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Garuda Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($500K–$1.5M Checks)

VC

Garuda Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm investing in Fintech, Developer Tools, SaaS. The firm typically writes $500K–$1.5M checks and has 37 portfolio companies in our records.

Check size
$500K–$1.5M
Portfolio
37 companies on record
Partners
3 listed
Stage
Pre-Seed, Seed
Sectors
Fintech, Developer Tools, SaaS, Enterprise, AI / ML, Climate / Energy
AUM
Not in our records

Last verified: 2026-10-19

How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$500K – $1.5M

Portfolio

37+ companies

Team

3 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Early-stage investor with activity in fintech infrastructure and adjacent technical products. Often backs pre-seed teams building new rails, workflow, and platform layers.

How Garuda Ventures invests

Garuda Ventures is a vc firm. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Fintech, Developer Tools, SaaS, Enterprise, AI / ML.

Garuda Ventures typically writes checks of $500K–$1.5M per investment.

Garuda Ventures has backed 37 companies in our records, including adora so, airbaseinc, allstripes.

Partners & Team

JR

James Richards

Partner

RT

Rishi Taparia

Co-Founder

AP

Arpan Punyani

Co-founder and General Partner

Industry Focus

Invests In

Fintech
Developer Tools
SaaS
Enterprise
AI / ML
Climate / Energy

Portfolio Companies (37)

Other

AD

adora so

AI

airbaseinc

AL

allstripes

AM

amperon

AR

arena ai

CO

ConductorOneInc

CL

cloudadminio

EV

evergrowhq

FI

firstresonance

GE

getflexpoint

How to pitch Garuda Ventures
  • •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • •Lead with your fit in Fintech, Developer Tools, SaaS — the sectors they actively back.
  • •Size your ask to their typical $500K – $1.5M check.
  • •warm intro preferred
  • •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as James Richards, Partner.
  • •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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