Raviteja Dodda

Excited and looking forward to discussing the evolving challenges of raising capital for early-stage startups at SAASCON24. Join me as I dive into the current trends, what founders need to know, and how we can navigate this more challenging environment. #SAASCON24 #StartupFunding #EarlyStageStartups #SaaS #Entrepreneurship

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Finsire has recently started its learning series - Ideally by chatting with the best folks in the Industry. Here, with Siddharth Shetty, Co-founder and CTO of Account Aggregator (AA) from DigiSahamati Foundation, we speak about the data exchange's inception, growth, and future in India. - We use AA for various reasons, including pushing boundaries in India's data exchange layer with various use cases. - It's been about three years since it went live, and over 70 million cumulative Indian accounts are linked. - One-of-a-kind data sharing network from India that is not seen anywhere across the globe, baring Singapore with https://lnkd.in/gyrCQtVQ - Different approach to protect consumers as compared to the previous models that existed to attain consumer data by various methods used by Plaid or Salt Edge Onemoney Finvu (Cookiejar Technologies) Protean eGov Technologies Anumati by Perfios AA NADL - Account Aggregator Computer Age Management Services Limited KFin Technologies Ltd. Enjoy - Please click on the link below and watch the video!

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If you doubted the rise of India as a powerhouse, Pine Labs, a significant fintech player, is now relocating its headquarters from Singapore to India following approval from a Singapore court. This strategic shift mirrors other successful Indian startups like PhonePe, Razorpay, and Groww, embracing the trend of ‘reverse flipping’. The move signifies growing confidence in the Indian market and its potential. Key factors enabling this move include: - Favorable economic policies - Growing domestic market - Increasing investor confidence - Greater certainty of an exit at a higher valuation - Ease of accessing capital - Regulatory changes - Maturing capital markets - Cost-effective listing process All great signs for India! #India #Fintech #PineLabs #Startups #BusinessGrowth

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Like to order deliveries from the comfort of your own home? Zepto's recent $665 million funding will now allow the company to set up even more store across India to serve you better. Read all about it only in my new article at Entrepreneur India. . . . Follow and connect for more industry news and updates . . . #News #Update #Zepto #Funding #Investment #EntrepreneurIndia #AdityaPranMahanta https://lnkd.in/gYvATrUE

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CLSA published a detailed research report on India quick commerce. Recommended reading. Who will be the first to create a $50-100Bn company in India internet? #Zepto #Zomato #IndiaInternet

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Luv Gupta Amrita Agrawal Ambrish Gupta Mayank Chouhan Abhinav Mehta Rohit Kumar Singh Saransh Mahere Dr. Kartikey Gupta Thrilled to unveil Forescribe's xAI suite, featuring Smart Alerts and AI Post Mortem—innovations in SaaS Ops designed to elevate strategic oversight for CIOs, COOs, and their teams. 📨 Smart Alerts delivers proactive, tailored insights, enabling faster decision-making to keep your digital landscape aligned with your vision. ✨ AI Post Mortem now offers executive summaries on product spend, usage, and benchmarks with Forrester’s Digital Transformation Maturity Model—empowering leaders with clear, instant actionable insights. With xAI, unlock real-time data to drive transformational outcomes and make every tech investment count. 💰 🥂 Kudos to the teams involved in taking this live. Learn more about Forescribe xAI initiative here: https://lnkd.in/gzxxxh6W

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'GenAI is easier to say in the boardroom and difficult to get right for many SaaS companies'. When speaking to multiple technology providers, we have observed this as well. I will go further to suggest that many existing players will find it difficult to move to agentic workflows meaningfully. Beyond document summarization, and basic AI uses. The real problem is not technology. It is the company's DNA and processes, and a large installed base of customers. Going from building deterministic systems to building non-deterministic systems with high accuracy is a different skill set and hard to pivot to quickly. #aiagents #genai

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Congrats to Zingly.ai, Gaurav Passi and the entire team on their launch. We are proud to be investors from Day 1. This is once in a decade style opportunity. It's 2024, and You and I, as customers, still continue to struggle with 1-800 numbers, ineffective AI Chatbots and spelling our names, account numbers and other info over and over again ... It's time to change all that. Zingly lets a business's customers drive the experience they want as they want it (quick answer from AI or a real conversation with human agents or a hybrid), how they want it (text, audio, video), and from any device without having to repeat info over and over again - all from a single personalized Zingly Room. Sounds obvious! But the best ideas are the simple obvious ones! #FutureOfCX #AIRevolution #CustomerExperience #Startups #Entrepreneurship #VentureCapital https://lnkd.in/gV9mk7je

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Business Messaging using Whatsapp has truly evolved over the last 3 years to enable consumers to talk to businesses like they do with friends and family. From rich personalized experiences using Flows, Carousel Catalogs, Payments to innovation with Voice Calling for Businesses and now Meta AI, Whatsapp has truly emerged as a very powerful business tool. Customers are seeing high RoI when used in the right manner across the entire spectrum of the sales cycle from discovery to engagement, commerce, native purchases in-app to sophisticated customer service journeys. Read on for more insights. Sandhya Devanathan Ravi Garg Prache Agarwaal Aditi Mathur Rohant Shyam Rammohan Rishabh Khandelwal Rachit Jain Swati Mishra Rutuja Kagwade Ekta Agarwal Riddhika S. Prachi Dhamale Sai Gadkari Gaurav Agrawal Anshika Malviya Kirti Zadbuke Chand Ajmera Shreeya Roy Ambika Balasubramaniam Chetan Chadha Shalki C. Amit Shanawad Pooja Khanduja Ranjeet Malhotra Paras Arora Piyush Vaidya Animesh Baidya Biswas

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Shweta Vohra has penned some very insightful thoughts and opinions around platforms. Do drop in to say hi, see what we are revealing at Kubecon with "how to protect your Kubernetes investment? by revealing our best version of Kubernetes Dashboard product. Devtron Inc. ✈︎ KubeCon NA 2024

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Honored to be featured in YourStory Media’s spotlight on the 15 founders making strides in India’s entrepreneurial ecosystem! ✨ This recognition is a testament to the incredible support from our amazing team, mentors, and partners. Your encouragement and belief in our vision have been instrumental in our journey. A big thank you to everyone who has been part of this adventure—your contributions have truly made a difference. Shradha Sharma || YourStory Media || Impactful Pitch® || instapitch.io Read more about it here: https://lnkd.in/dkP9J7mR #impactful #startup #india #startups #investments #funding #fundraising #venturecapitalist #venturecapital #impact #global #pitchdeck #business #ai #generativeai #entrepreneures #entrepreneurship

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To start the year, its great to be back at India's biggest digital conference, the India Digital Summit. I'll be speaking on 16th January on trends in VC in India, sectoral shifts and what to expect in 2025. Check out link for agenda and registrations : www.indiadigitalsummit.in #IndiaDigitalSummit #IDS2025 #DigitalLeadership #IDS25 #IDA

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Interesting and relatable piece by Nutgraf / The Ken Praveen Gopal Krishnan in my inbox today. Few VCs balance this line well, even fewer can project an authentic narrative of what they actually do. In my observation of actions, a VC is a financier first and last, and anything else is marketing until proven otherwise. #vc #startups #india #founder

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India’s Oyo, once valued at $10 billion, is finalizing new funding at a $2.5 billion valuation. This marks a steep decline from its $10 billion valuation in 2019. The startup, which has raised over $3 billion from backers like SoftBank, Peak XV Ventures, Lightspeed, Airbnb, and Microsoft, has struggled to attract institutional investors. In recent months, it has aggressively pitched to high-net-worth individuals after withdrawing its IPO application twice in the past four years. Once a red-hot Indian startup active in markets including the U.S. and Europe, Oyo has now scaled back its international presence. #venture #downround https://lnkd.in/gE2GjYnM

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How a Bootstrapped Founder Built a $100M ARR Empire Podcast link in comments 👇 From my conversation with Rajesh Jain from Netcore Cloud in June of 2022 on the Forge Podcast (formerly SaaS Universe Podcast): → The untold story of building Netcore without a single $ of funding ↳ Perfect weekend wisdom for ambitious founders 5 game-changing insights that challenged conventional startup wisdom: 1. The "Proficon" Revolution → Profitable + Bootstrapped + Valuable ↳ Built a $100M ARR company with zero external funding ↳ Proves you don't need VC money to build something massive Customer Obsession as Growth Engine → Turned customer complaints into product roadmap ↳ Email pain points → Full-stack marketing solution ↳ Revenue grew directly from solving real problems "Build Forever" Mindset → Approach: Build like you'll run it for life ↳ No exit strategy needed ↳ Results in better long-term decisions Revolutionary Employee Equity (25%) → Unheard of in bootstrapped companies ↳ Created massive alignment ↳ Built a culture of owners, not employees The 30:2 Success Ratio → Failed 30 times, succeeded twice ↳ Each failure = stepping stone ↳ "Mountains beyond mountains" mindset 🚀 Want more breakdowns on AI x Enterprise Growth? Follow for hard-learned insights on: → Enterprise focused GTM → MarTech stack optimization → Thought leadership at scale → $100M+ campaign playbooks → Building AI-first revenue engines #Podcast #Growth #Startups

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Personalized customer experiences are crucial for growth in today's fast-paced digital landscape. But businesses face real hurdles doing this at scale and cost-effectively. Join me at ET DigiPlus Fest on December 12th in Gurugram as I share how businesses can break down silos between different teams, and automate creation of personalized images and videos with AI-enabled, cost-effective tooling—enabling them to deliver engaging content faster across all digital touchpoints. #DAM #DigitalAssetManagement #ImageKitDAM #ETDigiPlusFest

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There's lots of hype around AI, but how can we really derive ROI in real world use cases today? Goda Ramkumar, who leads data science at Swiggy will be helping us answer that question. We'll start with a deep dive into Swiggy's AI practice, recent innovations and future roadmap. Following that, Rakesh M. from Google Cloud will give a demo of real-time personalization with AI: Showing how we can create personalized cart abandonment campaigns seconds after the user leaves. We'll wrap up with drinks on the Alpha Wave terrace in Indiranagar. When: Wednesday September 25th 5:30PM Who: CTO / CPO / Data and Engineering leadership / Tech Founders Where: Alpha Wave India HQ, Indiranagar, Bangalore Register: https://lu.ma/u7c5s83t (limited to first 40, so signup quick!) Rahul Jain Kunal Mathuria Rakesh M. Alpha Wave Global Google

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Customer obsession meets flawless execution. Last month, Dhan demonstrated why they’re the dark horse in the fintech space. From launching a Muhurat Trading Aarti to leveraging Blinkit for Diwali Lifafas, their campaigns weren’t just creative—they were strategic. Each initiative had a clear goal: build trust and loyalty. Their partnership with Cityflo buses showed the power of location-based marketing. And the cultural angle? Spot on. It wasn’t just about ideas—it was about execution. On time, at scale, with real results. A brand that understands its customers and delivers campaigns like clockwork sets itself apart. How can startups ensure customer obsession translates into execution? #Marketing #Startup #Fintech

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