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Why we invested in MilkBasket

Today, we are very excited to announce Kalaari Capital’s investment in Milkbasket — partnering with founding team Anant, Ashish, Yatish, and Anurag. Their journey towards building a great household brand for grocery shopping in India is exciting to us and we hope to foster a long-term relationship with Milkbasket and see this goal come to light.
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Why We Invested in Modulus Housing

India is undergoing one of the world’s largest infrastructure buildouts. With over $1.3 trillion allocated under the National Infrastructure Pipeline and an estimated $5.8 trillion real estate market by 2047, the construction sector is poised to contribute 15.5% to India’s GDP – up from the current 7.3%.

Why We Invested in Mozark

As mobile data becomes the backbone for many consumer services, we believe that the quality of data networks and data science around it will be a huge market opportunity.
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Why We Invested in NudgeBee

Over the last decade, enterprise software has moved decisively to cloud-native, multi-cloud, containers, and microservices. The way enterprises build software has fundamentally changed. The way they operate it has not.
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Why We Invested in Pascal Ai

In the 1960s, Eugene Fama developed the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH), which argues that financial markets are informationally efficient—meaning asset prices always reflect all available information.
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Why We Invested in Peer Robotics

Peer Robotics heuristics-based tech stack enables out-of-the-box, flexible material handling deployment without heavy integration costs.
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Why We Invested In Portl

Kalaari Capital breaks down its investment in Portl — an AI-driven connected fitness device tackling India’s biggest workout pain points: adherence, personalization, space, and access.
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Why We Invested in Pype AI

Pype AI scales hospital front-desk operations by deploying deeply integrated, voice-led autonomous agents that eliminate administrative overhead and reduce patient no-shows
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Why We Invested?

Capitalising the Indian Techade

The Indian Techade ahead is an exciting opportunity with the economy predicted to grow 8x over the next 2 decades.
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Chara Raises Rs 52 Cr in Series A

We’re excited to share that our portfolio company, Chara Technologies, has raised ₹52 crore in a funding round led by Arkam Ventures.

Clean Electric Raises $6 Million Series A

We are pleased to announce that our portfolio company, Clean Electric, has successfully raised $6 million in a Series A funding with participation from InfoEdge, pi Ventures, and Lok Capital, alongside our continued support.
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Consulting to Venture Capital – Finding My Place in the Indian Startup Ecosystem

This was the common refrain when I announced my decision to transition from McKinsey to venture capital. Looking back, that reaction wasn’t surprising.
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Consumer AI Rewind: Stories, Companions, and the Rise of AI That Feels Persona

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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Consumer AI Series: Companions and Us

That is over 20% of the world population, for perspective Covid 19 infected around 9%. In November of 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared loneliness a “global public health concern”.
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Convin Raises $6.5 Million Series A

We are excited to announce that Convin AI, has successfully raised a $6.5 million Series A round.
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Decoding Starting Up 2025

Starting up is hard. The road is filled with decisions, trade-offs, and challenges that test even the most resilient founders. This report distills key learnings from Kalaari Capital’s popular “Decoding Starting Up” series into one comprehensive resource.

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