Kae Capital is a self-described pioneer of early-stage investing in India, focusing on backing entrepreneurs building for India and the world.

Kae Capital

Founded in 2012, Kae Capital is a sector-agnostic fund that invests in the pre-seed to pre-series A stages of a company. A pioneer of early-stage investing in India with offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru, Kae partners with passionate founders and teams, building for Indian and global markets and is the first institutional investor in a majority of its portfolio companies. Kae aims to be an all-weather partner to its portfolio founders, enabling them to build enduring companies.

Kae's portfolio has a mix of B2B and B2C startups. Some of the investments are Nazara Technologies (gaming), Porter (logistics tech), HealthKart (health tech), Zetwerk (manufacturing tech), Tata 1MG (health tech), Traya (D2C) and Square Yards (property tech).

Elated to announce our Winners Fund II today.

Through this fund, we will be able to back our star founders in late-stage rounds as well as participate in rounds of other market-leading companies outside the Kae portfolio.

We'd like to thank all our investors who have continued backing us and encouraged us in this endeavour.

Sasha Mirchandani Gaurav Chaturvedi Sunitha Viswanathan Krishna Vinjamuri

Last week's piece explored a more behavior-centric approach to imagining Consumer GenAI's use cases.

In this week's piece, arriving on Thursday, Natasha Malpani Oswal explores what consumer GenAI applications from India- both for India and for the world- could look like.

While the buzz around GenAI mostly highlights breakthroughs in foundational models, we’re yet to see significant advancements at the application layer in consumer apps. 

In this piece by Natasha Malpani Oswal, we present GenAI's impact through a consumer behaviour-centric framework, read here:

https://lnkd.in/gpHdaFdN

If you're building in consumer, let's start with consumer psychology!

Gaurav Chaturvedi Veenu Choudhary

GenAI is going to impact every aspect of our lives as consumers, and we're not ready for it. 

We're going to look at consumer GenAI through different lenses to understand how consumer behaviour will be reshaped. 

Stay tuned for this Thursday's piece by Natasha Malpani Oswal!

Gaurav Chaturvedi Veenu Choudhary

Our Venture Partner Natasha Malpani Oswal will be part of an illustrious panel at the flagship JITO INCUBATION & INNOVATION FOUNDATION 'Shark Angels' event.

You can read more about the overall event here:
http://bit.ly/3L4Qsk6

Anuja Joshi Vinay Jain Hemant Jain Nitin Jain

From venture capitalists to founders-turned-investors — meet the 44 trailblazing women investors that are shaping the Indian startup investor landscape👇

The investment landscape in the country is going through a shift never seen before with more and more women founders and investors winning themselves a bigger share in the high-octane arena of the Indian startup space.

Be it Swati Mehra, CFA of Sixth Sense Ventures, who directly ventured into the world of investing, or the founders-turned-investors Ghazal Alagh and Vineeta Singh, these trailblazing women have made their mark in the homegrown startup ecosystem.

This is notwithstanding other veterans such as Kiran Mazumdar Shaw and Rekha Menon who have already set examples for many in the past.

Many of these women investors bring years of experience to the table and have today emerged as role models for the country’s youth — let's take a took 👀

#womeninbusiness #leadership #womenentrepreneurs #entrepreneurship

[Note: Pooja Mehta has joined Gensol Group as AVP - Investments and Investors Relation. She was formerly with JITO as Chief Operating Officer Incubation.]

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