Most AI founders I speak to are no longer struggling to build the product. The product works. Customers are interested. There is early revenue. There is enough signal to believe something meaningful is happening. But that is usually when the questions get harder. 🟣 What do customers actually pay for? 🟣 What becomes defensible when the underlying models keep improving? 🟣 How do you move from pilots to contracts? 🟣 How do you build a GTM motion that doesn't depend entirely on the founder? 🟣 How do you turn early traction into something repeatable? The challenge for AI founders today isn't building the product. It's figuring out what scales. 🔆 Incoming: AIBoomi Bootcamp '26 | Hyderabad A working room for AI-native founders in the $100K - $2M ARR range who are navigating the messy middle of company-building. No panels, pitches, or passive attendance. Just founders helping other founders work through the questions that matter most. 🟠 Apply >> aiboomi.org/events/ai-bootca… Because the demo isn't the finish line. It's where the real work begins. #Startups #AI #Hyderabad

The next AI playbook won't be written by one company. It'll be figured out collectively. For AIBoomi Bootcamp '26 | Hyderabad, we're bringing together founders and operators who've spent the last few years building, shipping, selling, scaling, and learning in real time. ⭐ @ofcAkshat | @metaformsai ⭐ @amarpreetkalkat | @HumanticAI ⭐ @Ashwinizer | @MoativeAI ⭐ @kirandarisi | @atomicworkhq ⭐ @pritishg18 | @TrupeerAI ⭐ @sanjay_varnwal | @spyne_ai ⭐ @sen_thil | Stealth ⭐ @swamikrish2001 | @factorsai ⭐ @vijayeesam | @veintentcompany ⭐ @Vishalvirani91 | @rocketdotnew And many more. Founders and operators sharing what they're seeing in the market, what's working, what's breaking, and what they're still trying to figure out. If this feels like your kind of room, apply here >> aiboomi.org/events/ai-bootca… Applications are filling up faster than we expected. Get in soon. #Startups #AI #Hyderabad

Last week in Indiranagar, 15 founders sat down to talk GTM and left the room talking about PMF. That was the biggest takeaway from our recent roundtable with @pritishg18 at @TrupeerAI. Most early-stage founders think they have a GTM problem. They don't. They have a customer understanding problem. ⬇️ A few gems from the room: 🔸 Know exactly who your first 100 customers are. 🔸 Create value before asking for time. Pritish used Trupeer to create videos of prospects' products and shared them during outreach. 🔸 Cold emails and cold calls still work. 🔸 Events, travel, and face-to-face conversations compound faster than most founders expect. 🔸 Enterprise buyers prefer predictable pricing. User-based pricing often beats credits because it helps customers forecast. The common thread? The founders winning early aren't chasing channels. They're obsessing over customers. Thanks to Pritish and the 15 founders who made this one special. Small room. Big lessons.

Some founder rooms give you advice. This one changes the trajectory of your company. And we probably shouldn’t be apologising for saying it. Applications for SGx Rise Cohort 8 are NOW OPEN. 🧭 aiboomi.org/events/aiboomi-s… #SGxRise #Startups #Growth #AI

Last year, Bengaluru showed up with ideas, ambition, and the kind of energy that made us reflect on two things: 1. Why this city continues to shape the future of technology. 2. Why builder events like Startup Weekend should continue to be nurtured. So, we’re coming back! 🙌 Presenting AIBoomi Startup Weekend | Bengaluru 2026 >> luma.com/StartupWeekendBlr Just builders building alongside mentors, operators, founders, and people who genuinely love the craft. That’s it. Period. Let’s build, again. 💚 #StartupWeekend #Bengaluru #AI

Every time you think you know the art of possible with AI, the frontier shifts again. Spent half a day at @OpenAI HQ with a group of AI-native founders. Thx to @coreyching @nhlhomer & Applied AI crew for codex preview and orchestration demo - genuinely impressive. @AIBoomi 🙌

AIBoomi Bootcamp '26 | Bay Area ended with one overwhelming feeling: gratitude. 🧡 Over the last three days, more than 60 founders came together to ask hard questions, challenge assumptions, share openly, and build relationships that genuinely felt meaningful. What started as a curated room slowly turned into something far more personal. Conversations around AI-native products, GTM, fundraising, agents, workflows, moats, and the future of software kept flowing from sessions into side huddles, dinners, whiteboards, and walks back to parking lots. And somewhere along the way, the room stopped trying to impress each other. People just started being honest. That, more than anything else, is what we’ll carry forward from this bootcamp. A huge thank you to every founder, speaker, partner, volunteer, and friend who helped shape these three days into what they became. Until next time. 🙌 P.S. - We also ended Day 3 by cutting a birthday cake for @ArvindParthiban. As we're a community that always celebrates its people, it felt like a small reminder that some things never change. And we’re very glad they don’t. :) #MayInTheBay #Startups #AI

Day 2 of AIBoomi Bootcamp '26 | Bay Area carried forward the exact energy Day 1 left us with. Only this time, the room moved inside @OpenAI's HQ at San Francisco, California. 🔥 Over 60 founders came together for conversations around agents, workflows, infrastructure, interfaces, and what building AI-native companies actually demands right now. But somewhere through the day, a larger feeling started emerging. That this era is not about adding copilots at the edges anymore. It’s about reimagining entire industries, workflows, teams, and business models from first principles. And perhaps one of the nicest things to witness was seeing so many women founders in the room, asking sharp questions and leading equally sharp conversations. By the end of it, it genuinely stopped feeling like an event, just as we'd imagined it to be. Side conversations. Spontaneous whiteboarding. Founders realizing they’re all navigating the same shift in different ways. It felt like a group of founders building the future together. Onwards! ✨ #MayInTheBay #Startups #AI

Hyderabad has always been good at building without making noise. Now, it’s becoming one of the most important AI founder corridors in the country. That’s probably the BIGGEST reason we’re bringing AIBoomi Bootcamp ’26 to the city this July. A small, closed-door working room for up to 80 AI-native founders building through the same uncertainty, pressure, and opportunity. To protect the quality of the room, we’re dropping panels, pitches, passive attendance, and everything else that gets in the way of learning and building together. Just real operator conversations, working sessions, peer-teach breakdowns, and founders helping other founders sharpen their playbooks together. Everything runs under Chatham House rules. If you're actively building in AI and want to spend three days with founders doing the real work alongside you, apply for a seat. 🟣 aiboomi.org/events/ai-bootca… 📍 July 3–5, 2026 | Hyderabad Applications now open. #Startups #AI #Hyderabad

We’re grateful to have had @CooleyLLP be part of AIBoomi Bootcamp ’26 | Bay Area as a Supporting Partner. ✨ Building enduring AI companies takes more than product velocity. It also takes the right legal, strategic, and ecosystem support around founders as they scale. That’s what made this partnership meaningful to us. Across three focused afternoons, including one inside OpenAI, founders came together for real conversations around product, GTM, fundraising, and what it takes to build in the AI era. Grateful to Cooley for backing the room and the conversations around it. 🙏 #MayInTheBay #Startups #AI

There are some moments in life that feel like they’ve waited years to happen. Meeting @kanwal946 felt like one of them. For over two decades, I’ve been building communities for entrepreneurs. First around product founders, then SaaS, and now AI. Over time, you realise community building is not about events or scale. It’s about staying committed to belief. Year after year. Founder after founder. Perhaps that’s why this meeting felt deeply personal. We spent hours talking about founders, ecosystems, institutions, and what it takes to build something that lasts beyond individuals. What stayed with me most was his curiosity. Despite everything he has achieved, Kanwal was genuinely interested in our journey at @AIBoomi. He asked thoughtful questions about sustainability, learnings, and how communities evolve over time. These conversations unfolded at @vinod_cc’s home in Pleasanton. Vinod is, hands down, one of the finest hosts you’ll find in the ecosystem. Along with hosting around 60 founders that evening, he created the kind of space where conversations naturally became meaningful. There was a fireside conversation, stories from the early days of Indian technology, and reflections on how TiE became a global institution. As a community builder, parts of the evening felt surreal. In many ways, what Kanwal built through TiE is what many of us aspire to build for the next generation of founders. Spaces where entrepreneurs feel less alone. Spaces that outlive us. But the moment that stayed with me the most was a quiet one. When he signed his book for me, I instinctively folded my hands and said, “Namaste.” For a brief second, I wasn’t a founder, operator, or community builder. Just an admirer meeting someone who helped shape the entrepreneurial journey of an entire generation. Some moments don’t need celebration. They simply remain etched in your heart forever.

Day 1 of AIBoomi Bootcamp '26 | Bay Area is done, and the room felt exactly the way we hoped it would. 💯 Over 60 founders came together for conversations that were deeply honest, practical, and sometimes uncomfortable in the best way possible. A lot of sharp questions. Strong opinions. And beneath all of that, a shared attempt to figure out what building in the AI era actually demands from founders right now. The best part? The conversations didn’t end when the sessions did. They spilled into breaks, side huddles, dinner, and long after people were supposed to leave. Onto Day 2. Inside OpenAI. 🙌 #MayInTheBay #Startups #AI

Most startups today already run on conversations. Customer calls. Product debates. Investor updates. Metrics. Docs. Slack threads. Endless context scattered across tools and people. What’s interesting is not whether AI will become part of that workflow. It’s what happens when the workspace itself becomes AI-native. That’s one of the ideas Rajoshi Ghosh from PromptQL will be exploring at AIBoomi Bootcamp '26 this May. In a live demo session, Rajoshi will walk through what multiplayer AI could actually look like for startups: teams collaborating with AI in real time across decision-making, analysis, context capture, and execution. Not as a future concept. But as a way a deeply AI-native team already works today. I suspect this session will leave a lot of founders rethinking how their teams operate. May 18–20 · San Francisco >> aiboomi.org/events/ai-bootca… #MayInTheBay #Startups #AI | @AIBoomi

A huge shoutout to @VentureDock, with whom we’re excited to be building the final day of AIBoomi Bootcamp ‘26 | Bay Area. 💜 We’re truly grateful for them opening up their space to a collaboration like this, and bringing their LATAM founder community into the room. Different geographies. Same set of hard questions. That’s exactly the kind of room we’ve been trying to build. From uncomfortable truths about building AI-native products to honest fundraising conversations and workshops, Day 3 is designed to get real about what it actually takes to build and scale in AI today. 🟣 May 18–20 · Bay Area >> aiboomi.org/events/ai-bootca… #MayInTheBay #Startups #AI

The million-💲 question: Which AI applications will people refuse to live without? @anagh_prasad explores where real, enduring value in AI will actually come from: workflows, trust, distribution, memory, outcomes, and the invisible habits users never want to break. This is a sharp read for founders building in the AI era, especially those thinking beyond demos, wrappers, and short-term hype. ♞ aiboomi.org/which-ai-applica… Because history rarely rewards the loudest technology. It rewards the products that quietly become indispensable. #Startups #Applications #AI

We’re super excited to have @PromptQL join AIBoomi Bootcamp ’26 | Bay Area as a Supporting Partner. 🎉 At a time when everyone’s talking about AI workflows, it’s refreshing to see teams like PromptQL actively helping shape the conversations around how AI-native products are actually being built and used. That’s exactly the kind of energy we want in the room. Founders coming together to openly talk about product, GTM, scaling, and what’s actually working right now. Including a full day inside OpenAI centered around Codex and AI-native workflows. 🧡 May 18–20 · San Francisco >> aiboomi.org/events/ai-bootca… #MayInTheBay #Startups #AI

JUST DROPPED: The India AI Edge by @z47_vc, @OpenAI, and @Zinnov. One of the sharpest reads on where 🇮🇳’s AI story actually stands today. 57 pages unpacking: 🔸 how India is using AI 🔸 what enterprise adoption really looks like 🔸 where Indian AI companies are emerging 🔸 and why India could become the world’s AI deployment layer That last point matters to us deeply. Because the next iconic AI companies from India won’t just be built on models. They’ll be built on: 🔹 workflows 🔹 distribution 🔹 adoption 🔹 execution at scale Which is also why we designed AIBoomi Bootcamp ’26 the way we did. This May, AI-native founders head to the Bay Area for deep immersion across product, GTM, infra, agents, and scale, with OpenAI taking over Day 2 for an exclusive Codex Day. Download the report: z47.com/how-india-uses-ai Apply for Bootcamp ’26: aiboomi.org/events/ai-bootca… The rooms where AI gets discussed are crowded. The rooms where AI gets operationalised are still small. See you in the arena. 🙌

A lot of GTM conversations today come from people who seem to have already figured it out. What makes this one interesting is that Manoj Agarwal is still very much in the middle of the journey. After years spent deep in engineering, he’s now learning a completely different craft at DevRev: how to sell, position, and navigate go-to-market in the US market. I suspect a lot of technical founders from India will find that transition deeply relatable. That’s what this fireside chat at AIBoomi Bootcamp '26 will really be about. An honest conversation about what it feels like to go from engineer to GTM while still building the company at the same time. Come with your questions. I have a feeling Manoj will answer them straight from the heart, as always. May 18–20 · San Francisco >> luma.com/bootcamp-aiboomi #MayInTheBay #Startups #GTM #AI | @AIBoomi