Sumanth Raghavendra

Feb 5, 2025 | linkedin.com | Sumanth Raghavendra

It takes a village to raise a child. It takes a community to raise a startup. It takes mavericks to build the future. After a decade of silent building, we're sharing the story of perhaps the most patient bet in startup history - a story of believers who remembered their own early days, when someone took a chance on their seemingly impossible dreams.

Jan 30, 2025 | linkedin.com | Sumanth Raghavendra

Spoiler: This is not a story about unicorns. This is a story about crows. Shekhar Kirani of Accel Partners is not a good VC. To understand why, I need to tell you a story. If this were about startups and VCs, you might expect a unicorn tale. The tech world loves unicorns and other mythical creatures – magical beasts that leap fully-formed into billion-dollar valuations, pristine and gilded, soaring from obscurity to the heavens on rainbows of hype.

May 10, 2024 | saasboomi.org | Sumanth Raghavendra

There is a storm brewing and it answers to the name ‘AI’. Are SaaS companies in general, and Indian SaaS companies in particular, ready to face the Al apocalypse? “I am scared”Not the kind of words you would expect from one of India’s most celebrated SaaS founders. A person at the helm of a startup that has thousands of employees is a unicorn many times over and has well over $100m in ARR. But the man at the other end of the phone line had a point.

Aug 8, 2023 | saasboomi.org | Vinod Muthukrishnan |Sumanth Raghavendra

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”While these immortal lines from Charles Dickens can apply to many things in any age, they seem particularly apt for India SaaS in 2023. We are now at a liminal moment in time – a period of transformative transition.