We got tired of going out and coming home with nothing but a bar tab. Great venues. Great energy. Zero connection. deJen is the layer that fixes that — the social glue between the people already in the same room.
DeSI made.
Proudly built in Bangalore, India
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01 —What we believe
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Going out should mean something.
You left the house. You got dressed. You paid for overpriced drinks. And you went home having spoken to exactly zero new people. That's not a night out. That's an expensive version of staying home. deJen is the thing that makes the night actually happen — the icebreaker, the game, the moment you talk about later.
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The best connections happen in person.
Not on dating apps. Not in LinkedIn DMs. Not in WhatsApp groups you never mute. They happen at 10pm on a Tuesday when someone beats you at Tap Battle and you both start laughing. deJen doesn't create those moments — it just makes sure they don't get lost when you walk out the door.
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Great venues deserve a crowd that comes back.
Bangalore has incredible spaces. Bars, cafés, studios, markets — places that deserve regulars, not just footfall. deJen is the intelligence layer that turns a one-time visit into a habit. Not by spamming people. By giving them a reason — a card, an XP milestone, a return offer — that feels earned.
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India should build this for India.
DeSI made. That's not just a slogan — it's a design constraint. Dejen is built for how Indians go out. The KJ night in Indiranagar. The book club in Koramangala. The chaos of a college fest in Mysore. Not a Western product force-fitted onto an Indian context. Something built here, for here, from the beginning.
02 — The founder
Built by one person. For everyone.
Twenty years of events and marketing. Hundreds of nights out. Thousands of people in rooms together — and still, somehow, going home as strangers.
deJen didn't start as a product. It started as a question: why is it so hard to actually connect with the people around you when you go out? Everything else followed from that.
20+
Years in events
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Builder
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Nights out that needed this
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I've spent two decades putting people in rooms together. I got really good at filling venues. What I couldn't figure out was how to make the people in those venues actually talk to each other. deJen is my answer to that. Twenty years late, but here we are.
The person who built thisFounder, deJen · Detour Services India Pvt Ltd Bangalore, 2026
03 — What we are not
Let's be clear about this.
We get compared to a lot of things. Most of them are wrong. Here's what deJen is not — so you know exactly what it is.
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Not a social media appYour connections on deJen were made in a room, not in an algorithm. We don't have a feed. We don't have followers. We have people who played Tap Battle together on a Tuesday.
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Not a ticketing platformWe can help with event check-in. But the point isn't the ticket — it's what happens after you walk through the door.
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Not a show runnerThe KJ runs the show. The quiz master asks the questions. The host does what they've always done. deJen is the layer that runs alongside — never in front.
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Not a loyalty points schemeXP isn't points you redeem for a free coffee. It's a record of everywhere you've been, everything you've played, every night you showed up. It means something.
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Not another Western product copy-pasted to IndiaDeSI made means built for how we go out. KJ nights, college fests, book clubs, chai spots, rooftop markets — this was designed for those rooms specifically.
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04 — The map
Bangalore first. Your city next.
We're starting where we know the rooms. Proving it works. Then taking it everywhere. The list below is not a promise — it's a plan. And we are very serious about it.
Live now
Banga lore.
Where it started. Indiranagar, Koramangala, MG Road — the first rooms, the first nights, the first cards.
↳ 2 venues live · May 2026
Coming next
Mysore.
The city that knows how to have a good time quietly. We're about to make it louder.
↳ Want deJen here? Tell us.
Coming next
Chennai.
Filter coffee, live music, beach sunsets, and a nightlife scene that deserves a proper crowd layer.
↳ Want deJen here? Tell us.
Coming next
Kochi.
Art galleries, waterfront bars, the most interesting crowd in the south. deJen was made for rooms like this.
↳ Want deJen here? Tell us.
Coming next
Hyder abad.
A city that eats well, parties hard, and has the infrastructure to make deJen scale fast. We see you.
↳ Want deJen here? Tell us.
The big one
Mumbai.
The city that never sleeps and always has somewhere to be. When deJen lands here, it lands properly.
↳ Want deJen here? Tell us.
Could be you
Your city?
Not on the list? Tell us where you are and why deJen belongs there. If you're right, we'll come.
Mysore. Chennai. Kochi. Hyderabad. Mumbai.You're next. If you run a venue, host nights, or just really want deJen where you live — reach out. We're a team of one and we read everything.