Jayraj Bharat Patel
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt
Jay is an AVP at Kalaari, where he primarily focuses on software investments, with a strong emphasis on AI-driven and workflow-first solutions.
He launched his first startup right after college—a digital media venture built for India’s student population. He then joined Paper.vc, a startup building a smarter private market intelligence platform for India’s startup ecosystem. At Paper, Jay wore multiple hats—leading research, running their flagship newsletter (which organically scaled to 10,000+ subscribers), and playing a pseudo product manager role across various internal tools and data products.
On weekends, you’ll either find him in his “bat-cave” deep-diving into markets and emerging technologies—or out having long one-on-ones over coffee. He’s an avid basketball and badminton player, and arguably one of the most passionate FC Barcelona fans around. Fun fact: he may be the only Gujarati who doesn’t have a sweet tooth.
