# Kalaari Capital

> Kalaari Capital is a VC fund in Bangalore backing E-Commerce and Software. See 231 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bangalore, India
- Total investments: 231
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 46%
- Last fund: Jan 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/2786165
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/Kalaari
- Website: http://www.kalaari.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kalaaricapital

Kalaari Capital is a VC fund in Bangalore focused on E-Commerce and Software. Kalaari is a $160 million venture capital fund with a strong advisory team in Bangalore investing in early-stage, technology-oriented companies in India.Kalaari Capital invests in the unknown Indian entrepreneur who is poised to become tomorrow’s global leader. They are India’s leading investor in early-stage businesses, nurturing them throughevery aspect of growth on the transformative journey toward success.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$4M |
| Series A | $2M–$12M |
| Series B | $5M–$25M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 23 | 10% |
| Software | 21 | 9% |
| Internet | 19 | 8% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 18 | 8% |
| Information Technology | 15 | 6% |

170 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 61 | 26% |
| Seed | 46 | 20% |
| Series B | 40 | 17% |
| Series C | 19 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 11 | 5% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 109 | 47% |
| United States | 9 | 4% |
| Singapore | 3 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Abhishek Tiwari | Investment Fellow | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abhishek-tiwari-6 |
| Karthik Nageswaran | Chief Financial Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karthik-nageswaran |
| Kumar Shiralagi | MD, India | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kumar-shiralagi |
| Rahul Garg | Principal | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rahul-garg-caa9 |
| Rajesh Raju | Managing Director | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rajesh-raju |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| NudgeBee | NudgeBee is an AI assistant built for SRE (Site Reliability Engineering, CloudOps and DevOps teams, helping enterprises reduce downtime, accelerate incident response, and improve system reliability.Engineering teams today spend countless hours firefighting outages, triaging alerts, and writing postmortems. Most existing tools either overwhelmthem with noise or act as black-box automation that engineers can’t trust. NudgeBee solves this by combining context-aware AI with transparent workflows that engineers can control.With NudgeBee, SRE, CloudOps and DevOps teams can:Reduce MTTR (Mean Time to Recovery): Automate triage, prioritize alerts, and surface root causes faster. Automate incident response: Draft incident timelines, summaries, and postmortems without losing human oversight. Improve reliability workflows: Standardize on-call practices, accelerate runbook execution, and reduce burnout.Unlike traditional AIOps platforms that focus on abstract “10x” promises, NudgeBee is pragmatic and engineer-first. It integrates directly with incident management tools, observability stacks, and chat platforms, giving teams contextual insights where they work.The global DevOps and SRE software market is growing rapidly as enterprises demand higher uptime and reliability. NudgeBee is building the category of AI assistants for reliability engineering, enabling enterprises to scale infrastructure without scaling toil.Our mission is simple: give engineers an AI assistant they can trust to keep systems reliable, reduce downtime, and free them to focus on innovation instead of firefighting. | $3M | Seed | Apr 21, 2026 |  |
| Fanon | Fanon is a fandom storytelling platform that empowers anyone to create and share their stories. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Mar 31, 2026 |  |
| MOZARK | Mozark is a network, application, device & OS, and Cloud/CDN service company. | $40M | Series B | Mar 10, 2026 |  |
| HireBound | Conversational AI recruiting co-pilot that automates talent engagement at every stage of the recruiting funnel. | $2M | Seed | Feb 24, 2026 |  |
| Articulus Surgical | Articulus Surgical is a Bengaluru-based medtech startup, specializing in next-generation surgical robotics.Articulus Surgical develops the Articulus Pulsar, a hybrid robotic system designed for minimally invasive surgeries such as laparoscopy. The platform emphasizes affordability (5x cheaper than competitors), portability, and rapid steriledeployment, making advanced surgery accessible in resource-limited settings worldwide. It integrates assistive AI for precision, tremor reduction, and ergonomic support while ensuring interoperability with existing hospital tools. |  | Seed | Feb 11, 2026 |  |
| Digantara | Digantara develops infrastructure and data solutions for monitoring objects and traffic in Earth orbit to support safer space operations and reduce collision risks for satellites. The company builds and integrates hardware, analytics, and software systems that combine multimodal sensor data into platforms for space situational awareness and missionassurance. It designs space surveillance tools including satellite-based sensors and ground-based systems to generate real-time orbital insights for customers such as satellite operators and agencies concerned with space traffic management. Digantara also supports analytical services that help interpret space object behavior and provides ongoing development of its data platforms and tracking capabilities. | $50M | Series B | Dec 16, 2025 |  |
| SuperBryn | SuperBryn is a voice AI startup that builds a reliability and observability layer for voice agents, with a focus on regulated and enterprise use cases like healthcare, financial services, and insurance. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Dec 10, 2025 |  |
| Modulus Housing | Modulus Housing is a prefabricated construction and infrastructure company that designs and delivers low-rise buildings across India. Founded in 2018 and headquartered at IIT Madras Research Park, the company manufactures building components in factories and assembles them on-site to provide predictable project timelines and costs. Modulus Housingdelivers schools, healthcare facilities, offices, industrial structures, and community buildings in rural and semi-urban regions. The company has completed more than 1,500 buildings, including over 500 schools, clinics, and shelters, across 21 Indian states and in Africa. | $7.8M | Series A | Dec 02, 2025 |  |
| Pype AI | Pype AI operates as an AI voice agents automating patient communications for hospitals. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Nov 17, 2025 |  |
| MeshDefend | MeshDefend is a company that develops an AI-native operating system called Agent Mesh. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | Nov 06, 2025 |  |

10 of 231 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Kalaari Capital invest in?

Kalaari Capital invests primarily in E-Commerce, Software and Internet startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 231 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Kalaari Capital's check size?

Kalaari Capital typically joins rounds of $1M–$4M at Seed, $2M–$12M at Series A and $5M–$25M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Kalaari Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Kalaari Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Kalaari Capital?

The team at Kalaari Capital includes Abhishek Tiwari (Investment Fellow), Karthik Nageswaran (Chief Financial Officer) and Kumar Shiralagi (MD, India), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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