Deep insights, inspiration, founder stories, and comprehensive reports.
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.
PODCASTS
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.
PODCASTS
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.
BLOGS
The Kalaari Fellowship Application is Live
Applications for the Kalaari Fellowship are open. The 2-year, full-time, immersive apprenticeship-style program is an opportunity to break into the venture ecosystem.
REPORTS
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.
NEWSLETTERS
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.
NEWSLETTERS
Editions
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
BLOGS
PERSPECTIVE
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
kindlife captures a rapidly expanding clean beauty and wellness market driven by conscious, millennial consumers seeking sustainable, ethically sourced products.
BLOGS
Why We Invested in LXME
Today, Indian women not only mean business – they are also good business. Helping 560M women achieve financial independence is GREAT business.
BLOGS
Why We Invested in Matters.AI
When Data Became the New Perimeter In the last decade, data stopped being a byproduct—it became the business itself.
BLOGS
Why we Invested in Maximize Money
Maximize Money is building India's universal savings and loyalty infrastructure, replacing fragmented discount channels with an automated "SaveMax" engine that stacks coupons, gift cards, and rewards into a single click.
BLOGS
KALAARI PESPECTIVE
Why We Invested in Meshdefend
The Market Shift: From Fragmented Systems to Intelligent Operations Enterprises face growing pressure to ensure data resilience and operational efficiency.
BLOGS
Why we invested in MilkBasket
Today, we are very excited to announce Kalaari Capital’s investment in Milkbasket — partnering with founding team Anant, Ashish, Yatish, and Anurag. Their journey towards building a great household brand for grocery shopping in India is exciting to us and we hope to foster a long-term relationship with Milkbasket and see this goal come to light.
BLOGS
PERSPECTIVE
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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