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Next: How Founders & Operators Use AI | Surat this Saturday

Nadeem Jafri Manoj Adwani Koumal Kalantry Kunal Chaudhari
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How Founders & Operators Use AI | Surat
Founders and operators on the AI tools they actually use.
11:00 AM · DevX Piplod · Surat
Hemish Pancholi Ankit Jesar A Hemish, Ankit + 10 going
12 new RSVPs this week

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13
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eChai After Party of 21by72 Private
An eChai after party alongside 21by72. tea, snacks, and easy networking.
Jun 13, 2026 · Surat
Harsha Bhurani Anuj Dalal Rahul Kumar Harsha, Anuj + 16 went
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Scaling Food Brands: Growth, Franchising, and Operations - Surat Edition
Jun 12, 2026 · DevX Piplod · Surat
Kunal Chaudhari Jatin Chaudhary Nadeem Jafri Kunal, Jatin + 28 went
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People from Surat on the network, plus folks from elsewhere who've shown up at an event here.

Shiva Sogi
Shiva Sogi
Founding member · Flexype
Attended events in Surat

Aspiring founder (exploring an idea) and Building on the side, Seed, in B2B / enterprise + D2C / consumer + E-commerce / retail.

Hoping to meet
  • Capital for my next round
  • Partners for my services or agency
  • Growth & marketing leaders
  • Founders & operators in my city
  • Networking/ Learning
Parin Shah
Surat
Parin Shah
Co-Founder · Foodlinks LLP - AAHYU KITCHEN , Coffeelinks LLP - NOCHbox
From Surat · attended events here

Co-founder and Building on the side, Pre-product (building) and Pre-revenue / pre-PMF, in Clean Eating Brand and Specialty Coffee.

Building Bringing natural & unprocessed food on table, light on stomach and as tasteful as It can get. Building on a take-away Coffee Concept

Hoping to meet
  • Growth & marketing leaders
  • People obsessed with AI workflows
  • Others in my exact role to swap notes with
  • Founders & operators in my city
  • Collaborators
K
Karan Suratwalaa
Developing engineering ecosystem
Attended events in Surat

Founder and Engineer / builder, Idea stage and Pre-product (building), in SaaS + B2B / enterprise + AI/ML.

Hoping to meet
  • Angel / seed investors for my startup
  • A co-founder
  • Senior hires for my team
  • Growth & marketing leaders
  • People obsessed with AI workflows
  • Others in my exact role to swap notes with
  • Founders & operators in my city
R
Rahul Rawat
Founder · Mindful Consulting Hub
Attended events in Surat

Founder, Pre-revenue / pre-PMF, in Healthtech.

Hoping to meet
  • Angel / seed investors for my startup
  • Intros to paying customers
  • Enterprise / GCC buyer intros
  • Partners for my services or agency
  • A co-founder
  • Bootstrapped, profitable founders
  • Engineering leaders / CTOs
  • People obsessed with AI workflows
  • Founders & operators in my city
  • Seed Investors, Intros to paying customers, partners for my agency
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Ashish Jaju
Attended events in Surat

Building on the side and Looking to join a startup, Pre-product (building) and Seed, in SaaS + Vertical SaaS + D2C / consumer.

Hoping to meet
  • Angel / seed investors for my startup
  • Startups to invest in
  • A co-founder
Hemish Pancholi
Surat
Hemish Pancholi
Founder & CEO @ KodamaMinds · Hemish
From Surat · attended events here

Founder and Engineer / builder, Pre-revenue / pre-PMF, in AI/ML + Media / creator + Knowledge delivery.

Building Building EverEdition, a platform where one book becomes a million different books depending on who's reading it. An engineer gets bullet points and benchmarks. A poet gets metaphors and vibes. Your grandma gets large font and zero jargon. Waitlist is live. The AI does the writing

Hoping to meet
  • Angel / seed investors for my startup
  • Intros to paying customers
  • A startup role I would love, at any kind
  • Bootstrapped, profitable founders
  • People obsessed with AI workflows
  • Founders & operators in my city
everedition.co
Rahul Sharma
Surat
Rahul Sharma
Founder · HEALTH MATTERS
From Surat

Solo founder, Bootstrapped, in Health Care / Wellness / Fitness.

Building Health Matters — a science-backed wellbeing ecosystem focused on bridging the gap between health awareness and sustainable action through community, personalization and meaningful human connection.

Hoping to meet
  • Looking to connect with passionate professionals, collaborators and strategic thinkers who believe and are willing to create meaningful impact.

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Founders from across eChai worth a hello, beyond Surat.

Nikita Lalwani
Ahmedabad
Nikita Lalwani
Founder & First Bicycle Mayor from India · Crooze Fitness App

Founder, Pre-seed, in Healthtech.

Building Fitness community of 37K users, making fitness fun through Rewards, Challenges, and National Fitness Leagues backed by DST, IT Ministry, IIMA Ventures, i-Hub & Mahindra Rise. Now pivoting to B2B2C Corporate Fitness Leagues and urgently looking for a CTO / Tech Co-founder.

Hoping to meet
  • Angel / seed investors for my startup
  • Intros to paying customers
  • A co-founder
  • Founders past $1M ARR
  • Engineering leaders / CTOs
  • Growth & marketing leaders
  • Co-founder
  • Fundraising
  • Distribution
Shrijay Sheth
Ahmedabad
Shrijay Sheth
Founder · Legalwiz.in

Founder and Solo founder, Pre-revenue / pre-PMF and Seed, in SaaS and E-commerce / retail.

Hoping to meet
  • Capital for my next round
  • Founders past $1M ARR
  • Founders with US / global reach
  • Bootstrapped, profitable founders
  • Growth & marketing leaders
  • People obsessed with AI workflows
Kush Prajapati
Ahmedabad
Kush Prajapati
COO · DI AI

Co-founder, Seed, in AI/ML and Healthtech.

Building AI that reads any health document and turns it into clinical intelligence.

Hoping to meet
  • Enterprise / GCC buyer intros
  • Founders with US / global reach
Bhavesh Patel
Ahmedabad
Bhavesh Patel
Co-founder · Brands.live

Co-founder and Advisor, Pre-revenue / pre-PMF and Series A, backing Pre-seed / seed and Growth, in SaaS + B2B / enterprise + Media / creator.

Building Building India's Most favourite Branding and Business Growth tool Brands.live which help them to go digital first in just seconds. With 10M Downloads leading the MSME content space with power of Ai for Bharat. Raised Funds from Indian Quotient and DevX. Looking for partnership.

Hoping to meet
  • Startups to invest in
  • Founders past $1M ARR
  • Founders with US / global reach
  • Bootstrapped, profitable founders
  • Growth & marketing leaders
  • People obsessed with AI workflows
  • Founders & operators in my city
play.google.com
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