Where India's innovation ecosystem connects.
The Startup Club is a community for founders, aspiring entrepreneurs, investors, mentors, and the people building India's startup ecosystem. We publish across five pillars — innovation, fundraising, product and go-to-market, founder craft, and ecosystem and policy — so the conversation that moves Indian startups forward has a home.
A community for the people building India's startup ecosystem.
The Startup Club exists because the most useful conversations happen between the people doing the work — founders comparing notes, investors sharing pattern-matching, mentors and operators paying forward what they learned. We publish daily across LinkedIn, X, and Instagram so those conversations have a steady home.
Who it's for
- Early-stage foundersBuilding from idea or seed; looking for sharper takes on product, fundraising, and the operating decisions that compound.
- Aspiring entrepreneursWorking on side projects or planning your first move. Learn from the people one or two stages ahead of you.
- InvestorsAngels, syndicate leads, and institutional folks tracking what's getting built across Indian innovation.
- Mentors and operatorsSenior operators and ex-founders who pay the experience forward — guiding portfolios, advising cohorts, or building in public.
- Ecosystem enablersIncubators, accelerators, community builders, policy and academia — the connective tissue around founders.
If any of that sounds like you, follow The Startup Club on LinkedIn →
What we publish
Five content pillars, weighted to the questions Indian founders actually wrestle with. The mix is editorial — not a content calendar pinned to product launches — so each week the rhythm reflects what's interesting in the ecosystem.
- 25%InnovationFrontier tech, R&D breakthroughs, deep-tech and dual-use, and what's shipping out of Indian labs and garages.
- 20%FundraisingHow rounds get built — angel and seed mechanics, term sheets, valuations, late-stage moves, and what investors are actually paying for.
- 20%Product & GTMPositioning, pricing, distribution, and the early-stage moves that convert a wedge into pull.
- 20%Founder & teamOperating craft — hiring, leadership, co-founder dynamics, energy management, and the human side of building.
- 15%Ecosystem & policyRegulation, DPDP, ONDC, India Stack, capital flows, state-level startup policy, and the structural context founders operate in.
The Startup Club lives on Clikkin.
Clikkin is a privacy-first platform for distributed communities. The Startup Club's space — where founders, investors, and operators actually talk to each other — runs there. Scan the QR to join the space.
Open your camera. Point. Tap the link.
Why Clikkin
We wanted a home for the community that wasn't a Slack workspace fighting for attention with everyone else's, wasn't a Telegram group lost to noise, and wasn't a feed someone else owns. Clikkin lets us run a dedicated space with the operating model we want — clear roles, real privacy, posts that surface by quality not by algorithm.
Scanning the QR drops you into The Startup Club space on Clikkin. You'll see the active threads, the people in the room, and the way the conversation is organised.
Curious how Clikkin works? Learn more at clikkin.com →
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LinkedIn for the long form, X for the signal, Instagram for the visuals. We publish on all three.
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