This one will be two in two days as we are hosting the Mumbai edition of eChai Demo Day in association with Riidl at Somaiya Campus on 25th July, Saturday.

eChai Ventures and Google Developers Group ( GDG ) Pune in association with Pune International Incubation Center ( PIICPune ) are hosting the next Pune edition of our flagship program - eChai Demo Day on 26th July at Somaiya Campus on 26th July, Sunday from 9.45 am to 1 pm. The eChai Demo Day pune edition is greatly supported by AppsPlanet Technologies, Co-Founded by Mahaveer Muttha.

eChai Demo Day is the quarterly showcase of innovative products & ventures in front of the large entrepreneurial community. eChai Demo Day provides an opportunity to entrepreneurs, mentors, investors, professionals, and students to share, connect and collaborate with each other. eChai Demo Day are hosted all over India in more than 35 cities - including Ahmedabad, Indore, Udaipur, Jaipur, Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot, Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai and many others.

The earlier eChai launch in Pune was hosted at Bharti Vidyapith with great support from our friend Vaibhav Goel where we had many entrepreneurs from the eChai community presented their ventures and engaged with the participants. 

Also the earlier Mumbai edition of eChai Demo Day was hosted at VESIMSR, Mumbai and our friends at TheRodinhoods featured it pretty well on what kind of awesomeness it is :-) Check this : Launch of #eChaiInMumbai.

Some of the earlier demo ventures at the previous eChai Demo Day in Mumbai : AllEvents.in, Sosio.in , Pykih, Interestship, MyCuteOffice, TheFundoo.com, Madiralekh, SmartWheels, Ediffy, Autonomous Chess Board from Riidl.

Venue : Warje Malwadi Rd, Mavale Basti, Hingne Budrukh, Karvenagar, Pune, Maharashtra 411052
Date : 26th July, Sunday  Time : 9.45 am to 1 pm.

You can register to demo your venture as well for our consideration.

https://echai.wufoo.com/forms/echai-demo-day-pune-intrntnl-incubation-center/

The most amazing part of the eChai programs is the kind of conversations that happen among participants and these smiley balls :-)

eChai programs are open for all. No registrations required to participate in eChai programs - however you can register @ eChai.in to get connected with fellow entrepreneurs from all over the world.

For any queries you can contact Jatin Chaudhary, CoRiser & Salesman, eChai Venturers at [email protected] or +08328968939.

Recently at the launch of Gujarat Government's Startup Policy program, we announced our small radical initiative - #CoRise Seed Prize - to help entrepreneurs with finance part where we will be having a team of  100 Entrepreneurs who will be contributing Rs. 1K each on every month to support fellow entrepreneurs. Every month we will announce the "#CoRise Startup of the Month" which will receive the Seed Prize of Rs. 1 lac from #CoRise Ventures.

In last six months we led a delegation of diverse entrepreneurs from community to visit Singapore, Sri Lanka and Bhutan to explore the possible partnership opportunities and collaborate with various stakeholders in each of these countries. Later this year we will be leading a one more delegation to visit major countries in South East Asia.

GDG Pune :

GDG Pune is an open community for Google Technology enthusiasts. They hold regular sessions in Campuses and other venues for working professionals, students and technology enthusiasts. Events consist of talk sessions, demonstrations, hands on coding sessions and social events for the community members.

Pune International Incubation Center :

Pune International Incubation Center (PIIC) is a tech incubator founded to facilitate and help grow high-potential startups from Pune.

AppsPlanet Technologies : 

AppsPlanet Technologies is new age technology company focusing on building web, social and mobile solutions to help enterprises compete in the rapidly evolving era of changing technologies, business models and ever rising customer expectations.

eChai Ventures :

eChai is an offline-online social network of entrepreneurs who believe in Co.Rise. — Collaboratively rising together.

Offline Social Network part :

- We host quarterly eChai Demo Days - which is the quarterly showcase of innovative products & ventures in front of the large entrepreneurial community. eChai Demo Day provides an opportunity to entrepreneurs, mentors, investors, professionals, and students to share, connect and collaborate with each other. We also host eChai Women In Business n eChai Business For Good programs. All these programs do 3 things well - they provide an opportunity to young entrepreneurs to showcase what are they upto, platform for experienced/successful entrepreneurs share their experiences and insights and it gives a feel of being part of the community.

- Theme-based knowledge/insights sharing sessions - Team Building, Growth Hacking, UI/UX, Sales, Communications, Digital Media, Legal & IP & many others.

- Skill-based challenges/hackathons - eChai App Challenge, Marketing Challenge, Content Challenge, UI/UX Challenge, Business Model Challenge, Business Case Challenge etc.

- Sector specific eChai RoundTables - Agriculture, Cleantech, Healthcare, Internet of Things, Food & Beverages, Sports, Media & Entertainment, Education, Arts & Culture, SMAC & many others.

- eChai After Hours aims to engage entrepreneurs, professionals and students to find solutions for other's businesses challenges in a collaborative way. At eChai After Hours entrepreneurs present their business model, their work culture and couple of significant challenges they are facing / struggling with or want to have people come up with better solutions for that. It can be anything – design challenge, business challenge, tech challenge, people challenge.

eChai After Hours is an amazing way to foster the collaboration among entrepreneurs, as they would be spending significant time and energy to help the fellow entrepreneurs.

Online social network part :

- Explore the sector wise list of entrepreneurs from the community

- Find people with same interest areas and skills set. Now that we will be hosting offline eChai programs across 100 Cities and all over the world - it will be interesting to get connected with people from the community across the world.

- Write insightful posts on eChai.in & your recommendations i.e. from where I get my business card printed, from where I get travel service provider for our group travel for eChai Diaries, our preferred hosting provider, our preferred CA and many others.

- eChai Interviews where you can ask a public question to any entrepreneur just like the QnA at eChai programs.

- Talent and Offers section where you can post your talent requirement and offers for the community.

- Featuring entrepreneurs daily with their detailed interview and what kind of support they seek from the community.

- You can follow particular entrepreneurs and get regular updates.

- We are working on a #CoRiseWall where once in a week you can post a significant update from your side which you really want to share with large number of people from the community i.e. Product Update, Hiring Requirement, Company Culture etc. - #CoRiseWall will be prominently displayed in eChai.in and showcased at eChai programs for more visibility.

- Online eChai Skills Challenges - App Challenge, Marketing Challenge, Business Model Challenge, Content Challenge etc.

- An online eChai Demo Day - where we will have 10 entrepreneurs building interesting and innovative businesses from 10 different cities/countries presenting their ventures in front of the community. We will select these 10 demo companies who will present about their ventures online ( 5 mins ) which will be followed by an interactive dialogue ( 10 Mins ) and also each of these company will will have other 20+ people from their city who'll be physically participating the program along with the demo company of the respective city. Basically they can have the good conversations after the online demos get over. This one will be broadcasted online at http://YouTube.com/eChaiTV and we'll build an interesting thing for Co.Rise. at http://eChai.in/ for better engagement among participants.

- Better integration with online-offline eChai programs.

Along with the Online social network part and offline social network part we have 3 initiatives as part of eChai Ventures.

Sweetly - where we enable 50+ rural women living in Dangs District, Gujarat to make hand-made jewelry and market these products in US & Canada. These 50+ Rural women get some sort of economic benefits from this venture and we run it as full fledged for-profit venture.

Design You City/Village - aims to to bring together Entrepreneurs, developers , designers, professionals, academicians and concerned citizens to build solutions for the society. There can be wide ranging solutions for various problems existing in the society - education, civic issues, healthcare, employment, sanitation and many others. The city has several issues that need immediate intervention. And there are budding entrepreneurs and concerned citizens with ideas that can solve these problems.With Design Your City/Village programs n online platform we aim to share and collaborate with communities to come up with ideas and sustainable solutions for the problems faced by different communities.

The Loo Project - helps you find clean loo around you by creating digital public toilet map. It Includes public toilets and shops, cafes, institutions which can let anyone use their facilities. The Information is gathered by Municipal Corporations, Village Councils, Open Government Data, Partner organizations, and citizens.

Mapping of data is just the beginning and there are many amazing things can be done once we have that data. 'Design Your Loo' initiative to bring people together to build affordable toilets and coming up with actionable data insights to build solutions for public toilets and sanitation.

eChaiTV : A web television featuring inspiring entrepreneurs.

Initially when we started up six years back, we used to eChai meetups at roadside Tea Stalls. When we started getting momentum we started hosting eChai programs at friends' office premises. They were pretty generous to extend their resources for our programs. After some time we started collaborating with educational institutions, industry associations and incubators to host our programs. earlier collaborated with some of India’s most prestigious educational institutions ( MICA, IIM Ahmedabad, S P Jain Institute of Management & Research, Government of Gujarat, Vivekanand Education Society, Entrepreneurship Development Institute, Ahmedabad ( EDI ), CEPT University, icreate, Nirma University, NID and many others ) and industry associations & accelerators ( Assocham, CII, GCCI, FICCI, Startup Oasis, TLabs, IAMAI, Sankalp Forum, and many others ) for various entrepreneurial programs.

We are pretty hopeful to have #eChai100Cities by the end of the year 2015 to spread the idea of doing good things.

eChai more like a gSchool - A School of Doing Good Things which has #CoRise - Collaboratively Rising Together in it's DNA.