Newsletter - Imagine Tomorrow Edition                                                   View this email in your browser Dear Friends,   For everyone, the year starts off in January, but for me, the new year kicks in only when we host our Kalaari Annual summit in February. Our summit is a platform for sharing insights, knowledge, learning, and growing the ecosystem to foster collaboration. It is 3 months of non-stop meticulous planning from the Kalaari & Kstart teams- from speaker sessions to food to overall experience for everyone participating. Personally for me, the journey from drawing board to participant feedback to knowing that we, in our unique small way, created impact for our community is very gratifying. The theme for this year’s summit was Imagine Tomorrow – Shaping a Trillion Dollar Digital India. We hosted Arun Kumar (Chairman, KPMG), Nandan Nilekani (Ex. Chairman,UIDAI & Co-founder, Infosys), Amitabh Kant (CEO, NITI Aayog), Nitish & Manish (Nazara Games), Mukesh Bansal (Cure.fit), Ritish Agarwal (Oyo Rooms) and Harsh Jain (Dream11) along with 200 participants from the start-up & corporate ecosystem. They shared their views on how India could achieve a trillion-dollar digital economy. We believe that the best way for the Indian start-up ecosystem to grow and thrive is by creating platforms such as Kalaari Summit (see pictures) to bring everyone in the eco-system together. This summit also reinforced my long standing view that India is unlike any other market in the world and the changing demographics of our country gives rise to trends which are fundamentally different from what can be observed outside India. This is one of the reasons we did the India Trends report with KPMG. The report gives unique insights into what are large pockets of opportunities that lie in front of us today. You can receive the full report here. Best Regards, Vani Kola Managing Director Kalaari Capital   Leadership Dialogues from Imagine Tomorrow Mr. Nandan Nilekani talking about Connecting a Billion Indians & Mr. Amitabh Kant talks about Startup Sarkar: Making Bharat Go Digital  Mr. Arun Kumar in a Fireside Chat with Vani Kola on Innovation & Opportunity: India for the Next Decade &  Panel discussion on Scaling Up: Getting it Right with Mukesh Bansal, Harsh Jain, Ritesh Agarwal and Vani Kola. Leadership Dialogues from Kstart Institute Panel Discussion on Fund Raising Journey of Priyanka Gill (Popxo) , Harsh Jain (Dream11) and Ravishankar (Active.ai) Investment Deals-Kstart Deftouch creates gameplays- rich mobile games. They are currently focused on bringing a billion indian cricket fans their first social, real-time multiplayer Cricket game. CEO Speak Mr. Arjun Pratap, Founder & CEO, Edge Networks shares his view on Why HR must leverage internal talent pools. The war for talent is being fought on a global scale today. It’s no longer direct competition alone that you find yourself up against. Nor can you restrict your search to a geography or industry read more Kstart Fellowship The Kstart Fellowship Program will develop future leaders in the venture capital and entrepreneurial ecosystem. The Fellowship Program combines structured learning with real, hands-on experience and provides an opportunity to work with some of the most sought after leaders in the industry. You will gain significant experience, receive meaningful mentorship and expand your professional networks. Learn, Lead and Excel! Apply Now Kstart is a unique seed program of Kalaari to empower the next generation startups and accelerate disruptive ideas to become market leading companies. Our singular focus with Kstart is to enable visionary founders to build game-changing businesses by combining all key factors necessary for startup success. Apply to Kstart How do you find our newsletter? lowest 1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   highest Sorry, voting is closed. Liked the Issue? Hit that forward button. Copyright © 2018 Kstart Capital. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: [email protected] Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list