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In a world where AI is redefining the future of work, how fast we upskill will define the future of jobs. byteXL and HackerRank have partnered together to enable students across colleges to access global coding assessments and mock interviews helping students to evaluate their skills, benchmark against international peers, and prepare for real-world opportunities in AI. Kalaari partnered with byteXL in 2024. byteXL is transforming engineering education and bridging the employability gap at scale through their tech-enabled learning ecosystem. We’re confident this collaboration will unlock new possibilities for students, equipping them with the skills, confidence, and exposure needed to thrive in a fast-changing tech landscape. Karun Tadepalli, Sricharan Tadepalli Sampath P, Jayraj Bharat Patel, Piyush R Golecha #ai #technology #startup

Yesterday’s India Alpha gathering in collaboration with Venture Dock brought together some of the most thoughtful voices shaping the future of technology across India and the US. The discussions reinforced a belief core to us at Kalaari: India’s innovation momentum is accelerating, and the next generation of global companies will emerge from this vibrant corridor. From frontier technologies to AI-native products and global-scale platforms, the energy in the room reflected a shared conviction that India and the US, together, will unlock the next decade of opportunity. Thank you to everyone who joined us, and to our speakers and contributors whose insights made the evening truly special: Preethy Padmanabhan, Vivek Vipul, Vani Kola, Lochan Alagh, Anupam Rastogi, Priya Ramachandran, Rishabh Agarwal, Murali Chirala, BV Jagadeesh, MR Rangaswami. A special mention to our partners Venture Dock and Foster Ventures for helping bring this gathering to life. Events like these remind us why cross-border bridges matter now more than ever, they are where ideas converge, collaborations begin, and shared futures are built. #India #VC #Technology #startup

If the world is biased, the algorithms we build will be too. AI reflects our real-world patterns: the same assumptions that undervalue women in workplaces, leadership, or finance quietly reappear in automated decisions - who gets shortlisted, who gets credit, who gets care. Only now, the bias is scaled, silent, and harder to challenge. Fixing this starts with fixing who gets to shape the systems themselves. Read more in our CXXO 𝐖𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭: 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐈𝐍𝐃(𝐀𝐈), a data-driven look at where bias shows up, how it impacts women, and what it will take to build AI that serves everyone. (Link in Comments) #ai #technology #femalefounder #startup

Healthcare today is digitally advanced but operationally overwhelmed. Almost every patient interaction now creates a data trail, yet clinicians spend 2 hours on documentation for every hour with patients. When the system is this overloaded, even patient-facing tasks, like scheduling an appointment, end up feeling unnecessarily difficult. This is where Pype AI comes in, an AI agentic platform purpose-built to address healthcare coordination bottlenecks. Pype AI’s workflow-native, fully observable voice agents take on the coordination load from end to end, easing operational pressure and giving hospitals and clinics much-needed capacity back. What distinguishes Pype AI is its infrastructure-first approach. Instead of building a surface-level voice interface. We’re excited to lead Pype AI’s $1.2M in pre-seed funding round. This funding will help Pype: - Support hospitals facing rising workloads, shrinking staff, and increasing patient expectations. - Scale its research-backed patient communication platform. - ⁠Expand into the US market — a $50B+ care management opportunity. Congratulations Dhruv Mehra, Ashish Tripathy, and the entire Pype AI team on this fundraise. To deep dive into our investment thesis read our blog. Link in the comments section. Sampath P, Jayraj Bharat Patel, Soumya Yadav #ai #technology #startup #funding

Three out of four CISOs said, in Kalaari’s “𝐀𝐈 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐲𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲” CISO Survey, that GenAI created at least one 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐤 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐲 that didn't exist 24 months ago. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 “𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐤 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬”? 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬: We spent months having in-depth conversations with Chief Information Security Officers across sectors. What emerged wasn't just about change, a concern about AI moving fast. It was the concern about security systems going blind. Legacy frameworks were built for a different attack surface. They look for malware signatures, credential stuffing, privilege escalation, and patterns they recognise. But AI doesn't fail or cause failures the way traditional software fails. It 𝐦𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬, 𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬, 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐰𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬, and learns data in ways that could leave 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐧𝐨 𝐂𝐕𝐄, no signature, no perimeter breach. 𝐒𝐨, 𝐰𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐩𝐬: 𝟏. 𝐀𝐈 𝐑𝐞𝐝 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠: Testing models under adversarial conditions before deployment, not after. 𝟐. 𝐒𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐧: Verifying what your models learned and where they came from. 𝟑. 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐰 𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬: Governing the machine credentials multiplying faster than anyone can track. 𝟒. 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐀𝐈 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞: Answering the question: what personal data did this model learn from? 𝟓. 𝐒𝐎𝐂 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐈 𝐂𝐨-𝐩𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐬: Building reliability layers so AI-generated threat intelligence doesn't trigger self-inflicted outages. 📥 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐲𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 Full analysis, case studies, CISO insights, market maps, and frameworks for each domain are out now. 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭: [Download Link in the comments]. If you’re 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐲𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲, we’d love to hear from you. Reach us at 𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲@𝐤𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐚𝐫𝐢.𝐜𝐨𝐦 Sampath P, Soumya Yadav Zluri, Ritish Reddy, Matters.AI, Keshava Murthy, Arnab Biswas, Himanshu Kumar Das, Prajal Kulkarni, Mohd. Shadab S. #ai #technology #cybersecurity #startup

𝐖𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐂𝐈𝐒𝐎 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲'𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐈-𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐤. One consistent theme: the gap between vendor pitches and buyer priorities has widened significantly and AI is why. Both sides are figuring out new rules. 𝐂𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐬 are taking a cautious approach here, not looking for more tools but solutions that understand the nuances of their environment: budget constraints, compliance pressures, integration complexity, and the realities of running security at scale. From our conversations, 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: → Solve a real pain point - deeply solving one problem exceptionally well beats surface-level coverage of ten. → Establish trust - POCs, references, and measurable outcomes trump feature lists. → Understand the buyer’s context - understanding existing infrastructure, team capacity, and organisational readiness. This is part of what we're unpacking in our report. Stay tuned to know more the about how the landscape is changing with the convergence of AI x Cybersecurity. Our report ‘𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐲𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓’, 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲. Sampath P, Soumya Yadav #Cybersecurity #AI #KalaariCapital

“Progress isn’t automatic. It’s a choice—renewed by every generation. At the CXXO NoCeiling Summit 2025, Vani reflects on how India stands at a unique inflection point: an ancient civilization with a young nation’s adaptability and openness to technology. The question isn’t whether the future will be transformed by AI and deep tech - it will. The real question is: will we shape it, or let it be written for us?” Vani Kola, TiE Delhi-NCR #Leadership #Innovation #india #startup

Some exciting milestones and wins from our portfolio! Here’s what our founders have been up to. Digantara, kindlife.in, Pascal AI Labs, HerKey, Equilibrium #KalaariCapital #Entrepreneurship #Innovation

𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐂𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬: "𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐲𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝟏𝟐 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬?" The answers weren't what we expected. It wasn't about bigger breaches or more attacks. It was about who's attacking and how fast they're moving. What's breaking isn't just the volume, it's the fundamentals. 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝟏𝟖 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐨 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐚 𝐝𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲: → How do you secure an LLM in production when the attack surface is the model itself? → How do you triage thousands of daily alerts when adversaries use AI to generate polymorphic attacks?   → How do you verify identity when deepfakes are indistinguishable from humans? From our conversations with the people defending India's digital infrastructure, five key themes emerged where the next legacy companies in cybersecurity will be built: 𝐀𝐈/𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 | 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚 & 𝐄𝐧𝐝𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭 | 𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐲 & 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 | 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐜𝐲 & 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 | 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐎𝐩𝐬 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 Stay tuned to know more the about how the landscape is changing with the convergence of AI x Cybersecurity. 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 ‘𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐲𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓’, 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲. Sampath P, Soumya Yadav #Cybersecurity #AI #startup #technology

Our portfolio companies Deconstruct, Bombay Play, Digantara, Figr, Tring, Aeria are hiring! They’re looking for talent across technology, business, product, and operations roles. Explore open roles and apply today! (Job link is in comment) #hiring #job #startup #techhiring