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Garuda Ventures
Venture capital · Orinda, CA, United States · North America
Garuda Ventures is a venture capital firm that makes first-check investments in early-stage companies. It supports founding teams with operations, sales acceleration, and raising capital.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
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Or find every investor that fitsGaruda Ventures lists 39 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 (28%), Cybersecurity (13%) and Education (11%). 91% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Bling Capital, Fika Ventures and 137 Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Garuda Ventures, 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 Garuda Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 4 companies; its own site lists 39. 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 | 0% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 25% |
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 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 3 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 77th | 39 companies |
| Recent activity | 76th | 3 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 82th | 75% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 77th | 10% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 46th | 28% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 28% | 18% |
| Cybersecurity | 13% | 4% |
| Education | 11% | 7% |
| Fintech | 10% | 12% |
| Enterprise Software | 7% | 8% |
| Space & Defense | 7% | 3% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 6% | 15% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 6% | 7% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Bling Capital | 3 |
| Fika Ventures | 3 |
| 137 Ventures | 2 |
| Abstract | 2 |
| Avenir | 2 |
| Bain Capital Ventures | 2 |
| Felicis | 2 |
| Lightspeed Venture Partners | 2 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers3385%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company615%
- 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 togetherCompare Garuda Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Garuda Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 30 Sept 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 1 Feb 2026 | Seed | |
| 29 Jan 2026 | Seed | |
| 21 Oct 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Garuda Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Garuda Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
39 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adora maps a product's entire experience, scans user sessions for friction, and prioritizes what to ship next. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Feb 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Airbase provides spend management and financial planning services to companies | FintechHuman Resources | Portfolio page | ||
Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | |||
| Amperon provides energy forecasting and analytics solutions to improve grid reliability, manage financial risk, and optimize renewable assets. | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Laminar builds and powers monetizable streaming solutions for brands and creators | Media & EntertainmentEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Arcade provides a runtime layer that sits between AI agents and the external systems they access, letting teams enforce, execute, and govern agent actions through a single control point. | Enterprise SoftwareCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | |||
| Arkero connects a sports business's existing technology stack into one intelligence layer that AI agents can reason over to perform tasks such as recovering renewals and planning matchdays. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Jan 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Attendly provides software for managing out-of-school time programs, including registration, attendance, and reporting, for California school districts and other educational institutions. | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| CloudAdmin provides a platform to manage and meter infrastructure usage for billing and observation purposes | Enterprise SoftwareCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | |||
| The company provides cloud-based artificial intelligence infrastructure and services | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Dataroom provides a platform to automatically analyze business data and generate investor materials, such as pitch decks and financials. | FintechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Donobu tests every release, every locale, every page of a product, so shipping fast never means shipping broken. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Evergrow provides digital marketing services to lawn care and landscaping businesses | Media & EntertainmentReal Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| Starlight makes government benefits and financial assistance easier to discover and access through trusted institutions. | FintechHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| FlexPoint automates the billing lifecycle for businesses, including invoice sending, payment collection, and reconciliation. | FintechSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Glidian integrates with payors to simplify the prior authorization experience for healthcare providers. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Leap provides a platform for building and scaling virtual power plants and turning distributed energy resources into revenue | EducationEducation | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- garuda.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 21 Oct 2025
- Companies checked
- 39
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