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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Gaming as an industry is hot again and Vani Kola’s early-stage fund wants to be at the forefront.
Editor's note: Kalaari Capital seems to have a new pursuit—gaming. Over the past few months, the Bengaluru-based venture capital fund has ramped up the number of gaming founders it meets and the number of conversations it has with other potential investors (global gaming companies and sector-specific funds), according to three people in the know. Just this year, the early-stage fund has invested in two gaming startups—gaming studios Bombay Play and Atirath—and negotiated term sheets with at least one more, according to two of the three people quoted above, all of whom asked not to be named. In October last year, Kalaari had invested in a gamified learning startup called Creative Galileo; gamified learning usually refers to educational apps that have a game-like interactive format. The fund has also partnered with portfolio company WinZO to set up a small fund called GamingLab. This is supposed to invest up to $1 million in startups “across all forms of interactive entertainment—games, economies around gaming, content creation, live-ops, and security”. For Kalaari and its founder and managing director, Vani Kola, gaming in a way has always …
The food-tech pioneer is on the brink of losing its decade-long fight for survival, laying bare the pitfalls of the cloud kitchen business.
In light of the recent exits of top executives at Swiggy’s quick commerce business, we look at the reasons behind the departures and whether it’s impacting the business.
The ride-hailing company is gradually ramping up its food delivery business and at least one of the two major players has blinked in response. How credible is the threat?
