Chet Jain

Chet is a serial entrepreneur revolutionizing the social giving space with his startup, Crowdera, a totally free crowdfunding platform for doing good. Chet believes that 'Abundance Starts with Giving' so he created Crowdera to help non-profits and social innovators to raise money absolutely free. Chet has also founded SmartWe, a company that believes in the power of WE. SmartWe is focussed on helping startups build their product via nearshore/offshore technology delivery services.

Chet started as a humble 19 year old young entrepreneur from the Orange City of India employing over 100 people in first 6 years of his career. From Orange City to Silicon Valley Chet experienced several peaks and valleys in his career. After a short break Chet began his new entrepreneurial innings starting with NoPay Startups, now a 2000+ people strong group of startup enthusiasts to founding FEDU, an educational fundraising company. Chet gained popularity as an entrepreneurial facilitator, coach, mentor, and a speaker.

Speaking Engagements

Chet is often invited by business schools for his talks and workshops on Co-Working, NoPay Extreme Bootstrapping and Crowdfunding among other topics. He is well-known for his unique workshop style where attendees claim to have shortened their learning curve and gained wisdom in far less time.

Film Making & Other Strategic Xperimentz

Besides this world of startups, doing good and helping entrepreneurs there exists a very creative side to Chet who writes fiction, he has made an experimental feature film to learn film making, he loves math and loves flaunting his risk appetite . 'Nothing Ventures, Nothing' Have is his another favorite quote from school days!

Chet is currently writing a period fusion biopic 'MoGill', about legendary triple jump olympian Mohinder Singh Gill.

Chet shuffles between Orange City and Silicon Valley very frequently. He loves experimenting with several spicy Chai combinations and fusion vegetarian recipes at his Menlo Park, California residence where lives with his wife and son. He takes humble pride in sharing his journey from city of oranges to silicon valley.

Beliefs

Abundance Starts with Giving
Real Time Acceptance of Life
- By Chet

Aparigraha, Anekantwad, Non-Violence and Forgiveness
- Jainism

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change
- StephenHawkings