Pune · 26 September 2026 Early bird ₹3,999 ₹5,999 43 of 80 seats taken Founders · Marketers · Investors · Influencers Pune · 26 September 2026 Early bird ₹3,999 ₹5,999 43 of 80 seats taken Founders · Marketers · Investors · Influencers
Pune's

Biggest Founders Meetup

80 founders, marketers, investors, creators and influencers.
One room. One evening.

Entry is by application. We read every one and balance the room, so the person sitting next to you is worth talking to. Dinner, three talks and introductions we make personally.

26
September 2026 · Pune

📍 The venue is shared privately with you once your application is approved.

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Applying is free and takes two minutes. We review by hand within 48 hours. If you're in, we send a payment link and the venue details.

A link helps us place you in the right part of the room.

Free to apply · Reviewed in 48 hours · Pay only if approved

01Evening

Not a conference. A dinner with an agenda.

No badges, no booths, no keynote you could have watched on YouTube. One curated room, a proper meal, and the kind of conversation that only happens when the guest list is short.

What this is

A small room,on purpose.

A curated dinner for founders, marketers, investors, creators and influencers across Pune. No open registration, no crowd, no badge-scanning scrum. Just people who came to talk.

Food & refreshments included · Smart casual
The private dining room at our last founders dinner
Our last table Founders VIP Dinner January 2026
Attendees
80

Curated, not counted at the door.

When
26.09.26
Saturday · 6:00 PM
Where
Pune
Venue shared on approval
Your seat
₹3,999 ₹5,999
Early bird · pay after approval
Who's in the room

Four kinds of people, one guest list.

Every application is read before it's accepted. We cap each group so no single crowd takes over the evening: roughly 40% founders, 25% marketers, 20% investors, and 15% creators and influencers.

80 seats. Not 81.

We cap the room on purpose. Past a certain number a dinner stops being a dinner and starts being a queue.

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43 of 80 seats taken, 37 left Filling fast
03On Stage

Three talks. Twenty minutes each.

Short, specific and stripped of theatre. Each speaker takes one question that matters right now and answers it with numbers they've actually seen.

Talk 01 · 7:00 PM

Building a brand that outlives the algorithm

What actually compounds when ad costs double and the feed changes again: owned audience, retention mechanics, and the unglamorous systems behind repeat revenue.

Speaker announced soon
Talk 02 · 7:35 PM

What investors are really underwriting in 2026

An honest look from the other side of the table: what gets a second meeting, what kills a deck on slide three, and how early-stage cheques are being priced now.

Speaker announced soon
Talk 03 · 8:50 PM

Pricing influence: the creator-brand deal

Rate cards, retainers and revenue shares. How creators are structuring deals that pay past a single post, and what brands are willing to sign.

Speaker announced soon
04Run of Show

How the evening moves.

Tight enough to respect your time, loose enough that the good conversations don't get cut off mid-sentence.

6:00 PM

Doors & welcome refreshments

Arrive, collect your name card, grab a drink from the counter. No seating plan yet, so wander.

6:40 PM

Opening & table intros

Thirty seconds each, standing. Who you are, what you're building, what you need. That's it.

7:00 PM

Talk 01: Building a brand that outlives the algorithm

Twenty minutes, then five for questions from the floor.

Talk
7:35 PM

Talk 02: What investors are really underwriting

Twenty minutes, then five for questions from the floor.

Talk
8:10 PM

Dinner is served

Full sit-down meal with soft drinks and refreshments. Seating rotates once, so you don't spend the night talking to one person.

8:50 PM

Talk 03: Pricing influence, the creator-brand deal

Twenty minutes, then five for questions from the floor.

Talk
9:20 PM

Curated introductions

We've read every application. This is the part where we walk you across the room to the person you should meet.

9:50 PM

Open floor & photographs

Portraits and candids with the house photographer.

10:30 PM

Close

Numbers exchanged, follow-ups promised. The group chat goes out the next morning.

05Included

What the early bird seat covers.

₹3,999 instead of ₹5,999, for the evening entire. No tiers, no upsell, nothing waiting for you at the end of the night.

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A full dinner

Proper sit-down meal, veg and non-veg, not a tray of canapés circling the room.

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Soft drinks & refreshments

Soft drinks, juices, tea and coffee served through the evening. This is a dry event, no alcohol.

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Three talks

Twenty focused minutes each on brand, capital and creator economics.

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Curated introductions

We read your application and personally connect you to two or three people worth knowing.

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House photographer

Portraits and candids all night. Full gallery delivered within a week.

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The group after

Every confirmed guest joins the alumni chat. The room keeps going long after the night ends.

06How it Works

Apply free. Pay only if you're in.

We don't take a rupee before we've read your application. Here's exactly what happens after you hit submit.

01

Apply for free

Fill the form. Two minutes, no payment, no card details. Just tell us who you are and what you're building.

02

We read it

Every application is reviewed by hand within 48 hours so the mix in the room stays right. You'll hear back either way.

03

Approved, then pay

If you're in, we send a payment link for the early bird rate of ₹3,999. Once it's paid your seat is confirmed and we message you the venue and who else is coming.

07Last Time

We've done this before.

Our last table brought founders and operators together for a private dinner that ran hours past its end time. Pune is the next one: same format, bigger room.

2
Editions hosted
$100M+
Combined revenue in the room
100+
Founders seated
100%
Said they'd return
Edition 01

Founders VIP Dinner

20+ DTC founders with $100M+ combined revenue under one roof. An intimate evening of real talk about scaling ecommerce brands.

January 2026
The full room together at the Founders VIP Dinner
Guests seated at the long dinner table
Founders talking in the lounge before dinner
Open networking on the floor
Group portrait at the bar wall
Conversation over dinner
The table set before doors opened
Founders in conversation
Guests during the dinner
The room during the evening
Late in the evening at the dinner
The private dining room and lounge
Drag to explore
Edition 02

ECOM Villa Event

An exclusive villa experience bringing together top ecommerce founders for a night of real conversations and unforgettable memories.

March 2026
The villa filling up as guests arrive
Guests at the ECOM Villa Event
Founders in conversation at the villa
Founders talking by the entrance
Guests mingling at the villa
Conversation at the ECOM Villa Event
Founders at the villa event
Guests during the villa evening
Networking at the villa
Founders together at the villa
Guests at the ECOM Villa Event
Conversation during the villa evening
Guests by the counter at the villa
Founders at the villa event
The villa event in full swing
Guests during the villa evening
Late in the night at the villa
Drag to explore
08Your Hosts

The people who put the room together.

Operators first, hosts second. Between them they've spent years building the kind of businesses the rest of the table is trying to build.

Saurebh Savakheddkar

Saurebh Savakheddkar

Co-Founder, EcomCure Email, Retention & Authority

Has driven $20M+ in email revenue for D2C brands. Builds retention systems, lifecycle engines, and brand authority that turn customer attention into long-term revenue.

Prathamesh Mali

Prathamesh Mali

Founder, EcomCure Performance Marketing

Builds scalable growth systems for ecommerce brands - connecting acquisition, performance, and the right people to create predictable growth.

09Questions

Before you apply.

Anything else, write to us. The address is in the footer and a human answers it.

Only after you're approved. Applying is free and takes no card details. Once we've read your application and confirmed a seat for you, we send a payment link for ₹3,999, and your seat is held until it's paid.

₹5,999 is the regular seat price. ₹3,999 is the early bird rate, held for the first wave of approved applications. Once those seats are gone the price goes back to ₹5,999. Either way it's the full cost: dinner, soft drinks and refreshments, all three talks, the photography and the introductions are all included, with nothing to settle on the night.

No. This is a dry event. We serve soft drinks, juices, tea and coffee through the evening alongside dinner.

It's a private dining room in Pune, and we share the exact address privately with you once your application is approved, along with parking notes and entry instructions.

No. Roughly 60% of the room isn't a founder. Marketers with real ownership of a number, angels and early-stage investors, and creators or influencers with genuine distribution are all seated. What matters is that you bring something the table wants.

Yes, but every person needs their own approved seat, since the count is hard at 80. Select two or three seats on the form and we'll review the group together and seat you near each other.

Yes. Reply to your approval email with your GSTIN and registered business name, and a tax invoice is issued with your payment confirmation.

Tell us at least fourteen days before and we'll refund you in full or roll your seat to the next edition. Inside fourteen days the seat and the catering are already committed, so we can transfer your seat to someone you nominate instead.

Applications close when the room is full

Grab the seatfor 26 September.

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Join an evening with founders, marketers, investors, creators and influencers from across Pune. Whether you're building a D2C brand, running growth for someone else's, writing cheques, or making content people actually watch, this table is built to put you next to someone worth knowing.

People come with audiences from a few thousand to a few million, and businesses from first crore to well past it. We don't seat by follower count or revenue, so if you're early but serious, apply anyway.

What to expect
  1. Meet founders, marketers, investors and creators in one room
  2. Three twenty-minute talks worth taking notes on
  3. Introductions we make personally, not left to chance
  4. A full sit-down dinner with soft drinks and refreshments
  5. Photographs, and the alumni group afterwards

Date

Saturday, 26 September

Doors 6:00 PM, close 10:30 PM.

Location

Pune

The exact venue is shared with you once your application is approved.

Who can attend

By application

Every application is reviewed by hand to keep the room balanced.

Entry
₹3,999₹5,999Early bird

Includes dinner, refreshments, all three talks and the introductions. Paid only after you're approved.

₹3,999 ₹5,999
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