Good breakfast, strong coffee, and a business trivia showdown with founders and builders from across Bengaluru. Come for the food, stay to find out how much startup lore you actually remember.

​What to expect

​We start with breakfast and open conversation. No agenda, no name tags, just a room of people building things in the same city.

​Once everyone's caffeinated, we settle a more pressing question: who actually knows business best. Five rounds, real buzzers, and a format that rewards knowing things over shouting fastest. Expect logos you pass every day and will still get wrong, ad campaigns you half remember, and a round where the only way through is your team working as one. Remember, the games tend to get competitive around round three. We're not going to stop that.

​And yes, there will be prizes for the winners!

​Who it's for

​Early-stage founders, founding team members, operators building in Bengaluru and ofcourse, anyone who loves to challenge themselves with a caffeinated quiz. If you spend more time than is reasonable reading about other businesses, this is your morning.

​What you'll leave with

​A handful of people worth staying in touch with, a few facts about the ecosystem you didn't have at 9am, and possibly a trophy.

​Hosted by

​Razorpay, as part of Elevation's Basecamp series.

​Details to keep in mind:

• ​📅 12 August, 2026
• ⏰ 9:30am, trivia starts sharp at 10:30am
• 📍 Full address shared with confirmed attendees.
• ☕ Just bring yourself (and your brains). Breakfast and coffee are on us.

Founders spend years building products. You get 60 seconds to pitch them.

​The best founders don't rely on polished scripts. They're clear on the problem they're solving, why their solution is inevitable, and why now. When the thinking is clear, the pitch is clear.

​This event puts that clarity to the test. Founders take the stage for a 60-second elevator pitch, and Antler's team judges live and gives direct feedback: what landed, what didn't, and how to sharpen your story before the next investor meeting.

​For founders at every stage, whether you're prepping for your first investor meeting or just looking for a better way to explain what you're building.

​The evening opens with arrival and a short intro, moves into 60-second founder pitches with live feedback from Antler, then an open Q&A and networking to close.

Every brand has a story.

​Not the one on LinkedIn.

​The real one.

​The launch that almost didn't happen. The product customers hated. The mistake that changed everything. The decision you'd make again in a heartbeat.

​Behind the Brand is a curated dinner by PARA//EL for D2C founders, operators, and investors who'd rather trade honest stories than polished playbooks.

​No presentations.

​No networking games.

​Just one table, great food, and conversations that usually happen after everyone else has gone home.

​One small rule: come with one story you've never shared publicly.

​📍 Indiranagar, Bengaluru

📅 August 13, 2026

​Seats are intentionally limited.

Scouting investment-ready startups shouldn't feel this hard.

​Great founders get buried in crowded pipelines. Promising ventures struggle to reach the right investors. The Startup Network | Edition 14 closes that gap.

​Join us at Soho House, Mumbai on 15th August, 10 AM onwards, to meet a curated group of Arthayan startups. Vetted, fundraise ready, and all set to pitch to you and a few notable VCs.

​Who should attend and why?

​For Investors & VC Firms:

• Meet a curated selection of growth-ready startups
• Scout opportunities aligned with your investment thesis
• Explore co-investment and syndication opportunities
• Connect with fellow VCs, angels, and ecosystem leaders
• Gain insights into emerging sectors and market trends
• Build meaningful relationships with founders and investors alike

​By invitation only for investors and VC firms. Team Arthayan reserves the right to approve and finalise the guest list.

Economist Chad Jones models the economy as a chain of tasks. Automate 17 of 20 links perfectly, and the chain's strength still comes down to the 3 that need a person. Rather than debating the 17, we'll spend the evening on the 3.

​As founders and engineers building with AI every day, many of us have had to rethink where the real work actually is. This private salon is a chance to hear from others who are building, shipping, and shaping the space right now.

​Lay of the evening:

• ​Five-person pods, drawn from 25 curated participants. Everyone meets five others by the end of the night.
• Pods dig into AI workflow prompts, then three sharper questions: what you believe now that you didn't a year ago, what's made you 10x more productive, what scares you.
• ​Insights get shared back with the full room.
• ​Break. Conversations.
• Open challenge clinic: bring a problem you're stuck on, the room works it out with you.
• Opt-in WhatsApp group for anyone who wants to keep the conversation going.

The companies defining the next decade of AI will be in one room.

Bought to you by Grayscale Ventures and PromptQL

​Join 500+ AI founders, engineers, and operators for an evening of engineering talks from the teams behind India's leading unicorns, alongside 50 live AI startup booths showcasing what the ecosystem is building next.

​Whether you're building AI products, scaling infrastructure, or looking for your next breakthrough, this is where you find your next user, hire, or customer.

​Expect:

• ​Talks from engineering leaders at India's top unicorn companies
• ​50 AI startup demo booths
• Curated networking with founders, engineers, and investors

​​👥 Audience

• ​AI Founders: CEOs and CTOs of AI startups
• AI Engineers: Engineers building AI products inside Startups and Enterprise
• Corporate AI Decision-Makers: Leaders from Enterprises adopting AI
• Investors: VCs backing emerging AI startups

Solana Summit India offers a dynamic one-day immersion into the Solana ecosystem, featuring insightful talks, engaging panels, and interactive workshops led by industry pioneers.

​This event is designed for founders, developers, and creatives, tailored to highlight innovative applications and developments in the Solana network. Join us for a day of meaningful talks, networking, and deep insights, focused on the Solana ecosystem in India, tokenization of real-world assets, evolving policy and regulatory frameworks, developer insights, and applications pushing the network forward.

What is the Solana Summit?

Solana Summit India is a one-day event designed for founders, developers, and creatives who are building on the Solana network from India, for the entire world — featuring keynotes, debates, and interactive workshops led by the best builders in Solana City.

Want to join us? Show us what you got.

For the next 16 weeks, leading up to November 2, we will be running a new dev challenge every week. The top performers from each challenge will get to reserve their spot at the Summit.