ChandigarhJan – Feb 202710:00 to 22:00By invitation

Chandigarh's founders take the main stage.

One day, one hall, 10:00 to 22:00. Up to 30 founders in the dugouts, 2,000 people backing them with coins, ideas signed into companies by night, the region's artists and a headliner to close. You need an invitation to Main Bhi Founder to be there.

Ask for your invitationI'm a founder — I want a dugout
How MBF helps a founder · in Punjabi40 sec

Seven things happen on this stage.

The main stage runs from 10:00 to 22:00 with one 45-minute break. Every minute belongs to one of seven groups. Tap one to see where it sits in the day.

10:0022:00

The day, hour by hour

Where the action is, any hour you pick.

Drag the slider from 10:00 to 22:00, or tap a zone on the map.

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10:00
Gates open

Warm-up. Coins load at the gate

Your ticket scans, your wallet fills with play coins. The first 100 scanned get 100 bonus coins. Founders are already in their dugouts. The floor opens: scheme desks, the CAs' row, the Interview Room.

On the floor: Dugouts, Scheme Bazaar, Professionals' Row, Interview Room
Everyone

The gate

Four scan lanes. Your ticket scans and your coin wallet loads. First 100 scanned get 100 bonus coins. The influencer desk is beside it.

For founders

Three ways in for a founder. All three end on the stage.

A dugout, an idea, or an invitation. Pick the one that is you.

Dugout foundersYou run a business.

Up to 30 founders with a running business, startup or dukaan. Dugouts are limited, jury-selected, and open only to members of Main Bhi Founder. First step: your invitation.

Start with your invitation →Idea foundersYou have an idea, no company yet.

Submit it before the event. Seven to ten are shortlisted. On the day the hall picks who joins you, and by night you can sign a company on stage.

See how it works →Invited foundersYou have a startup and want the floor.

No dugout. You come for a co-founder, a hire, a scheme filed, a CA slot, a story slot on stage. Members of Main Bhi Founder get their ticket.

Ask for your invitation →

Up to 30 dugouts. One of them can be yours.

Dugouts are limited and the jury picks on merit. Fifteen dugouts on each side, a jar in front of every one. To ask for one, get your invitation to Main Bhi Founder first.

What you get with a dugout

10:30
On stage

One minute under one spotlight at the Dugouts Roll Call, in front of 2,000 people. Name, badge, what you built.

All day
Your dugout

The crowd meets you, hears your story and backs you with coins.

Steps away
The paperwork

Scheme desks, CAs and lawyers. Start your Udyam, trademark or DPR on the spot.

Afternoon
Interview Room

Companies looking for vendors, dealers and pilot partners come to your dugout, and book you a ten-minute slot in the Interview Room.

19:40
The awards

The jury's picks, the Comeback Award, most coins. Trophies on stage, on camera, no speeches.

After
Your video

A professional video of your story, posted in the eight weeks after.

And after the day: when you want to raise money for your company, MBF helps you get ready — your numbers, your story, your papers. On selected plans, your pitch can go into the MBF deal room, where investors and partners see only pitches we have reviewed. Introductions are never sold.

Who sits in the dugouts

30 seats · businesses that already run, startup or dukaan

Tap a seat to see the kind of founder who sits there.

Example
Dugout 1
Tiffin

A tiffin kitchen doing 400 boxes a day

Runs from a rented kitchen in Mohali. Three cooks, two delivery riders, no website. Half the city eats from it every day.

These are examples. The real founders are picked by the jury and called to the stage at the Dugouts Roll Call, 10:30 on the day.
Get your invitation, then a dugoutSee the deadlines

Idea se Startup

Come with an idea. Leave with a company.

A market for ideas, not a pitch competition. No scores, no prize money. The hall decides who joins you, and by night the paperwork is started on stage.

18 weeks beforeSubmit your idea

One line, who it is for, what you need, a 30-second video. Your idea gets its own page. You need to be a member of Main Bhi Founder, or hold an event ticket, to submit.

2Before the dayPeople back it online

Anyone can back an idea with play coins and tag "I'd join as co-founder, customer or supplier". Backing is one input; the jury shortlists seven to ten. Selection is never for sale.

314:40 on stageThe hall picks who's in

About three minutes per idea. People raise a card or scan your idea's QR. The count shows on the main screen. Then everyone walks to your idea table.

415:20 – 18:00The idea tables

One table per idea. Your team forms here. Teams that agree walk to Professionals' Row: co-founder agreement with the lawyer, structure with the CA, name check, filing started.

519:00 on stageSigned and filed today

Three or four teams sign on stage with a CA and a lawyer beside them. One signature, one photo. A company that did not exist that morning.

Submit an ideaInvestors are never on the stage and money is never discussed there.
A founder lining up small jars on a table

Try the Backing Game

1,000 coins. Back the founders you believe in.

Every ticket gets a coin wallet at the gate; the first 100 scanned get 100 bonus coins. The leaderboard is read at 13:05, 15:20 and 17:15. Coins close at 18:00 and the jars are counted in front of the crowd. Most coins wins at the MBF Awards.

1,000play coins
1
The tiffin kitchen
400 boxes a day, Mohali · 0 coins
2
The salon chain
3 outlets, Panchkula · 0 coins
3
Agri drone service
300 acres sprayed, Fatehgarh · 0 coins
4
Hill-stay booking engine
Homestays, Himachal · 0 coins
5
The pickle brand
2,000 jars a month · 0 coins
6
Kirana billing app
150 shops paying · 0 coins

Play coins are free with your ticket. They can't be bought, sold, moved or cashed. Backing is cheering. Nobody wins money, and no founder asks the crowd for money.

Key dates

The road to the day.

Exact dates are fixed once the headliner signs. The order stays the same.

Now

Invitations open.

Ask for your invitation now. We talk to every founder within seven days. Members get their ticket and hear every update first.

8 weeks before

Dugout requests and the idea campaign open.

Members with a running business ask for a dugout. Idea founders put their idea on its own page. Both across the tricity, Punjab, Haryana and Himachal.

4 weeks before

Headliner and date announced.

Tickets go out to members first. The title sponsor is announced the same day.

10 days before

Ideas shortlisted.

Seven to ten ideas go through. Online backers who tagged "I'd join" are invited to be in the hall.

1 week before

The dugout founders are announced.

One by one, on our channels.

The day

Gates 10:00, lights 22:00.

Dugouts Roll Call at 10:30. Coins close at 18:00. Companies signed at 19:00. Awards at 19:40. The region's acts, then the headliner.

8 weeks after

The videos go out.

Pro clips of every founder and every act, and creators posting for two months.

For creators and influencers

India's first platform for creators to back founders.

Make videos about the founders here. Your best videos get pushed by MBF, the founder and our partners, and you earn credits in the founder's company. Creators never pay. On the day you get the Creator Zone: podcast pods, seats, charging, and a message ten minutes before every big moment.

Way 1 · With your founderYou come with your founder

If your founder has a dugout, you sit in it with them and film the big moments up close. If not, you still come in with them.

Way 2 · Invited by MBFWe pick you, you get a kiosk

Free entry, your own kiosk with a ring light and backdrop, and a helper who brings founders to you. Ten invited creators host the MBF Awards on stage.

Creator competition · on the day

Best performance wins. In every category.

Every creator on the floor is in the running. Winners are named on awards night, get extra credits, and appear in the event film.

01Best founder reelThe reel that tells a dugout founder’s story best.
02Best event coverage3 stories and 1 reel that make people wish they had come.
03Backing Game top 3The three most-watched Backing Game clips of the night.
04Best video of the eventOne creator. Their clip goes into the event film.
See how it works for creatorsCompetition rules
Main stage · 110 min for the regionSix acts

For artists from Chandigarh, Delhi, Punjab, Haryana and Himachal

Six acts on the main stage. One goes home as Best Regional Artist.

The region's own artists get 110 minutes of the main stage. Three in the day: a comedian at 11:10, a folk act at 13:10, and theatre or a skit at 15:55. Three music acts back to back at 20:10, opening for the headliner. Upload a 60-second video, get your own artist page on MBF, play the live round at the monthly forum, and get two pro clips of your set. The best of the six is named Best Regional Artist and gets the award from the headliner, on the main stage.

TricityDelhiPunjabHaryanaHimachal
Upload your videoHow auditions work

For sponsors, partners and corporates

Put your brand where the crowd is looking.

No banners and no sponsor speeches. Your brand goes on the things people hold, sit on, win and film — and into every video that runs for eight weeks after.

PRESENTED BY YOU
City title“Presented by you” on every gate, the stage backdrop, every ticket and every video. One brand only.
YOUR BRAND
The coinThe play money every visitor carries all day becomes “[YourBrand] Coins” — on every wallet, jar and the leaderboard.
YOUR BRAND
TrophiesEvery trophy of the awards night carries your name. Your leadership hands over the top honours on camera.
YOUR BRAND
ChairsYour brand on the back of every chair in the hall and every dugout — in every seated photo and crowd shot.
YOUR BRAND
Plates & cups1,200-plus meals on Food Street, each one a picture with your name in someone’s hand.
YOUR BRAND
Wingman sashesThe crew that walks shy founders to every desk wears your colours — the most human clips of the day.
One brand per category — one bank, one telecom, one D2C brand.A report with real numbers seven days after. Anything we miss, we make up in extra content.
See the sponsor menuTalk to us
YOUR COMPANY
Scout boothYour booth in the Talent Bazaar, and pre-booked ten-minute slots in the quiet Interview Room. Send five briefs; we screen the pool before the day.
Jobs WallYour five open roles, up on the wall all day, in front of up to 30 dugout founders and 2,000 people in the hall.
The call-outMake an offer in the Interview Room, and the MC calls your company and the role out from the main stage.
Builder CardEvery candidate carries one page of what they’ve built, not a CV. Founders open to a job tell us themselves — you see that list first.
10 interviews, 3 shortlists, 1 stage call-out — or your next booth is free.Hires, MSME vendors, dealers and pilot partners from one floor. Split the invoice across your teams.
See scout boothsTalk to us

By invitation

Your invitation is your way in.

Main Bhi Founder Chandigarh is for members of Main Bhi Founder and the people they bring. Ask for your invitation, we talk within seven days, and if it fits you join Main Bhi Founder and your ticket comes with it. Creators and artists never pay.

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1

Ask for your invitation

Three quick screens: who you are, your city, what you build. About two minutes.

2

We talk within seven days

A call to understand what you build. If it fits, you join Main Bhi Founder and your Chandigarh ticket comes with it. Founders who want a dugout hear how the jury works.

3

Your ticket arrives

The day the headliner and date are announced, your ticket comes to your WhatsApp.

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