Last meet: Scaling Food Brands: Growth, Franchising, and Operations - Vadodara Edition earlier
People from Vadodara on the network, plus folks from elsewhere who've shown up at an event here.
Founder, Pre-seed and Seed, in Agritech.
Founder and Engineer / builder, Bootstrapped and Profitable, in Fintech + Agritech + Media / creator.
Building Building Helix Digital, helping D2C/B2B brands scale profitably instead of just burning ad spend. Chasing: turning that into a real founder community, not just an agency.
Founder, Pre-revenue / pre-PMF, in B2B / enterprise.
Building Ritam Labs: an AI-native growth platform helping SMEs optimize their visibility in AI-generated search responses and become AI-native through website intelligence, content engines, and growth automation.
Aspiring founder (exploring an idea), Idea stage, in Deeptech and Cybersecurity.
Aspiring founder (exploring an idea) and Engineer / builder, Idea stage, in AI/ML + Agritech + Mobility / EV.
Solo founder and Designer, Bootstrapped and Profitable, backing Growth and Strategic / corporate, in Fintech + Vertical SaaS + B2B / enterprise.
Founder and Looking to join a startup, in SaaS.
Co-founder, Bootstrapped, in Foodtech / F&B.
Founder, Bootstrapped, in SaaS and Marketplace.
Across eChai
Founders from across eChai worth a hello, beyond Vadodara.
Co-founder, Pre-product (building), in SaaS + Vertical SaaS + AI/ML.
Solo founder and Advisor, Profitable, backing Strategic / corporate, in Vertical SaaS + AI/ML + Deeptech.
Building Working on a lot of interesting tech projects, alongside the Investment Banking firm
Entrepreneur | Startup Mentor | IIMA Guest Speaker | Speaker.
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.
Founder, Bootstrapped, in HR tech / future of work.
Founder and Solo founder, Pre-revenue / pre-PMF and Seed, in SaaS and E-commerce / retail.
Co-founder, Profitable, in Media / creator.
Founder, Bootstrapped, in Climate / clean energy + Mobility / EV + Media / creator.
Network
Stories, podcasts, and notes from across eChai. A few of the most recent. tap any one to read in full.
Naval and Nivi sit down with Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), Blake Scholl (Boom Supersonic), and Max Hodak (Science) on AI as the next industrial revolution. The conversation covers software factories and waste tokens, vibe coding hardware (Blake's turbine blade), the regulatory frontier (why China's FDA is beating ours), and the autonomous company (what it means when your job becomes training the agent). Worth watching for how three founders building in very different stacks converge on the same questions.
Nikunj Kothari (partner at FPV Ventures) used Claude Code to build Nock, a personal skill grounded in his real conversations. He pulled 200+ founder pitch notes captured by Granola, narrowed to ~53 with the strongest debate, layered in his essays on the kind of founders he loves, then iterated against 5-10 real decks until the output matched what he'd actually ask in the room. Founders raising can try it at nikunjk.com/nock; VCs who want their own can build at nikunjk.com/buildnock.
Founders Fund gathered Sam Altman, Palmer Luckey, Bryan Johnson, Dylan Field, Moxie Marlinspike, Tim Urban, Ryan Petersen, Liv Boeree, Cyan Banister, Trae Stephens, Josie Zayner, and Michael Solana for an evening of Mafia, the murder-mystery parlor game. Players are secretly assigned roles and must use deception and debate to eliminate the opposing team before they are outnumbered. Worth watching for how some of the sharpest people in tech read each other under pressure.
eChai Ventures partners with select brands as their growth partner. Together we explore new ideas, open doors, and build momentum across the startup ecosystem.
