About us
eChai Ahmedabad is the India network of eChai.Network (http://echai.network/), a global startup network that facilitates focused local meetups in 30+ global startup cities in India, SEA, Australia, Europe, Israel, UAE and North America and enables cross-border collaborations.
It hosts engaging entrepreneurial programs in Ahmedabad, curates information Startup Ecosystem in Ahmedabad and enables cross-border startup collaborations.
Upcoming events
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Failcode Ahmedabad : Failure Lessons from Startups and Operators
GVFL Limited, @Venus Grounds, Stratum, Ahmedabad, INHow to Join
You can register for this meetup on the eChai event page: https://echai.ventures/events/failcode-ahmedabad-failure-lessons-from-startups-and-operators-may-21-2026
You’ll also find the list of featured participants and more details about the format there.
These meetups are open to anyone interested in startups, whether you're building, contributing, or exploring. Check the agenda and audience, and join if it feels relevant to you.
...Agenda
A candid conversation about challenges, pivots, and recoveries in the startup journey.
Learn how founders and operators navigated setbacks, turned failures into opportunities, and built resilience in their ventures.
This event is for those seeking real stories, actionable insights, and strategies to embrace failure as a stepping stone to success.
Key details
Venue: GVFL Ahmedabad, 1221/1222, 12th Floor, East Wing, Stratum @Venus Grounds, Nehrunagar, Ahmedabad – 380015, Gujarat.
Date & Time: May 21st, Thursday. 6.30 pm to 8.30 pm.
For any queries, you can reach out to Jatin Chaudhary, Co-Founder, eChai Ventures at jatin@eChai.Ventures.
...eChai Ventures: Your Startup’s Global Neighborhood.
Startups grow faster when founders are plugged into the right conversations. That’s what eChai makes happen — connecting founders across cities, stages, and markets.
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16 attendees
AI Cafe : Ahmedabad Edition
Upsquare Technologies, Upsquare Technologies, 1st Floor, D Block, Satyam Corporate Square, Sindhubhavan Rd, behind Rajpath Rangoli Road, opp. Iconic 10, Ahmedabad, INHow to Join
You can register for this meetup on the eChai event page: https://echai.ventures/events/ai-cafe-ahmedabad-edition-may-22-2026
You’ll also find the list of featured participants and more details about the format there.
These meetups are open to anyone interested in startups, whether you're building, contributing, or exploring. Check the agenda and audience, and join if it feels relevant to you.
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Agenda:
eChai Ventures and Upsquare are launching AI Actions Lab, a joint initiative to help founders, businesses, industries, professionals, and institutions across India explore and adopt AI in their work.
As part of AI Actions Lab, we are hosting AI Cafe every Friday, 4 pm to 7 pm at House of Starts, Ahmedabad.
Chai and cookies on the house. Bring your laptop. Wi-Fi is sorted. Pull up a chair and get to work.
AI Cafe is the simplest version of what a lot of people are looking for. A place to show up, do your work, and be around others who are curious about AI or actively building with it.
You set your own agenda. Work on what matters to you. Good things happen when interesting people share a table.
The folks next to you might be shipping a product, learning a new tool, running experiments, or figuring out where AI fits into their business. Conversations happen naturally. You compare notes, swap tools, help each other debug something. Some of the best ideas come from these unplanned exchanges.
Towards the end, some folks showcase what they are working on. Quick demos, works in progress, early experiments. Completely optional, but always interesting.
If you are in Ahmedabad and looking to talk, meet, and find other people who are into AI, this is your spot.
Every Friday. Same time. Same place.
Venue: House of Starts Sindhu Bhavan Road, First floor, BLOCK-D, satyam corporate square, Bodakdev, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380059.
Date & Time: May 22nd, Friday. 4 pm to 7 pm.
For any queries, you can reach out to Jatin Chaudhary, Co-Founder, eChai Ventures at jatin@eChai.Ventures.
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eChai Ventures - Your Startup’s Global Neighborhood.
Startups grow faster when founders are plugged into the right conversations. That’s what eChai makes happen — connecting founders across cities, stages, and markets.
Visit: eChai.Ventures
6 attendeesBuilding and Scaling on Ecommerce : Ahmedabad Edition
GUSEC - Gujarat University Startup And Entrepreneurship Council, Ahmedabad, INHow to Join
You can register for this meetup on the eChai event page: https://echai.ventures/events/building-and-scaling-on-ecommerce-ahmedabad-edition-may-22-2026
You’ll also find the list of featured participants and more details about the format there.
These meetups are open to anyone interested in startups, whether you're building, contributing, or exploring. Check the agenda and audience, and join if it feels relevant to you.
...Agenda
Ecommerce in India has moved past the marketplace and D2C boom phase. Customer acquisition is harder, margins are thinner, and the basics of brand building matter again. At the same time, more founders from outside pure consumer brands are looking at ecommerce as a serious channel to add, whether they are coming from services, manufacturing, B2B, or offline retail.
This session brings founders together for an honest conversation on what it takes to build and scale on ecommerce today. The room gets into picking the right channel mix across marketplaces, D2C, and quick commerce, getting to the first 1,000 customers, unit economics, paid and organic mix, building repeat purchase, working with manufacturers and supply chains, handling returns, and scaling revenue meaningfully.
Open to founders already running ecommerce, D2C, and consumer brands, and also to founders from other categories thinking about adding ecommerce as a channel. Useful for anyone trying to figure out whether the channel fits their business and how to build it without burning capital.
Format is conversational. A few founders share what they are working on, the rest of the room jumps in with questions and notes from their own building. Bring a problem you are sitting on, leave with sharper ways to think about it.
Key details
Venue: GUSEC, Atal-Kalam Research Park Building, University Area, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380009.
Date & Time: May 22nd, Friday. 6.30 pm to 8.30 pm.
For any queries, you can reach out to Jatin Chaudhary, Co-Founder, eChai Ventures at jatin@eChai.Ventures.
...eChai Ventures: Your Startup’s Global Neighborhood.
Startups grow faster when founders are plugged into the right conversations. That’s what eChai makes happen — connecting founders across cities, stages, and markets.
Visit: eChai.Ventures
4 attendeesAI Terrace Mixer : Ahmedabad Edition
Upsquare Technologies, Upsquare Technologies, 1st Floor, D Block, Satyam Corporate Square, Sindhubhavan Rd, behind Rajpath Rangoli Road, opp. Iconic 10, Ahmedabad, INHow to Join
You can register for this meetup on the eChai event page: https://echai.ventures/events/ai-terrace-mixer-ahmedabad-edition-may-22-2026
You’ll also find the list of featured participants and more details about the format there.
These meetups are open to anyone interested in startups, whether you're building, contributing, or exploring. Check the agenda and audience, and join if it feels relevant to you.
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Agenda:
AI Terrace Mixer brings founders, operators and builders together for an evening of conversations about AI, set in an open terrace space that makes it easy to meet people one conversation at a time.
The room is a mix of founders building AI products, operators using AI across coding, product, marketing, sales and internal operations, and people exploring how AI fits into what they are building next. Conversations move between what tools people are trying, what workflows have genuinely improved speed or output, what they have dropped, and how they stay current as things keep changing.
The terrace setting keeps the energy relaxed. Small group chats, open exchanges and the kind of interactions that often lead to new ideas, hires or collaborations.
If you are experimenting with AI or already using it in your daily work, this is a space to compare notes, discover new tools and meet the people shaping the AI conversation locally.
Venue: House of Starts Sindhu Bhavan Road, First floor, BLOCK-D, satyam corporate square, Bodakdev, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380059.
Date & Time: May 22nd, Friday. 7 pm to 9 pm.
For any queries, you can reach out to Jatin Chaudhary, Co-Founder, eChai Ventures at jatin@eChai.Ventures.
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eChai Ventures - Your Startup’s Global Neighborhood.
Startups grow faster when founders are plugged into the right conversations. That’s what eChai makes happen — connecting founders across cities, stages, and markets.
Visit: eChai.Ventures
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