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Why we invested in Zluri

Zluri is an enterprise SaaS Management Platform (SMP). Its main function is to help organizations discover, manage, and optimize their third-party subscription software applications from a single dashboard.
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Why We Invested in Zocket

Zocket allows users without marketing expertise to create social media content and launch digital ad campaigns across platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Google in less than 30 seconds.
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Wired for Impact: Women in Ind(AI) Report

AI will define the future. But who defines AI? As India races ahead in building its AI ecosystem, Wired for Impact: Women in (Ind)AI — a CXXO and Kalaari Capital report explores how women are participating, leading, and reshaping India’s AI journey, and where the biggest gaps remain.
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Zero Hour Conversation with A R Unnikrishnan

As AI models scale from millions to trillions of parameters, it is vital to have the right access to capital and compute to nurture a fast-growing AI ecosystem.
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Zero Hour Conversation with Arvind Thakur

Arvind Thakur shared leadership lessons from decades in India’s IT industry — crisis reveals capability, values matter most in tough moments, differentiation comes from playing to your strengths and AI is fundamentally reshaping how businesses operate and create value.
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Zero Hour Conversation with Karthik Sankaran

Kalaari Capital’s recap of a talk with chip veteran Dr. Karthik Sankaran: semiconductors are becoming foundational as AI, EVs, and edge computing scale, and India’s design talent gives it a real shot in deep-tech—if it gets patient capital and a full ecosystem
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Zero Hour Conversation with Kirthiga Reddy

The session focused on leadership, reinvention, and India’s tech ecosystem.-
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Zero Hour Conversation with Narayan Manepally

Manepally spoke about how his started in Portland, when he brewed his first perfect batch of beer. Returning to India and finding only Kingfisher available everywhere convinced him that India deserved better craft beer, and he decided to make that happen himself.
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Why We Invested in Herkey

HerKey is a digital career engagement platform that unlocks the economic potential of Indian women by providing them with job opportunities, upskilling, and professional networking communities
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Why we invested in HireBound

Across enterprises, staffing firms, and high-growth startups, hiring remains one of the most manual and time-sensitive workflows. Most organizations have digitized tracking (ATS, spreadsheets, portals). The actual work still happens outside the system: interpreting requirements, chasing candidates, running screening loops, and coordinating interviews across multiple stakeholdersThe workflow is full of drop-offs and coordination debt. Candidates don’t complete applications, or they drop because communication is slow or unclear. Recruiters spend hours on searches and repetitive screening, and then lose days in scheduling ping-pong. The result is predictable: qualified candidates exit the funnel, hiring managers see low-quality shortlists, and offers fail at the joining stage.
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Why We Invested in Hyperbots

Over the last two decades, automation technologies have transformed most business functions for large enterprises across the globe.
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Why We Invested in Kindlife

Kindlife captures a rapidly expanding clean beauty and wellness market driven by conscious, millennial consumers seeking sustainable, ethically sourced products.
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Why We Invested in LXME

Today, Indian women not only mean business – they are also good business. Helping 560M women achieve financial independence is GREAT business.
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Why We Invested in Matters.AI

When Data Became the New Perimeter In the last decade, data stopped being a byproduct—it became the business itself.
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Why we Invested in Maximize Money

Maximize Money is building India's universal savings and loyalty infrastructure, replacing fragmented discount channels with an automated "SaveMax" engine that stacks coupons, gift cards, and rewards into a single click.
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Why We Invested in Meshdefend

The Market Shift: From Fragmented Systems to Intelligent Operations Enterprises face growing pressure to ensure data resilience and operational efficiency.
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