Malavika Velayanikal

Every track, session, and playbook was planned meticulously by a team of founders and practitioners. Even the hike, cricket, and all that yummy Indian food that made you feel like you never left home had a purpose. @saasboomi Caravan was a labour of love saasboomi.org/labour-of-love…

@LadyAshBorg More power to you, Ash ♥️

Absolutely thrilled to announce M2P-MSD upcoming deal. The 'no stress, not distressed' coverage by The Hindu :D thehindubusinessline.com/info-tech/m2p-… This is what happens when you get founders at a table drinking more coffee than they should have. Jokes apart - Not used to crisis PR. But like the fabulous Billie Jean reminder: Pressure is a privilege. Responsible journalism over clickbait. So here's our actual story at MSD. The most repeated question: Why? Very simple answer: We finished our vision for building the generalizable AI platform we began with. Continue to power some of the world's largest, best enterprises. Compete with Palantir, Databricks, UiPath and more. At some point in every founder's journey, you know what you want and what's the next right direction. We've never wanted an IPO story, the M&A was always the exit playbook. The Process: Declined a series D at the start of 2024 and got the board together towards an M&A at the start of 2024. Prepared for 6 months for an M&A and launched the process with one of the best bankers in the US. Courted some of the absolute winners in the US market, moved into offer stage, when M2P happened completely from left field. To be able to land MSD with another Chennai star, an IPO-bound story is the stuff of dreams. Completely unexpected. Heavy overlap of customers. And a vision to scale this AI first story across adjacent industries together globally. The Platform: Vue.ai has been a horizontal platform serving industries from all backgrounds. Over the years, it has evolved from delivering SaaS products to becoming a unified data and AI orchestration platform for multiple industries. The platform has grown from strength to strength serving up more and more capabilities to our customers requiring fewer and fewer standalone products in their tech stack mix. From AI based applications to building your own models and creating data transformation workflows, industry giants use these to power their logistics,  banking, finance, healthcare use cases. We'll be releasing a huge AI agent library, scaling our data platform play and doubling down on our marketplace in the coming quarters. Our customers are just as excited with the news and the might of the joint scale, its go time! The People: Anand, Costa and I are going with our fabulous teams into the org and expect to double down on M2P's inspiring growth story. Over 25+ staff have 8+ years of sweat and blood building this story. Another 40 with over 5+ years. Many more with fewer years and going on this journey longer. We've had so many mentors, investors, champions by our side during this period. Building a company like MSD at a time when no one even knew what AI was ... required risk takers of a whole other kind. You know who you are. Thank you for everything. All the highs and lows and the invaluable lessons. To all the friends/founders who were there for all the midnight panic calls and crying. It truly takes a village. Thank you! We'll be sharing a ton more in the coming weeks as the deal actually closes, legally. If you are a founder, you'll hear from us at the SaaSBoomi annual event. If you are looking to get hired, you must talk to the team that's getting acquired @onlymadhoo @prabranga @SirBlueBorg will be sharing much more ... once this is all actually done

1/25 Want to know why most people struggle with meditation? They're trying to force their mind to be quiet BEFORE finding joy. That's backwards - and there's a better way, backed by the Buddha's original teachings. 🧵

You would think a global company like @marksandspencer would have better customer support. Exchanged multiple emails, screenshots over a simple login issue, and finally gave up and raised a request to delete my account, and that is also not happening after emails and calls!

Yes; a lots of terrific Malayalam movies in the recent years and yes; Kerala is India's subtle film hub: economist.com/culture/2024/0… But Manjummel boys is far from the poster child of this movement. Please tell me some of you found it melodramatic.

@Pratvii Interesting! Thanks for explaining Pratvii

@vmalu Its called Chadma Vesha and its a family profession for a few aka kula kasubu. They earn their living this way.

This is also Bangalore. This morning. My street ten minutes away from the World Trade Centre. One of the many reasons I love this quaint city ♥️

@Pratvii No :(

@vmalu Do you know why they do this?

Announcing the SaaSBoomi Caravan '24, now with passes available at a super early bird price (expires July 10, 2024)! 👇 APPLY >> saasboomi.org/events/caravan… Gear up for an immersive experience with top #SaaS leaders sharing insights and strategies for scaling startups in the US. 🙌

"Perfection is impossible. In the 1,526 singles matches I played in my career, I won almost 80% of those matches. But what percentage of points did I win? 54% In other words, even top ranked tennis players win barely more than half the points they play. When you lose ever second point on average, you learn not to dwell on every shot. You teach yourself to think: 'Okay, I double faulted...it's only a point.' 'Okay, I came to the net and I got passed again...it's only a point.' Even a great shot, an overhead backhand smash that ends up on ESPN's top 10 playlist – that too is just a point. Here's why I'm telling you this. When you're playing a point, it has to be the most important thing in the world. And it is. But when it's behind you, it's behind you. This mindset is crucial – because it frees you to fully commit to the next point with intensity, clarity, and focus." –@rogerfederer

Pulse Connect is a small, curated, founder-only get-together, where not more than a dozen women founders can meet, ask, & share at ease. Apply for the #Chennai edition >> docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… Let's co-create a support system that makes getting help is easy & frictionless! 🫶

If this isn't inspiring enough, I don't know what is. Hats off to you, Ravi @Joshi_Aar May you move from strength to strength.

Last week, I lost a dear one. Someone who inspired me and many others, to live a little better, love a little better. I was trying to make sense of the sorrow, so turned to books and meditation - as I do when in doubt or grief. Came across this beautiful poem.

Prompt injection is a new deadly cybersecurity threat in the genAI age. Hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake. New AI startups like @SydeLabs are coming up to fight this new threat saasboomi.org/saas/product/c…

Everything within a company eventually boils down to the culture. We got @verghese_ancy of invideo AI to write about what's been working magic at @invideoOfficial

@_sairamkrishnan Nike’s barefoot range. I have tried most ones from - AllBirds to Hoka, but nothing comes close to Nike’s barefoot range. Try a free run one with spine like sole :)

Shoe people, help? I walk a lot (10K steps everyday is the norm), and also play cricket on weekends. I'm a big guy and my feet are taking a battering, mainly (I think) because of my footwear. What should I do/get?

@ManishaRaisingh @matrixindiavc @BlumeVentures @MarsShotVC @sifthubhq Congrats Manisha! More power to you!

I’m thrilled to announce that we've raised $5.5M in a seed round led by @matrixindiavc and @BlumeVentures with participation from Neon and @MarsShotVC 🎉🥳 Today, sales orgs spend 70% of their time in non-selling activities - @sifthubhq wants to give them chunk of their time back so they can focus on building relationships and what they love the most - winning! From the moment the first information request is received to the closure of each deal with satisfactory responses, SiftHub will remain a trusted partner for sales organizations. We’re at the beginning of our journey to disrupt the sales and presales space and are super excited for the future! I’ve talked more about our story so far here: sifthub.io/blog/the-sifth… Forever grateful to the people who believe in us and have always been rooting for our success - @desai_pranay @avnish @sanjaynath @thesumangalv @siddharthaa7 @afoxjohnston @harshilmathur @shashank_kr @ArvindParthiban @amnigos @Pankit_Chheda

If you are an early stage B2B SaaS founder in Kochi, join us for a roundtable with iZooto's Vivek Khandelwal. On how early stage CEOs and CTOs should build ( and execute) their strategy with the help of Wardley Maps - apply here: forms.gle/MXzLBn1XCgkHTy…

Computer vision brings self-driving cars to mind. But an Indian startup @toothlens is using it to spot tiny cavities in teeth with nothing more than smartphone images to train its AI model saasboomi.org/ai-dentistry/ @vmalu @prasanna_says @saasboomi

“You have to be like water flowing around rock. You can’t break your head against a rock. You need to go around it.” @beerud says in thegritstories.com/captain-cool-w…

"Human reason left to its own devices is apt to engage in a number of fallacies and systematic errors, so if we want to make better decisions in our personal lives and as a society, we ought to be aware of these biases and seek workarounds.” RIP Dr Daniel Kahneman.