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Kalaari Konverse 2025

This is our annual investor and startup mixer. Held every year, the flagship event brings ogether visionaries, investors, and ecosystem enablers to collaborate and shape the future of India's tech and venture landscape.
EVENTS

Kalaari Unplugged 2025

Kalaari Unplugged 2025 was inspiring, refreshing, and real — spent in the company of our amazing portfolio founders.
EVENTS

kindlife Raises $8 Million Series A

We are thrilled to announce that our portfolio company, kindlife, has successfully raised $8 million Series A round.
BLOGS

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw: The pioneer of India's biotech industry | Changemakers Ep 2

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw returned to India in the 1970s as the country’s first qualified woman master brewer, expecting to begin the career she had trained for. Instead, she discovered that no brewery was willing to hire a woman. What began as rejection soon became an act of defiance: if the industry would not make room for her, she would build something of her own.
PODCASTS

Mumbai Mixer 2025

The Kalaari Mumbai Mixer 2025 is an exclusive, invite-only event catering to startup founders, investors, and business leaders a to network and engage with the city's tech ecosystem.
EVENTS

My Life at Kalaari is Applied Curiosity in Action

My professional journey began with a fundamental curiosity about what truly separates successful businesses from the rest. This question guided me to read eagerly about capital market, learn value investing and to begin investing with my very first articleship stipend. The CA journey was demanding, instilling a deep sense of rigor, discipline, and the value of hard work.
BLOGS

My Unconventional Path to Venture: Lessons Beyond the MBA

The day I cleared Level 3 of the CFA, I was certain about one thing – I wanted to build a career in venture capital. My trajectory seemed crystal clear: finish my stint at EY, pursue an MBA, then dive into venture capital.
BLOGS

New Wave: AI Agents

In a world where technology is advancing at lightning speed, AI is driving a profound transformation.
BLOGS

Why We Invested?

SaaS from Scratch: Anish Reddy of Capillary Technologies on Scaling SaaS from India to Global

16 years, $75M ARR, 15 Fortune 200 clients and Anish Rai will tell you the biggest mistakes were the ones he saw coming and ignored anyway.

Saas from Scratch: Ashutosh Garg on Building Eightfold AI: The Outsider Mindset That Created a Unicorn

Ashutosh Garg walked into HR tech knowing nothing about HR and used that as the edge. In this episode of SaaS from Scratch, Vani Kola sits down with the co-founder of Eightfold AI to unpack how a Google engineer's outsider lens built two unicorns and a new category.

SaaS from Scratch: Dheeraj Pandey of Nutanix and DevRev on Building Category-Defining SaaS from India

Nutanix co-founder Dheeraj Pandey joins Vani Kola to unpack how he built a $20 billion company by betting on distributed systems and what he'd do differently if he were starting today.

SaaS from Scratch: Founder Playbook | 2025 Edition

What separates category-defining SaaS companies from the rest? As Indian SaaS grows from $2B in 2018 to $17B in ARR now to become the world’s second-largest SaaS ecosystem, this question matters more than ever.

SaaS From Scratch: From Zero to Category: How Fareye Built a Market That Didn't Exist

Kushal Nahata built Fareye in a category no one had defined and had to convince buyers, investors, and an entire industry that a better way was possible. Here's the playbook for building something the market doesn't know it needs yet.

SaaS From Scratch: How Darwinbox's Rohit Chennamaneni Built an HR Tech Unicorn to Take On SAP and Workday from Hyderabad

Rohit Chennamaneni left McKinsey not with a grand plan, but with a frustration consulting advice never stuck, and a product could fix that. Nine years later, that frustration became Darwinbox, India's homegrown HR tech unicorn competing with SAP, Oracle, and Workday on their own turf.

Saas From Scratch: RateGain's Bhanu Chopra on TAM Expansion and Building Category-Defining SaaS

RateGain founder Bhanu Chopra joins Vani Kola to unpack how he built a $90 billion TAM travel tech company by entering a niche no investor would have bet on and expanding it into a category no one saw coming.

SaaS from Scratch: Saahil Goel on Building Shiprocket: 7 Years of Pivots, ₹10L to India's Largest E-Commerce Enablement Platform

Every founding story has a pivot. Saahil Goel had seven years of them and built India's largest e-commerce enablement platform on the other side.

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