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Some AI products begin with a model, while others begin with a question that needs an answer from the real world. Enter: SerpApi. 😎 SerpApi helps developers turn live search data into something AI products can actually use. Fresh information, structured cleanly, ready to build with. That makes them a natural fit for AIBoomi Startup Weekend | Kochi. Because in a 20-hour build sprint, the right tools don’t just save time. They expand what’s possible. So if you’re building an AI product that needs to search, discover, understand, or act on what’s happening in the world, this room is for you. A big 💚 to SerpApi for helping builders spend less time wrestling with access and more time building what comes next. #Kochi #Startup #AI

What happens when you step out of your comfort zone and give yourself 20 hours to build something from scratch? 🚀 I’m excited to find out! I’m happy to share that I’ve been selected for AIBoomi Startup Weekend | Kochi, a 20-hour build sprint focused on turning ideas into a working Minimum Viable Product (MVP). As an undergraduate, I’ve come to believe that learning goes far beyond classrooms, textbooks, and exams. Sometimes, the best way to grow is to step into unfamiliar spaces, meet people with different perspectives, and challenge yourself to create something new. That’s what makes this opportunity special to me. The chance to learn from mentors, collaborate with fellow innovators, and experience the startup ecosystem firsthand is something I’m genuinely looking forward to. I’m still exploring, learning, and figuring out where my interests can take me. But I know I want to keep putting myself in situations where I can learn by doing, embrace challenges, and turn ideas into reality. For me, this is more than just an event. It’s another step towards becoming someone who doesn’t just learn about ideas but actually tries to build them. Here’s to new experiences, uncomfortable challenges, and the lessons that come with them! 💡 #AIBoomi #StartupWeekend #Kochi #Entrepreneurship #LearningByDoing #Innovation #StudentJourney

I’m on LinkedIn almost every day. I just rarely know what to do with the “Start a post” button. My friends and colleagues keeps nudging me. They feel AIBoomi should have a voice from me too. Fair enough. But unless I’m sharing something useful for the community and our ecosystem, I struggle to hit publish. Part of me thinks nobody is waiting for my opinion. Another part wonders if all this overthinking means I’m taking myself too seriously. :) I’m happy reading about a founder’s breakthrough or someone getting a promotion. Or an interesting piece which is less AI slop and more human. However, I’m less enthusiastic about every holiday becoming five leadership lessons. Sometimes a holiday can just be a holiday. But I suspect I’ve let my dislike of some content become an excuse to say very little myself. There are things I’d like to talk about. Community building has given me plenty to think about. Some of it I’m still figuring out. Perhaps that’s enough to start with. Anyone else here every day but rarely posting? How did you get comfortable sharing a thought without feeling it had to become advice?

“Don’t boil the ocean.” Good advice when your ambitions could easily exceed your team’s capacity. But what happens when that capacity changes, and the advice doesn’t? A playbook tells you what worked within yesterday’s limits. It doesn’t tell you whether those limits still exist. Playbooks are useful when the conditions behind them hold long enough for someone else to repeat the approach. With AI, what a team can build, how work gets done, and what customers can expect are changing continuously. An approach can become outdated before we’ve finished implementing it. I worry we’re using AI to remove our constraints while still letting those constraints set our ambition. We build the same product faster. Run the same company more efficiently. Then ask how to defend it. “Data is the moat.” “Distribution is the moat.” Both can matter. But these are hypotheses to test in our own businesses, not answers that spare us the work of thinking. Are we protecting the company we already know how to build, without exploring what it could now become? At FlytBase, AI has made us reconsider those boundaries. We’re attempting things we wouldn’t have considered possible a few years ago. Our ambition has expanded, and we’re changing the organization to pursue it. Increasingly, I think of FlytBase as an AI lab for building a company. We’re experimenting with who can build, how teams work, how we serve customers, and how quickly learning turns into the next experiment. We’re still figuring this out. We have to keep testing which constraints are real, which have changed, and which we’ve simply inherited. Other teams are testing things we haven’t even thought to question. Seeing one of those experiments can change your understanding of what your own company could become. You try it, adapt it, and share what you discover. Someone else takes it further. That’s what I’m looking forward to at AIBoomi Bootcamp in Lonavala on October 30–31. I’ll share how our ambition and organization are changing at FlytBase, including what we’re still figuring out. I’m just as interested in what other founders are attempting. I’m not going to collect another playbook. I want to find out which of our “sensible limits” someone else has already outgrown. Join us here: https://lnkd.in/dmYxWFiR See you around! Avinash Raghava, Sehar Dabur, Dhiraj Dhule, Achal Negi, Sharvashish Das

Kerala's founders and builders: here's your chance to go from idea to a working AI MVP in one weekend. Kerala Startup Mission is partnering with AIBoomi to bring AIBoomi Startup Weekend to Kochi on Oct 23-24. It's a 20-hour overnight buildathon where you build from scratch, get feedback from founders and operators on the floor, and pitch to a jury of angels and VCs. What's up for grabs: * $17,500 OpenAI API credit pool for the top 3 teams * Complimentary passes to AIBoomi's flagship event in Bengaluru (Mar 2027) for the top 3 teams * Top 3 teams featured on Neysa's AI podcast * 4 weeks of mentor office hours for the top 5 teams * $100 OpenAI API credits + Neysa infra credits for every participant Across 4 editions in Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Pune, over 500 builders have shipped on the floor, with an average submission rate of about 80%. Free to participate. Solo or in teams of 2. Curated entry. Apply here: https://lnkd.in/gbtvwv75 Join WhatsApp StartUpAlerts - https://bit.ly/SUAChannel Check out our other groups https://bit.ly/4ffCakr #StartupIndia #FundingAlert #IndianStartups #IndianEntrepreneurs #startupnews #StartUpAlerts #StartUpAlerts1 #Innovation #Startups #Entrepreneurship ​​#Startupfunding #startupgrants #startupincubation #pitchdeck #StartupAcceleratorProgram #Startupbootcamp #Startupworkshop #startupeventsIndia #Foundermasterclass #AIBoomi #StartupWeekend #KeralaStartupMission #Kochi #AI #Buildathon

AI has made building software dramatically easier. Building a successful software company is a different challenge altogether. From building Ridlr, which was later acquired by Ola, to building SPRY today, Ive seen how much of the real work happens beyond the product. Customer adoption, distribution, and building a sustainable business matter just as much as the technology. Ill be joining AIBoomi Bootcamp ’26 | Pune in Lonavala on October 30–31, speaking about how software organizations need to evolve in an AI-first world. What I like about the format is that it brings together founders who are actually building through this shift. Two days of candid conversations around product, GTM, defensibility, and whats working on the ground. If youre building an AI-native company or transitioning from SaaS to AI, Id encourage you to join us: https://lnkd.in/dwzs78se Looking forward to meeting fellow founders there.

A few months ago, I ran 10 km through the forests of Durshet in pouring rain. Finished in around under 60 minutes. My fastest timing yet! I came back completely drenched, ridiculously happy, and thinking about something. When you're running, you know how you're doing. Your watch tells you the pace, your legs tell you how much you've got left, and the finish line is never a mystery. I wish building a company worked that way. :) When Sushil Mundada and I started ExtraaEdge from a one-bedroom apartment in Pune, we spent initial years bootstrapping, before raising Venture Capital and figuring things out as we went. We initially built software to help institutions manage students. It took us a while to realise that the bigger problem was helping them acquire students. That change in direction made all the difference. And it taught me how easy it is to work incredibly hard without questioning whether you're solving the right problem. I think about this a lot today. AI has made it possible to build and ship software at an incredible pace. But are we solving something customers genuinely care about? Will they keep paying for it? What happens when someone else can build the same thing in a weekend? The faster you're running, the easier it is to get blindsided by something you didn't see coming. These are questions worth stepping away from the daily grind to think about, preferably with people who aren't afraid to challenge you. That's why I'm part of AIBoomi Bootcamp '26 | Pune (Paid), happening on October 30–31 at Lonavala. Two days of candid conversations, practical workshops, and founders helping each other think through product, GTM, defensibility, and what could kill their companies in the next 18 months. If my own journey has taught me anything, it's that a little clarity at the right time can save you an awful lot of running in the wrong direction. We're down to the last few slots. If you're an AI-native or SaaS-to-AI founder doing roughly $200K–$2M in ARR, I'd love for you to join us. 🟣 https://lnkd.in/gCQ_sbQE See you in Lonavala. And bring your running shoes! 🏃‍♂️

“You can just build things.” Probably my favourite takeaway from OpenAI Founders Day in Bengaluru today. From AI agents handling complex workflows to code reviews that earn developers’ trust, one thing was clear: the distance between an idea and a shippable product is getting shorter. Quite dramatically. Working closely with the AI startup ecosystem at AIBoomi , what excites me most isn’t just what AI can do, but what founders choose to do with it and whether it solves a problem people genuinely care about. Loved meeting founders across industries, each figuring out how to make AI work for their customers and businesses. The tools are getting better. The possibilities are getting wilder. Figuring out what’s genuinely useful? Still the hard part. Founders, what’s one thing AI has made possible for you in the last year that would’ve seemed unthinkable before? Thanks to the OpenAI team for bringing everyone together! Sid Mathur, thanks a bunch for the picture! And much thanks to my AIBoomi team- Avinash Raghava, Keerthi Madhu and Sehar Dabur for helping me make it to the event. PS: Extra points to OpenAI for the Idli breakfast. A solid way to win over a Bengaluru crowd!😄

Building a startup in India? Here are 7 founder communities and platforms worth knowing about. Building a startup can be isolating. You need to find customers, hire people, understand fundraising, solve operational problems and make decisions without always having someone experienced to consult. The right founder network can help you learn from people who have already faced similar challenges. Here are 7 places worth exploring: 1. Headstart Network Foundation For startup events, entrepreneurship programmes and connections across Indias startup ecosystem. 🔗 https://www.headstart.in/ 2. AIBoomi (formerly SaaSBoomi) For B2B SaaS and AI founders interested in peer learning, mentorship and founder communities. Membership criteria apply. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/g3ATu43C 3. eChai Ventures For open founder meetups, startup events, demo days and networking across multiple cities. 🔗 https://echai.ventures/ 4. TiE Indore For entrepreneurship programmes, mentoring, founder networking and investor-related events through local chapters. 🔗 https://tie.org/ 5. Headstart Network Foundation For eligible women founders looking for mentorship, networking and fundraising-readiness support. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gVxYhRvC 6. Startup India For government startup initiatives, ecosystem information and funding-related resources. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gGpW5x9X 7. F6S For discovering accelerators, grants, startup competitions and funding opportunities. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gJ8NwQeq One important piece of advice: don't join every community you find. Choose two or three that match your stage, industry and immediate needs. Then contribute before asking for help. Share what your'e learning. Make relevant introductions. Give honest feedback. Ask specific questions. A network becomes valuable when people know what your'e building, how you think and how you can help each other. And remember: being part of a founder community does not guarantee funding, customers or mentorship. The value depends on the relevance of the network and how you participate. At AY Ventures, we believe founders need more than a pitch deck. They need a thoughtful approach to building relationships, preparing for fundraising and communicating their business clearly. Preparing for a fundraise? Fill out our form to discuss your startup and requirements: Fill the form - https://lnkd.in/g8ikYezw #money #startups #wealth #business #india #funding

Building a startup in India? Here are 7 founder communities and platforms worth knowing about. Building a startup can be isolating. You need to find customers, hire people, understand fundraising, solve operational problems and make decisions without always having someone experienced to consult. The right founder network can help you learn from people who have already faced similar challenges. Here are 7 places worth exploring: 1. Headstart Network Foundation For startup events, entrepreneurship programmes and connections across Indias startup ecosystem. 🔗 https://www.headstart.in/ 2. AIBoomi (formerly SaaSBoomi) For B2B SaaS and AI founders interested in peer learning, mentorship and founder communities. Membership criteria apply. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/g3ATu43C 3. eChai Ventures For open founder meetups, startup events, demo days and networking across multiple cities. 🔗 https://echai.ventures/ 4. TiE Indore For entrepreneurship programmes, mentoring, founder networking and investor-related events through local chapters. 🔗 https://tie.org/ 5. Headstart Network Foundation For eligible women founders looking for mentorship, networking and fundraising-readiness support. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gVxYhRvC 6. Startup India For government startup initiatives, ecosystem information and funding-related resources. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gGpW5x9X 7. F6S For discovering accelerators, grants, startup competitions and funding opportunities. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gJ8NwQeq One important piece of advice: don't join every community you find. Choose two or three that match your stage, industry and immediate needs. Then contribute before asking for help. Share what your'e learning. Make relevant introductions. Give honest feedback. Ask specific questions. A network becomes valuable when people know what your'e building, how you think and how you can help each other. And remember: being part of a founder community does not guarantee funding, customers or mentorship. The value depends on the relevance of the network and how you participate. At AY Ventures, we believe founders need more than a pitch deck. They need a thoughtful approach to building relationships, preparing for fundraising and communicating their business clearly. Preparing for a fundraise? Fill out our form to discuss your startup and requirements: Fill the form - https://lnkd.in/g8ikYezw #money #startups #wealth #business #india #funding

AI has made building software dramatically easier. Building a successful software company is a different challenge altogether. From building Ridlr, which was later acquired by Ola, to building SPRY today, Ive seen how much of the real work happens beyond the product. Customer adoption, distribution, and building a sustainable business matter just as much as the technology. Ill be joining AIBoomi Bootcamp ’26 | Pune in Lonavala on October 30–31, speaking about how software organizations need to evolve in an AI-first world. What I like about the format is that it brings together founders who are actually building through this shift. Two days of candid conversations around product, GTM, defensibility, and whats working on the ground. If youre building an AI-native company or transitioning from SaaS to AI, Id encourage you to join us: https://lnkd.in/dwzs78se Looking forward to meeting fellow founders there.

Spending today at OpenAI Founder Day, Bengaluru. The plan is simple: sit in the technical breakouts, ask the OpenAI team the questions we’ve been arguing about internally, and compare notes with founders building in the same space. Thanks to AIBoomi for making this happen. Rooms like this are rare. If you’re here and building with voice, come find me. I’m the one wearing this badge: #OpenAIFounderDay

US GTM isn’t about doing more. It’s about being incredibly specific. 🇺🇸🚀 Check out my battle-tested insights on cracking the US market at AIBoomi If you are looking to scale across the Atlantic, the old playbook won’t work. What’s your biggest roadblock when targeting the US buyers? Let's discuss in this SGx series by #SaaSBooMi. Thanks Aastha Sharma, Mrigank Tripathi , Avinash Raghava, Pallav Nadhani, Sachin Bhatia , Vengat Krishnaraj , Abhishek Ballabh and everyone involved with SGx. #Growth

{3/3} Some of what I learned during Vertical Velocity '26 happened after sessions ended each day. Six cohort founders, Jofin and I shared an Airbnb in Palo Alto. After dinner, laptops would open again as teams in India started their day. Conversations moved from product and sales to visas, families and plans for the next quarter. Speakers kept telling us to spend time in the market we were building for. Living with the founders helped me understand the commitment behind that advice. There were customers to serve, teams back home and personal decisions to work through. At 25, on my first US trip, I was trusted to manage a week with more than 25 speakers across multiple locations. Getting everyone to sessions, handling changes and keeping things moving was a responsibility I was grateful to take on. Thank you, Avinash and Keerthi, for trusting me with it, and to my team at Compport for supporting my time volunteering with AIBoomi. I came back with more respect for these founders, and more confidence in myself. P.S. See you on the next trip, friends (Dheeraj, Jaskaran, Justin, Mayank, Senu, Siddu). Five minutes to get into the car still means five minutes!

Building a startup in India? Here are 7 founder communities and platforms worth knowing about. Building a startup can be isolating. You need to find customers, hire people, understand fundraising, solve operational problems and make decisions without always having someone experienced to consult. The right founder network can help you learn from people who have already faced similar challenges. Here are 7 places worth exploring: 1. Headstart Network Foundation For startup events, entrepreneurship programmes and connections across Indias startup ecosystem. 🔗 https://www.headstart.in/ 2. AIBoomi (formerly SaaSBoomi) For B2B SaaS and AI founders interested in peer learning, mentorship and founder communities. Membership criteria apply. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/g3ATu43C 3. eChai Ventures For open founder meetups, startup events, demo days and networking across multiple cities. 🔗 https://echai.ventures/ 4. TiE Indore For entrepreneurship programmes, mentoring, founder networking and investor-related events through local chapters. 🔗 https://tie.org/ 5. Headstart Network Foundation For eligible women founders looking for mentorship, networking and fundraising-readiness support. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gVxYhRvC 6. Startup India For government startup initiatives, ecosystem information and funding-related resources. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gGpW5x9X 7. F6S For discovering accelerators, grants, startup competitions and funding opportunities. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gJ8NwQeq One important piece of advice: don't join every community you find. Choose two or three that match your stage, industry and immediate needs. Then contribute before asking for help. Share what your'e learning. Make relevant introductions. Give honest feedback. Ask specific questions. A network becomes valuable when people know what your'e building, how you think and how you can help each other. And remember: being part of a founder community does not guarantee funding, customers or mentorship. The value depends on the relevance of the network and how you participate. At AY Ventures, we believe founders need more than a pitch deck. They need a thoughtful approach to building relationships, preparing for fundraising and communicating their business clearly. Preparing for a fundraise? Fill out our form to discuss your startup and requirements: Fill the form - https://lnkd.in/g8ikYezw #money #startups #wealth #business #india #funding

what can you build with AI in 20 hours? Not another hackathon where you just pitch an idea. This time, you get to build an actual AI product. Introducing AIBoomi Startup Weekend | Kochi — a 24-hour, in-person startup weekend where you turn your ideas into working AI products, meet fellow builders, and compete for exciting rewards. Here's what's up for grabs: $17,500 in OpenAI API credits for the top 3 teams Complimentary passes to AIBoomi’s flagship event in Bengaluru 4 weeks of mentor office hours for the top 5 teams $100 in OpenAI API credits for every participant, plus Neysa infrastructure credits You can participate solo or with a teammate. You don't need a big team or a fully formed startup idea. Just bring your curiosity, your skills, and the willingness to build. When: October 23–24, 2026 Where: Kerala Startup Mission Kochi, Kerala Duration: Friday, 4 PM – Saturday, 4 PM Entry: Free Whether you're a developer, designer, student, or someone excited about AI, this is your chance to stop experimenting with ideas in your head and start building something real. 20 hours. One idea. Something you could take much further. Register now https://lnkd.in/gbtvwv75 Tag a friend you'd love to build with. #AIBoomi #StartupWeekend #TinkerHub #KeralaStartupMission #BuildWithAI

From India. To the world. Dikshant, Secfore Mobile Forensics’ VP Growth, recently visited Silicon Valley for OpenAI DevDay and AIBoomi Caravan. He joined GTM Launchpad with OpenAI and fellow builders, and delivered a workshop on GTM and distribution at AIBoomi Caravan. Thank you to the founders, builders and AIBoomi community who made time to connect and exchange ideas. #Secfore #OpenAIDevDay #AIBoomi #SiliconValley #Forensics #MobileForensics #DFIR

I volunteer with two communities I care deeply about, AIBoomi and TinkerHub. So it means a lot to see them join forces, along with Kerala Startup Mission, for the AIBoomi Startup Weekend in Kochi. Here is what it is: a 20-hour overnight buildathon on October 23 and 24, where you build an AI product from scratch, with mentors on the floor the whole way. If you are a founder, a tinkerer, a developer, or a student with a bias for action, this is for you. You do not need to be an AI expert. You just need to want to build. What you walk away with: the winner takes $10,000 in OpenAI credits, there is more for the other top teams, and every participant gets OpenAI credits too, plus mentor office hours and passes to AIBoomi's flagship event in Bengaluru. It is completely free, but curated. You apply, solo or as a pair, with your idea, and selected teams get in. Spots are limited and filling up. Come build with us in Kochi! Apply: https://lnkd.in/gQCXZQrc #AIBoomi #TinkerHub #KeralaStartupMission #StartupWeekend #AI #Kochi

𝟭𝟳 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟰: My friends and I had one last Class 9 exam to get through before rushing to the cinema hall to catch Swades on its opening day. The year-end holidays could wait. At fourteen, I thought I understood why Mohan Bhargava came back to India. Kaveri Amma was here. So were Gita and her little brother. The people he loved had made it hard for him to leave. It took me nearly two decades to see what the boy selling water at the railway station had changed in him. Mohan could have bought the water and forgotten him. Instead, he saw a life that would continue long after his train had left. He returned to his work at NASA, but he could no longer put that boy, or the India around him, out of his mind. That's the part of Swades that haunts me, in the best possible way. Seeing a problem changes your relationship with it. At some point, SOMEONE SHOULD DO SOMETHING! becomes WHAT CAN I DO? I’ve spent the past seven and a half years at AIBoomi, around founders and stellar community builders like Avinash Raghava, thinking about that question from different perspectives. AI now gives more people the means to test an idea and build a working product from a desk. The distance between seeing a problem and attempting to solve it has become smaller. We have no shortage of problems in India. Many are so familiar that we’ve learnt to walk past them. Perhaps a Product Nation begins when more of us stop walking. When we bring what we know to a problem we cannot unsee, and stay with it long enough to be useful. At 14, I went to see a Shah Rukh Khan film with my friends. At 35, I’m still learning how to see what Mohan saw.

Applications for AIBoomi Bootcamp ‘26, Pune Edition close in 48 hours. It is a curated two-day residential on October 30 and 31. The room is founders between $200K and $2M ARR with paying customers, building AI-native or moving their SaaS to AI. We ran this bootcamp in the Bay Area, Chennai and Hyderabad and are coming to Pune with a new set of speakers & agenda. Some of the sessions are : Opening keynote address by Anand Deshpande Where you stand in the AI-native stack, with Ashwini Asokan and Anand Chandrasekaran Building a moat, with Rishen Kapoor ツ and Monish Darda Enterprise GTM in an outcome-led world, with Richie Khandelwal Redesign software org in AI first world with Brijraj Bhuptani Building an AI-native company, not just an AI product, with Nitin Gupta Finding your ICP and personalising outreach, with Surendran Balachandran The full stack founder, with Abhishek Ballabh Please note some sessions and timings may shift during the event. Request an invite: https://lnkd.in/gGDANKKx Presented by HighLevel #Pune #AIBoomiBootcamp #startups