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Where like minded people exchange great ideas!
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Talking business is underrated.

The best conversations often start with simple questions:

What’s working?
What isn’t?
Where are you stuck?
What would you do differently?

Questions that usually come up after the formal event ends.

At Unpuzzle, we believe that conversation is the event.

Our latest RoundTable came alive with Akash Valia, Co-founder, Secret Alchemist, bringing his candour, energy and perspective into the room and making the conversation all the more real.

No pitches. No polished answers. Just honest questions, shared experiences and conversations around what actually matters.

Here’s to more rooms like this.

#theunpuzzleproject #theunpuzzleprojectroundtable #founder by @theunpuzzleproject

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Volume 5. Mumbai. Done and dusted.

Rude Lounge, Powai. 100+ founders, investors and leading entrepreneurs in one room, and not a single forced business card exchange.

Here’s the thing about entrepreneurship...you can build in isolation, but you can’t grow in it. Every founder in that room was solving a different problem, and half of them found their answer sitting at the next table.

Thank you for making our Volume 5 happening.

But we’re not done. Something big is loading.

Our one year anniversary is going to be a blast.
The Unpuzzle Project presents Pitchers & Movers.

Save The Date- 24th October, 2026.

Early bird sign-ups are live — www.theunpuzzleproject.com by @theunpuzzleproject

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The Unpuzzle Project Volume 5, Mumbai. 100+ founders, investors and leading entrepreneurs in one room, and not one person watching the clock.

Sometime after we began, the introductions were done and so were the formalities, and people got to the honest stuff. What’s actually broken. What nobody tells you about hiring. Why the last eighteen months were harder than the pitch deck admits.

That’s the version of entrepreneurship you don’t get from a stage. You get it sideways, at a table, from someone who’s been through it and has no reason to dress it up.

Five volumes in, and we’re still convinced the room matters more than the headcount. And Mumbai proved it again.

Watch it through. Sound on. And don’t stop ‘til you get enough. by @theunpuzzleproject

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“India is entering its most exciting startup decade.”

— @yagneshs2707

Of course, he’d know. A Chartered Accountant by training, he was a founding partner and CFO at 100X.VC one of India’s most active seed-stage investors, where he worked on hundreds of early cheques and learned what separates a promising pitch from a fundable company. In 2025 he and Shashank Randev struck out on their own and launched 247VC with a ₹250 crore India Fund I.

247VC backs bold founders at the seed stage across consumption, deeptech, enterprise tech and Industry 5.0. It plans to back around 30 startups over three years, with average first cheques of ₹3–4 crore and about half the fund held back for follow-ons. The firm is built for founders “obsessed with solving hard problems and building for scale.” The name says the rest: these are investors who don’t clock out.

We’re glad to have Yagnesh at Pitchers & Movers.

If you’re raising your seed round, or you want to know how a CA-turned-VC reads your numbers, spend tim by @theunpuzzleproject

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“Your network is your net worth.”
— Porter Gale

At TiE Mumbai, Trupti works on exactly that, connecting growth-stage founders with investors, mentors and each other. She studied at TISS, worked at the Lodha Group, and now helps run one of the country’s most established founder networks. TiE started in Silicon Valley in 1992 and was brought to India in 1999 by Mumbai’s own Harish Mehta, a co-founder of NASSCOM. Trupti has helped host Investor of the Month sessions, F&B founder meetups and TiE Mumbai’s tech delegation to the San Francisco Bay Area.

TiE Mumbai is also our community partner for Pitchers & Movers, and its president, Dr. Apoorva Ranjan Sharma, co-founded Venture Catalysts. Small world, big network.

We’re glad to have Trupti at Pitchers & Movers.
If you want to get into the rooms where Mumbai’s startup ecosystem actually meets, she knows who should be in them. Say hi. She’ll probably introduce you to three people before you finish your coffee.

The Unpuzzle Project turns one. A year of founder tables, straight talk and introductions that turned into deals, hires and friendships. We’re grateful to have found a place in this ecosystem, and we’re celebrating with the people who built it with us.

Pitchers & Movers, our Year One celebration
24th October 2026 | TAP, Worli
Gates open at 11:00 AM

Register at www.theunpuzzleproject.com. Grow your net worth.

#theunpuzzleproject #founder #investor #entrepreneur #community by @theunpuzzleproject

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“In 1994 I took the plunge into entrepreneurship without any prior experience.”
— Kavi Shahani

Kavi has never let a lack of experience stop him. After a master’s in computer engineering at Iowa State, he started an export business for scarves, shawls and sarongs from India, and became the first accessories exporter to set up a sourcing office in China to fix Indian production problems. He grew it to ₹35 crore in annual revenue and 80+ employees, and ran it for 29 years until Covid and China’s shutdowns forced him to close it.

Most people would have called that a career. Kavi went back to studying, this time data science, and turned to startups full-time. He has invested in 20+ startups, has three exits, and now runs India Connection, matching founders with the right investors and tracking Indian startup funding one deal at a time.

We’re glad to have Kavi at Pitchers & Movers.
If you need the right investor introduction, or you’re a promoter quietly wondering what your business would sell for, he has spent three decades on both sides of that table.

The Unpuzzle Project turns one. What started as a simple idea, putting founders at the same table, became a year of honest conversations and people helping each other move forward. We’re grateful to be part of this ecosystem, and we’re celebrating it together.

Pitchers & Movers, our Year One celebratiorn.
24th October 2026 | TAP, Worli
Gates open at 11:00 AM

Register at www.theunpuzzleproject.com. Let’s connect.

#theunpuzzleproject #founder #investor #entrepreneur #community by @theunpuzzleproject

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“Being pitch-ready isn’t the same as being investment-ready.”

Akshi has built her career on closing that gap. A Chartered Accountant who started as a corporate banker at Yes Bank, she co-founded PepperTree in 2019, a boutique investment banking firm that helps early-stage startups raise money from VCs, angels, family offices and HNIs. She works across fintech, healthtech, agritech, B2B, consumer brands and deeptech, and has built the investor relationships founders spend years chasing. She writes angel cheques herself too.
And yes, she was almost on Shark Tank India Season 4. In her words: almost seen.

We’re glad to have Akshi at Pitchers & Movers.
If you’re about to raise and aren’t completely sure what your term sheet says, find her before your investors find the red flags. She runs fundraising masterclasses for a reason.

A year ago, The Unpuzzle Project was just an idea: put founders around one table and let the conversations do the work. Twelve months later, we’re proud to be a small but loud part of this ecosystem, and we’re celebrating it properly.

Pitchers & Movers, our Year One celebration.
24th October 2026 | TAP, Worli
Gates open at 11:00 AM

Register at www.theunpuzzleproject.com. Get investment-ready.

#theunpuzzleproject #founder #investor #entrepreneur #community by @theunpuzzleproject

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“More than the ideas, we like to back the founders.”
— Mrunal Jhaveri

Mrunal knows a thing or two about versatility. While studying at Middlesex University in London, he worked 13 different jobs, from Arsenal’s stadium and Wimbledon to market research, game testing and appearing as an extra in films. He came home to build the family business, Jhaveri Flexo India, and in 2014 started its venture arm, Icebreaker Tech, now ICE.vc. What began as a side hustle has grown into 90+ first-cheque investments across India, Israel, the US and Africa. Somewhere along the way he also produced a film, The Final Exit, which was recognised at international festivals.

We’re glad to have Mrunal at Pitchers & Movers.
If you’re raising your very first cheque, meet someone who writes them for a living and stays hands-on with fundraising and growth long after. You can also ask him what Wimbledon taught him about patience.

The Unpuzzle Project turns one. A year of founder tables, straight talk and introductions that turned into deals, hires and
friendships. We’re grateful to have found a place in this ecosystem, and we’re celebrating with the people who built it with us.

Pitchers & Movers, our Year One celebration.
24th October 2026 | TAP, Worli
Gates open at 11:00 AM

Register at www.theunpuzzleproject.com. Consider the ice broken.

#theunpuzzleproject #founder #investor #entrepreneur #community by @theunpuzzleproject

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