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Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later and Build a World-Class AI Startup from India: Raghu Ravinutala, CEO of Yellow.ai (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: What is your relationship with companies like Zendesk and Freshworks? Raghu Ravinutala: I call it frenemies. We integrate with Zendesk. Any transfer is handled by Zendesk. We have a lot of cases where we have replaced Zendesk as well. In some cases, we do compete with handling the same budget out there. The
Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later and Build a World-Class AI Startup from India: Raghu Ravinutala, CEO of Yellow.ai (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: How developed are your system-integrated channels? The kinds of things that you’re talking of doing, this is the kind of thing system integrators do well, right? You have talked about customer support use cases. You talked about IT support use cases and HR support. If you went into an enterprise, you could do
Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later and Build a World-Class AI Startup from India: Raghu Ravinutala, CEO of Yellow.ai (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What are the numbers on Series B and Series C? Raghu Ravinutala: In series B, we raised about $20 million. In Series C, we raised about $79 million. Sramana Mitra: That’s a lot of money that you’ve raised. You’d have to build a huge company to return that investment. One of the things
