Garuda Ventures
garuda.vc Direct investor
Garuda Ventures is a first check fund that invests in early-stage startups, providing capital and support to founders. They focus on helping companies from the initial idea stage to becoming category-defining businesses.
Garuda Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in United States. It invests directly in companies, from seed to Series A, in robotics, ai and manufacturing. Its stated cheque size is $500K to $1.5M.
“We invest $500K to $1.5M behind founders as they go from a deck and a dream to a category defining company.”
— Garuda Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- United States
- Sectors
- robotics, ai, manufacturing
- Cheque size
- $500K to $1.5M
Team, as Garuda Ventures publishes it
- Rishi Taparia Co-founder and General Partner
- Arpan Punyani Co-founder and General Partner
- James Richards Co-founder and venture partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on garuda.vc. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 69 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Abstract 2 shared companies: crusoe.ai, mytra.ai
- Avenir Management Company, LLC 2 shared companies: crusoe.ai, mytra.ai
- Flybridge Capital 2 shared companies: honeyhomes.com, arcade.dev
- Bling Capital 2 shared companies: monkeylearn.com, dataroomhq.com
- Webb Investment Network 2 shared companies: airbase.com, noyo.com
- Oceans Management, LLC 2 shared companies: dataroomhq.com, moonshot-ai.com
- Blackbird Ventures 1 shared company: adora.so
- Designer Fund 1 shared company: adora.so
- Princeton Student Ventures 1 shared company: adora.so
- Seedcamp 1 shared company: metaview.ai
and 59 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Garuda Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.garuda.vc/name, is_investor, layer, type, stage_min, stage_max, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, status, sectors
- https://www.garuda.vc/teamhq_country, people
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Record 1912 · added 2026-08-29 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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