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Arka Venture Labs
Venture capital · Mumbai, India · Asia Pacific
Arka Venture Labs is an early-stage cross-border fund that invests in B2B technology startups built from India for global enterprise markets. It provides first institutional cheques of up to $500K, along with mentorship and access to Silicon Valley and Indian startup networks.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsb2benterprisesaasaicross-borderindia
Your fit with Arka Venture Labs
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Or find every investor that fitsArka Venture Labs lists 38 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 4 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 75% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (35%), Enterprise Software (14%) and Space & Defense (11%). 85% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Benhamou Global Ventures, Emergent Ventures and Astir Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Arka Venture Labs, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Arka Venture Labs' whole history. Rounds on record name 4 companies; its own site lists 38. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 75% |
| Series A | 25% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 3 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 76th | 38 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 82th | 75% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 56th | 3% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 65th | 35% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 35% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 14% | 8% |
| Space & Defense | 11% | 3% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 7% | 7% |
| Cybersecurity | 7% | 4% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 7% | 6% |
| Fintech | 6% | 12% |
| Media & Entertainment | 3% | 4% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Benhamou Global Ventures | 5 |
| Emergent Ventures | 4 |
| Astir Ventures | 3 |
| Neon Fund | 3 |
| Blume Ventures | 2 |
| Expert Dojo | 2 |
| Foster Ventures | 2 |
| Higher Life Ventures | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers3695%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company25%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Benhamou Global Ventures
Compare Arka Venture Labs head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
from public registers and its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Arka Venture Labs| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 5 May 2026 | Seed | |
| 30 Oct 2025 | Seed | |
| 29 Oct 2025 | Series A | |
| 17 Jul 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Arka Venture Labs
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Arka Venture Labs' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
38 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AGNT.ID is an on-chain naming system for AI agents, anchored on Ethereum. | AI & Machine LearningFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Aiara provides an enterprise IoT and AI platform to improve manufacturing productivity and enhance output | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| AiRANACULUS provides intelligent RF and networking solutions for various applications | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| B2Brain provides an event lead capture app for trade shows | Media & EntertainmentEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops and provides quantum optimization software for engineering decisions. | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Jul 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| BrieflyAI provides AI meeting summaries, insights, and follow ups | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Bruviti provides artificial intelligence solutions for enterprise service management | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Carboledger provides software solutions for simplifying ISCC compliance and automating mass balance tracking and certification | Space & DefenseAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Catalyx Space builds orbital return vehicles to deliver heavy cargo back from space | Space & Defense | Oct 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| Daxa decides what each agent may see and do with your data, and enforces it in the network and on the endpoint. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Devtron unifies app and infrastructure management with an AI teammate to simplify operations and accelerate delivery | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
EducationHuman Resources | Portfolio page | |||
| EnkryptAI provides a platform for AI security, including features such as runtime protection, adversarial testing, and compliance scanning. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Essenvia provides software for managing regulatory tasks such as registrations, submissions, and change control for products | Healthcare & BiotechLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| Exlens AI develops and provides AI-native software for operations, including a reasoning layer and modules for predicting failures, tracing root cause, and optimizing schedules in various industries. | AI & Machine LearningIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| FirstHive provides an enterprise data decisioning and intelligence engine platform that unifies customer data and enables real-time decisioning and activation | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a platform for testing, refining, and optimizing AI agents | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| PitCrew combines AI agents with human experts to automate everyday work of financial firms, from client requests to reconciliation, without adding headcount. | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a conversational sales and marketing platform that helps businesses accelerate their sales pipeline and convert leads into meetings. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Klynk provides a customer success operations platform that helps teams scale customer success without adding headcount | Space & DefenseEnterprise Software | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- arka.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 17 Jul 2025
- Companies checked
- 38
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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