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A room full of AI founders is fun. Shipping something inside that room is better. 🚀 At AIBoomi StartUp Weekend 48hrs Buildathon, we went from conversations around AI, product and distribution → actually building ULIS AI. ULIS AI started with a simple question: What can we build with AI that isn’t just another wrapper or demo — but solves a real problem? The hack pushed us to think beyond the model: → Is the problem painful enough? → Can we explain the product in one sentence? → Can we get something working instead of endlessly polishing it? → And most importantly — would somebody actually use it? That combination of founders + builders + time pressure + shipping is exactly why I enjoy hackathons. You enter with an idea. A few hours later, there’s a repo, a product, product launch video, plenty of broken things 😂, new learnings — and something real that didn’t exist before. We built ULIS AI and open-sourced the work here: Product Code 🔗 : https://lnkd.in/e7m_TYKw Give a ⭐️ if you like it ! Product Video : https://lnkd.in/e6U-XsJq Big thanks to AIBoomi & HyperVerge and everyone we met, brainstormed and built alongside. With AI Credits to build from OpenAI & FastRouter.ai ‼️ Less “AI will change everything.” More git push origin main ⚡ #AIBoomi #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #GenerativeAI #AIAgents #Startups #Hackathon #BuildInPublic #OpenSource #AIEngineering #Bengaluru #IndianStartups

Every AI pitch deck shows the same chart: headcount flat, revenue up, margins expanding. An Indian startup raised $48M with the opposite chart. Attentive.ai sells blueprint takeoff software to contractors. AI reads the drawings. A human checks every output before it ships. That labor line never goes away. This might seem like a narrative violation but for Attentive, human-in-the-loop is simply a sound business decision, not a blind principle - and most founders never run the numbers for their own market. I wrote for #AIBoomi about what Attentive got right and why their bet against full AI automation seems to be taking off Link to the full post: https://lnkd.in/gZ7hK3WP

The humans you see in this frame are my people. 💙 The kind who will debate AI strategy in the afternoon, dissect a P&L over breakfast, give you brutally honest feedback by evening, lose spectacularly at Mafia by night, and still find time to prank each other before bed. The kind who remind you that culture isn't built in townhalls. It's built in conversations, disagreements, laughter, trust, and the small moments that never make it to the agenda. Maybe that's why I ended up writing a 2,000+ word blog about our recent staff offsite. Truth be told, this is my first long-form piece for AIBoomi in more than seven years. So if I finally sat down to write one, there was probably something worth saying. It's not just a blog. It's a reflection on distance, honesty, AI, and the tiny 0.10% improvements that quietly shape a team, and eventually, a community. If you've got a few minutes, I'd love for you to read it. ✍ https://lnkd.in/grSPZ4kq 💌 Ashiya Ghosh | Avinash Raghava | Georgie Paul | Jay Ingle | Keerthi Madhu | Keshav Ottoor | Pragna Chandra Arikathota | Sehar Dabur | Sradha Suresh

Where is AI creating real value in healthcare today and where is the hype still ahead of reality? Healthcare AI is moving fast, but the most interesting conversations aren't happening on stage. They're happening between founders building, operators deploying, clinicians adopting, and investors backing the next generation of companies. We're bringing together a curated group of healthcare founders, investors, operators, and ecosystem leaders for an evening of honest conversations around what's actually working in Healthcare × AI. Some of the discussions we'll dive into: → AI transforming diagnostics and clinical decision-making → AI across hospital operations and clinician workflows → Indian founders building for the US healthcare market → Consumer health and the rise of prevention-first products → The next frontier: peptides, drug discovery, and clinical trials We're excited to have Shashank ND (Founder, Practo & Cent) joining us as our keynote speaker to share his perspectives on building enduring healthcare companies in the AI era. Details: Bengaluru | 12 August | 6:30 PM onwards Register here: https://luma.com/dpsb9rev Hosted by PeerCapital, in partnership with The Healthtech Collective, AIBoomi, Mykare.ai, and The VC Fellowship. If you're building at the intersection of healthcare and AI, we'd love to have you join us. #HealthcareAI #HealthTech #AI #Founders #HealthcareInnovation #DigitalHealth #Bengaluru #IndianStartups #VentureCapital

We started another iteration of our product's interface this week. Not because the last one failed, but because that is how we build: ship, watch how people actually use it, learn, refine, repeat. This round taught us something I did not expect. The feedback split cleanly in two. Our technically fluent users told us we were too elaborate: give me the controls, show me what is under the hood, let me steer. Our non-technical users wanted the opposite: less on screen, just handle it. Same product, opposite verdicts. It would be easy to call one group right and the other wrong. They are both right, for themselves. And sitting with that is where I saw part of our real job. Not just building the thing, but explaining it to two very different audiences without insulting either. You cannot dumb it down for the expert, and you cannot bury the newcomer. The honest reason it is hard: many of these business problems are engineering problems wearing a business suit. The line between what a brand wants and what the system has to do to deliver it is thinner than it looks. Explaining our product well means being fluent on both sides of that line, and knowing which side the person in front of you is standing on. So we stopped designing for one imagined user. We are layering instead: a simple answer first, the depth one click away. A small pause before an agent spends money or publishes in a brand's name, because that is not friction, it is respect. And the plan always visible, so people can step in. I was in a conversation recently with a few founders, including one building a startup far more mature than ours, organized by #AIboomi and we landed on the same place from different angles: there is no such thing as a fully autonomous agent. Not yet, and maybe not by design. It was quietly reassuring to hear people much further along say out loud what we keep running into ourselves. We work on autonomous agents every day, and the more we build, the more sure I am that the human in the loop is not a limitation to remove. It is the point. The craft is not in taking people out. It is in knowing exactly when to ask, and how much to show. We have not arrived. I am not sure we ever fully will, and I have made peace with that. Curious how others have handled this: where did you land on ease versus control, and on speaking to technical and non-technical users at once? Prasann Garg Arjun Ranganath Sridhar Pabbisetty Sreedhar Bhagavatheeswaran Jasmine Wadhwani Madhur K. Priyadharshini Krishnan Deepak Chauhan

"If all of your advisers are working for you, then you've not got enough advisers." Dhruv Joshi, to 40+ Indian healthtech founders on AIBoomi Webinar. Cloudphysician sells into US hospitals from Bangalore. 150+ hospitals live. Mortality down as much as 52%. Then Mayo and Cleveland said yes. 🙌 Numbers from the session 👇 👉 The whole US market: 200-250 health systems. 👉 Nursing home ACV $30K-$50K. A system, $300K-$500K. 👉 Same implementation effort either way. 👉 Cold calling that list: failed. Advisors: worked. You get one door. The $40K deal that closes fast, or the $400K one that takes 9 months? Which one? Tell me below. 🤝 Thanks Dhruv Joshi, Vivek Khandelwal, Vengat Krishnaraj, Avinash Raghava. It was great hosting you all alongside 40 other health-tech founders. Also check out the special announcement at the bottom of blog. 🫡 PS: 7 min read in comment section.

12 voices to follow who are powering the startup ecosystem 💡 From founder networks and investment communities to regional hubs and global tech gatherings, these people are creating the connections founders rely on. 1. Alexander Theuma — co-founder of Shift AI, convening SaaS and AI-native founders through its conferences and decade-old community. 2. Amardeep Parmar — co-founder of Bae HQ, connecting high-growth Asian-heritage founders and investors in the UK through media, events, and community. 3. Elizabeth Yin — co-founder & GP of Hustle Fund, helping grow Angel Squad, a global community where current and aspiring angel investors learn and invest alongside one another. 4. Bela Wiertz — founder of {Tech: Europe}, uniting Europe's technical founders and builders through fast-growing AI hackathons and community. 5. Lisa-Marie Fassl — co-founder of Female Founders, building greater access to community, support, and capital for women entrepreneurs across Europe. 6. Nicolai Strøm-Olsen — co-founder & CEO of Startup Migrants, developing programs and networks that support migrant entrepreneurs in building businesses across Europe. 7. Lolita Taub — GP of Ganas Ventures, investing in community-driven startups and building resources, connections, and fundraising access for underestimated founders. 8. Anais Cisneros — Founder of Amela, a global private network helping women entrepreneurs across Latin America and Europe access knowledge, connections, and founder support. 9. Emeka Ajene — founder of Afridigest and GAIA — Global Africa Investment Alliance, connecting Africa's builders, diaspora, and global institutions around capital, expertise, and conviction. 10. Abdelhameed Sharara — co-founder of RiseUp, the summit and community convening MENA's entrepreneurs, mentors, and investors. 11. Avinash Raghava — founding volunteer & CEO of AIBoomi (formerly SaaSBoomi), India's largest pay-it-forward community accelerating SaaS & AI growth. 12. Faye Wongso — founder & chairperson of KUMPUL Impact, Indonesia's grassroots community and programs for local founders. Save this list and follow the people building the communities founders rely on. More startup stories on The Top Voices, link in comments.

Well... before this turns into unnecessary LinkedIn gossip... I'm DONE. ☑️ Done believing the US market can be understood from a distance. That's one of the reasons I keep saying yes to AIBoomi Caravan. Over the last four years, we've taken hundreds of India-origin founders into the heart of the US ecosystem. Every edition has reminded me that markets aren't just researched. They're experienced. This year, we're helping more founders experience those lessons firsthand. You'll still meet founders, operators, investors, and builders who've done it before. But we're putting far less emphasis on listening and far more emphasis on doing. Expect workshop-style sessions instead of presentations. Bring your GTM strategy, pricing, positioning, product roadmap, fundraising narrative, or expansion plans. Don't just discuss them. Put them to the test alongside people who've built, broken, and rebuilt companies in the US market. If you're serious about building for the US, don't settle for understanding it from a distance. Spend a week immersed in the market, the conversations, and the people you're building for. Seats are filling up fast. First movers always have the advantage. 💜 https://lnkd.in/gcQGS_ve #Caravan26 #Software #Startups #AI AIBoomi Avinash Raghava Keerthi Madhu

At the age of 30, rheumatoid arthritis left Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy bedridden, with his fingers permanently twisted. His dream of becoming an obstetrician was over. As fate would have it, that should have been the end of the story. Instead, Dr. V trained those same fingers to operate on eyes. At 58, he mortgaged his home and opened an 11-bed hospital in Southern India that became Aravind Eye Care, an Indian model that would go on to influence healthcare around the world. I remember this story because it carries a truth every Indian healthcare startup founder eventually realises: The problem can be local. The ambition does not have to be. India has founders who understand healthcare pain up close. But building for the world requires another kind of proximity. To buyers, clinicians, regulation, trust, and the rooms where a market stops being theory. That is why we at AIBoomi built Vertical Velocity. 10 AI-first healthcare startups. 1 immersive, closed-door cohort. 2 weeks inside the US healthcare market. A chance to experience a one-of-a-kind global market, test assumptions, build relationships, and return with sharper conviction and a global lens. Cohort 1 showed us what that proximity can unlock: 3× revenue growth, $1.1M ARR, US funding, and, perhaps most importantly, a group of founders who still build together. If you're building AI-first for US healthcare, or know a founder who should be in this room, this is the final call. ✙ https://lnkd.in/gtQV6yKK Applications close soon. #VV26 #Healthcare #AI

Building an AI-native startup? Skip the pitch deck. (Link in comments) Demo your working product live in front of fellow AI founders, get honest feedback on your biggest challenge, and leave with actionable insights—not applause.  6 founders. 6 live demos. 1 room.  No slides. No judges. Just builders helping builders. Who should register? AI-native pre-seed/seed founders Live product with real users Founders only Gurugram (exact venue shared on confirmation) Sunday, 9 August 2026 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM IST Free to participate If you’re ready for candid feedback that helps you build faster, register now! AIBoomi | Avinash Raghava | Arjun Arora | Sehar Dabur | Vishal Gupta | Tushar Tuteja | Neha Gupta (NG) 💛

We're excited to welcome Shashank ND, Founder of Practo and Cent, as the key speaker at our upcoming Healthcare x AI gathering on Aug 12th in Bengaluru. Few founders in India have been at the forefront of building healthcare technology at scale across both India and the US. From scaling Practo as one of India's earliest health-tech companies to now building Cent at the intersection of preventive care and consumer health, Shashank brings a perspective that's especially relevant for founders taking a long-term view in healthcare. If you're building in Healthcare x AI - whether it's AI diagnostics, clinician workflows, consumer health, or emerging segments in healthcare - we'd love to have you join the conversation. Register here: https://luma.com/dpsb9rev In association with AIBoomi, The Healthtech Collective, Mykare.ai and The VC Fellowship Ankur | Karthik | Rohit | Joslin | Vamsi | Srinivas

#125: #AIRadarDaily — Confido Health There is a quiet, exhausting reality behind every medical specialty clinic. Healt hcare was simply never designed for scale: talent is scarce, clinical burnout is at an all-time high, and administrative costs compound with every patient visit. Front-desk teams spend their days trapped in endless phone queues — rescheduling appointments, verifying insurance benefits, chasing prescription refills, and managing post-surgery instructions. We ask clinicians to deliver deeply empathetic care, yet we force the practices around them to operate as overloaded human switchboards. The result is a broken access layer where patients wait on hold and staff are completely overwhelmed. It takes builders with deep operational empathy and the technical rigor to turn complex patient operations into scalable software to solve this at the root. That is exactly what Chetan Reddy and Vichar Shroff did when they founded Confido Health in 2022. With Confido, the team is building a deeply intelligent, autonomous operations layer that works across the front, mid, and back office for US healthcare providers and surgical clinics. Confido deploys HIPAA-compliant voice and workflow AI agents that integrate directly into existing EHR and practice management systems without requiring a rip-and-replace. These agents answer every call on the first ring and autonomously complete the underlying workflow — whether that is booking appointments, running prior authorizations, checking eligibility, or handling pre- and post-surgery patient instructions. The true moat here is end-to-end execution across high-volume specialties. Confido doesn't just route messages; it writes back directly to the chart and turns messy payer interactions into structured data that reveals exactly where revenue is leaking. By delivering three times more patient touchpoints while cutting inbound call volume by 60%, the platform saves hospital staff at least two hours every single day. It shifts the paradigm from overwhelmed manual triage to effortless, 24/7 patient-first care. The market? High-volume specialty clinics — from surgical centers and nephrology to ophthalmology and multi-location dental groups across the US — that desperately need to scale their patient access without linearly scaling their headcount. Seeing homegrown founders head-down, quietly architecting the heavy-duty infrastructure that makes US healthcare accessible and human again, is profoundly inspiring. They are giving clinics their momentum and their capacity to care back. Every founder dreams of reaching orbit. Sometimes, all it takes is the right launch window. If you are building an AI-first healthcare startup and looking to experience the US market firsthand, applications for AIBoomi Vertical Velocity Cohort 2 are now live: https://lnkd.in/gnBbkA7g Let's celebrate the builders. w/ Jay Ingle #HealthTech #VoiceAI #ProductNation

In the last 18 months I flew to SaaStr in SF, SaaSOpen in NYC, and SaaSBoomi in India. Combined, with flights and hotels and tickets and the time I lost, it cost us roughly $10k. Here's the harsh truth about conferences at that spend, and the one event that changed how we do all of this. The truth is I wish we'd spent nothing. Not because I didn't learn anything. Because the ROI was invisible and the time-suck was enormous. Here's what a big SaaS conference is actually like when you're a bootstrapped founder from India: - Everyone is raising - Everyone is between rounds - Everyone wants to know your ARR before they'll finish the sentence - The people you want to meet are behind a sponsor tier you can't afford - Half the hallway conversations are two vendors pitching each other - You go home with a hundred business cards and zero pipeline Meanwhile, we spent ₹1 lakh (about $1k) sponsoring one small event in India. We made ₹4.24 lakh ($4.4k) back. I expected zero. Everyone told me Indians don't buy software. One attendee bought a seat, then bought a second seat for his wife's LinkedIn account. She doesn't have a LinkedIn account. He's going to make one, warm it up, and run campaigns on it. Because the deal was good. Here's the difference, and it's the whole thing: At the big conference, I was one of 400 vendors competing for a stranger's attention. At the small one, I was the only person in the room who did what we do. So I'm not going to big conference this year (well except Clay's Sculpt in SF in Oct but only cause I want to catch up with friends from the industry) We're doing small events where we control the list, in a market where we have an unfair advantage and nobody is bothering to compete. (The bonus is that we'll be able to make some content and push it on Instagram and YouTube) You don't win by showing up where everyone is looking. You win by being the only option in a room where somebody is actually deciding.

He sold his own car to pay his employees' salaries. Not "the company hit a rough patch." Not "we had layoffs." He personally sold his car so his team's paychecks didn't bounce. Meet Suresh Sambandam. You've probably never heard of him. But his product now runs workflows for Airbus, Pepsi, Michelin, and Danone. Here's the part nobody tells you about "overnight success": → Dropped out of college at 19 to help his family → Started a tiny computer training center with 4 machines, just for fun → Worked at HP and Selectica, then walked away from a safe corporate path when his unit got acquired by Accenture → In 2003, started OrangeScape — a self-funded, no-code platform, years before "low-code" was even a buzzword The idea was right. The market wasn't ready. For a decade. He kept telling people "you need this." They didn't get it. He was too early — by his own admission. Then came the breaking point: selling his car just to keep the team paid. Most founders would've called it quits there. He didn't. In 2012 — nine years after he started — he built a new product on everything he'd learned: Kissflow. Simple workflow automation. No code needed. The philosophy? "Keep it simple, stupid." This time, the market was ready. Today Kissflow serves 10,000+ customers in 100+ countries. Suresh is still the founder and CEO — no big exit, no cash-out. Just still building. He also co-founded SaaSBOOMi, a community that exists purely to help other Indian SaaS founders learn the real, unfiltered version of what it takes — not the polished pitch-deck version. The takeaway? Sometimes your first idea is right but your timing is wrong. Sometimes it takes 15 years, not 15 months. And sometimes you have to sell the car before the world catches up to you. If you're in your "nobody gets it yet" phase right now — this is your sign to keep going. #Entrepreneurship #StartupStory #Bootstrapped #SaaS #FounderJourney #IndianStartups

🚀 Just wrapped up an unforgettable 24 hours at AIBoomi Startup Weekend, Bengaluru! Took part with my teammates Kaushal Patil Govind Panchal Piyush Kolte diving headfirst into a full day (and night) of non-stop building, brainstorming, and problem-solving — alongside another team of equally driven builders, plus mentors from across the startup ecosystem. 24 hours is a brutal but beautiful constraint — it strips away overthinking and forces you to focus purely on execution. There's something special about that kind of pressure: ideas turning into code, code turning into something real, all within a single sunrise-to-sunrise sprint. Beyond the build itself, what stood out the most was the people — the energy in the room, the late-night conversations, the shared chaos of debugging at 3 AM, and the camaraderie between both teams TestaraQA ✨ & Code Crunch 🧑🏻‍💻 pushing each other to think sharper and move faster. Walking away from this with new connections, sharper skills, and a lot of respect for everyone who showed up to build, fail, learn, and ship — all in one day. Grateful to AIBoomi for putting this together, and excited to carry this momentum forward with TestaraQA ✨ 🙌 #StartupWeekend #AIBoomi #Bengaluru #Hackathon #BuildInPublic #Startups #TestaraQA #Founders #SaaSboomi

A year ago, I walked into Caravan expecting to learn. I walked out realizing that the best learning wasn’t on the stage. It happened over coffee. Between sessions. During dinner. And in conversations with founders who were generous enough to share what was working—and what wasn’t. If you’re building a company, don’t attend Caravan just to listen to speakers. Go to ask questions. Go to challenge your assumptions. Go to meet people you’d never have met otherwise. AIBoomi | MERZE www.merze.ai #Caravan2026 #Founders #Startups #Entrepreneurship #AIBoomi #BuildingInPublic

Do you consider yourself a product marketer, par excellence? can you bring a product to Life in front of customers and clients alike? Think you are the best thing that is yet to happen to Product marketing? I am looking for you. Come, prove your claim 💪! AIBoomi PeopleStrong #productmarketing

Well... I should probably clarify this before you jump to conclusions. I'm DONE. ☑️ Done with founder events where you spend more time listening than building. That's why we've reimagined AIBoomi Caravan's fifth edition from the ground up. Over the last four years, we've taken hundreds of India-origin founders into the heart of the US ecosystem. Every edition has taught us something about what founders actually need when they're building for a global market. This year, we're acting on those lessons. You'll still meet founders, operators, investors, and builders who've done it before. But we're putting far less emphasis on listening and far more emphasis on doing. Expect workshop-style sessions instead of presentations. Bring your GTM strategy, pricing, positioning, product roadmap, fundraising narrative, or expansion plans. Don't just discuss them. Put them to the test alongside people who've built, broken, and rebuilt companies in the US market. If you're looking for another conference, Caravan probably isn't it. But if you're looking for a week that changes how you think about building globally, I'd love to see you there. Early-bird pricing expires today at 23:59 hrs. 💜 https://lnkd.in/g2hiptmi #Caravan26 #Software #Startups #AI

Grateful and a little stunned! We took first place at AIBoomi Startup Weekend Hackathon🏆 Before anything else: thank you to the AIBoomi team. Running a weekend where a rough notebook sketch can become a working product in 48 hours is not easy, and you made it feel effortless. Thank you to the judges for the hard questions that made our thinking better, and to everyone we met between sessions. The energy, the mentorship, and the sheer density of talented people in one room made it something special. What we built: a Mixed Reality fire-drill simulator on the Meta Quest 3. Fire drills today are theater and produce zero data, so we made a drill you run inside your own building, in mixed reality, that measures how ready you actually are. And to my teammate Raghav Sharma! thank you for the all-nighter and the good calls under pressure. 🙌 Excited to keep building this. #AIBoomi #StartupWeekend #MixedReality #XR #FireSafety #Hackathon