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eChai Ventures, Founder Community & Events Across 25+ Cities
eChai Ventures Free Beginner India
A living, India-first answer to 'where do I actually meet founders?', eChai has run founder meetups, dinners, demo days and FailCode events since 2009 across Bengaluru, Mumbai, Pune, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad and beyond. It's a concrete, low-cost way to build a founder network intentionally, especially for corporate switchers and founders building outside the big hubs.
- In-person founder meetups run regularly across 25+ Indian and global cities, pick your city and just show up.
- Formats range from panels and open houses to FailCode sessions where founders share what went wrong.
- Consistency is the model: the network compounds from repeatedly showing up, not one event.
- It's a natural home base for founders building outside the big hubs and corporate switchers who lack a founder network yet.
