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An IIT Madras-incubated startup pioneering industrialized prefab micro-construction to deliver scalable, rapid infrastructure across India.

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Articulus Surgical is building affordable, modular surgical robotics for India — where 70% of surgeries are still open procedures and robotic systems have reached fewer than 300 of 70,000 hospitals.

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Kalaari Capital led a $3M seed round in NudgeBee, an AI-agentic platform that unifies SRE, FinOps, and Cloud Ops into a single enterprise context layer to automate complex cloud operations.

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What is the opportunity for startups, as the country opens up its carbon market?

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A lot has been said about consumer AI this year. One thing feels clear: we have finally entered the era of native AI consumer apps that actually makes life meaningfully better, not just theoretically cooler.

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India’s factories lose over $50 billion annually to unplanned downtime and low utilization, producing just a fifth of China’s per-worker manufacturing value. Kalaari Capital argues that AI-native tools — predictive maintenance, vision-based inspection, and intelligent scheduling — offer India’s best path to leapfrog this productivity gap and build globally competitive factories.

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In Episode 02 of The Hindsight, Vani Kola speaks with Nishchay AG, Co-founder of Jar, about building one of India’s leading fintech startups focused on savings and investing.

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In Episode 03 of The Hindsight, Vani Kola speaks with Mabel Chacko, Co-founder of Open, about building one of India's leading neobanks for small businesses and startups.

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Twenty years ago, before Kalaari Capital existed, a conversation with Professor Ashok Jhunjhunwala helped shape the decision to return to India and build here. When we launched Changemakers — a podcast series marking 20 years of Kalaari — there was no question about who the first guest should be.

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Digantara has raised $50 million in a Series B round to scale its space surveillance and intelligence operations, expand manufacturing, and grow its global research footprint

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Backing founders with the conviction to build

Through Inflection Points

and the

In-Between

Through inflection points and the

in-between

Kalaari’s conviction showed early — not just in the idea, but in the details. Vani flew to Mumbai to see our backend firsthand. That level of curiosity and belief from an investor is rare.

Gaurav Singh Kushwaha

Founder & CEO, BlueStone

Kalaari was very founder first in their approach. While we were thinking of few quarters, they were thinking a few years down the line.

Ritish Reddy

Co-Founder & CEO,

Zluri

Kalaari really pushed us on our thinking on how we are going to create differentiation for customers and how we are able to sustain that quality at scale.

Mukesh Bansal

Founder,

Curefit & Myntra

I think with Kalaari we have had the right partner. Somebody who has always supported us and asked us the right questions at the right time.

Saurabh Pandey

Founder & CEO,

Eloelo

I am fortunate and grateful that I found Kalaari as one of the early investors who believed in my dream of building YourStory. I genuinely thank them for giving YourStory an opportunity to live.

Shraddha Sharma

Founder & CEO,

YourStory

11 years ago we all were quite new, and this space was also evolving. So, the challenge was to understand how the VC industry is set up and when we met Kalaari it was a natural fit.

Swati Bhargava

Co-Founder,

Cashkaro

Kalaari is known to be an early spotter of trends and having backed the first generation of successful consumer internet start-ups.

Diksha Pande

Co-Founder

Samosa Party

In 2012 Kalaari Capital saw the value of Simplilearn’s teaching approach and business model. They invested in the firm to enable it to expand.

Krishna Kumar

Founder & CEO,

Simplilearn

Space is long-cycle capital. Kalaari understood that from day one and backed us when orbital debris sounded like science fiction.

Anirudh Sharma

Founder & CEO,

Digantara

“Kalaari’s conviction showed early, not just in the idea, but in the details. Vani flew to Mumbai to see our backend firsthand. That level of curiosity and belief from an investor is rare.”