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Deep insights, inspiration, founder stories, and comprehensive reports.

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 in Resilience AI

2023: A Year of Unprecedented Climate Disasters The past year has underscored the escalating urgency of addressing climate resilience.
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Why we invested in Resolve360

A digital-first physiotherapy platform addressing the $17 billion rehabilitation market by shifting from session-based temporary relief to outcome-focused, long-term pain recovery.
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Why We Invested in Samosa Party

Samosa Party scales India’s massive, unorganized $40B street food market by establishing a capital-efficient, delivery-first QSR brand backed by predictable cloud kitchen unit economics.
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Why we invested in SimpliContract

Kalaari Capital explains its thesis for leading a $1.8M seed round in SimpliContract, an enterprise Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) startup tackling a market growing from $1.5B to $5.2B by 2027.
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The Hindsight: How Snabbit's Ayush Agarwal Built India's First On-Demand Home Services Platform

Snabbit founder Ayush Agarwal joins Vani Kola to unpack how he built India's first on-demand home services platform by solving a problem no customer could articulate and no competitor thought to look for.
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The Hindsight: How SpotDraft Built the AI Layer for Legal Teams

Shashank Bijapur, the founder of Spotdraft, joins Vani Kola to talk about how he built an AI-powered contract lifecycle platform that is now trusted by legal teams from India to the US.
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The Imperative of Security in IoT Environments

Imagine waking up to the aroma of freshly brewed coffee, your thermostat perfectly adjusting the temperature, and lights illuminating your path as you step out of bed.
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The Kalaari Fellowship Application is Live

Applications for the Kalaari Fellowship are open. The 2-year, full-time, immersive apprenticeship-style program is an opportunity to break into the venture ecosystem.
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The Quantum Trifecta: India's Race Across Three Clocks

In this edition, we unravel quantum technology, three parallel races in sensing, communication, and computing converging into one strategic moment, and where India’s startups can build.
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The Rare-Earth Chokepoint: Designing Around Dependence

In this edition, we unravel rare-earth elements - what they are, their importance and the opportunity for startups as globally industries hunt alternatives for China’s control on rare-earths.
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The Second-Order Effects of Indian Commerce

Why live commerce, agentic checkout, and loyalty look different once you examine the pre-purchase, purchase, and post-purchase layers
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The State of AI and Cybersecurity in 2025

AI is rewriting cybersecurity faster than enterprises can respond. Our new Kalaari report captures what CISOs are actually struggling with, and where they believe the next wave of cybersecurity companies will be built
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