Avinash Raghava

SaaSBoomi · Bengaluru

Built SaaSBoomi, the community that most Indian SaaS founders learned go to market inside

Why they're worth your time

He is the working example of community as a go to market channel rather than a marketing garnish: how peer groups get built, why a pay it forward norm compounds, and how a conference becomes a distribution asset. Useful if your GTM plan involves earning a place in an ecosystem rather than buying attention.

Background

Avinash Raghava has spent two decades building technology communities in India, including NASSCOM Product Conclave and iSPIRT, and is a founding volunteer and the CEO of SaaSBoomi, India's pay it forward SaaS founder community. SaaSBoomi runs the annual founder conference and peer groups that have become the default gathering point for Indian B2B software founders. He is publicly active on LinkedIn and X, largely about community as a growth mechanism.

Known for

Community Partnerships GTM hiring Inbound & content

Where they're public

Their own channels. Read the work first.

LinkedIn X Website

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