Kia Ora Ventures

Kia Ora Ventures is a venture capital and consulting firm based in Gurugram, India, founded in 1996. The firm focuses on making strategic investments in start-ups across various stages, including seed, early, and later stages. Kia Ora Ventures aims to add value to its portfolio companies by leveraging its global experience in business management and turnaround strategies. Additionally, the firm collaborates with established organizations to enhance their growth strategies, leadership development, and executive coaching, thereby assisting them in achieving their full potential. Its investment interests span diverse sectors such as business products, business services, consumer products, transportation, and non-financial services.

Balvinder Singh Kalsi

Managing Director and Chairman

5 past transactions

Fyllo

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of an agricultural device designed to harness the potential of technology to make agriculture profitable and sustainable. The company's device uses IoT to capture the environmental factors of a piece of agricultural land, enabling farmers with accurate and timely information for irrigation, fertigation, harvesting, soil composition, infestation risks of diseases and pests, and weather forecasts for the farm.

Instoried

Series A in 2022
Instoried Research Labs Pvt. Ltd, founded in 2017 and based in Bengaluru, India, offers an artificial intelligence-driven tool designed to enhance the emotional impact of content on consumers. This augmented writing platform assists content marketers across various sectors, including e-commerce, news, and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), by providing tailored recommendations for words and phrases that optimize emotional engagement. Instoried's tool delivers end-to-end solutions and includes a web application that supports multiple languages, enabling organizations to license the software for diverse user needs.

Vahdam

Series D in 2021
Vahdam Teas Private Limited is an online tea brand based in New Delhi, India, that specializes in producing and selling a variety of premium teas, including black, white, green, oolong, chai, signature blends, and organic options. Established in 2015, the company is recognized as one of the world’s first vertically integrated online-first tea brands, focusing on sourcing fresh teas directly from gardens. Vahdam has successfully expanded its reach, shipping products to 76 countries, with the United States, Russia, and Europe being its primary markets. The company aims to establish itself as India’s first home-grown global tea brand by leveraging technology and innovation in its operations.

TurboHire

Seed Round in 2020
TurboHire Technologies is an Intelligent Recruitment platform that specializes in talent acquisition and candidate discovery. It focuses on transforming the way companies are recruiting with the help of machine learning and data sciences. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Andhra Pradesh, India.

Svami

Seed Round in 2019
Svami is the result of three seasoned drinkers extending their love for libations to the larger world of drinks.The three partners ushered in a new era of drinks with the (timely) launch of Svami tonic waters, a fitting response to the gin revival in India and across the globe. In addition to the original tonic, their low sugar, flavoured tonic waters and ginger ale have fast become essential drinking companions for the country.
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