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[WEBINAR] The Cost of not Knowing

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The Cost of Not Knowing – Live Webinar | The Builders Club × CUPI
The
Builders Club
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CUPI🦁

Presents

Live Webinar

The Cost of
Not Knowing

Hidden Expense Leakages in Business

Founders CFOs COOs Finance Heads Operations Leaders
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Date
17 June 2026
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Time
7:00 PM onwards
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Format
Online · Free
Register for Free

Seats are limited · 17 June · 7 PM IST

About the Event

Most businesses don’t lose money in big, obvious ways. They lose it in small, invisible leaks — duplicate subscriptions, untracked reimbursements, vendor overpayments, missed GST credits, petty cash that never reconciles. Individually they look like rounding errors. Added up over a year, they’re lakhs walking out the door.

This session is about finding that money before it disappears.

Speaker

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Siva Rama Krishna
Corporate Payment Consultant
CUPI

Siva works with growth-stage businesses to diagnose and close expense leakages — helping finance teams move from manual reconciliation to real-time spend visibility using UPI-native infrastructure.

What You’ll Learn

  • The most common places expense leakage hides in a growing business — and why finance teams routinely miss them
  • How to read your own spend data to catch leaks early, before they compound
  • A simple framework to put spend controls in place without slowing your team down
  • The true cost of manual reimbursements and reconciliation, measured in both rupees and hours
  • How modern UPI-based corporate payments close these gaps in real time
  • Live Q&A with Siva to pressure-test your own numbers

Who Should Attend

Founders & Co-founders Who approve spends but don’t have full visibility into where the money actually goes.
CFOs & Finance Heads Trying to tighten unit economics and extend runway.
Finance & Accounts Managers Handling reimbursements, vendor payments, and reconciliation day-to-day.
COOs & Operations Leaders Who own budgets across teams and need spend accountability.
Scaling Leaders Any leader whose company is growing faster than the systems tracking its expenses.

About CUPI

CUPI 🦁 ISO 27001 Certified

CUPI is a corporate expense-management platform built on UPI. Each employee gets a UPI-enabled app linked to the company’s current account, so they pay business expenses directly from a shared corporate wallet — no cards, no cash advances, no reimbursement cycles.

Admins set per-user spend limits, track every transaction live, upload receipts on the spot, and get audit-ready, GAAP-aligned reports from a single dashboard.

getcupi.com →

Stop the leak.
Start the session.

17 June 2026 · 7:00 PM IST · Free to attend

Register for Free

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Virtual Roundtable series

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The Global Tech Roundtable: Where the World’s Tech & GTM Leaders Sit at One Table

The Builders Club · Virtual Event Series

The world’s most interesting conversations about technology rarely happen in one place — they happen across time zones, ecosystems and markets. The Global Tech Roundtable, The Builders Club’s flagship virtual event series, was built to close that gap: a single, open forum where CXOs and founders from the US, UK, Europe, Dubai and beyond come together to talk candidly about tech, go-to-market and the opportunities hiding inside every domain.

Each session zooms in on one theme — a trend, a shift, or a market — and brings the people actually building inside it into the same room. No surface-level panels. Just real operators sharing what’s working, what’s changing, and where the next opening is.

One Global Forum, Many Time Zones

The premise is simple but rare to execute: get leaders from across the globe onto one common forum and let them think out loud together. Across editions we’ve hosted voices from the US, the UK, Europe, Dubai and India — each bringing the texture of their own market to a shared conversation. The result is a roundtable that feels less like a webinar and more like a working session between peers who happen to live on different continents.

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Conversations on Tech & GTM

Technology and go-to-market are two sides of the same growth story, and the series treats them that way. One conversation might unpack an emerging engineering trend; the next digs into how teams actually take a product to a new market. By keeping both threads in the room — the builders and the go-to-market leaders — the discussions stay grounded in how decisions really get made: from architecture to pipeline, from product to positioning.

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Voices From Across the World

A roundtable is only as good as the people around it. What makes this series distinct is the range of ecosystems represented in a single conversation — a leader scaling in the US, an operator navigating Europe’s regulatory landscape, a founder building out of Dubai, a CXO from the UK. Those different vantage points turn a familiar topic into a genuinely global one, surfacing perspectives you simply can’t get from a single-market discussion.

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Trends, Signals & What’s Next

Every edition is anchored to a theme that matters right now — the trends reshaping a domain, the signals worth watching, and the shifts leaders are quietly preparing for. Instead of recycled predictions, the value comes from people who are living the change and willing to say what they’re actually seeing on the ground. It’s a fast, honest read on where a domain is heading, straight from the operators steering it.

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Opportunities Inside Every Domain

Trends are interesting; opportunities are actionable. A recurring thread across the series is turning “what’s happening” into “what can we do about it” — the white spaces opening up in a domain, the gaps incumbents are too slow to fill, and the moves that give challengers an edge. For founders and CXOs, these are the moments worth leaning into, mapped out by people who’ve already spotted them.

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A Launchpad for Market Expansion

At its core, the Global Tech Roundtable exists to help businesses grow into new geographies. If you’re looking to expand into a new market, there’s no substitute for hearing directly from the CXOs who already operate there — what the ecosystem rewards, where the friction lives, and what a credible entry actually looks like. The series gives expansion-minded leaders a place to pressure-test their thinking before they commit budget and headcount.

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Direct Access to the Ecosystem’s CXOs

Beyond the insight, the real currency is access. The roundtable puts founders and business leaders in front of CXOs from the ecosystems they want to enter — to share a thought, exchange perspective, understand what those markets need, and build the relationships that make expansion possible. It’s the kind of room where a single conversation can shorten months of trial and error.

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Pull Up a Chair

The Global Tech Roundtable keeps growing because the format works: one domain, the right people, an open forum, and a global set of perspectives in every session. Whether you’re scaling a tech business, sharpening your go-to-market, or planning your next geography, there’s a seat for you at the table.

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Want to join the next Global Tech Roundtable? Connect with CXOs and founders from across the globe — explore the community.

Bangalore Tech Symposium

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Bangalore Tech Symposium: AI & the Future of Working in Tech

We just wrapped the Bangalore Tech Symposium — one of the most grounded conversations on AI in tech we’ve hosted so far. Organised by The Builders Club in association with Dell Technologies and AMD, the day brought together the people leading the curve — CTOs, GCC leaders, founders, operators and investors — for a focused, no-fluff look at how AI is reshaping the way tech businesses operate, compete and grow.

As the industry moves past experimentation, the discussion centred on what it actually takes to build, operate and scale in an AI-first world — from infrastructure and engineering systems, to enterprise-scale deployment inside GCCs, to how capital is flowing across the AI ecosystem. The day was built for depth, not breadth: a keynote fireside, three practitioner panels, and a networking dinner to close. 100+ attendees, 15 speakers.

A glimpse of the day

What a room. Beyond the stage, the real energy was in the conversations between sessions — the debates, introductions and perspectives exchanged in real time. Here’s the highlight reel.

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The keynote fireside, with Dell

The day opened with a fireside featuring Madhumalar Anandan, Microsoft 365 & Workplace AI Leader at Dell Technologies, on “Rethinking Workplace Computing: What Modern Tech Teams Actually Need from Their Devices.” AI workloads aren’t what legacy infrastructure was built to handle — the conversation dug into the hidden performance ceilings created by legacy device setups, and what genuinely AI-ready infrastructure looks like for high-performance teams.

Tech Panel — Building an AI-First Workplace

The CTO perspective: rearchitecting infrastructure, overhauling engineering processes, and making the hard calls on where to invest and what to leave behind.

Abhishek Ranjan (Blue Machines AI & Apna Group), Debasis Bhattacharya (Databricks), Sivakumar Selva Ganapathy (Johnson Controls) and Suresh Kumar Khemka (Atlassian), moderated by Shamanth S N (Rakuten India | BCIC).

GCC Panel — The AI Productivity Multiplier

GCC leaders aren’t just adopting AI — they’re defining what enterprise-grade deployment looks like for the rest of the industry, setting requirements and making the talent and infrastructure calls.

Vishal Nagpal (Best Buy), Pradeep Rao (Kyndryl), Aneel Kumar Savalagi (Takeda) and Rohan Lobo (Deloitte), moderated by Sohail Khan (Founder, The Builders Club).

Investor Panel — Investing in the AI Era

A rare, unfiltered view of how investors are reading the landscape — what’s getting funded, and where durable value is actually being created.

Anant Vidur Puri (Bessemer Venture Partners), Shivam Rajvanshi (Together Fund), Sonal Saldanha (3one4 Capital) and Suryaprakash Konanuru (Ideaspring Capital), moderated by Shantanu Chaturvedi (Transition VC).

What the room actually took away

Across the fireside and the panels, a few themes kept surfacing — the kind of signal you only get when CTOs, GCC heads and investors are honest in the same room. AI is no longer a layer; it’s becoming the operating model. Infrastructure and data readiness are the real bottlenecks to scale. Productivity gains are real, but capturing them as advantage is still uneven. And the gap between companies moving fast and those waiting is widening rapidly.

Moments from the room

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Who was in the room

The Symposium was built for the leaders already in the arena — IT and technology leaders rebuilding from the inside, GCC and enterprise tech heads deploying at scale, founders and business heads across IT and SaaS, and investors looking for ground-level signal. That mix is exactly what The Builders Club is built around. Not just events — rooms for real conversations. More to come.

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Some conversations you plan. Some conversations just happen. The rarest kind are the ones you plan — and they still surprise you.

We recently partnered with SpeakIn and SG Enable to host a CXO roundtable at the Shangri-La Singapore — one of those evenings that reminded us exactly why The Builders Club exists.

The conversation centred on something most businesses still treat as a side agenda: the meaningful inclusion of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in the workplace. Not as a CSR initiative. Not as optics. As a genuine business strategy — and a more honest way to build.

CXO Roundtable on Inclusion — Shangri-La Singapore

The roundtable in session — Shangri-La Singapore, September 25, 2025

What The Builders Club Brought to the Table

Our role was clear: bring the right people. SpeakIn and SG Enable had the vision and the infrastructure. We had the network.

We curated a group of CXOs and senior decision-makers from The Builders Club community — leaders willing to sit in a room, set aside rehearsed corporate positions, and actually talk about the friction they face when it comes to hiring and integrating PWD talent inside their organisations.

That kind of honest room doesn’t happen by accident. It takes the right hosts, the right setting, and the right people who trust each other enough to say what’s real.

Shangri-La Singapore — Tower Wing, Private Dining The choice of venue was deliberate. When you invite senior leaders to a conversation like this, the setting signals intent before a single word is spoken. No stage, no audience, no performance. Just a table — and people willing to be real around it.

What Was Said

The evening was convened under the vision of Senior Parliamentary Secretary Eric Chua, with SG Enable driving the policy and ecosystem perspective. What made the roundtable exceptional wasn’t the agenda. It was the honesty of the people in the room.

  • Li-Fang Lai from OCBC shared how a personal experience with disability in her own family reframed everything for her professionally — and how OCBC is actively moving from charity thinking to capability thinking when it comes to PWD hiring.
  • Engineer Lionel Lee showed — not just told — how customised roles unlock talent that standard job architectures completely miss. His presence in the room was its own argument.
  • Edward Chew from SG Enable laid out the 360-degree policy ecosystem being built to make inclusion structurally viable — not just aspirationally good — for Singapore’s employers.
  • Cheryl Chan from ST Engineering brought the kind of leadership presence that changes the energy of a room. Her engagement gave the entire discussion a new level of gravity.
  • K V Rao and Dr. Timothy Low bridged the gap between policy ambition and operational reality — giving the employer side of the table a sharp, constructive voice.
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Leaders gathered at the Shangri-La Singapore — September 2025

The One Line That Stayed With Us

“Inclusion isn’t just about doing good — it’s about doing business better.”

That was the thread running through the entire evening. The PWD talent pool isn’t a charity case. It’s an undertapped asset — one that carries unique strengths, deep loyalty, and capabilities that conventional hiring pipelines rarely surface.

The businesses that figure this out first won’t just be more equitable. They’ll be more competitive.

In conversation at the CXO roundtable — Shangri-La Singapore

The conversations that matter most happen between the agenda points

Why This Is What Community Is For

The Builders Club exists for moments like this. Not to network. Not to broadcast. To move things forward — by putting the right people in the same room and letting what needs to happen, happen.

We didn’t build a stage. We built a table. And around that table, something shifted — in perspective, in commitment, and hopefully, in what gets actioned back in boardrooms across Singapore.

Our deepest thanks to SpeakIn for their commitment to conversations that count, and to SG Enable for the clarity and conviction they bring to inclusion work every single day.

If you’re a founder or CXO thinking about where your organisation stands on this — The Builders Club is a good place to start that conversation.

The Builders Club is a global community for founders and CXOs. We believe businesses need more than capital — they need community, context, and the right conversations at the right time.

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Inside the Circle: The Leader’s Table for Founders in Bangalore

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Inside the Circle: The Leader’s Table for Founders in Bangalore

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On 6th September, The Builders Circle hosted another high-impact edition of the Leader’s Table in Bangalore — a curated startup event designed to help founders move beyond networking and gain real, actionable insights on building and scaling businesses.

Unlike traditional startup meetups, this wasn’t about hype or pitches. It was about honest conversations, founder-first learning, and practical growth strategies.

💬 A Forum for Real Startup Conversations


The morning began with a startup AMA session over breakfast, where founders received direct answers to pressing questions — from fundraising in today’s market to building sustainable growth engines and leading resilient teams.

This was followed by boardroom-style roundtables, where founders collaborated with experts to solve real challenges in real time. The intimate format encouraged dialogue, problem-solving, and peer-to-peer learning — something often missing in larger startup networking events in Bangalore.

🌟 Advisors Who Made an Impact

The session was powered by three distinguished leaders who brought deep expertise across product, growth, and venture capital:

💡 Arvind Prakash Singh — Founder & CEO, Superbolter®
💡 Arpit Joseph — Director, Growth & Operations, Zoko
💡 Azhar Yakkundi — Investments Team, Arali Ventures

Their combined experience gave founders a 360° perspective on startup growth strategies, product scaling, and investor readiness.

🙌 A Founder Community That Builds Together

The energy in the room came from the founders themselves — entrepreneurs who arrived ready to share challenges, exchange ideas, and co-create solutions.

From candid stories about startup failures to discussions on scaling SaaS products and securing venture capital, it was a reminder that the best growth happens when founder communities come together with openness and trust.

🎁 Partners Who Powered the Experience

This edition was made possible thanks to:
✨ IDFC FIRST Bank and GoFloaters as venue partners
✨ Swizzle as our gifting partner

Their support ensured a seamless and enriching experience for all participants.

🔍 Why The Leader’s Table Matters for Startups in India

Many startup events in India prioritize noise over substance. The Builders Circle is different. The Leader’s Table is designed as a leadership roundtable for founders, where depth, trust, and execution take center stage.

If you’re a founder seeking:
✅ Practical guidance on scaling startups
✅ Direct access to experienced operators & investors
✅ A trusted founder community in India

Then this is the table you need to be at.

With more editions coming up across cities, The Leader’s Table is fast becoming one of India’s most impactful startup networking forums — where conversations turn into strategies, and strategies turn into growth.

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The Builder’s Circle Leader’s Table | 23rd August, Bangalore

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The Builder’s Circle Leader’s Table | 23rd August, Bangalore

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On 23rd August in Bangalore, The Builders Circle hosted a high-impact edition of the Leader’s Table, designed exclusively for founders, operators, and ecosystem leaders to engage in candid conversations, problem-solving, and peer learning.

This wasn’t another surface-level networking event — it was a working forum where ideas were challenged, strategies were sharpened, and founders walked away with clarity and actionable takeaways.

💬 Conversations That Mattered


The morning began with an interactive AMA breakfast, setting the tone for open dialogue around fundraising, team building, and scaling in dynamic markets.

Post-breakfast, founders dove into focused boardroom-style roundtables, where discussions went beyond theory to solving real business challenges in real time.

🌟 Advisors Who Powered the Session

This edition was guided by three outstanding advisors who brought their diverse expertise to the table:

💡 Rajat Mittal – Founding Member, POP UPI
💡 Sandeep Balaji – CEO, IncX
💡 Ashok Shastry – Co-Founder, DriveU

Their insights across fintech innovation, startup scaling, and operations strategy provided founders with practical frameworks and new perspectives.

🙌 Community at the Core


The real strength of the Leader’s Table lies in its founder-first community. The energy in the room came from entrepreneurs who weren’t there just to network, but to ask tough questions, share lessons learned, and learn from peers.

From raw stories of setbacks to strategies for scaling sustainably, the discussions reflected why Bangalore remains the beating heart of India’s startup ecosystem.

🎁 Partners Who Made It Possible


We’re grateful to our partners for their support:
✨ Swizzle and The Good Kind Foods as gifting partners
✨ GoFloaters as our co-working partner

Their contributions added a thoughtful touch to the experience.

🔍 Why The Leader’s Table is Different


Unlike most startup events in India, the Leader’s Table is built on depth, trust, and execution. It’s where founders connect meaningfully, gain direct access to advisors and investors, and leave with strategies they can immediately apply to their businesses.

With every edition, The Builders Circle continues to strengthen India’s founder ecosystem, helping entrepreneurs build with clarity, resilience, and community.

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Inside the Circle: A High-Impact Leader’s Table for Founders in Mumbai

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Inside the Circle: A High-Impact Leader’s Table for Founders in Mumbai

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This weekend, The Builders Circle brought together some of Mumbai’s sharpest founders and seasoned operators for a Leader’s Table that delivered clarity, candor, and actionable solutions — no fluff, no pitches, just real business conversations.

💬 A Space for Honest Dialogue

Held in an intimate setting designed for peer learning, the session kicked off with a candid Ask Me Anything breakfast, where founders got direct answers to the hard questions: scaling in uncertain markets, building resilient teams, and navigating the grind behind the headlines.

The deep-dive roundtables that followed were all about rolling up sleeves and working through real challenges in real time — a rare chance to challenge assumptions, test ideas, and walk away with fresh perspectives.

🌟 Powerhouse Advisors in the Room

This session wouldn’t have been possible without our incredible advisors who generously shared their insights and frameworks:

  • 💡 CA Harvinderjit Singh Bhatia — Investor, CEO & Co-Founder, Radiowalla Network Limited
  • 💡 Shubbam Sharrma — Chief Growth Officer, Pepperfry
  • 💡 Pulkit Puri — Product Manager, Kotak811

Their combined experience across investments, growth, and product strategy offered founders an insider’s look at what it takes to build durable, high-trust businesses.

🙌 Founders Who Showed Up to Build

More than anything, the energy came from the founders themselves — a community of entrepreneurs who arrived not just to network, but to ask tough questions, share what’s working, and learn from each other.

From candid stories about failure to clear-eyed discussions on scaling, it was a reminder that the best growth happens when founders put their ideas on the table — and let others sharpen them.

🎁 Special Thanks

A big shoutout to Swizzle, our gifting partner, for adding a thoughtful touch to the experience.

🔍 Why This Matters

Too many startup events are about noise over substance.
The Builders Circle is different.
We create spaces that prioritize depth, trust, and execution over hype.

If you’re a founder looking for:

✅ Real conversations with peers and operators
✅ 1:1 guidance on business, product, and growth
✅ A community that supports and challenges you

Join The Builders Club.
Build like it matters.
More Leader’s Tables are on the way — across more cities, with more momentum.

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A Date with an investor Series

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A Date With An Investor: How We Got Founders and VCs Talking Over Coffee — No Pitch Decks Allowed

A Date With An Investor is one of The Builders Club’s most loved and most unique initiatives. The premise is simple but rare: we hand-pick a small group of founders whose company resonates with a specific investor’s thesis, and we put them in the same room — usually the investor’s own office, over coffee and conversation.

No slides. No panels. No 60-second elevator pitches. Just 4–5 carefully curated founders and an investor having a real, high-context conversation about building, raising, and scaling. Founders apply against each investor’s published funding criteria, so every person in the room is genuinely relevant to the fund — and the investors get to meet a shortlist of startups that actually match what they’re looking to back.

Across this series we partnered with some of India’s sharpest early-stage funds — Ideaspring Capital, Leo Capital, JITO, Pravega Ventures, Fibonacci X, V3 Ventures, Signal Ventures, She Capital and Arali Ventures — across Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi. Here’s how it unfolded.

The Line-Up: Dates With Investors Across Delhi, Mumbai & Bangalore

We announced the season with a full slate of investor dates — each fund mapped to a clear thesis so founders could register against the right one. The format stayed constant throughout: 4–5 founders, the investor’s office, coffee and conversation. No pitch decks, only discussions.

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1. Ideaspring Capital — Bangalore

The thesis: Ideaspring Capital is a deep-tech-focused fund that writes cheques ranging from $1 million to $3 million for MVV+ (minimum viable venture) startups.

This edition was uniquely curated — The Builders Club carefully shortlisted startups based on their founding thesis, ensuring a high-quality, high-relevance engagement for everyone in the room. Here are the highlights:

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2. Leo Capital — Bangalore

The thesis: Leo Capital invests an average cheque size of $1–3M in B2B Enterprise Tech.

  • Industry: B2B Enterprise Tech
  • Stage: ARR > $100K
  • Where: Bangalore, at the investor’s office

4–5 founders got the opportunity to meet the team over coffee and conversations — no pitch decks, only discussion.

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3. JITO Incubation & Innovation Foundation — Mumbai

The thesis: Sector agnostic. JITO Incubation & Innovation Foundation joined the series in Mumbai, open to founders across industries — the same intimate, office-table format, built around real conversation rather than a formal pitch.

4. Pravega Ventures — Bangalore

The thesis: Pravega Ventures backs B2B Enterprise Tech with cheque sizes of $1–5M.

  • Cheque size: $1–5M
  • Industry: B2B Enterprise Tech
  • Stage: ARR > $100K

We brought five curated founders into an unstructured, high-context, founder-first conversation — no slides, no panels, just real talk. The founders who joined: Srijan Jain (DexyAI), Dhiraj Jain (DotKonnekt), Manohar C. (Parentof), Vijay H Madhusudan (Evate Technologies), Dax Percey Abraham (Videoit.io) and Ayush Agrawal (Kubo Care). The best part? Two founders found instant synergy and started collaborating.

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5. Fibonacci X — Delhi NCR

The thesis: Fibonacci X runs a 6-month, scope-based, non-cohort accelerator for startups building in the GenZ & Alpha industry, or with a Bharat-focused story. They love being the first investor on your cap table.

  • Theme: Gen Z, Gen Alpha, Middle India (Bharat)
  • Industry: Agnostic
  • Stage: Early-stage
  • Traction: INR 50L – 1Cr ARR
  • Investment size: INR 25L – 1Cr

This Investor Date was part of the Fibonacci X 6-month accelerator — designed for startups building for Bharat and the broader industrial ecosystem. Five founders joined: Dev Tyagi (CTO, Codefancy Lab), Saurabh Singhai (CEO, CB Business Solution), Siddhant Aggarwal (Luxid Tech), Vivek (Luxid Tech) and Vikrant Shome (Founder & CEO, AcadSpace Technologies). Rather than a typical pitch session, it was an open floor for honest, cross-questioned feedback from peers and investors alike.

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6. V3 Ventures — Mumbai

The thesis: V3 Ventures backs Consumer Tech & Consumer Brands with cheques of $1M–$5M, from Seed to Series A.

  • Investment size: $1M – $5M
  • Focus areas: Consumer Tech & Consumer Brands
  • Stage: Seed to Series A

Five early-stage founders came together for a closed-door conversation on building from 0 to 1 — navigating PMF, GTM pivots and all the chaos in between. Thanks to Anmol Mahajan, Anoushka Rele, Joshua Salins, Karan Sharma and Tejas Bhamare for joining, and to Arjun Vaidya and Abhiram Bhalerao from V3 Ventures for showing up not just with capital, but with conviction, empathy and game-changing perspective.

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7. Signal Ventures

The thesis: Signal Ventures backs disruptive, early-stage startups — leading and co-leading rounds at the Seed / Pre-Seed stage.

  • Stage: Seed / Pre-Seed (leads & co-leads rounds)
  • Sectors: Consumer, Health-tech, Media-Tech
  • Avg cheque size: ₹75 Lacs – ₹1.25 Cr
  • Valuation focus: Sub ₹50 Cr (≈ $6M), up to $10M in exceptional cases

Only 4–5 founders got the chance to meet Signal Ventures at their office — an exclusive opportunity to pitch, gain insights and connect over coffee, with a shot at funding, mentorship and strategic investor perspective.

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8. She Capital — Delhi

The thesis: She Capital is India’s leading fund for high-growth, women-led and co-led startups with the vision and capability to scale globally. Having already backed 14 startups — including Ellementary, Brainsight and Clovia — they champion the future of inclusive entrepreneurship.

  • Focus areas: Consumer, Retail, Sportstech, Deeptech, AI
  • Minimum criterion: Revenue positive
  • Minimum ticket size: ₹1 – 2 Cr

For this closed-door mixer in Delhi, we curated a group of five dynamic women founders — two joining virtually from Mumbai and Bangalore. From early traction to scaling bottlenecks and GTM pivots, each founder laid out her journey candidly, met with high-quality, actionable feedback and peer learning. One standout conversation came from Polish Me Pretty, who offered a sharp lens into the Q-commerce space.

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9. Arali Ventures — Bangalore

The thesis: Arali Ventures backs B2B founders with cheques of $500K–$1M.

  • Stage: $100K+ ARR for SaaS, early traction for others
  • Sectors: SaaS, Marketplaces, Deeptech, Fintech, Industry 4.0
  • Cheque size: $500K – $1M

This was one of our most insightful editions yet. In an intimate, highly curated setting, eight handpicked founders got the rare opportunity to pitch their startups — not just to investors, but to each other. Each founder presented, took questions and received real-time feedback on everything from GTM to positioning. A few soft introductions to potential clients and advisors were even made right in the room. For Arali Ventures, it was an efficient way to meet highly relevant founders aligned with their thesis — all in one session, under one roof.

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More Such Dates Coming Soon

A Date With An Investor is more than a pitch event — it’s an interactive founder–investor roundtable designed to help founders refine their story, gather actionable feedback, and build meaningful relationships with both peers and investors. It’s where founders get seen, heard and supported, with real outcomes and a real community behind them.

If you’re a founder looking to sharpen your narrative, or an investor looking to meet promising early-stage startups without the noise — we’re building exactly for you. We’re just getting started.

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Inside the Circle: A High-Impact Boardroom Session for Startup Founders

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Inside the Circle: A High-Impact Boardroom Session for Startup Founders

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This past weekend, The Builders Circle hosted yet another dynamic edition of the Circle Boardroom Meeting — an invite-only gathering where startup founders, business leaders, and industry experts come together to share, reflect, and build.

Held in an intimate setting designed for real dialogue, the session focused on practical challenges, bold ideas, and solutions rooted in lived experience. Unlike typical networking events or startup panels, the Circle Boardroom is all about peer learning, real-time insights, and collaborative problem solving.

A Space for Real Business Conversations

With no stage, no fluff, and no pitches, this Boardroom created space for meaningful founder-to-founder conversations. Our advisors, Chand Tiwari (Happilo) and Rishab Malu (Malu Group of Companies), offered invaluable insights on business scalability, leadership, and long-term growth strategies.

Their grounded perspectives helped cut through the noise and brought much-needed clarity on navigating challenges across operations, growth, and investment.

Founders Who Showed Up With Intent

The power of this session came from the founders in the room. Amit Mishra, Nithin Prakash, Kishan Sanghani, Mayank, Manas Shrivastava, Sumit Rastogi, Steve Francis, Hamsavardhan, and Vrushab Gosar — each brought real questions and deep intent to grow, listen, and share.

This wasn’t about superficial networking. It was about active listening, tough questions, and collective learning — the kind of exchange that fuels real growth in the startup ecosystem.

Community-Driven, Value-First

The Builders Circle is a curated, trust-based community where founders don’t just learn from each other — they actively contribute. Events like this reflect our mission: to build an ecosystem where startup leaders are supported, challenged, and equipped to take bold steps forward.

Special thanks to our gifting partners — Swizzle India, Artinci Sugar-Free, and The Good Kind Foods — for making the experience even more thoughtful.

🔍 Why It Matters

  • Startup founders need more than just events — they need spaces for trust and clarity.
  • Peer-led boardrooms are a powerful model for high-signal, low-noise growth.
  • Communities like The Builders Circle are redefining what founder support looks like in India.

More such sessions are on the way.
If you’re a founder looking for meaningful conversations, 1:1 business advice, and a tribe that truly gets it —
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Inside the Mumbai Leadership Exclusive: Where Founders and Operators Connected Beyond the Pitch

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Inside the Mumbai Leadership Exclusive: Where Founders and Operators Connected Beyond the Pitch

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In a fast-paced startup world driven by noise, speed, and constant pitching, the Mumbai Leadership Exclusive offered something different — a space for calm, clarity, and meaningful connections.

Hosted by The Builders Club, this invite-only gathering brought together founders, CXOs, investors, and senior operators from across Mumbai’s thriving startup and tech ecosystem. But unlike most networking events, this wasn’t about the spotlight — it was about creating real conversations that matter.

🧠 What Made This Event Stand Out?

Instead of panels, speeches, or stage time, the focus was on intimate, peer-led interactions. Attendees were introduced thoughtfully, and the energy flowed from there — naturally, intentionally, and without pretense.

Whether you were a founder scaling a Series A startup, a product leader building infrastructure, or an angel investor exploring new ideas, the evening gave space to share stories, ask questions, and build trust — without the pressure to perform.

🚀 Why It Mattered

Mumbai has long been a hub of entrepreneurial ambition. But even in a city known for its hustle, founders are hungry for more real, signal-rich spaces — places where they can drop the mask, skip the pitch, and talk shop in ways that are grounded and honest.

This event delivered exactly that:


✅ No panels
✅ No pitching
✅ No filters
Just authentic, strategic conversations among those who’ve built, failed, scaled, and succeeded.

💡 Key Takeaways from the Evening

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  • Founders crave connection — but not noise. This event proved that when you bring the right people into the room, the outcomes take care of themselves.
  • Thoughtful curation beats flashy formats. Every attendee was handpicked to bring depth, experience, and curiosity to the conversation.
  • There’s power in small rooms. Intimacy created trust, and trust sparked insight — the kind that doesn’t happen in crowded halls or demo days.

🙌 A Note of Thanks

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us and added richness to the evening. Special appreciation goes to our partners Ionic Wealth and Plotline — your support helped shape a gathering that felt both personal and purposeful.

📍 What’s Next?

We’re just getting started.
If you’re a founder, investor, or operator looking to be in rooms that offer signal, not noise — apply to join The Builders Club. Our next stop might just be your city.

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