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. 11 cities confirmed, 384 founders registered. Any city that reaches 20 interested founders is on too. See your city

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What the network actually rates. Pick the ones you'd recommend, add your own if it's missing, and see which founders back each.

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Money & Legal Which bank do you use and recommend for your startup?
Abhishek Rai Fuya Chavda Hetal Mesvaniya Sumit Kasardekar Ojas Gandhi 01- Jay Dobariya Ahesan Ali Hirva Bhatt +30
ICICI Bank 17 votes · 40%
HDFC Bank 11 votes · 26%
Kotak Mahindra Bank 9 votes · 21%
IDFC First Bank 2 votes · 5%
State Bank of India 1 vote · 2%
Yes Bank 1 vote · 2%
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Money & Legal How have you funded your business so far?
Abhishek Rai Saad Khan Shitesh Sachan 01- Jay Dobariya Harsh Luhar Anuj Dalal Akshay Solanki Tushar Prajapati +10
Bootstrapped 17 votes · 89%
Angel investors 1 vote · 5%
A VC firm 1 vote · 5%
AngelList or LetsVenture syndicate 0 votes · 0%
Venture Catalysts or 100X.VC 0 votes · 0%
An accelerator 0 votes · 0%
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Money & Legal Who did you incorporate your company with?
Abhishek Rai Akshay Solanki Ahesan Ali Pragnesh Shah Shrijay Sheth Apurvv Pakhmode Jatin Chaudhary Rushabh Shah
A local CA 4 votes · 50%
LegalWiz.in 3 votes · 38%
Others 1 vote · 13%
Vakilsearch 0 votes · 0%
IndiaFilings 0 votes · 0%
ClearTax 0 votes · 0%
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Money & Legal Who handles your GST and tax filing?
Abhishek Rai Akshay Solanki Amish Trivedi Harry Rajput Pragnesh Shah Anil Motwani Nandan Shukla Rushabh Shah
My CA handles it 8 votes · 100%
ClearTax 0 votes · 0%
Zoho Books 0 votes · 0%
IndiaFilings 0 votes · 0%
Quicko 0 votes · 0%
TaxBuddy 0 votes · 0%
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Money & Legal What do you send your invoices with?
Anuj Dalal Amish Trivedi Anil Motwani Nandan Shukla
Zoho Books 2 votes · 50%
Others 1 vote · 25%
Email 1 vote · 25%
Refrens 0 votes · 0%
Zoho Invoice 0 votes · 0%
Vyapar 0 votes · 0%
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Money & Legal What do you use for accounting and bookkeeping?
Harsh Luhar Rushabh Shah
Zoho Books 1 vote · 50%
Tally 1 vote · 50%
Vyapar 0 votes · 0%
QuickBooks 0 votes · 0%
Refrens 0 votes · 0%
myBillBook 0 votes · 0%
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Money & Legal How do you manage company spends and cards?
Mr Mujtaba
IDFC Business Card 1 vote · 100%
Volopay 0 votes · 0%
Happay 0 votes · 0%
EnKash 0 votes · 0%
Kodo 0 votes · 0%
Zaggle 0 votes · 0%
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Money & Legal What manages your cap table and ESOPs?
Carta 0 votes · 0%
AngelList 0 votes · 0%
Pulley 0 votes · 0%
Cake Equity 0 votes · 0%
Qapita 0 votes · 0%
Trica 0 votes · 0%
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Money & Legal Which bank do you use and recommend for your startup?
Abhishek Rai Fuya Chavda Hetal Mesvaniya Sumit Kasardekar Ojas Gandhi 01- Jay Dobariya Ahesan Ali Hirva Bhatt Akshay Solanki Kishan Parekh +28
38 responses · 19 options Money & Legal How have you funded your business so far?
Abhishek Rai Saad Khan Shitesh Sachan 01- Jay Dobariya Harsh Luhar Anuj Dalal Akshay Solanki Tushar Prajapati Jatin Chaudhary Rahul Sharma +8
18 responses · 12 options Money & Legal Who did you incorporate your company with?
Abhishek Rai Akshay Solanki Ahesan Ali Pragnesh Shah Shrijay Sheth Apurvv Pakhmode Jatin Chaudhary Rushabh Shah
8 responses · 14 options Money & Legal Who handles your GST and tax filing?
Abhishek Rai Akshay Solanki Amish Trivedi Harry Rajput Pragnesh Shah Anil Motwani Nandan Shukla Rushabh Shah
8 responses · 14 options Money & Legal What do you send your invoices with?
Anuj Dalal Amish Trivedi Anil Motwani Nandan Shukla
4 responses · 13 options Money & Legal What do you use for accounting and bookkeeping?
Harsh Luhar Rushabh Shah
2 responses · 14 options Money & Legal How do you manage company spends and cards?
Mr Mujtaba
1 response · 13 options Money & Legal What manages your cap table and ESOPs? No responses yet · 11 options
Money & Legal What manages your cap table and ESOPs? No responses yet · 11 options Money & Legal What do you send your invoices with?
Anuj Dalal Amish Trivedi Anil Motwani Nandan Shukla
4 responses · 13 options Money & Legal What do you use for accounting and bookkeeping?
Harsh Luhar Rushabh Shah
2 responses · 14 options Money & Legal How do you manage company spends and cards?
Mr Mujtaba
1 response · 13 options Money & Legal How have you funded your business so far?
Abhishek Rai Saad Khan Shitesh Sachan 01- Jay Dobariya Harsh Luhar Anuj Dalal Akshay Solanki Tushar Prajapati Jatin Chaudhary Rahul Sharma +8
18 responses · 12 options Money & Legal Who did you incorporate your company with?
Abhishek Rai Akshay Solanki Ahesan Ali Pragnesh Shah Shrijay Sheth Apurvv Pakhmode Jatin Chaudhary Rushabh Shah
8 responses · 14 options Money & Legal Who handles your GST and tax filing?
Abhishek Rai Akshay Solanki Amish Trivedi Harry Rajput Pragnesh Shah Anil Motwani Nandan Shukla Rushabh Shah
8 responses · 14 options Money & Legal Which bank do you use and recommend for your startup?
Abhishek Rai Fuya Chavda Hetal Mesvaniya Sumit Kasardekar Ojas Gandhi 01- Jay Dobariya Ahesan Ali Hirva Bhatt Akshay Solanki Kishan Parekh +28
38 responses · 19 options
  1. 1
    Bootstrapped 17
    Rushabh Shah Nandan Shukla Apurvv Pakhmode Anil Motwani Vishal Savani Shrijay Sheth Pragnesh Shah Rahul Sharma Jatin Chaudhary Tushar Prajapati Akshay Solanki Anuj Dalal +5
    How have you funded your business so far? 17
  2. 2
    ICICI Bank 17
    Rushabh Shah Ritwik Joshi Neel Patel 🦕 Karan Chandwani Naitik Panchal Sagar Thakker Ashish Zapadiya Vishal Tiwari Abhishek Yagnik Kunjan Atara Ankur Kumar Pragnesh Shah +5
    Which bank do you use and recommend for your startup? 17
  3. 3
    HDFC Bank 11
    Kush Prajapati Karan Chandwani Naitik Panchal Manish Nayee Manan Maheshwari Kunal Chaudhari Shrijay Sheth Akshay Solanki Ojas Gandhi Harsha Bhurani Hetal Mesvaniya
    Which bank do you use and recommend for your startup? 11
  4. 4
    Kotak Mahindra Bank 9
    Viraj Rajani Nandan Shukla
    K
     Naitik Panchal Anuj Dalal Anil Motwani Mannoj Tewari Ayyan Karmakar Ahesan Ali
    Which bank do you use and recommend for your startup? 9
  5. 5
    My CA handles it 8
    Rushabh Shah Nandan Shukla Anil Motwani Pragnesh Shah Harry Rajput Amish Trivedi Akshay Solanki Abhishek Rai
    Who handles your GST and tax filing? 8
  6. 6
    A local CA 4
    Rushabh Shah Pragnesh Shah Ahesan Ali Akshay Solanki
    Who did you incorporate your company with? 4
  7. 7
    LegalWiz.in 3
    Jatin Chaudhary Apurvv Pakhmode Shrijay Sheth
    Who did you incorporate your company with? 3
  8. 8
    Zoho Books 3
    Harsh Luhar Nandan Shukla Anuj Dalal
    What do you send your invoices with? 2 What do you use for accounting and bookkeeping? 1
  9. 9
    IDFC First Bank 2
    Karan Chandwani Chinmay Parekh
    Which bank do you use and recommend for your startup? 2
  10. 10
    A VC firm 1
    Bhavesh Patel
    How have you funded your business so far? 1
  11. 11
    Angel investors 1
    Rushabh Shah
    How have you funded your business so far? 1
  12. 12
    Email 1
    Anil Motwani
    What do you send your invoices with? 1
  13. 13
    Federal Bank 1
    Rushabh Shah
    Which bank do you use and recommend for your startup? 1
  14. 14
    IDFC Business Card 1
    Mr Mujtaba
    How do you manage company spends and cards? 1
  15. 15
    Punjab National Bank 1
    Hirva Bhatt
    Which bank do you use and recommend for your startup? 1
  16. 16
    State Bank of India 1
    Kishan Parekh
    Which bank do you use and recommend for your startup? 1
  17. 17
    Tally 1
    Rushabh Shah
    What do you use for accounting and bookkeeping? 1
  18. 18
    Yes Bank 1
    Jatin Chaudhary
    Which bank do you use and recommend for your startup? 1

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