About Entrepreneur's Arch
We enable startups. The rest is detail.
Entrepreneur's Arch is a founder-first ecosystem in India. We put the right people in a screened room, keep the peer network free of noise, take over the function a startup has not built yet, and connect the ones that are raising to investors who actually match. Four offerings, one job: removing whatever is between a founder and the next milestone.
- 5,370+
- Founders and leaders reached
- 128+
- Events hosted since 2024
- 200+
- Investor and VC registrations
- 14
- Cities members come from, incl. Canada
Why Entrepreneur's Arch exists
Most founder networking is a numbers game. A large room, a stack of business cards, a follow-up list nobody works through, and an evening that was worth less than staying in. The problem is not that founders do not want to meet each other. It is that nothing in the room is curated, so relevance is left to luck.
The same gap shows up after the introductions. A startup crosses MVP and discovers it needs a sales motion, a finance function or a hiring process that nobody on the team has built before, and the honest options are a six-month executive search or doing it badly in parallel with everything else.
And when it comes time to raise, the round is usually sized by what the market expects rather than by what the business has proven, which turns capital into pressure instead of runway.
Entrepreneur's Arch was built to close those three gaps with one system: curated rooms, a peer network worth being in, operators who will run the function for you, and capital that tracks traction. Each part is useful on its own. Together they are the arch.
Mumbai, where the first rooms ran
How we work
Six commitments. Each one is a rule that is already visible somewhere on this site: the screening, the moderation, the handover, the confidentiality, the success fee.
Screened before entry
Every mixer registration is reviewed against that room's stated audience. Curation is the product, so we publish the bar instead of claiming it.
The community is moderated, not just created
Promotions are gated, mass-forwards are removed and introductions are made directly. A group nobody has muted is worth more than a large one.
We hand the function back
A growth consulting engagement ends with your team owning the playbook, the process and the hires. If we are still indispensable at the end, we did it wrong.
Nothing identifying goes out early
In the investment process, no name, logo, photograph or link is shared until an investor asks to meet. Startups are judged on the opportunity, not on who they know.
We are paid when it works
The fundraising engagement charges a success fee on a closed deal, agreed in an MOU before any introduction is made.
We will tell you when we are not the answer
Pre-MVP founders are pointed at a mixer rather than sold a consulting engagement. A short honest no is cheaper for everyone than a long paid maybe.
What we do
Four offerings that work together. Each one has a page that explains it properly.
Curated Offline Mixers
High-relevance, screen-vetted 1:1 matchmaking.
Know moreSpam-Free WhatsApp Community
Safe peer environment, strictly controlled promotions.
Know moreGrowth Consulting & Management
Sales, marketing or ops execution, without the early executive burn.
Know moreFlexi Investment
Milestone-driven, staged micro-funding.
Know moreWhere we run
Offline mixers currently run in eight cities, and members have joined from 14, including Canada. The community, growth consulting engagements and the investment process are not location-bound.
Who runs Entrepreneur's Arch
Two co-founders, reachable directly. There is no account manager layer between you and the people who decide things.
Bhavik Jain
Co-founder, Entrepreneur's Arch
Swapnil Shersagar
Co-founder, Entrepreneur's Arch
Come and see whether it is for you
The cheapest way to judge EA is one evening in one room. Everything else follows from that.