{"id":991540,"date":"2026-02-12T08:55:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991540"},"modified":"2026-02-12T08:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:28:15","slug":"low-cost-video-conferencing-entrant-targets-india-with-bootstrapped-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/12\/low-cost-video-conferencing-entrant-targets-india-with-bootstrapped-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Low-cost video conferencing entrant targets India with bootstrapped model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian video conferencing market, which surged during the pandemic-induced lockdowns before settling into a steady hybrid-era workplace demand, is seeing a new entrant with competitive pricing and a bootstrapped business model, raising questions about whether enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) can compete without venture capital backing. <\/p>\n<p>Des Moines-based AONMeetings launched in India yesterday with per-user monthly pricing starting at Rs179, approximately 83% lower than other comparable plans. The company\u2019s India entry comes after five years of profitable operations serving over 1,000 global customers without raising venture capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian video conferencing market, which surged during the pandemic-induced lockdowns before settling into a steady hybrid-era workplace demand, is seeing a new entrant with competitive pricing and a bootstrapped business model, raising questions about whether enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) can compete without venture capital backing. Des Moines-based AONMeetings launched in India yesterday with per-user monthly pricing starting at Rs179, approximately 83% lower than other comparable plans. The company\u2019s India entry comes after five years of profitable operations serving over 1,000 global customers without raising venture capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}