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How Diverse Experiences Led Me to Kalaari Capital

You know that feeling when life takes you somewhere completely unexpected, but somehow it all makes perfect sense? That’s exactly how I feel about my journey to the Kalaari Fellowship.
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How Jar Built a Savings Habit App for India

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. The conversation covers consumer behavior, habit formation, fintech growth, distribution, product-market fit, and building for the mass market in India.
PODCASTS

Hyperbots Raises $6.5 Million Series A

We are excited to share that our portfolio company, Hyperbots, has raised a $6.5 million Series A round co-led by Arkam Ventures and Athera Venture Partners, with participation from JSW Ventures and existing investors Kalaari Capital, Sunicon Ventures.
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India Alpha: The Techade of Opportunity

At the peak of its Golden Era, India was the beating heart of the global economy, contributing a staggering one-third of the world’s GDP. It was a land of innovation and abundance—the world’s sole diamond hub, a treasure trove of silk and spices, and the birthplace of groundbreaking scientific ideas like the decimal system and zero.
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India’s Push for a Globally Competitive Earth Observation Stack

In this edition of Kalaari’s DeepTech Dispatch we unpack Earth observation – what Earth observation is, its growing relevance, the tech stack that powers it and the emerging start-up opportunities.
NEWSLETTERS

Kalaari at 20: What Comes Next

From robotic surgery in Indian OTs and autonomous hiring to the ₹4 problem in women's funding and India's shift from AI consumer to AI builder, this edition of Venture Forward marks 20 years of Kalaari and the next chapter just beginnin
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Kalaari Fellowship Diary: Sana Gupta

Looking in from the outside, it seemed like I was living a dream life: After graduating from UCLA, I got a great job as a consultant in Los Angeles. But deep down, I felt this nagging sense of unfulfillment and the guilt that came along with it.
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Kalaari Fellowship Diary: Soumya Yadav

After five transformative years at IIT Kharagpur (Dual Degree), my professional journey began as an operator role at Flipkart. As a business development manager within Flipkart, I managed the Appliances section portfolio, focusing on pricing strategies, demand planning and the growth of the concerned SKUs.
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Why We Invested?

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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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 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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