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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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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.
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Kalaari Unplugged 2025
Kalaari Unplugged 2025 was inspiring, refreshing, and real — spent in the company of our amazing portfolio founders.
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kindlife Raises $8 Million Series A
We are thrilled to announce that our portfolio company, kindlife, has successfully raised $8 million Series A round.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
90% of internet users in prefer to consume content in their local language. The next big opportunity in India is . We kickstarted our session on Clubhouse with of and of , hosted by , MD of .In this episode, we discuss the vernacular opportunity in India and how it's shaping India’s digital ecosystem.Hindustan Hamara focuses on conversations with the shapers of India's digital future. Every session we talk to individuals who are shaping the future of India's digital innovation landscape.For more updates on our sessions, follow Kalaari on Clubhouse: If you have any suggestions, please reach out to us at podcast@kalaari.com. We would love to hear from you.
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The Hindsight: Building the India Space Stack
Sanjay Nekkanti, the founder of Dhruva Space, was still in college, when he kept hearing the same thing: Satellies were a governmetn-only game in India. A population of over one billion and not a single private company to show for it? Sanjay set out to build the whole stack: satellites, launch infrastructure, and ground infrastructure.
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The Hindsight: 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.
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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 Hindsight: The Fintech Opportunity Hidden in SME Banking
In Episode 03 of The Hindsight, Vani Kola speaks with Mabel Chacko, Co-founder of Open, about building one of India's leading neobanks for small businesses and startups. The conversation covers the early struggles of convincing banks to partner with them, finding unexpected distribution channels, building culture during rapid scaling, and keeping the customer at the center of every major decision.
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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 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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