Investing Stage & Year
Seed, 2026
Seed, 2026
Founding Year
2023
Status
Active
AI/SaaS

Building the execution layer for enterprise Cloud Operations

At Kalaari, we believe the next phase of infrastructure tooling will be defined by systems that not only identify problems but resolve them. NudgeBee stands out in its ability to connect signals across the stack and move teams from diagnosis to action within real engineering workflows.

Leadership

Rakesh Rajendran
Rakesh Rajendran
Co-Founder & CEO
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Shiv Pratap Singh
Shiv Pratap Singh
Co-Founder & CTO
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Why Did Kalaari Invest in Nudgebee?

Kalaari led NudgeBee’s $3M seed because enterprise cloud ops teams are drowning in fragmented tools while downtime costs $300K+/hour and ~29% of cloud spend is wasted. NudgeBee unifies SRE, FinOps, and Cloud Ops into one AI-agentic platform that doesn’t just monitor β€” it acts: triaging incidents, cutting cloud waste 40–60%, and letting enterprises build their own automated workflows. The founders lived this problem at Saama, and early production deployment with Rackspace validated the approach.

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What the

founder says

What the

founder says

"Enterprise Cloud Ops teams are stretched across a fragmented landscape of point tools, scripts, and siloed runbooks β€” even as the same engineers end up playing multiple roles across SRE, FinOps, and Kubernetes. What we have learnt is that even when two organisations run identical tech stacks, their processes and runbooks look nothing alike. Teams have no shortage of dashboards; what they lack is connected context and a way to encode how their own organisation actually runs. We built NudgeBee as a unified, multi-functional AI-agentic platform on a shared enterprise context layer β€” so teams can not only act on incidents, cost, and Kubernetes operations from one place, but also fast-track the enterprise-specific workflows that make their operating model unique.”
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Rakesh Rajendran
Co-founder & CEO, NudgeBee
Kalaari’s conviction showed early β€” not just in the idea, but in the details. Vani flew to Mumbai to see our backend firsthand. That level of curiosity and belief from an investor is rare.
Gaurav Singh Kushwaha
Founder & CEO, BlueStone
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