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

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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Why We Invested in Studio Sirah

Studio Sirah targets an under-penetrated whitespace in India by building culturally resonant, high-quality midcore and hardcore gaming IPs inspired by Indian mythology.
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Why We Invested in SuperBryn

Voice AI has advanced by leaps and bounds in recent years. The potential of voice AI has been evident ever since Siri, Alexa and the likes became the go-to interface for millions of people around the world.

Why We Invested in Swift

Swift is building the infrastructure layer for India's D2C commerce ecosystem, simplifying fulfilment and enabling one-click checkout to reduce cart abandonment and improve conversion rates.
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Why We Invested in Tring

Tring capitalizes on India’s deeply rooted celebrity culture by providing an execution-heavy platform that democratizes access to underserved, long-tail creators and regional stars
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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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