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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.
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.
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.
BLOGS
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.
BLOGS
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.
REPORTS
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
NEWSLETTERS
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.
BLOGS
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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