What 2025 Looked Like for the GTMDialogues Community

How founders, conversations, and consistency shaped our community in 2025

This year felt like growth shaped by conversations. As you showed up to sessions, one belief kept getting stronger. Learning happens best when founders sit with founders and speak openly.

As the community grew, so did the circle of partners who shared this intent. With the support of Pentathlon Ventures, StartupTN, eChai, Draper Startup House, T-Hub, Saanchi Connect, DBS Bank, 2.2 Club, Break into VC, Ideas to Impacts, KickSaaS, and Awign, the room became richer with every discussion.

GTMDialogues exists to hold space for real founder conversations. Spaces where you participate, share lived experiences, and learn from each other. This year was about building that space with consistency, care, and purpose.

Walking With Founders Through Capital, Customers, and Talent

GTMDialogues is built to support founders beyond conversations. Last year, our scale-up practices came into focus by helping founders improve how they raised capital, hired teams, and accessed the right customers.

Every format we designed was tied back to these outcomes. Detours were shaped around better stories, stronger investor conversations, and real connections. Through workshops across Hyderabad, Bengaluru, and Chennai, founders refined how they spoke about their journey.

A milestone moment came in Hyderabad, where over 100 founders engaged deeply through a half-day format.

At the core of GTMDialogues are three pillars that guide our work. Customer access through investors and buyers. Capital support through fundraising and CFO advisory. Talent enablement through hiring practices designed for scale. These pillars shape how we support founders as a company, not just as a community.

Peer-to-peer sessions became the connective layer across everything we do. Founders showed up as equal contributors, openly sharing highs and lows. These spaces worked because they were designed to be founder-led, safe, and outcome-driven.

Consistency made this value visible over time. By showing up every month with relevant formats, GTMDialogues has earned trust. That trust is what allows founders to return, participate deeply, and rely on the community as part of their growth journey.

The Conversations That Shaped the Year:

As the year progressed, patterns began to form. Founders stayed longer in sessions where conversations felt honest and outcomes felt possible. Over time, three formats consistently stood out for the depth of engagement they created.

What founders leaned into the most:

• Buyer’s POV sessions that brought real buyers into the room
• AMAs that allowed direct, unfiltered questions to VCs
• Detour workshops that made space for long, thoughtful discussions

Detours created space for deeper learning. Across seven workshops, founders unpacked fundraising stories and growth decisions together. The longer format allowed conversations to move beyond tactics into real reflection.

AMA with VC sessions brought much-needed clarity. In two focused AMAs, founders asked direct questions and received equally direct answers from investors. Follow-up conversations helped turn insight into next steps.

Buyer’s POV sessions added a fresh perspective. Through four sessions, founders heard directly from enterprise buyers on how decisions are made and what truly matters. These conversations helped founders rethink how their products are viewed on the other side.

Deepdives brought everything together through peer-led formats. Three small-group sessions allowed founders to openly share wins, doubts, and lessons. The absence of speakers made every voice count.

A Snapshot of the Community We Built Together

As the year progressed, growth showed up quietly in participation and presence. The community expanded through founders returning to conversations.

What the year looked like in numbers:

• 300+ founders actively engaged across WhatsApp groups
• 3,000+ founders as part of the wider GTMD ecosystem
• 20+ events hosted across formats and cities

These conversations travelled across cities and formats. Founders came together in Bengaluru, Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai, and Pune, with regular sessions running about an hour and Detours stretching into five to six hours of deep discussion.

How time and effort were invested:

• 50+ hours spent in live founder conversations
• Long-form Detours designed for depth
• Blogs and AMA recaps extending learning beyond the room

Behind these numbers were founders who helped shape the culture.

Community contributors who stood out last year:

• Tanmay Ratnaparkhe, Co-founder, Predis.ai
• Ajay Kumar, Co-founder, MonkSpaces.ai

Their initiative in starting peer-to-peer discussions encouraged others to participate, share openly, and take ownership of the community.

Looking Ahead: What We’re Building in 2026

As the community matures, our focus is becoming sharper. In 2026, we are leaning deeper into themes that founders spoke about repeatedly last year. The significance of peer-driven conversations and the need to hire the right talent.

This led us to design Converge’26, an event built to bring hiring back to real conversations, where founders and talent meet with clarity and shared context.

What Converge’26 is designed to create:

• A curated, outcome-driven room for B2B SaaS founders actively hiring
• Structured pitch slots where founders present their company, team, and open roles
• Focused 1:1 conversations with GTM and Founder’s Office talent who are exploring their next move

Alongside hiring conversations, Converge’26 also creates space for investor interaction. A small group of investors will be part of the room, allowing founders to have unhurried conversations, get feedback, and build relationships that continue beyond the event.

If hiring is a priority for you in 2026 and you value conversations over volume, registrations for Converge’26 are now open. We’d love to have you in the room and be part of these conversations.

Register here

How the community continues to evolve:

• More peer-led sessions with founders shaping the agenda
• More offline interactions designed for depth
• More opportunities surfaced through focused deep dives, and many more

As the year 2025 came to a close, we want to thank you for showing up. For the questions you asked, the experiences you shared, and the time you invested in conversations that helped others move forward.

Looking ahead, 2026 feels like a natural next step. GTMDialogues is evolving from a space for conversations into a platform that backs founders more deeply, including our transition towards operating as an accelerator fund. The intent remains the same, to stay close to founders as they build.

If you want to stay connected, keep joining the sessions, contributing to peer discussions, and shaping what this community becomes. GTMDialogues will continue to be a space built with founders, for founders, and alongside founders.

At GTMDialogues, we don’t just host conversations, we build from experience. Our Scale-Up Practices capture the exact systems founders use to unlock revenue.

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