breadcrumb home page image

> Alpha Archives

COMMUNITY

A showcase of our firm’s thinking process and active participation in ecosystem events.

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.

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.

Kalaari Unplugged 2025

Kalaari Unplugged 2025 was inspiring, refreshing, and real — spent in the company of our amazing portfolio founders.

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.

Capitalising the Indian Techade

The Indian Techade ahead is an exciting opportunity with the economy predicted to grow 8x over the next 2 decades.

Zero Hour Conversations

Life@Kalaari is all about continuous learning. Every month we invite experts from different sectors to talk to our team on what's new in their field, what's the next opportunity and how can we make an impact. Here's a peek into our Zero Hour Conversations

Zero Hour Conversation with Karthik Sankaran

Kalaari Capital’s recap of a talk with chip veteran Dr. Karthik Sankaran: semiconductors are becoming foundational as AI, EVs, and edge computing scale, and India’s design talent gives it a real shot in deep-tech—if it gets patient capital and a full ecosystem

Zero Hour Conversation with Shalini Govil Pai

Kalaari’s Zero Hour session with Google’s Shalini Govil-Pai and Raj Pai explored how AI is reshaping storytelling. The takeaway: tech can’t fix a weak story—audience resonance, curiosity, and relationships matter most.

Zero Hour Conversation with Sarbvir Singh

Policybazaar CEO Sarbvir Singh says leadership is about team buy-in, not perfect decisions—even a flawed call works when people believe in it. He adds that networks shape careers and real growth comes from owning outcomes.

Zero Hour Conversation with Kirthiga Reddy

The session focused on leadership, reinvention, and India’s tech ecosystem.-

Zero Hour Conversation with Arvind Thakur

Arvind Thakur shared leadership lessons from decades in India’s IT industry — crisis reveals capability, values matter most in tough moments, differentiation comes from playing to your strengths and AI is fundamentally reshaping how businesses operate and create value.

Zero Hour Conversation with Narayan Manepally

Manepally spoke about how his started in Portland, when he brewed his first perfect batch of beer. Returning to India and finding only Kingfisher available everywhere convinced him that India deserved better craft beer, and he decided to make that happen himself.

Zero Hour Conversation with A R Unnikrishnan

As AI models scale from millions to trillions of parameters, it is vital to have the right access to capital and compute to nurture a fast-growing AI ecosystem.

Subscribe to
Kalaari Newsletters

Unpacking our latest investments, portfolio updates and trends that are changing India's startup ecosystem.

View previous editions