Under Kola's leadership, the firm has grown to have US$650 million in assets under management, as of 2017. Kalaari Capital began operations as a US$150 million fund in September 2012. In 2012, it was re-branded as Kalaari Capital. A partnership with New Enterprise Associates (NEA), it was her initial undertaking into venture capital in India. She and Vinod Dham founded Indo-US Venture Partners (IUVP) in 2006. Kola returned to India in 2006, after her successful career as an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, to start a venture capital firm in India, drawn to the growing Indian opportunity. She was then the founder and CEO of Certus Software.
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A serial entrepreneur, she was the founder and CEO of the e-procurement company RightWorks, selling the company to ICG after four years for $657 million. Kola had a 22-year career in Silicon Valley. She earned her Bachelor of Engineering before leaving India in the late 1980s to pursue her Master of Engineering from Arizona State University in the United States. She attended Osmania University in Hyderabad, where she studied electrical engineering and was "one of six girls among 400 engineering students". She commenced her post-secondary education at age 16.
Vani Kola was born in 1963 or 1964 in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (now Telangana), India. She was listed as one of the most powerful women in Indian business by Fortune India in 2014. She is the founder and managing director of Kalaari Capital, an Indian early stage venture capital firm. Vani Kola is an Indian venture capitalist. Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh (now Telangana)
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