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The Rare-Earth Chokepoint: Designing Around Dependence

In this edition, we unravel rare-earth elements - what they are, their importance and the opportunity for startups as globally industries hunt alternatives for China’s control on rare-earths.
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The Second-Order Effects of Indian Commerce

Why live commerce, agentic checkout, and loyalty look different once you examine the pre-purchase, purchase, and post-purchase layers
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The State of AI and Cybersecurity in 2025

AI is rewriting cybersecurity faster than enterprises can respond. Our new Kalaari report captures what CISOs are actually struggling with, and where they believe the next wave of cybersecurity companies will be built
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TiE Global Summit 2024

The Kalaari Lounge at TiE Global Summit 2024 was a hub of energy, insights, and collaboration, bringing together founders, investors, and ecosystem enablers to celebrate and advance India’s startup landscape. Over two action-packed days—December 10th and 11th—Kalaari Capital hosted engaging discussions, networking sessions, and ecosystem meetups, reinforcing its commitment to empowering founders and fostering innovation.
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Vertical Quick Commerce - Unbundling of the Horizontal Play

Almost a decade ago, customers bought everything from Flipkart. Ranging from books to clothes to electronics – literally everything from one platform.

Vision Meets Venture: Stories Shaping India's Techade

From stock market ticker, satellites in space to SaaS in an AI-first world, this edition of Venture Forward brings you our insights on these topics and more.
NEWSLETTERS

Why We Invested in Aeria

Globally, the CRE tech sector has flourished, with the market potential of tech solutions in CRE across the US, Canada, EMEA, and APAC totaling approximately $52 billion.
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Why We Invested in Agrim

Agrim is a B2B marketplace platform that digitalizes the fragmented $44B agri-inputs industry in India.
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Why We Invested?

Why We Invested in Articulus Surgical

Every year, millions of patients in India undergo surgeries that leave them with longer recovery times, larger scars, and higher risks of complications—not because better surgical techniques don’t exist, but because they remain economically inaccessible.
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Why We Invested in Baaz Bikes

Baaz Bikes provides an indigenous, end-to-end electric mobility platform consisting of in-house designed electric scooters, automated battery swapping stations, and management software
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Why We Invested in Bombay Play

Bombay Play converts low-social casual games (like card games and puzzles) into live, multiplayer experiences to pioneer the fast-growing hypersocial gaming genre.
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Why We Invested in byteXL

Revolutionizing Engineering Education: Preparing Students for 149 Million New Global Jobs
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Why We Invested in Chara

Kalaari’s thesis on backing Chara, a DeepTech startup reinventing the electric motor with rare-earth-free, software-controlled SRM technology.
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Why We Invested in Clean Electric

Clean Electric manufactures energy storage solutions featuring patent-filed, direct liquid-cooled battery packs designed to eliminate thermal runaway and reduce cell degradation.
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Why We Invested in Convin

Convin disrupts the B2C SalesTech market by using automated, vernacular conversational intelligence to eliminate manual quality assurance and feedback dependencies for over 2.5 million sales reps across
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Why We Invested in Creative Galileo

Creative Galileo targets a massive, underserved early childhood education market with a gamified learning multiverse that transforms passive screen time into personalized foundational skill building
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