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Just a year ago, founders asked: 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗜 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀? Today, the question is: 𝗜𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴? Yes, the tools are getting better every week. But that doesn't automatically lead to better companies. Knowing what to build, who to build it for, how to stand out, and how to reach the right customers still demands something AI can't shortcut. 𝗝𝘂𝗱𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁. That's what Caravan has always been about. Not flying founders to Silicon Valley. Helping them make better decisions. After four editions and hundreds of founders, we're rebuilding Caravan from the ground up to make it our most hands-on experience yet. 🚪 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗻 '𝟮𝟲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 >> caravan26.aiboomi.org To our most hands-on US market immersion for product builders yet. #Caravan26 #Software #AI

I'm no scientist, but my father was. I guess some of that curiosity rubbed off on me and found its way to rockets instead. Every rocket has three defining moments. The countdown. The launch. And the moment it escapes gravity. Founders often spend years getting to the first two. The third is much harder. Last year, 12 AI-first healthcare startups came together for @AIBoomi very first #VerticalVelocity cohort. They spent two weeks in the US meeting founders, clinicians, researchers, operators, customers, and investors who had already travelled the road they were about to take. But the real mission wasn't the immersion. It was helping them escape the gravity of building from a distance. Because once you've experienced a market firsthand, your decisions change. Your conversations change. Your confidence changes. The best part? The mission didn't end when everyone flew home. The conversations continued. Introductions turned into opportunities. Founders became sounding boards for one another. A cohort became a community. A huge thank you to our inaugural crew: Dev Khare, Vengat Krishnaraj (Voxy Health), Vivek Khandelwal (CogniSwitch), Jofin Joseph (NeedleTail AI), Rathinamurthy (Rathina) (KraftX), Dhruv Mehra (Pype AI), Tarun Mohan Lal (Carissa Health), Sonia Vora (Proto Health), Samyukktha T. (SupaHealth AI), Mohit Maniar (Foss Health), Anuruddh Mishra (August AI), Kashyap Purani (Aarogram), Harshvardhan Samvatsar (Circle Health), Keerthi Madhu & few volunteers. Today, we're opening the doors to Vertical Velocity '26. Applications for Cohort 2 are now live. If you're building an AI-first healthcare startup with ambitions for the US market, we'd love to hear from you. 📷 aiboomi.org/events/vertica… Every founder dreams of reaching orbit. Sometimes, all it takes is the right launch window. #VV26 #Healthcare #AI

As AI reshapes the software landscape, more SaaS companies are hitting an inflection point. Some are growing but subscale. Some are facing AI-driven disruption. And some are simply stronger as part of a larger platform than on their own. At the same time, more software companies are choosing to expand through acquisition rather than build everything in-house. Today we're launching #MatchPoint — an @AIBoomi initiative that acts as a confidential bridge between these two groups. For founders: a quiet way to explore acquisitions, mergers, roll-ups — and find a strong home for your product and team. For acquirers: a discreet channel to high-quality, Saas / AI-native companies, many of which never reach the open market. How it works is simple: you share your interest through a short form, we make the match and the introduction, and your identity stays confidential until both sides agree to connect. We're the bridge, not the deal — the transaction stays entirely yours. If you're a founder weighing strategic alternatives, or a company looking to acquire, we'd love to hear from you. Check further details at aiboomi.org/match-point/ #MergersAndAcquisitions #SaaS #AI #Startups #AIBoomi

As a pleasant morning unfolded on the serene outskirts of Hyderabad, 75 AI-first founders walked into one room, reminding us that there has never been a more exciting time to build. ☀️ Over the next 48 hours, they'll ask better questions, challenge assumptions, exchange notes, and figure out what actually scales. Because the next AI playbook won't be written by one company. It'll be shaped by founders willing to learn from each other while the future is still being built. A heartfelt thank you to our partners, @gohighlevel (Title Sponsor) and aivar.tech (Supporting Partner), for believing in founder-led learning and helping make this room possible. This is AIBoomi Bootcamp '26 | Hyderabad. 💜 #Hyderabad #Startups #AI

As we looked back at these polaroids from Cohort 1 of Vertical Velocity, we realized they weren't just snapshots from two unforgettable weeks in the US. They were the beginning of friendships, difficult conversations, shared meals, long walks, moments of doubt, moments of clarity, and a community that chose to believe in each other. Twelve startups arrived looking for answers and left with something much harder to build. Belonging. The real outcome of Vertical Velocity was never the itinerary. It was everything that happened after it. Founder introductions. Late-night calls. Customer advice. Honest feedback. People showing up for one another without being asked. That's what these pictures remind us of. A year later, they're no longer just memories. They're proof of what can happen when ambitious founders spend time with the right people. Today, we're opening the doors to Vertical Velocity '26. Applications for Cohort 2 are now live. If you're building an AI-first healthcare startup and looking to learn from the people, companies, and conversations shaping the US healthcare market, we'd love to build that journey with you. 🚀 aiboomi.org/events/vertica… Here's to another cohort that will one day look back at a handful of polaroids and remember exactly where it all began. #VV26 #Healthcare #AI

#102: #AIRadarDaily — @refoldai We’ve all seen it happen. A brilliant engineering team sets out to build a category-defining product, only to get bogged down in the endless, fragile plumbing of enterprise integrations. Writing custom logic, wrestling with unpredictable APIs, and constantly patching broken middleware isn't just a technical headache — it is a massive, exhausting drain on a company's most creative talent. We hire engineers to build the future, yet we force them to spend their days maintaining the pipes. It takes a deep, structural understanding of this pain and the courage to rethink the entire paradigm to change it. That is precisely what Jugal Anchalia (@Bonjugal) and Abhishek Kumar (@ak_blurb) are doing with Refold AI. With Refold, Jugal and Abhishek aren’t just launching another integration tool. They are fundamentally replacing traditional middleware with a highly intelligent, AI-native platform. The engineering under the hood is transformative. Instead of relying on manual coding and rigid workflows, Refold deploys autonomous AI agents that actually understand system behavior. These agents take on the heavy lifting — learning how different software systems interact, generating complex integration logic, mapping data, and even writing test cases entirely without boilerplate code. The true moat here is resilience and adaptability. Through advanced memory graphs and real-time adaptation, Refold’s agents don't just build integrations; they maintain them. When a third-party API changes or an unpredictable edge case arises, the system autonomously adapts and auto-fixes the workflow. It shifts enterprise integration from a fragile, static dependency into a dynamic, self-healing architecture. The market? Global enterprises, CTOs, and development teams desperate to escape the high costs and friction of system connectivity. By abstracting away the complexity of legacy systems, Refold gives engineering teams their momentum back, allowing them to focus entirely on core product innovation. Seeing these head-down builders architect such an elegant, autonomous solution to one of software's oldest and most stubborn bottlenecks is a powerful signal. They are quietly rewriting the playbook for how enterprise software actually communicates. Let's celebrate the builders. w/ @jaybharatingle & @dikshantjoshi #EnterpriseAI #DevTools #ProductNation

As founders move from AI experimentation to building real companies, they need partners who understand what it takes to move from proof-of-concept to production. That's why we're delighted to welcome aivar.tech as the Supporting Partner for AIBoomi Bootcamp '26 | Hyderabad. 🙌 Aivar helps enterprises and startups and operationalise AI through governed, production-ready agentic systems built for real business outcomes. It's a partnership built on a shared belief: The future of AI won't be defined by who experiments the fastest. It'll be defined by who builds, deploys, and scales it responsibly. Here's to their belief in founder-led learning, and thank you for helping us bring this room together. We're truly excited to build alongside y'all. 💜 #Hyderabad #Startups #AI

#101: #AIRadarDaily — @meetaugustai We’ve all felt it. The quiet panic of waiting for a doctor’s appointment, staring at a stack of unreadable lab reports and complex prescriptions. Healthcare today is a marvel of science, yet the actual patient experience is often defined by overwhelming ambiguity and a chaotic silence between visits. When the system is overloaded, patients are inevitably left to piece things together alone. It takes profound empathy and courage to look at this fragmented reality and decide to build a bridge. That is exactly what Anuruddh Mishra have done with August AI. For Anuruddh, the mission was deeply personal — born out of a painful four-month misdiagnosis where, despite access to doctors and endless tests, the answers just didn't add up. It took his own exhaustive deep-dive into his health data to uncover a simple nutritional imbalance. He realized the system hadn’t failed maliciously; it was simply too rushed and too disconnected to connect the dots. With August AI, Anuruddh and team aren’t just building another static symptom checker. They are building a 24/7, highly empathetic personal health companion. The underlying engineering is beautifully intentional. August operates as an intelligent, conversational agent that securely reads handwritten prescriptions, interprets complex lab results, and analyzes symptoms dynamically. Powered by robust, privacy-first AI models, it builds a secure, long-term memory of a user's health journey. It doesn't just spit out generic WebMD links; it acts as the intelligent thread that weaves scattered health data into actionable, personalized clarity. The true moat here is trust and interactivity. August outperforms traditional healthcare bots by engaging in deeply contextual conversations — listening, reasoning, and providing reassurance when people are at their most vulnerable. It brings the precision of world-class medical data to the warmth of an always-on companion. The market? The millions of individuals globally who face long wait times, high costs, and fragmented care, who desperately need immediate, accurate insights before a health issue escalates. By giving patients the agency to understand their own data, August AI is shifting the paradigm from reactive panic to proactive, patient-first care. Seeing these head-down builders apply advanced AI not just for enterprise efficiency, but as a deeply empathetic force in human lives, is a beautiful signal of where our ecosystem is heading. Let's celebrate the builders. w/ @jaybharatingle & @dikshantjoshi #HealthTech #ProductNation

When we paused #AIRadarDaily after covering the first 100 startups, something interesting happened. Many of you reached out asking why we had stopped. Founders wrote in asking how they could be featured. Others shared that the series had become one of their favourite ways to discover AI-native startups emerging from India. That was both humbling and reassuring. Because it meant the series had become more than a daily post. It had become a living archive of a fast-changing ecosystem. The radar never really stopped. It just kept finding more stories worth telling. So, starting tomorrow, we're back! Back to telling the stories of the next 100 AI-native startups from India. At @AIBoomi, we've always believed that communities exist to do more than celebrate success. They exist to create the conditions for it. Sometimes, that starts with something as simple as helping a great founder get discovered. If you're building something meaningful, or know a founder who is, we'd love to hear from you. Write to us at airadar@aiboomi.org. Here's to the next 100 stories, the next 100 founders, and the next chapter of India's AI journey. The radar stays on.

There are weekends that leave you with memories. And there are ones that leave you with momentum. AIBoomi Startup Weekend | Bengaluru 2026 was one of them. 💚 125 builders walked in with ideas. 66 working MVPs walked out with GitHub repositories. None of this happens by accident. A huge thank you to our Title Partner @gohighlevel, Venue and F&B Partner @HyperVerge, and our Community Partners @AICollectiveCo, @FastRouterAI, Neysa, @scalekitinc, and OpenAI for believing in builders before the world meets them. And to our jury and mentors, thank you for giving your time, your weekends, your experience, and your honesty. You made this community stronger. Most of all, thank you to every builder who chose to spend 24 hours creating instead of consuming. The room is empty. The momentum isn't. Let's keep building. 🦾 #StartupWeekend #Bengaluru #AI

Every new technology creates two races: 1. The first is to adopt it. 2. The second is to figure out where it actually matters. India has largely won the first race. The second is just getting started. At AIBoomi Annual '26 Unconference, 230 founders shared where AI is already creating real value inside their companies. Engineering and product came out on top. But the strongest signal wasn't what founders have already solved. It was where they're heading next. 🔆 GTM Sales, distribution, customer understanding, and execution are fast becoming the next frontier for AI-native companies. The takeaway is simple. The opportunity is no longer in using AI. It's in applying it where judgment compounds. The founders who win over the next few years won't be the ones with the most AI. They'll be the ones who know exactly where AI belongs. That's the reality we're seeing emerge across India's founder ecosystem. Read the full analysis: aiboomi.org/india-ai-reali… The AI race has moved beyond experimentation. Now it's about execution. #GTM #Startups #AI

Founder communities don't grow on good intentions alone. They grow when people step up and back them. That's exactly what @gohighlevel has done. 💯 After becoming the Title Partner for our Startup Weekend series of buildathons, they're now doubling down as the Title Sponsor for AIBoomi Bootcamp '26 | Hyderabad. Two meaningful bets on the same belief: Founders learn faster when they're building together. Today, more than 1 million businesses run on HighLevel's platform. But what impressed us most wasn't the scale. It was their commitment to founder learning, community, and the rooms where real conversations happen. A huge shoutout to the entire HighLevel team for backing builders and helping us bring these experiences to life. We're excited for what we'll build together. 💜 #GoHighLevel #Hyderabad #Startups #AI

Spent Saturday in a room full of founders who didn't take a single note they'll forget by Monday. We ran the #AIWarRoom at @AccelIndia Launchpad, Koramangala, a hands-on GTM workshop for AI-native founders, under @AIBoomi. No keynote. No slides. Laptops open, building live. 70+ founders. One practitioner i.e. Rakesh Patel of Space-O. Building real go-to-market tooling on Claude Code while the room built alongside him. A few things stayed with me. Realisation #1: AI has collapsed the cost of building and marketing. The only edge left is focus and depth. Almost everyone can ship product now. So the moat moves. It's no longer headcount or capital — it's judgment, and the willingness to go deep where others stay shallow. As Rakesh put it: garbage in, garbage out. Your output is only as good as the context you're willing to do the work to give it. Realisation #2: Getting cited now beats getting ranked. The old game was being found. The new one is being the answer the AI hands the customer — already pre-sold, before they ever land on you. The founders who internalised this stopped thinking about traffic and started thinking about trust. That's a different kind of GTM. Realisation #3: The gap is the opportunity. Most people won't do the slow, detailed, unglamorous work. They'll watch a demo and move on. The founders who stayed back, asked the hard questions, and rebuilt the tool for their own product — those are the ones who'll pull ahead. Capability is mostly a ceiling we set in our own heads. Here's what moved me most. Watching founders walk in as spectators and walk out as operators — with something that actually works, not a folder of screenshots. The feedback was the same line, over and over: do this again. More often. So we are. We're turning this into a series of GTM hackathons. Founders come in, build live, and here's the part that makes it ours — whatever each founder builds is open to the entire room. One person's GTM weapon becomes everyone's. That's the pay-it-forward bet, applied to building. Next stops: Chennai and Pune. If you're a founder in either city, keep an eye out. We'd love to have you in the room. This is the direction for AIBoomi — smaller rooms, sharper focus, higher frequency. Closer to where founders actually are. India's builders already ship fastest. Time we got found fastest too. Grateful to Rakesh for giving the real version, not the highlight reel. To Accel Launchpad for the room and for Rohith Veerajappa for running the whole show. And to every founder who applied, showed up, and stayed back long after we wrapped. Community building is hard work some days. Days like this one are the answer to why. Back to building.

Here's yet another glimpse into the room we're bringing together for AIBoomi Bootcamp '26 | Hyderabad. 💜 Over the last few weeks, we've introduced founders from across industries, stages, and journeys. Different companies, different problems, and different perspectives. But one shared willingness to learn, build, and figure things out together. Applications are now closed, and we're officially at a full house. See you in #Hyderabad. 🙌 #Startups #AI

We broke this creative on purpose! Because that's what builders do. They don't wait for permission. They ship. In 5 days, Demo Room lands in Kochi. A small room of serious founders. Live demos. Real user flows. Unfiltered feedback. 🟢 GET IN: luma.com/aiboomi-DemoRo… The future rarely announces itself. It usually walks into a room and says, “Let me show you what I've been building.” #Kochi #Startups #AI

Founder by founder, this room keeps getting better. 💜 Here's another glimpse of more builders joining us in Hyderabad. Founders building through the same uncertainty. Founders trying to answer the same question: What scales from here? 🟣 Just 2 spots left! GET IN >> aiboomi.org/events/ai-boot… Applications close on 20 June. #Hyderabad #Startups #AI

Builders build. Communities make it possible. ✨ Big thanks to our community partners who’ve rallied behind AIBoomi Startup Weekend | Bengaluru 2026, presented by @gohighlevel, spreading the word, bringing the energy, and fueling this movement for AI builders. 🤝 @AICollectiveCo 🤝 @FastRouterAI 🤝 Neysa 🤝 @scalekitinc 🤝 OpenAI 💚 Venue and F&B Partner: @HyperVerge Your support means more ideas, more MVPs, more momentum. APPLY NOW: luma.com/StartupWeekend… Last few spots left. This is what it looks like when an ecosystem shows up for builders. Let’s build. 🦾 #StartupWeekend #Bengaluru #AI

Ask any founder and they'll fully submit to this statement: Every startup needs its first believer. 💯 Sometimes it's a founder. Sometimes it's a mentor. Sometimes it's a community. And sometimes, it's a company that chooses to invest in builders long before the world knows their names. That's why we're super excited to welcome @gohighlevel as the Presenting Partner for AIBoomi Startup Weekend | Bengaluru 2026. 🎉 What makes this partnership special isn't just their support for Bengaluru. It's their conviction to stand behind the entire Startup Weekend journey that AIBoomi is building across India. HighLevel was created with a simple belief: give entrepreneurs the technology, automation, and flexibility they need to grow faster and build stronger businesses. Today, that mission powers businesses across the world. That belief feels right at home here. Because Startup Weekend is built on the same premise. ✅ Give ambitious builders the right environment. ✅ Give them mentors. ✅ Give them community. ✅ Give them 24 hours. And watch ideas become MVPs. Together with HighLevel, we're doubling down on a future where more products are imagined, built, and launched from India for the world. Here's to the builders who are just getting started, and to the partners who choose to believe in them early. Last few spots left >> luma.com/StartupWeekend… Let's build! 💚 #GoHighLevel #StartupWeekend #Bengaluru #AI