Building a High Growth Vertical AI Company in Healthcare: Ganesh Padmanabhan, CEO of Autonomize AI (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: How long did you stay there?

Ganesh Padmanabhan: About two and a half years. During that time, we went from about $3 million to about $30 million ARR. It was very fast growth. It was early days of AI and we learned a lot.

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Building a High Growth Vertical AI Company in Healthcare: Ganesh Padmanabhan, CEO of Autonomize AI (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Okay. So, now I have a picture of your timeline to double click down on. So, tell me about the startup that you did – where you got acqui-hired. How long was that journey?

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Best of Bootstrapping: Co-founders Bootstrapped First, Scaled to $16M

This is a textbook case study of founders with deep domain knowledge in starting with services and then productizing, eventually raising institutional capital. EZOPS Co-Founders Sarva Srinivasan and Dutt Chintalapati told us all about their journey in 2021.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where were you born? Where does your journey begin? 

Sarva Srinivasan: I was born in India and grew up there. I did my Computer Science there, then majored in Finance. I then started working with Wipro.

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Chase Customers Instead of Concept Financing

First time entrepreneurs, for the most part, do not qualify for Concept Financing. If you are hitting up pre-seed VCs in search of Concept Financing, you are wasting your time.

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Building a High Growth Vertical AI Company in Healthcare: Ganesh Padmanabhan, CEO of Autonomize AI (Part 1)

Ganesh has executed on a textbook case study of building a vertical AI company in Healthcare with a clear human-in-the-loop strategy that VCs are salivating over. Read on, much to learn.

Are You Chasing Investors Ahead of Customers?

Startups are trying to blitzscale and become Unicorns while the market around is falling apart. In the last 18 months, numerous erstwhile Unicorns have stopped growing and started failing.
Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later is a MUCH better strategy than Blitzscaling with ridiculous amounts of capital. In 1Mby1M, we prefer Bootstrapping early, then raising small amounts of capital.

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1Mby1M AI Investor Forum: Manu Rekhi, Managing Director at Inventus Capital Partners (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Okay. And what are you seeing in your deal flow? We’ve talked about what you’re investing in, what trends are you picking up from your deal flow, whether it’s Indian deal flow or US deal flow? What are you picking up?