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

ONDC: Commerce Without Boundaries

In a nation where commerce has been the backbone of communities for centuries, from bustling bazaars to neighbourhood Kirana stores, India stands at the cusp of a revolutionary transformation.
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Overview of Female Healthcare - Opportunities in India

Female healthcare in India represents a significantly underserved $10 billion market opportunity, with alarming statistics showing 1 in 5 women suffering from PCOS and rapid growth in breast and cervical cancer cases.

Pay it Forward with Harsh Jain

Back when Dream 11 was founded in 2008, fantasy sports as a category did not exist in India. Today, they have more than 100 million users and are clear market leaders. We kickstarted our first #PayItForward session with , Co-Founder, and CEO of . We spoke about what inspired Harsh to start Dream11, choosing the right investors to partner with, building the right company culture, and setting audacious goals for yourself. The Pay It Forward series, hosted by , MD of , focuses on conversations with founders and CEOs who have built businesses that have transformed the landscape of the Indian start-up ecosystem. 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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Physical AI and the Deployment Problem

In this edition, we unpack Physical AI - the technology stack powering it, the deployment challenges holding it back, and where the next generation of startup opportunities are emerging
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Preventive Healthcare: The New Frontier in India’s Health Revolution

Chronic diseases, affect one in five Indians or around 270 million people. Stress and unbalanced lifestyles in today’s fast-paced world further exacerbate these health problems.
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Pricing The Planet: India's Carbon Markets Go Live

In this edition, we unpack the two levers India has for cutting its carbon emissions while still growing as an economy, and the opportunity for startups as the country opens up its carbon market
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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.

Why We Invested?

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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Why We Invested in Pascal Ai

In the 1960s, Eugene Fama developed the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH), which argues that financial markets are informationally efficient—meaning asset prices always reflect all available information.
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Why We Invested in Peer Robotics

Peer Robotics heuristics-based tech stack enables out-of-the-box, flexible material handling deployment without heavy integration costs
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Why We Invested In Portl

Kalaari Capital breaks down its investment in Portl — an AI-driven connected fitness device tackling India’s biggest workout pain points: adherence, personalization, space, and access.
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Why We Invested in Pype AI

Pype AI scales hospital front-desk operations by deploying deeply integrated, voice-led autonomous agents that eliminate administrative overhead and reduce patient no-shows
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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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