Upcoming eChai events in Udaipur
eChai's free, open founder meetups across the city. RSVP and walk in.
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People in the Udaipur eChai community
Some of the founders who've been to eChai meetups in Udaipur over the years. Always more to add.
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Startups building in Udaipur
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Headquartered in Udaipur; India's (and the world's) largest integrated zinc-lead-silver producer, a subsidiary of Vedanta Ltd. Operates the giant Rampura Agucha mine plus Zawar (Udaipur dist.) mines and the ...
Technology Business Incubator (incorporated 2016) at IIM Udaipur, backed by DST-NSTEDB. Runs cohort programs ('Launch n Zoom', Women-in-Tech accelerator) and a Startup India Seed Fund; portfolio startups hav...
Udaipur node (Govt. of Rajasthan)
State-government startup platform with a presence in Udaipur alongside other Rajasthan cities, offering grants, mentorship, iStart nest incubation and government procurement access (e-Bazaar) to local founde...
Singhal family (founder P.P. Singhal; Salil Singhal, Chairman Emeritus)
Origins in Udaipur as Mewar Oil & General Mills (1946), later Pesticides India / PI Industries — now a listed agri-sciences and custom-synthesis (agrochemical) major. Its Udaipur unit is converted into an R&...
Government-of-Rajasthan mining PSU headquartered at 4 Meera Marg, Udaipur. Mines and markets rock phosphate (notably Jhamarkotra, Udaipur dist. — a major Indian rock-phosphate source), plus limestone, gypsum...
Iconic luxury heritage hotel on an island in Lake Pichola, operated by IHCL (Taj). Not Udaipur-HQ'd (part of the Mumbai-based Tata/IHCL group) but a marquee property that anchors Udaipur's high-end tourism a...
Ultra-luxury lakeside resort on Lake Pichola, run by EIH/Oberoi Group (Delhi-HQ). Not Udaipur-HQ'd; included as a flagship of the city's luxury-tourism and MICE/wedding economy. Alongside Taj and the Leela/T...
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Early-stage enterprise 'AI workforce' SaaS positioning itself around automating operations to cut client OPEX; small team (~11-50). Representative of the nascent AI-SaaS activity emerging from Udaipur; scale...
Amar Singh Chouhan
Established Aug 2022. Emerging Udaipur IT-services company led by founder Amar Singh Chouhan, with roots in SEO/digital marketing expanding into broader web/IT services. Small, early-stage services shop.
(edtech founders, Udaipur)
AI-powered 'ready-to-teach' edtech SaaS ecosystem for private tutors and small/mid-size tuition businesses — freemium tools for teaching management, student-learning personalization and operational automatio...
Udaipur-HQ data-management, analytics and BPO/tech-services firm supporting growing companies with content, data and process operations. One of the larger genuinely Udaipur-based tech employers; bootstrapped...
Udaipur-HQ D2C fashion brand (men's-led casual apparel), founded 2017. Raised ~$4.89M Series A in 2023 and a strategic investment from the Abu Dhabi royal office (Sheikh Tahnoon Bin Saeed Al Nahyan). ~3M+ cu...
Udaipur-HQ govtech / e-governance and system-integration company delivering digital-governance, ERP and IT-infrastructure projects (including public-sector engagements). One of the older, scaled Udaipur IT f...
Udaipur
Long-running Udaipur IT-services and consulting company (self-reported origins from the 1990s) offering software development and IT services to domestic and overseas clients. Established local services firm ...
Udaipur-HQ product-engineering and IT-consulting studio building software for domestic and global clients, and running community/dev-culture activity locally. A bootstrapped services-plus-product firm that i...
Plant-based / vegan meat pioneer, Udaipur-HQ. Raised ~$5.3M total (incl. ~$4.57M Series A, 2021; pre-Series A from Sixth Sense Ventures — the first VC money into Indian plant-based meat). Sells affordable ve...
Mewar royal family (Arvind Singh Mewar; now Lakshyaraj Singh Mewar)
Udaipur-headquartered heritage-hospitality group — the only privately owned chain of palace/heritage hotels in India — established 1986 by Arvind Singh Mewar (converting five Mewar palaces into hotels; the f...
Madan Paliwal
Diversified Udaipur-headquartered conglomerate (est. 1987) with 20+ group companies spanning FMCG (Miraj Products), PVC pipes & fittings, printing/packaging, real estate (Miraj Developers), and Miraj Cinemas...
Udaipur-HQ fintech/SaaS from ETACUDER (founders Nishant & Prateek). munshiG is an AI-assisted digital accounting/bookkeeping tool aimed at small vendors and micro-merchants — a locally-built product play rat...
Established 2012, Udaipur-headquartered BPO/outsourcing and IT-enabled-services provider. Part of Udaipur's back-office/ITES services cluster that leverages the city's lower-cost talent base.
Founded in Udaipur in 1987; global smart-metering and energy-management manufacturer (electricity/gas meters, communications and monitoring devices) deployed in 60+ countries. ~2,800 staff in Udaipur (6,500+...
Dermaceutical D2C skincare brand founded 2022 by FMCG veteran Piyush Jain and dermatologist Dr. Prashant Agrawal. Raised ~Rs 12.25 Cr seed (July 2024, led by Unilever Ventures) and a $2.9M / ~Rs 24 Cr Series...
Not a company but a genuine ecosystem asset: Udaipur is increasingly cited as one of India's rising workation / digital-nomad and remote-founder bases — lakes-and-palaces setting, ~200 Mbps broadband in urba...
Shubham Soni
Established ~2010, rebranded WebSenor 2013. IT/ITES services house — website & custom software development, mobile apps, remote resourcing and digital marketing — with offshore clients and offices referenced...
Ashok Patni / Patni family
Headquartered in Udaipur (Old Fatehpura); cement manufacturer founded 2010 as part of the RK Group (which grew from R.K. Marble, est. 1989). Flagship integrated plant at Nimbahera (Chittorgarh) with total ca...
Udaipur roots, now Jaipur-HQ)
FLAG / borderline-exclude. D2C furniture brand founded 2015 by the Udaipur-origin Ranawat family; often called an 'Udaipur startup' locally and raised INR 354 Cr (~$43M) Series C led by Premji Invest (Dec 20...
Udaipur-HQ software and IT-outsourcing company doing web, mobile and enterprise development for global clients. Representative of the broad cluster of ~25+ Udaipur-based software/IT-services shops (GKMIT, Yu...
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Who funds founders in Udaipur
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 Udaipur
Incubators, accelerators, corporate programs and institutions. Jump to a type, or browse the list.
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Udaipur node of the Government of Rajasthan's iStart Nest incubator network, run under the Department of IT & Communication. Offers free/subsidised incubation seats, mentoring, and links to state grants and investors for early-stage star...
Engineering college under Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture & Technology (MPUAT), the city's strongest technical institution and talent pipeline. Runs incubation/innovation support, an entrepreneurship cell, and PRISM-linked supp...
Southern Rajasthan's largest state university (est. 1962), covering a broad set of faculties. Operates a campus incubation centre to help students launch ventures, and its Faculty of Management Studies runs startup-ecosystem panels and e...
Private university (est. 2010, PAHER Society) whose Entrepreneurship & Incubation Cell runs alumni-founder interactions, startup-opportunity sessions and student incubation support through Pacific Institute of Management. Activity is edu...
Private residential university founded by the JK Cement group, located ~40 km east of Udaipur city near Bhatewar. Its research and incubation centres work with industry to develop technologies and foster entrepreneurial thinking among st...
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Rajasthan's flagship integrated startup platform (registration, DPIIT/state recognition, grants, QRATE assistance, market access, iStart Nest incubators). Headquartered in Jaipur but the core policy/scheme layer every Udaipur founder plu...
State industrial development corporation providing land, industrial sheds and infrastructure. In Udaipur it administers industrial areas (Mewar, Kaladwas, Madri) hosting MSME clusters — stone processing, mineral grinding, general enginee...
Government of India (Ministry of MSME) institute providing project profiles, techno-economic and managerial consultancy, market/economic surveys and entrepreneurship/skill programs for MSMEs. Flagged: the institute is headquartered in Ja...
Coworking spaces in Udaipur
Where founders and early teams set up.
National coworking-cum-accelerator brand (founded 2017, Ahmedabad) that opened a ~25,000 sq ft, ~300-seat space in Udaipur. Beyond desks it runs hackathons, seminars and industry events and positions itself as a startup accelerator, givi...
Home-grown Udaipur coworking space serving entrepreneurs, freelancers, startups and creators, with memberships from ~₹3,500/month and day passes available. One of the more established local (non-chain) shared-office options in the city.
Local Udaipur coworking hub in Shobhagpura offering flexible plans aimed at early-stage founders and solo operators who want to try coworking before a long-term commitment. Small, community-oriented space.
One of the first coworking spaces in Udaipur, run as a coworking + book-cafe hybrid. Doubles as a venue for meetups, community events and interactive sessions, giving the local founder/creator community an informal gathering point rather...
Private workspace/office-solutions provider marketing an incubation-centre and managed-office offering in Udaipur (fit-outs, plug-and-play seats, meeting infrastructure). More of a serviced-workspace/facilities play than a mentorship-dri...
Startup communities & events in Udaipur
The wider scene eChai is part of: communities, recurring meetups and annual conferences. Jump to a type, or browse the list.
Women founders in Udaipur
Women building companies here, and the founder networks and funds backing them.
Co-founders, Beyoung
Two of the four co-founders of Beyoung, Udaipur's best-funded D2C fashion brand (founded 2017 with Shivam Soni and Shankar Mali). Shivani Soni has publicly represented the company on building a D2C brand fro...
Founder, Sadhna (women-artisan enterprise)
Founded Sadhna in 1988 as a 15-woman collective that has grown to 600-700+ women artisans producing tie-dye, applique and textile products. It is an artisan-owned social enterprise where surplus flows back t...
The most locally-rooted women-entrepreneur body in the city, running events and support to help Udaipur women entrepreneurs solve business problems. Unlike the national networks, UWCCI is Udaipur-specific, m...
Coverage layer for women entrepreneurs. UCCI (Udaipur Chamber of Commerce & Industry, est. 1965) is South Rajasthan's primary business body and hosts local activity. FLO (FICCI Ladies Organisation) and WICCI...
Startup neighbourhoods in Udaipur
The neighbourhoods where the city's founders cluster.
Udaipur's talent and incubation spine. CTAE, the engineering college under MPUAT, supplies most of the local engineering graduates, Mohanlal Sukhadia University anchors general higher education for southern Rajasthan, and IIM Udaipur's incubation centre at Balicha runs the cohort programmes and the Startup India Seed Fund money.
1 company 5 coworking
Strong in Incubator/Ecosystem
The city's expansion frontier on the northern edge, newer than the old core and greener. Gated development and serviced apartments here draw remote workers and visiting teams, and the belt has picked up office and IT services space along with them. Orbkraft's coworking space is in Shobhagpura.
1 company 1 coworking
Strong in workation, remote-work
Udaipur's economic signature. The lakes and palaces carry the hotel, wedding and F&B economy the city is known for, with the HRH group's heritage properties, the Taj Lake Palace on Pichola and the Oberoi Udaivilas all here. The same waterfront havelis and cafes double as informal workspaces for the founders and remote teams who base themselves in the city.
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Strong in Hospitality/Tourism
Udaipur's legacy manufacturing zones, administered by RIICO. Madri, which is the Mewar Industrial Area, and Sukher carry mineral processing, engineering, marble and stone and light manufacturing. Land in the older estates is largely built out, so newer plants have gone to the Gudli, Pratap Nagar and Kaladwas extensions, where Secure Meters sits.
1 company 4 coworking
Strong in Electronics/IoT, Manufacturing
The heavy industry anchor of the district. Hindustan Zinc is headquartered at Yashad Bhawan in the city and runs one of India's oldest zinc smelters at Debari to the east and the historic zinc and lead mining complex at Zawar to the south. It is the largest single industrial employer in the region, and mostly outside the startup layer.
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Strong in Metals, Mining/Industry
Answers about the Udaipur startup scene
What does the startup ecosystem in Udaipur look like?
Smaller than its reputation and honest about it. The real weight in Udaipur is mining and minerals, manufacturing and tourism, and the venture backed layer on top is a handful of companies rather than a crowd. What it does have is a working community, a state incubator, IIM Udaipur's incubation centre and a coworking scene that has grown quickly. The companies list above shows who is building what, filterable by vertical.
Who are the best known startups from Udaipur?
Three have raised institutional money from the city. Beyoung, the D2C apparel brand founded in 2017, has raised around $5.65 million. GoodDot, founded in 2016, took the first VC cheque into Indian plant based meat. SkinInspired, a dermaceutical skincare brand started in 2022, raised a Rs 24 crore Series A. WoodenStreet was founded by an Udaipur family and is often called an Udaipur company, though it is registered in Jaipur now.
Which are the top startup verticals in Udaipur?
IT services, SaaS and D2C lead among the smaller companies, sitting on a base of mining and minerals, manufacturing and hospitality that is much larger in revenue and headcount. Use the vertical chips above to browse the companies in each.
Is Udaipur a good base for a remote founder or a small team?
It has become one. Living costs are well below the metros, broadband in the urban pockets is good, and the co-living stays and cafes around the lakes work as informal workspaces alongside the managed spaces in the city. That workation pull is what brings in founders who have no other reason to be in Rajasthan, and it is the most distinctive thing Udaipur offers early teams.
What are the best startup events and meetups in Udaipur?
The upcoming events block above is live: RSVP to the next Udaipur meetup. eChai's events are free and open, and beyond them TiE Udaipur runs TiECon Udaipur, IIM Udaipur's incubation centre and its Saksham cell run Prarambh and the Startup Showcase and Pitch Day, and the state runs its iStart Ideathon here.
Which incubators and coworking spaces are in Udaipur?
iStart Nest, the Rajasthan government's incubator, sits near the Collectorate and offers free or subsidised seats, and IIM Udaipur's incubation centre at Balicha is the heavyweight, running cohort programmes and Startup India Seed Fund money. CTAE has the strongest engineering side of it. On coworking, DevX runs a roughly 300 seat space at Paras Prime, with Habitus in Hiran Magri from around Rs 3,500 a month, Orbkraft in Shobhagpura and House of Words as the older coworking and book cafe hybrid.
Are there investors and VCs in Udaipur?
No fund is headquartered here. Early stage capital reaches founders in Udaipur through state schemes such as iStart and the Startup India Seed Fund, through IIM Udaipur's incubation centre, and through national networks and investors based in Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru. TiE Udaipur is the strongest local founder and investor connector, and the Rajasthan Angel Investors Network co-sponsors Prarambh at IIM Udaipur. The investors section below lists what is active locally.
How do I join the startup community in Udaipur?
eChai is free and open: pick an upcoming Udaipur event above, RSVP, and walk in. Meetups run at DevX on the fifth floor of Paras Prime in Railway Colony, and have since 2022. There is no application or membership fee, and first time founders and people who have been at it for years end up in the same conversation.
New to Udaipur's startup scene? Start here.
eChai runs free, open founder meetups in Udaipur at DevX. No membership, no fee, just show up. RSVP to the next one and meet the people building the city.
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