"Why do you need to be liked." Vani Kola x Salone Sehgal | Episode 1

April 23, 2026
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Episode 1: Vani Kola x Salone Sehgal

In Episode 1 of Alpha Women, Salone Sehgal, Founder and Managing Partner of Lumikai, sits down with Vani Kola, Founder and Managing Director of Kalaari Capital.

Vani was one of six women in a batch of 400 engineering students. She went on to build a company in Silicon Valley, sell it for $650Mn and found Kalaari Capital, which manages over $850Mn and has backed more than 100 startups, including Myntra, Dream11 and ElasticRun.

In this episode, she explains why success was never a finish line for her, the headlines that tested her at Kalaari, and why she tells every woman in leadership to like herself first.

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