The Market Shift: From Fragmented Systems to Intelligent Operations
Enterprises face growing pressure to ensure data resilience and operational efficiency. Data now spans on-premises centres, multi-cloud deployments, and legacy systems – creating a complex web of disconnected tools, processes and disparate data estates.
For too long, infrastructure teams have relied on reactive systems that can’t keep up with the pace of modern IT. As data environments scale, visibility gaps widen, and admins are left managing alerts, reporting and triages instead of outcomes.
Enterprises now want AI-first, agentic solutions that can monitor data infrastructure in real time, integrate across fragmented data estates and automate recovery if the need arises – enabling faster response, unified visibility, and the agility to stay resilient in complex, hybrid environments.
The Solution: Building Intelligence into Data Infrastructure
MeshDefend addresses this gap by building an AI-native Agentic OS that brings intelligence, automation, and autonomy to the heart of enterprise data infrastructure – starting with day-2 operations.
At the core of their platform is Agent Mesh™, an AI-Native agentic OS which can manage a distributed network of AI agents that continuously monitor, validate, and coordinate data infrastructure operations with enterprise-grade scale, accuracy and security. By linking signals across data infrastructure, it unifies fragmented systems of records, different workflows and siloed teams into a single intelligent layer that has the ability to reason, plan and act.
By embedding intelligence directly into the data layer, MeshDefend gives enterprises a self-managing infrastructure that reduces operational load, strengthens resilience posture, and sets the foundation for truly autonomous data infrastructure.
The Founding Team: Founders with deep domain expertise
We first met Tejas Pandit and Ravi Chitloor in the early days of MeshDefend’s ideation and product build. Their clarity, passion and conviction stood out immediately. Both had spent years building and scaling data protection systems for some of the world’s largest enterprises.
With deep engineering and go-to-market experience across Fortune 500 clients, MSPs, and GSIs, they had seen first-hand, how fragmented and manual current data infrastructure operations are. MeshDefend is their answer: an AI-Native agentic OS for that brings context to provide intelligence, autonomy and resilience to the heart of enterprise data infrastructure.
What impressed us most was their quiet confidence and focus on execution. Tejas and Ravi are pragmatic builders who understand complex systems and are driven to make them smarter and more resilient.
At Kalaari Capital, we are proud to back Tejas, Ravi, and the MeshDefend team as they build the future of intelligent, self-managing enterprise data infrastructure.
Tejas Pandit, Co-founder and CEO at Mesh Defend on partnering with Kalaari:
“From the very early days of our incorporation, we have been working closely with Sampath and the Kalaari team, and that partnership has sharpened our focus and velocity. Sampath’s innate understanding of IT infrastructure, agentic systems, emerging AI-native user experiences, and new monetization models has been invaluable as we shape MeshDefend’s roadmap. Kalaari’s thesis on Agentic AI and AI-Ops strongly aligns with our vision of building AI-native OS for Data Infrastructure starting with reimagining Day-2 operations for enterprise data infrastructure. Beyond capital, Sampath’s conviction and guidance have helped us translate deep tech into clear customer outcomes. We’re excited to continue our partnership with Kalaari as we scale.”
Sampath P, Partner at Kalaari Capital, says-
“We believe the next evolution of enterprise infrastructure will be defined by context-aware AI that amplifies resilience and ROI. MeshDefend’s AI-native Agentic OS embodies that future, bringing automation, security, and intelligence into the heart of data operations. Tejas and Ravi’s deep commitment, combination of technical depth and market understanding makes them ideally suited to shape this transformation. We are excited to partner with them to build the next generation of secure and reliable data infrastructure.”
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