Garuda

Garuda is a venture capital investment firm established in 2017 and based in Orinda, California. The firm focuses on investing in pre-seed and seed stage companies across various sectors, including B2B, fintech, commerce, infrastructure and security, application programming interfaces, and climate. Operated by Rishi Taparia and James Richards, Garuda emphasizes a founder-centric approach, leveraging their experience to support emerging businesses.

Rishi Taparia

Co-Founder

32 past transactions

Arena

Series B in 2025
Arena accelerates testing, debugging, and optimization for the world’s most advanced hardware. Atlas is an AI hardware engineer grounded in applied physics with an understanding of the real-world environment.

Arcade.dev

Seed Round in 2025
Arcade.dev is an AI tool-calling platform that enables users to connect AI with various integrations, allowing it to act on their behalf through authenticated tools, facilitating tasks such as managing emails, files, calendars, and APIs, while providing pre-built connectors and a custom SDK for users to create their own assistants. The platform supports seamless interactions between AI and existing workflows, streamlining processes for sales teams and sales development representatives, enhancing productivity by automating routine tasks, and simplifying the management of multiple applications in one environment. Additionally, Arcade.dev offers comprehensive documentation and support to assist users in maximizing the functionality of their AI integrations.

Mesta

Pre Seed Round in 2025
Mesta, a fintech company, specializes in cross-border payment solutions. It offers a platform that facilitates international fund transfers for businesses, leveraging real-time payment rails and blockchain technology. The platform enables accounting professionals to generate invoices, manage approvals, and synchronize payments with their accounting software.

Archive Intel

Seed Round in 2025
Archive Intel is a SaaS company specializing in AI-powered archiving and compliance solutions for financial institutions. Its platform efficiently captures and stores various client communication data, including emails, social media content, text messages, podcasts, and website data, within a user-friendly interface designed for financial companies. The solution leverages AI to streamline the compliance process, offering real-time updates and reducing manual review. Pricing starts at $99 per month for the initial three users, with additional connectors available for $10 per month.

Starboard

Seed Round in 2024
Starboard, a technology company, specializes in developing and implementing AI-driven logistics software for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) engaged in freight forwarding. Their platform automates various operational tasks, such as generating documentation, reconciling invoices, and real-time shipment processing, thereby enhancing efficiency and streamlining global trade for these businesses.

Monark Markets

Seed Round in 2024
Monark Markets is a technology-driven platform that facilitates trading in private market securities. It connects brokerages, advisors, and custodians, providing access to a wide range of assets such as pre-IPO, late-stage venture, and secondary growth equity. Monark's platform offers liquidity and data transparency, enabling investors to diversify their portfolios and make informed decisions. The company operates through a broker-dealer subsidiary and an exempt reporting advisor subsidiary.

FlexPoint

Seed Round in 2024
FlexPoint is a modern payments platform specifically designed for the information technology services market. It offers a range of services including invoicing, payment processing, and point-of-sale financing aimed at improving cash flow for managed service providers (MSPs). By accepting various payment options and providing white-label financing for large ticket invoices, FlexPoint enhances the payments process for IT channel partners, enabling them to offer flexible payment solutions to their customers. The platform focuses on automation and integration to streamline financial transactions within the IT sector.

DataroomHQ

Seed Round in 2024
DataroomHQ offers a platform specifically designed to enhance the operational efficiency of SaaS companies. By providing a centralized source for all operational metrics, it enables business leaders to automate reporting and gain insights into their best customers. The platform incorporates machine learning to generate predictions that assist in strategic planning, such as preparing for capital raises and optimizing growth. Additionally, DataroomHQ facilitates the development of AI-driven models for forecasting, headcount planning, and cohort analysis, allowing companies to track key metrics in real-time and experiment with various sales and marketing strategies. Through its innovative solutions, DataroomHQ aims to support SaaS businesses in achieving operational excellence and driving sustainable growth.

Dr. Treat

Seed Round in 2023
Dr. Treat is a pet health and wellness company dedicated to enhancing the health and wellbeing of companion animals through personalized care. The organization offers a comprehensive range of veterinary services, including preventive care, primary care, surgical and dental care, and diagnostic services. By rethinking traditional processes and workflows, Dr. Treat aims to create a more effective approach to pet care, ensuring that animals live happy and healthy lives.

Moonshot AI

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Moonshot AI is a technology company that specializes in a no-code platform designed to optimize e-commerce stores automatically. The platform harnesses the power of generative AI to enable brands to continually iterate on conversion rate optimization (CRO) experiments, without the need for additional design, analysis, or developer resources.

FlexPoint

Seed Round in 2023
FlexPoint is a modern payments platform specifically designed for the information technology services market. It offers a range of services including invoicing, payment processing, and point-of-sale financing aimed at improving cash flow for managed service providers (MSPs). By accepting various payment options and providing white-label financing for large ticket invoices, FlexPoint enhances the payments process for IT channel partners, enabling them to offer flexible payment solutions to their customers. The platform focuses on automation and integration to streamline financial transactions within the IT sector.

Evergrow

Seed Round in 2023
Evergrow provides offtake contracts and financing for projects that avoid, capture, or remove carbon emissions. It was founded in 2021 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Iconic Air

Seed Round in 2022
Iconic Air, founded in 2018 by Kyle Gillis and James Carnes, is headquartered in Morgantown, West Virginia. The company specializes in emissions mapping and analytics, offering a platform designed to identify leaks and provide real-time data collection and visualization. By utilizing sensors and drone technology, Iconic Air enables users to monitor and reduce their emissions and carbon footprint while ensuring operational efficiency. Their innovative approach aims to enhance environmental responsibility across various industries.

Crew

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Crew is a career development platform aimed at supporting early and mid-career professionals in achieving greater clarity and confidence in their careers. The platform provides a range of digitized coaching tools and group-based live workshops designed to foster strong connections among colleagues and mentors. By integrating principles of design thinking with coaching methodologies, Crew enables individuals to identify their strengths and goals, empowering them to shape their careers according to their personal values and aspirations. Additionally, the platform assists employers in effectively hiring, retaining, and matching talent to suitable opportunities, thereby enhancing overall workforce satisfaction and productivity.

Paragon

Series A in 2022
Paragon is an embedded integration platform for SaaS apps, enabling companies to build products that integrate with the SaaS ecosystem. With Paragon, software companies can integrate with hundreds of different SaaS apps in minutes while providing their customers with a seamless, unified integration experience. Paragon's vision is to build the connecting layer for all software that enables every application in the world to work together seamlessly. In the last year, they've grown by over 6x and now work with nearly 100 customers around the world. They've raised over $3.5M from world-class investors like Y Combinator, Global Founders Capital, Soma Capital, and Village Global, and have been featured in Techcrunch and Forbes.

ConductorOne

Series A in 2022
ConductorOne, Inc. is a software company based in Portland, Oregon, founded in 2020 by Alexander Bovee and Paul Querna. The company specializes in permission management software that streamlines access control for web applications and infrastructure. Its platform offers features for permission management, governance, and auditing across various systems, including identity providers, HR systems, ticketing platforms, and continuous integration pipelines. By decentralizing access management, ConductorOne aims to enhance security and compliance while maintaining least-privilege permissions. This approach helps IT professionals eliminate inefficient workflows, thereby increasing productivity and collaboration within organizations.

Laminar Global

Seed Round in 2022
Laminar Global specializes in developing a video streaming platform that assists content creators and companies in establishing their own streaming services. The platform offers a comprehensive streaming infrastructure that efficiently manages video assets and incorporates a data science engine for detailed audience insights. This enables users to deliver high-quality video content, even in areas with poor network connectivity. By providing an enterprise-class, direct-to-consumer video streaming solution, Laminar Global facilitates the rapid launch of full-featured global over-the-top (OTT) services, catering to the evolving needs of the media industry.

Noyo

Series B in 2022
Noyo is a company focused on modernizing the insurance industry through API-based data exchange. Established by experts in benefits, insurance, and technology, Noyo aims to enhance the infrastructure of the benefits sector by providing seamless digital connectivity. Its platform enables the secure exchange of critical benefits data among insurers, brokers, and consumers, facilitating real-time access to information essential for benefit design and delivery. By offering a suite of developer-friendly application programming interfaces, Noyo allows brokers and insurers to effortlessly connect with various platforms, streamlining the enrollment process and improving overall efficiency in the benefits landscape.

Stax

Seed Round in 2022
Stax is all of your bank accounts, mobile wallets, crypto in a single app that works without mobile data.

Dashworks

Seed Round in 2022
Dashworks, established in 2018 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, specializes in an online search tool platform that consolidates information from diverse enterprise applications and internal tools. Its platform enables users to efficiently search for conversations, customer records, files, and tickets across various databases and collaboration tools, increasing productivity and streamlining information access.

Noyo

Series A in 2020
Noyo is a company focused on modernizing the insurance industry through API-based data exchange. Established by experts in benefits, insurance, and technology, Noyo aims to enhance the infrastructure of the benefits sector by providing seamless digital connectivity. Its platform enables the secure exchange of critical benefits data among insurers, brokers, and consumers, facilitating real-time access to information essential for benefit design and delivery. By offering a suite of developer-friendly application programming interfaces, Noyo allows brokers and insurers to effortlessly connect with various platforms, streamlining the enrollment process and improving overall efficiency in the benefits landscape.

MonkeyLearn

Seed Round in 2020
MonkeyLearn Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that offers an artificial intelligence platform designed for processing text information. Founded in 2013, it provides tools such as MonkeyLearn Studio for text analysis and data visualization, and an API for custom applications in topic classification, sentiment analysis, and entity extraction. The platform features a user-friendly graphical interface that allows individuals to create personalized text classification and extraction analyses by training machine learning models, including those for sentiment analysis and keyword extraction. Additionally, MonkeyLearn facilitates integration with numerous applications through its API, making it accessible to users without requiring extensive technical expertise. The company primarily serves startups in Silicon Valley and New York, enabling them to enhance their projects with intelligent text processing capabilities.

AllStripes

Series A in 2020
AllStripes is a healthcare technology company focused on accelerating the development of treatments for rare diseases. The company has created a platform that produces regulatory-ready evidence to support rare disease research and drug development. This platform operates as a two-sided network where patients with rare diseases and advocacy groups contribute valuable information, while life science companies utilize this data to identify new drug candidates. Additionally, AllStripes offers a patient application that allows individuals to engage in treatment research online and leverage their own medical data, fostering a collaborative environment aimed at advancing medical research for rare conditions.

Amperon

Seed Round in 2020
Amperon Holdings, Inc., established in 2017 and headquartered in New York, NY, with an additional office in Houston, TX, operates in the technology sector. The company specializes in developing predictive tools for energy retailers and grid operators, leveraging smart meters and artificial intelligence to provide real-time operational grid intelligence. Amperon's platform offers real-time electricity demand forecasts, enabling energy suppliers and utilities to manage costs efficiently, even in the face of grid volatility caused by factors such as global pandemics, climate disasters, or complex grid dynamics.

First Resonance

Seed Round in 2019
First Resonance, Inc. is a software company based in Los Angeles, California, established in 2018. It focuses on developing a manufacturing platform designed to enhance the operational efficiency of modern manufacturers. The company's factory operating system streamlines manufacturing processes by tracking parts and workflows from the prototype stage to full-scale production. This platform provides engineers with the tools to manage, execute, analyze, and share hardware tests throughout the product development cycle. Additionally, it offers decision-makers valuable insights into manufacturing bottlenecks, enabling rapid iterations and facilitating quicker time-to-market outcomes. First Resonance serves various industries, including aviation, energy, and automation, helping manufacturers reliably manage their parts, processes, and data throughout the product life cycle.

Metaview

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Metaview is a company that specializes in conversation analytics, providing a platform that automatically transcribes interviews. Its software is designed to assist hiring managers by capturing and analyzing data related to employee recruitment. This technology enables organizations to access actionable insights, helping them make informed hiring decisions. By focusing on the data generated during interviews, Metaview aims to improve the recruitment process and enhance the quality of hiring outcomes.

Woflow

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Woflow is a prominent company in the field of catalog digitization and data management, offering the world's first Merchant Data Platform. This platform is designed to assist clients, including notable industry platforms and marketplaces, in creating and maintaining complex structured data efficiently and at scale. Woflow's technology features a task automation system that simplifies large, intricate jobs into smaller, manageable tasks that can be executed quickly and accurately, even asynchronously. By leveraging this innovative approach, Woflow enables its clients to enhance customer experiences and support sustainable growth in their operations.

AllStripes

Seed Round in 2018
AllStripes is a healthcare technology company focused on accelerating the development of treatments for rare diseases. The company has created a platform that produces regulatory-ready evidence to support rare disease research and drug development. This platform operates as a two-sided network where patients with rare diseases and advocacy groups contribute valuable information, while life science companies utilize this data to identify new drug candidates. Additionally, AllStripes offers a patient application that allows individuals to engage in treatment research online and leverage their own medical data, fostering a collaborative environment aimed at advancing medical research for rare conditions.

Hover

Seed Round in 2018
Hover, LLC, founded in 2002 and based in Eaton, Colorado, specializes in mobile money payment solutions. The company's application facilitates seamless mobile transactions, tapping into the rapidly growing global mobile money industry, which processes over $1.3 billion daily. Hover's Android API allows developers to integrate various mobile money services efficiently, making it easier for businesses to offer payment solutions worldwide.

NexGenT

Seed Round in 2018
NexGenT Inc. is an online information technology academy based in San Jose, California, specializing in training services for cyber security and network engineering. Founded in 2016, the company addresses the increasing demand for IT engineers in enterprise settings by offering "Military Grade" training programs designed to create job-ready professionals in just 22 weeks. With a focus on transforming individuals from novices to capable engineers within six months, NexGenT utilizes a cloud-based education and career management platform to effectively reduce recruitment and ongoing training costs for businesses.

MonkeyLearn

Pre Seed Round in 2017
MonkeyLearn Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that offers an artificial intelligence platform designed for processing text information. Founded in 2013, it provides tools such as MonkeyLearn Studio for text analysis and data visualization, and an API for custom applications in topic classification, sentiment analysis, and entity extraction. The platform features a user-friendly graphical interface that allows individuals to create personalized text classification and extraction analyses by training machine learning models, including those for sentiment analysis and keyword extraction. Additionally, MonkeyLearn facilitates integration with numerous applications through its API, making it accessible to users without requiring extensive technical expertise. The company primarily serves startups in Silicon Valley and New York, enabling them to enhance their projects with intelligent text processing capabilities.

FlexPoint

FlexPoint is a modern payments platform specifically designed for the information technology services market. It offers a range of services including invoicing, payment processing, and point-of-sale financing aimed at improving cash flow for managed service providers (MSPs). By accepting various payment options and providing white-label financing for large ticket invoices, FlexPoint enhances the payments process for IT channel partners, enabling them to offer flexible payment solutions to their customers. The platform focuses on automation and integration to streamline financial transactions within the IT sector.
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