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Vadodara (Maneja / Savli) operations
Major ABB electrical-equipment manufacturing and engineering operations in the Vadodara area (Maneja and Savli GIDC), part of the city's power-and-automation industrial cluster. (Plant; ABB India HQ is Benga...
The parent Vadodara conglomerate (est. 1907) spanning pharma APIs, real estate (Alembic City) and other interests; among the city's oldest industrial houses and a major local employer.
(Chirayu Amin / Amin family)
Vadodara-headquartered Indian MNC pharma company; demerged from the 100+ year-old Alembic Group in 2010. NSE/BSE-listed, one of India's larger generics & API players with plants at Panelav and Karakhadi (nea...
Savli plant
Rail rolling-stock manufacturing plant at Savli near Vadodara (originally Bombardier, now Alstom) — builds metro cars and coaches, including Delhi Metro and export orders. Anchor of Vadodara's rail-manufactu...
Founded 1973 in Vadodara, Gujarat-government-promoted, listed. India's largest caustic-soda maker (20%+ domestic share); also sodium cyanide, chloromethanes, caustic potash, hydrogen peroxide. Plants at Vado...
Founded 1962, Gujarat-government-promoted, NSE/BSE-listed. Rs 5,000 Cr+ turnover, 4,000+ employees; makes DAP, ammonium sulphate, urea plus industrial products (caprolactam, nylon-6, melamine). Fortune India...
Larsen & Toubro's Vadodara 'Knowledge City' campus — hub for L&T's Power, mid/downstream Hydrocarbon, L&T Technology Services (LTTS) and the L&T-Sargent & Lundy JV. A major engineering-R&D employment center....
Vadodara Asset (Ankleshwar/Gujarat operations base)
ONGC's large western-region operations base at Makarpura Road, Vadodara — a significant local employer for the oil-and-gas ecosystem feeding the region's petrochemical industry. (Operations asset; ONGC corpo...
Founded 1972 as Lakhanpal National Ltd; now part of Panasonic Corp and BSE-listed. One of India's largest dry-cell battery and lighting manufacturers, headquartered in Vadodara.
Incorporated 1965, Vadodara-HQ'd, BSE-listed specialty-chemicals company. Pioneer in thionyl-chloride chemistry — Asia's largest producer of thionyl chloride and acid chlorides outside Europe; supplies pharm...
Kartikey Hariyani
Founded 2022-23; sister venture to ChargeZone. E-mobility platform for commercial electric trucking targeting India's industrial logistics corridors. Raised $10M seed (2023) and a $25M mixed equity+debt roun...
Kartikey Hariyani
Founded 2018. India's largest B2B/B2C EV supercharging network with 3,200+ charge points across 400+ locations in India and the UAE, built on smart Grid-to-Vehicle (G2V) tech. OEM partners include Tata Motor...
Investor network operating under the TiE Vadodara umbrella that brings together angels interested in angel investment as an asset class. Provides a structured channel for local investors to meet and back early-stage startups from the Vad...
Angel network founded in 2015 and headquartered in Vadodara, investing via early-stage and seed rounds with a focus on startups in Tier II/III cities and rural India. Typical cheque size around Rs 25 lakh–1 crore with a three-to-five-yea...
Vadodara angel chapter of the StartupLanes network, holding monthly investor meetings where startups pitch business proposals. Offers feedback on business plans, funding, mentoring, an angel/professional network and incubator space, with...
Flagship university incubator of Vadodara, registered as a Section 8 company in 2015 under Parul University (grew out of its 2013 Entrepreneurship Development Cell). Has incubated 230+ startups generating Rs 30 Cr+ revenue and 1,100+ job...
Innovation-startup-incubation centre set up in October 2018 under MSU's Office of Career Advancement for Students, alongside its incubation and apprenticeship centres. Has adopted formal Incubation and IPR policies, provides financial an...
University incubation centre established in 2017 that acts as a catalyst for early-stage startups and student ideation. Runs ideation workshops, business-model development and prototype creation, and supports learners from idea stage thr...
University innovation/incubation unit backed by the MSME Innovative Scheme (Incubation Component), Government of India, and Gujarat's SSIP. Supports IPRs and student startups; NIF-incubated ventures such as PaperTalks, Breva Biotech and ...
GSFC University's startup incubation hub (GUIITAR Council) on campus, supporting early ideas with grants and incubation to carry out development work. Focused on fostering innovation and entrepreneurship among students of the university.
Acceleration arm of PIERC, established 2021, running a three-phase Innovation-to-Impact pipeline (Incubation → Growth Pad → Acceleration) to move startups from product to investor-readiness to market scale. Provides direct investor pitch...
Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation estates that form the manufacturing backbone around Vadodara: Makarpura (established mid-1960s, engineering/MSME hub), Nandesari (chemicals/petrochemicals), and Savli (Alindra village, larger-in...
State-backed innovation body under Gujarat's Student Startup & Innovation Policy (SSIP 2.0, 2022–27, Rs 300 Cr outlay). i-Hub provides single-window legal, financial, technical and operational support to student/youth startups. NOTE: i-H...
Managed coworking/office-space operator with two Vadodara centres — a 25,000+ sq ft space at Notus IT Park (Vadiwadi/Sayajigunj) and premises in the Ishan Building, Alkapuri. Offers fully-equipped desks, private cabins, training rooms an...
Home-grown Vadodara coworking brand on Vasna Road, run by a group with a commercial real-estate background. Provides flexible workspace options, virtual office and meeting-space services, positioned as a modern shared-work destination fo...
Apex industries association / recognised chamber of commerce founded in 1918 in the erstwhile Baroda State under Sayajirao Gaekwad. Promotes and protects the interests of Gujarat's business and industry, runs the FGI Business Centre for ...
Umbrella commercial chamber set up in 1969 to represent industry in the Makarpura industrial area, now with 1,800+ member industries in and around Vadodara. Organises state and national industrial exhibitions (VCCI Expo), seminars and tr...
India's first city-based innovation council, functioning since May 2011 under technocrat Dr Madhu Mehta and associated with the National Innovation Council. A non-profit with the goal of building an innovative, curious and questioning so...
Local chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), nurturing the startup ecosystem across Vadodara and central Gujarat through mentorship, networking, education, funding and incubation. Runs TiE Women (68+ women-led startups since 2024), th...
Pink Wardrobe
MBA-turned-entrepreneur who bootstrapped Pink Wardrobe from a Rs 35,000 investment in 2014 into a well-known Vadodara-HQ'd women's fashion label focused on inclusive/all-size (L, XL+) ethnic and Indo-western...
Co-founder, ChargeZone
Co-founder (with Kartikey and Devbrat Hariyani) of ChargeZone, Vadodara's highest-profile venture-funded startup — one of India's largest EV charging networks, which has raised $100M+ (including $19M from Br...
Co-founder, OneWay.Cab
Co-founder (with Devang Sanghvi and Vivek Kejriwal) of OneWay.Cab, a Vadodara-HQ'd, profitable-leaning intercity one-way cab marketplace founded in 2013 ('Return Fare, Not Fair'). One of the earliest venture...
Co-founder/Director, Gingercrush
Director/co-founder (with Rajju Makol) of Gingercrush, a Vadodara-based on-demand retail platform for instant shopping and customisable/personalised products. A woman-led D2C/e-commerce venture registered in...
The 19th FICCI FLO chapter, launched 25 June 2022 — the 2nd in Gujarat after Ahmedabad. Founder Chairperson Reshma Patel, with Barkha Amin (Sr Vice-Chair), Avni Bhayani (Vice-Chair) and Rati Desai (Treasurer...
The Gujarat arm of WICCI, a national business chamber for women that builds women's entrepreneurship via sector councils, mentorship and policy engagement. Operates statewide (Western Region) rather than a d...
Vadodara's prime commercial address, with corporate offices, banks and retail, and the densest concentration of coworking in the city. DevX, where eChai Vadodara meets, is on this belt.
3 companies 1 coworking
Strong in Cleantech, D2C
The city's largest and oldest GIDC estate in the south, a dense belt of engineering, fabrication, filtration and packaging units. Several hundred small and medium manufacturers sit here, and it is the natural feeder for hardware and manufacturing startups.
1 company 1 coworking
Strong in Oil & Gas
One of Gujarat's oldest chemical estates, north west of the city, dominated by specialty chemicals, dyes and intermediates, petrochemicals and pharma. It is what gives Vadodara its identity as a chemicals hub.
3 companies 2 coworking
Strong in Chemicals, Fertilizers
Answers about the Vadodara startup scene
What does the startup ecosystem in Vadodara look like?
Vadodara's ecosystem is strongest in Industry and manufacturing, IT services and D2C, with a chemicals and pharma base underneath it that few other Indian cities of this size have. The companies list above shows who is building what, filterable by vertical.
Where do founders network in Vadodara?
Mostly at community meetups, clustered around Alkapuri. eChai runs free, open founder meetups in Vadodara on a monthly cadence at DevX, alongside TiE Vadodara and the programmes at PIERC. The simplest first step is to RSVP to an upcoming event.
How do I find a co-founder in Vadodara?
Go where founders already gather. Most pairings start informally at meetups rather than on platforms. Come to a few eChai events in Vadodara, meet people building adjacent things, and the conversations tend to find their own way to co-founder fit.
How do I join the startup community in Vadodara?
eChai is free and open: pick an upcoming Vadodara event above, RSVP, and walk in. There is no application or membership fee, and the meetups are built so first time founders and seasoned operators end up in the same conversation.
Which are the top startup verticals in Vadodara?
Industry and manufacturing, IT services and D2C lead, with active clusters in climate tech, healthtech and SaaS. Use the vertical chips above to browse the companies in each.
Which incubators and coworking spaces are in Vadodara?
PIERC at Parul University is the largest incubator in the city and one of the more active in Gujarat. The coworking section below lists the spaces, most of them around Alkapuri and RC Dutt Road.
Who are the active investors and VCs in Vadodara?
Vadodara has a working layer of angels and family offices, much of it from the industrial families that built the city, alongside Gujarat wide networks. The investors section below lists what is active here.
What are the best startup events and meetups in Vadodara?
The upcoming events block above is live: RSVP to the next Vadodara meetup. eChai's events are free and open, and the communities section lists the other meetups and conferences worth following.
New to Vadodara's startup scene? Start here.
eChai runs free, open founder meetups in Vadodara. No membership, no fee, just show up. RSVP to the next one and meet the people building the city.
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