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‘If you are not adapting to AI, throw away your roadmap’: Freshworks’ Girish Mathrubootham

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YourStory · 4m ago

‘If you are not adapting to AI, throw away your roadmap’: Freshworks’ Girish Mathrubootham

Girish Mathrubootham, Founder of Freshworks, emphasized the need for SaaS companies to revamp their strategies to incorporate AI during his keynote at SaaSBoomi 2025. He advised abandoning outdated human-centric roadmaps in favor of new plans catering to a future where AI and humans coexist. Mathrubootham highlighted AI as a major opportunity and catalyst for India's growth as a "product nation," urging companies to adopt AI-driven solutions for greater scalability, especially in vertical AI SaaS markets.

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Peak XV Partners sells about 1% stake in Freshworks for $51.5M

Venture capital firm Peak XV Partners sold about a 1% stake in SaaS company Freshworks, reducing its holding to 3.9%. The sale involved 2.93 million shares, amounting to $51.5 million. Freshworks founder Girish Mathrubootham also sold shares worth $39 million in December. Peak XV, initially investing $80 million since 2016, made the sale amid slowed growth-stage funding. The firm recently cut its largest fund and is returning $465 million to its limited partners.

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