Upcoming eChai events in Vadodara
eChai's free, open founder meetups across the city. RSVP and walk in.
A look back at recent eChai gatherings in Vadodara, newest first.
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People in the Vadodara eChai community
Some of the founders who've been to eChai meetups in Vadodara over the years. Always more to add.
Startups building in Vadodara
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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...
Founded 2020, ~150 staff. Software-development and UX firm with SaaS/CRM and digital-transformation focus.
Dharmik Trivedi
Vadodara-based aerospace/drone-adjacent venture (founder Dharmik Trivedi) active in the local eChai founder network. Aligns with Vadodara's push into defence/aero manufacturing (Tata-Airbus C-295 plant nearb...
Koumal Kalantry
Vadodara-based venture surfaced repeatedly in eChai Vadodara startup demo days; founder Koumal Kalantry. Details thin — listed for local-ecosystem completeness rather than independently verified scale.
Mayank Rai
Vadodara-based cruelty-free (vegan) women's handbag D2C brand positioning affordable luxury for working women. Small team (~6); operates boutique + online.
Siddharth Bhalsod
Vadodara founder active in the eChai community (Siddharth Bhalsod). Independent public detail limited; included for local-ecosystem mapping, not verified for scale.
Renish Narola
Early-stage AI venture from the Vadodara eChai community (co-founder Renish Narola). Listed for ecosystem completeness; scale/traction not independently verified.
Founded by three co-founders each with 20+ years' experience; 70+ engineers delivering custom software and AI solutions.
Arvind Kothari, Neeru Bafna, Manish Pandya
Founded 2016. Business-productivity SaaS company (WovVRA revenue assurance, WovVBI, WovVIA, WovVXM, WovVFlow) serving users across 3,000 locations in 50 countries, including Fortune 500 clients. Frequently c...
Founded 2018 by the Hariyani family, ChargeZone is one of India's largest EV charging/supercharging networks with Grid-to-Vehicle tech, targeting a 500-station+ national footprint. Raised $100M+ total (incl....
DPIIT-registered Vadodara consumer-tech/astrotech startup (2023-24 cohort), an astrology/kundli app play. Included to capture the consumer-app tail of the ecosystem; limited public funding/traction data — fl...
Founded 2018. ERP/IT-solutions firm specializing in Odoo ERP and SAP Business One implementation, POS and supply-chain solutions for SMBs.
Precision-fermentation bio-manufacturing startup (founded 2019 by Vipul Kumar and Jitendra Wagh) making animal-origin-free recombinant proteins and enzymes for biopharma, food-tech and cell culture. Raised R...
On-demand retail / print-on-demand style platform (registered Vadodara, 2021) for instantly shopping and creating customisable, personalised products. Woman co-founded (Saumya Makol). Early-stage with limite...
Established 1943 (originally the engineering department of Alembic Chemical Works), Vadodara-HQ'd engineering company serving the water and power segments — pumps, motors and hydro equipment. One of the city...
DPIIT-registered Vadodara healthtech startup (2023-24 cohort). Appears in the Vadodara startup registry but has minimal public product/funding footprint — flagged as thin/emerging, unverified beyond registra...
Vaibhav Shah & Swati Vakharia
Founded 2019. Bootstrapped D2C Ayurvedic 'belly-button oil' wellness brand (Ministry of AYUSH & FDA approved, 9+ product lines). Profitable, crossed ~Rs 1 Cr turnover early; appeared on Shark Tank India Seas...
Vadodara-HQ'd intercity one-way outstation cab marketplace founded 2013 (Devang Sanghvi, Supriya Agarwal, Vivek Kejriwal). Differentiator: pay for one-way distance, not round-trip ('Return Fare, Not Fair'). ...
Neetu Jain
Founded 2011. Manufacturer of eco-friendly building-surface solutions — high-SRI cool-roof/cool-wall reflective coatings, insulating and waterproofing products that cut surface temps up to ~24°C. Products qu...
Bootstrapped, woman-founded (Sneha Desai, 2014) inclusive/all-size women's fashion D2C brand HQ'd in Vadodara; strong social-commerce engine (~360k+ IG) plus a 2016 flagship store and 2023 website. Cross-lis...
DPIIT-registered Vadodara startup (2023-24 cohort), name suggests a plant/greentech or agri-sustainability focus. Minimal verifiable public info — flagged thin/emerging.
Medtech/healthtech startup incubated at PIERC (Parul University) building the R1 System — a brain-controlled stroke-rehabilitation device (EEG headband + AI signal decoding + pneumatic assist glove) sold D2C...
Swati Shah & Raju Shah
Founded 1999. One of Vadodara's oldest and largest IT-services exporters — custom software, cloud, AI/ML and engineering services with offices in the US and UK. 1,000+ staff across two decades of delivery.
DPIIT-registered Vadodara startup (2023-24 cohort) in the textile-tech / materials space. Represents the manufacturing-adjacent tech tail; limited public detail — flagged thin/emerging.
Anuj Khandelwal
Founded 2002. Software development, maintenance and application-engineering services firm serving global SMB/enterprise clients.
Deepen Barai
Founded 2016. India's largest multi-brand two-wheeler service franchise network — 200-300+ workshops across 27 states and 100+ cities, offering doorstep service, pickup/drop, AMC and insurance renewal. Later...
Live/video-commerce SaaS founded 2017 by Kaizad Hansotia and Bheshaj Joshi, HQ'd in Vadodara. Powers real-time interactive video shopping to lift conversion for brands. Raised ~$2.34M across rounds incl. a $...
DPIIT-registered Vadodara agritech startup (2023-24 cohort). Included to represent the emerging agritech tail of the ecosystem; limited public detail — flagged thin/emerging.
Nihar Shah & Vishal Shah
Founded 2002. IT-services company (~150 staff) operating globally with offices in India, USA and Canada; web, mobile and enterprise software.
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Who funds founders in Vadodara
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 Vadodara
Incubators, accelerators, corporate programs and institutions. Jump to a type, or browse the list.
Incubators 5
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.
Accelerators 1
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...
Government & public 2
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...
Coworking spaces in Vadodara
Where founders and early teams set up.
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...
Startup communities & events in Vadodara
The wider scene eChai is part of: communities, recurring meetups and annual conferences. Jump to a type, or browse the list.
Women founders in Vadodara
Women building companies here, and the founder networks and funds backing them.
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...
Startup neighbourhoods in Vadodara
The neighbourhoods where the city's founders cluster.
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
A newer, large format estate north of the city covering chemicals, pharma, food processing and general large scale manufacturing, favoured for greenfield plants over the congested inner city estates.
2 companies 1 coworking
Strong in Electrical, Manufacturing
A mixed industrial, residential and IT belt in west Vadodara. Gorwa holds the historic Alembic campus, since redeveloped as Alembic City.
3 companies
Strong in Pharma, D2C
The academic corridor east of the city, anchored by Parul University at Limda and its PIERC incubator, which is where a good share of the younger companies here started.
1 company 2 coworking
Strong in healthtech, medtech
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.
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