale-related aero-structure components; part of India's offset/defense-aerospace push. (HQ: JV; FLAG plant not Nagpur-HQ.)
Nagpur (MIHAN)
HCL Technologies operational units (Unit-I/II) in MIHAN; IT-services delivery. (HQ: Noida; FLAG not Nagpur-HQ.)
Nagpur (MIHAN)
Hexaware BPS and GlobalLogic run operational units in MIHAN (IT/BPS/engineering services). Both were among the early operational tenants. (HQ: Mumbai/San Jose respectively; FLAG not Nagpur-HQ.)
Nagpur campus (MIHAN)
Infosys development center in MIHAN (allotted ~142 acres, among the largest land parcels). Multi-thousand-seat IT campus. (HQ: Bengaluru; FLAG not Nagpur-HQ.)
MahaGenco (MSPGCL)
~2,190 MW thermal power station operated by Maharashtra State Power Generation Co.; a core node of the region's power economy (coal fed by nearby WCL collieries). Anchor of Nagpur's "power capital" positioning.
pharma unit, MIHAN
Lupin pharmaceutical manufacturing unit operational in MIHAN SEZ. Represents the pharma slice of the zone. (HQ: Mumbai; FLAG plant not Nagpur-HQ.)
Satyanarayan Nuwal (founder/chairman)
Founded 1995 in Nagpur; India's largest manufacturer/exporter of industrial explosives and initiating systems, now a fast-growing defense player (propellants, warheads, grenades, loitering/kamikaze drones, a...
aerospace, MIHAN
Tata Advanced/TAL unit manufacturing floor beams and structural components for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and other aerospace programs from MIHAN. A flagship "Make in India" aerospace facility. (HQ: Mumbai/Ta...
Nagpur delivery center (MIHAN)
Tata Consultancy Services operational campus in MIHAN; large IT-services delivery center — one of the earliest big-IT anchors to go live in the SEZ. (HQ: Mumbai; Nagpur = delivery center, FLAG not HQ.)
Nagpur (MIHAN)
Tech Mahindra (formerly Mahindra Satyam) campus in MIHAN, large land allotment. IT services. (HQ: Pune; FLAG not Nagpur-HQ.)
Coal India subsidiary (PSU)
Coal India subsidiary headquartered in Nagpur; operates collieries across Vidarbha/MP (Saoner, Kamptee, Gondegaon, Umred etc.) supplying regional thermal power. A major Nagpur-HQ'd employer and PSU anchor.
Sangharakshak Neel
Local food-discovery and ordering app connecting Nagpur diners with restaurants; profitable/small-scale. Represents the local foodtech layer.
Khushal Katara, Meet Bhanushali, Chinmay Naidu, Rohit Thakur
Founded 2019; hyperlocal on-demand delivery platform for Nagpur; cited 70,000+ deliveries and 300+ business partners. Bootstrapped local-logistics play.
Shubham Jadhav
Online invoice / billing manager SaaS aimed at individual and corporate users. Small bootstrapped SaaS.
Sudhanshu Yardi & Ameya Patil
Premium budget "micro-stay" / branded-rooms hospitality startup with flexible check-in. Early-stage travel/hospitality play.
Manish Gidwani
Founded 2014; web & mobile app development studio, ~50-person in-house team, cross-platform builds; small international footprint. Bootstrapped services firm.
industrial cluster
One of Asia's largest industrial areas by land, five-star MIDC status; hosts heavy manufacturing (Larsen & Toubro, Mahindra & Mahindra, KEC, etc.), Maharashtra's first Food Park (2005, ~100 acres) and orange...
D2C footwear brand + social enterprise (founded 2022 by Yogesh Mankar) with a 'Jobs and Shoes for Everyone' mission — creating employment for marginalised groups while selling footwear. A Nagpur D2C/impact s...
Cloud-based unified construction project-management platform (planning, scheduling, docs, real-time collaboration in a BIM/CAD-enabled interface with digital-twin support). Founded 2023 by Arnav Jain, Dayesh...
Nagastra UAVs
Nagpur-HQ'd defence-tech arm of Solar Industries. Developed Nagastra-1, an indigenous portable loitering-munition UAV (120 units delivered Jun 2024, +480 in Dec 2024; Bengaluru's Z-Motion was a design partne...
Healthtech / diagnostics startup (founded 2019) making non-invasive, home-based early-detection test kits for cancers (oral, breast, lung, prostate, uterine, pancreatic) — aiming to flag disease before a vis...
Hyperlocal / on-demand delivery service (founded 2019 by Khushal Katara, Meet Bhanushali, Chinmay Naidu, Rohit Thakur) handling urgent same-hour orders across Nagpur. Homegrown logistics/last-mile startup.
Agarwal family
The Nagpur arm of the Haldiram's namkeen/snacks empire (brand originated Bikaner 1937; Nagpur unit long a major manufacturing + corporate base). One of India's largest FMCG snack brands with global export re...
Automotive-services tech (founded 2019 by Yashwant Budhwani, Harsh Somani, Khalid Ansari): an integrated vehicle-care platform offering doorstep car/bike servicing and maintenance. A local consumer-services ...
Central India innovation/incubation center
Nagpur-based incubator/innovation center supporting Central-India startups (mentoring, programs, ecosystem building). Infrastructure for the emerging scene rather than a company.
Shashank Garg & Rohit Bhayana (co-founders)
Founded 2004; data & analytics / BI services firm genuinely rooted in Nagpur (registered + major delivery base) with global (US) presence. One of Nagpur's most substantial home-grown IT companies, ~thousands...
Manish Khanchandani & Sagar Bhajani
Founded 2014; D2C/QSR food brand reinventing traditional khichdi; ~120–130 orders/day. Small food-brand success from Nagpur.
Rahul Tarnekar & Abhijeet Thakare
Founded ~2012; IT-services / custom software house serving small and mid-size businesses in India and abroad (web, mobile, cloud). Representative bootstrapped Nagpur services shop.
Deepak Menaria
Startup incubator / entrepreneurship-enablement network (also runs "Lemonkraft"/incubation programs); claims support to 1,000+ entrepreneurs. Part of Nagpur's startup-support fabric rather than a product com...
Shaheer Ahmed
Location-based services / geospatial SaaS for telecom and enterprise (lawful-intercept, LBS); cited clients include Airtel, Vodafone, TomTom. One of the more differentiated Nagpur product-ish plays.
AI-powered astrology / consumer-tech app (founded 2022) combining Vedic astrology with machine learning. Founders Bhalchandra Patil, Shalini Jain, Vikram Labhe. Represents Nagpur's consumer-AI / spiritual-te...
MADC (Govt of Maharashtra)
~1,238-hectare SEZ; India's first SEZ directly linked to an airport. Zones for IT/ITES, aircraft MRO, aerospace manufacturing, logistics, pharma and power. Developed by Maharashtra Airport Development Co. (M...
Nagpur (MIHAN)
Custom software, cloud and data-dashboard services firm; ~400+ team operating from a MIHAN office. Long-standing Nagpur IT-services player serving overseas SMB clients.
E-learning / edtech company (founded 2023) focused on engineering courses. Part of Nagpur's cluster of education-tech and professional-training ventures (alongside Ultimate CA Classes and GIFT.ed).
Electronics/IoT hardware venture (founded 2014 by Sahil Gurucharan Chawla) making IoT-based fuel-monitoring systems; holds US patents for its 'E-Funnel' technology. Represents Nagpur's IoT/hardware and deep-...
Cybersecurity startup (founded 2017 by Neerav Patel) offering digital forensics, cloud security and cybercrime investigation services. A niche security-services player and one of the few deep cyber ventures ...
Ashutosh Mundhada & Sheetal Mundhada
Founded 2020 (BITS Pilani alumni); physiotherapy / pain-relief digital platform. Raised ~$350K (₹2.55 cr) pre-seed in Feb 2021 led by **Better Capital**, with Titan Capital (Kunal Bahl/Rohit Bansal) and ange...
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Who funds founders in Nagpur
The funding ladder here, from a first angel cheque up to later-stage funds. Jump to a rung, or browse the list.
Incubators & accelerators in Nagpur
Incubators, accelerators, corporate programs and institutions. Jump to a type, or browse the list.
Incubators 5
RCOEM's incubation ecosystem: the RCOEM Technology Business Incubators Foundation (Sec-8, est. 2016) plus the Center for Invention, Innovation, Incubation & Training (CIIIT, 2019, ~Rs 23.5 Cr, with Tata Technologies). The ED-Cell runs en...
CIVN runs VNIT Nagpur's technology business incubator, supporting technology-based entrepreneurship and converting institute research into ventures. Hosted at VNIT with support from the Rajiv Gandhi Science & Technology Commission, Gover...
V3F is VNIT Nagpur's dedicated incubation centre, recently inaugurated to strengthen the institute's innovation and startup ecosystem. It formalises VNIT's incubation activity into a standalone foundation supporting student and research-...
One of ISRO's Space Technology Incubation Centres, set up at VNIT Nagpur under a bilateral MoU (inaugurated 2021). It is the focal S-TIC for the western region (Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu), guiding...
InFED is the business incubator of IIM Nagpur, a Section 8 company parented by the institute. It mentors and incubates entrepreneurs, provides techno-business support, and bridges founders with academia, R&D institutions, investors and g...
Accelerators 1
Nagpur-headquartered incubator, accelerator and early-stage investor operating since 2013 under the mantra 'Innovation by Everyone'. Through the Lemon School of Entrepreneurship it offers mentoring, incubation and acceleration, and provi...
Government & public 5
Field office of the Ministry of MSME, Government of India, serving as nodal agency for MSME promotion across 11 Vidarbha districts (Nagpur, Amravati, Akola, Bhandara, Buldhana, Chandrapur, Gadchiroli, Gondia, Wardha, Washim, Yavatmal). P...
MSInS is the Government of Maharashtra's nodal startup/innovation body (HQ Mumbai). Its Nagpur Entrepreneurship Mission (NEM), piloted with the Industries Department and GAME, targets Vidarbha's MSME ecosystem via a 12-member district ta...
MIHAN (Multi-modal International Cargo Hub and Airport at Nagpur), developed by state PSU MADC, is India's first multi-product SEZ adjacent to an international airport (~1236 ha notified). It anchors Nagpur's IT/ITES base — Infosys, TCS,...
Large MIDC industrial estate (developed as a 5-star industrial district), among the biggest notified MIDC areas in India by area. Hosts large, medium and small industries — power plants, textiles, food processing (Maharashtra's first Foo...
Established MIDC industrial estate west of Nagpur with ~183 companies spanning large, medium and small industries. Anchor units include Mahindra & Mahindra's tractor plant, Vicco Laboratories and Candico (India). A long-standing manufact...
Coworking spaces in Nagpur
Where founders and early teams set up.
Nagpur-grown coworking brand (also present in Pune) with multiple city locations including Shankar Nagar, Ramdaspeth and Pratap Nagar. Offers flexible desks, dedicated desks, private cabins, meeting rooms and virtual offices for freelanc...
Coworking operator launched in 2020 with locations in Ramdaspeth, Sitabuldi and Sadar, well connected to the Nagpur Metro. Provides coworking desks, dedicated/hot desks, day passes, and air-conditioned conference, meeting and training ro...
Nagpur coworking space on Khamla Road offering virtual offices, shared offices, dedicated and flexible desks and private cabins for startups and small teams.
Nagpur coworking space offering flexible plans, private cabins, conference rooms and shared amenities aimed at freelancers, startups and businesses.
National managed-workspace chain (200+ centres across 18 cities) with a coworking presence in Nagpur. Offers day passes, flexi desks, dedicated seats, meeting rooms and virtual offices — a professionally managed option for scaling startu...
International flexible-workspace provider (IWG) with Nagpur centres in Sitabuldi, MIHAN and Dharampeth, offering serviced offices, coworking and meeting rooms with connectivity to the airport and Nagpur Junction. Serves corporates and st...
Startup communities & events in Nagpur
The wider scene eChai is part of: communities, recurring meetups and annual conferences. Jump to a type, or browse the list.
Women founders in Nagpur
Women building companies here, and the founder networks and funds backing them.
The most active, genuinely Nagpur-rooted women-entrepreneur body — the ladies' wing of the Vidarbha Industries Association (VIA). Founder Chairperson Sarla Kamdar; recent Chairperson Yogita Deshmukh. Runs re...
FICCI Ladies Organisation (est. 1983) is India's largest women's business network (22 chapters, 15,000+ members) offering funding, mentorship and bootcamps (e.g., 'FLO She Rises'). HONEST FLAG: searches did ...
Women's Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry — a national women's business chamber organised into state and sector 'councils'. Maharashtra has councils women in Nagpur can join, and adjacent figures like Ur...
co-founder, Melooha
Co-founder of Melooha (founded 2022, Nagpur), an AI-powered astrology / consumer-tech startup blending traditional Vedic frameworks with machine learning; co-founders Bhalchandra Patil and Vikram Labhe. One ...
founder, Rudrani's Agro Products
Founder of Rudrani's Agro Products, a Nagpur women-led agri/food-products venture recognised through the VIA LEW awards circuit. Representative of the region's most common women-founder profile — agri-proces...
Startup neighbourhoods in Nagpur
The neighbourhoods where the city's founders cluster.
The Multi modal International Cargo Hub and Airport at Nagpur, built by the state through the Maharashtra Airport Development Company on the southern edge of the city. It is India's first special economic zone linked directly to an airport. The IT and ITES zone holds delivery units for TCS, Infosys, HCLTech, Tech Mahindra and Hexaware, alongside aircraft maintenance, aerospace manufacturing, pharma and a multi modal logistics park. IIM Nagpur and its InFED incubator sit here too.
11 companies 1 coworking
Strong in IT Services, Aerospace
One of Asia's largest industrial areas by land, about 25 km south of the city and holding five star MIDC status. Heavy manufacturing anchors it, with plants belonging to Larsen & Toubro, Mahindra & Mahindra, KEC International and Indo Rama Synthetics, plus Maharashtra's first Food Park, opened in 2005. Most of the large units here belong to companies headquartered elsewhere.
1 company 1 coworking
Strong in Logistics, Manufacturing
The in city software cluster that predates MIHAN, anchored by the STPI centre at Plot 3, IT Park, Parsodi, which promotes software exports for the region. It sits next to VNIT, which feeds it, and holds a spread of small and mid sized IT and ITES firms.
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Strong in Data/Analytics, IT Services
The professional services and coworking core of the city. Civil Lines carries government and corporate offices, the headquarters of Western Coalfields and the Vidarbha Industries Association at Udyog Bhawan; Ramdaspeth is the medical and professional quarter. Most of Nagpur's coworking sits on this belt.
1 company 2 coworking
Strong in Mining, Energy
Answers about the Nagpur startup scene
What does the startup ecosystem in Nagpur look like?
Nagpur's ecosystem rests on industry, logistics and energy rather than on venture funding. Manufacturing, mobility and logistics, and defence are the deepest verticals, with a younger and mostly bootstrapped layer of IT services, SaaS, D2C and healthtech companies on top. The companies list above shows who is building what, filterable by vertical.
What is MIHAN and what sits inside it?
MIHAN is the Multi modal International Cargo Hub and Airport at Nagpur, developed by the state through the Maharashtra Airport Development Company. It is India's first special economic zone linked directly to an airport, which is why logistics and aviation concentrate there. Inside it are delivery units for TCS, Infosys, HCLTech, Tech Mahindra and Hexaware, an Air India maintenance and overhaul facility, aerospace plants run by TAL and the Dassault Reliance joint venture, a Lupin pharma unit, and IIM Nagpur with its InFED incubator.
Which companies is Nagpur best known for?
Solar Industries, founded in the city in 1995, is the flagship. It is India's largest maker and exporter of industrial explosives and initiating systems and now a substantial defence manufacturer exporting to more than 65 countries, and its Economic Explosives arm built the Nagastra-1 loitering munition. Haldiram Foods International has a long standing manufacturing and corporate base here, Western Coalfields is headquartered in Civil Lines, and InfoCepts is the largest home grown IT company.
Does eChai run events in Nagpur?
Yes. eChai Nagpur is free and open, and has been running since a Startup Hustle Series in 2018, through a cluster of Demo Days across 2023 and a Startup Mixer and Startup Social over 2025 and 2026. The cadence is periodic rather than fixed, so the events section above is the place to check what is dated next. Mauji, the time cafe in New Colony, is the current anchor venue.
Which incubators and coworking spaces are in Nagpur?
InFED at IIM Nagpur is the most active incubator, reported to have supported 65 or more startups. VNIT runs the Centre for Innovation, the V3F incubation foundation and an ISRO Space Technology Incubation Centre that is the focal centre for the western region. Lemon Ideas has incubated and seed funded from Nagpur since 2013, and Ramdeobaba University runs its own technology business incubator. The coworking section below lists the spaces, most of them around Civil Lines and Ramdaspeth.
Are there investors and VCs in Nagpur?
Very few. There is no standing local angel network, so early cheques tend to come through Lemon Ideas, which invests as well as incubates, or from national networks and investors based in Mumbai, Pune and Bengaluru. YourPhysio's pre seed round, led by Better Capital in 2021, is the most cited raise out of the city. The investors section below lists what is active here.
Where do founders network in Nagpur?
At community meetups and on the campuses. eChai runs free, open founder meetups in the city, TiE Nagpur holds periodic startup meets, and the Vidarbha Industries Association has convened the region's industry since 1964. E-Cell VNIT is the largest student body, running since 2003, and its Consortium summit is the biggest startup gathering in Nagpur.
Which are the top startup verticals in Nagpur?
Industry and manufacturing, mobility and logistics, and defence and aerospace lead, with energy and mining close behind and smaller clusters in IT services, SaaS, D2C and healthtech. Use the vertical chips above to browse the companies in each.
New to Nagpur's startup scene? Start here.
eChai runs free, open founder meetups in Nagpur. No membership, no fee, just show up. The chapter runs periodically rather than on a fixed schedule, so RSVP to the next one and meet the people building the city.
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