Arka Venture Labs
Venture capitalMumbai · Pre-Seed–Series A · 5 people tracked
Investment thesis
Arka Venture Labs focuses on early-stage, cross-border B2B startups building from India with global ambitions. As a day-zero partner, it provides the first institutional cheque at the pre-seed and seed stages, typically investing up to $500K via preferred equity, SAFE, or convertible note. Beyond capital, the firm tailors mentorship around product positioning, product-market fit, and a cross-border go-to-market playbook. Portfolio companies tap a curated community of seasoned Silicon Valley operators and top-tier VCs, drawing on expertise and networks spanning innovation hubs across Europe, Israel, the US, and India to guide B2B companies from zero to IPO.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 5 people
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What they invest in
from 41 of 70 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×30Enterprise Software ×20SaaS ×18Marketing Tech ×7Cloud Computing ×5Data & Infrastructure ×5Developer Tools ×5Advanced Manufacturing ×4
HQs:United States×19India×3Australia×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 25 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×132 founders×73 founders×44+ founders×1
Where their founders studiedfrom 14 founders with education data
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur ×2Manipal Institute of Technology ×2University of Mumbai ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 18 founders with career history
Hult Prize Foundation ×3Cisco ×2RUGVED Systems ×2
Investments · 70 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 12025 · 42023 · 22022 · 12021 · 12018 · 110 dated
Catalyx builds standardized infrastructure for deploying sensor payloads into orbit, offering common power, thermal, and data interfaces along with continuous monitoring and real-time data transmission.
Deep TechHardwareIoTSpace TechSan Francisco, US
Rifath Shaarook(Founder & CEO)in
Co-investorsPrana Tech VenturesNivesha VenturesOutlander VCTogether FundTranspose Platform Management
Trainn is a learning management system (LMS) platform that combines video creation, guide authoring, and course delivery in a single interface designed for enterprises and startups.
AI & Machine LearningEdTechEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSChennai, IN
VivekSumana
Co-investorsSpeciale Invest
Co-investorsAccess Venture PartnersAdit Ventures Management, LlcAgilitas Private EquityAlba Infra PartnersALIVE Israel HealthTech FundAlkemi Growth Capital+73 more
Co-investorsChakra Growth FundPerot Jain
AECInspire provides AI-powered material management software for electrical contractors, automating takeoffs, prefabrication planning, procurement coordination, and installation detailing.
AI & Machine LearningConstruction Tech
Agentic digital health platform
Aiara is a company building hardware and IoT products supported by machine learning systems, with a team spanning hardware engineering, full-stack software, and systems intelligence.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningHardwareIoTLos Gatos, US
APARNA ARYABUMI(DIRECTOR AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)Aparna Aryabumi(Founder, CEO)Nagarjun Redla(CTO)MOHAN KRISHNA REDDY ARYABUMI(DIRECTOR)
AiRANACULUS develops AI-powered software for intelligent radio frequency and networking solutions across applications from space to smart cities.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDefense Tech
Co-investorsPrana Tech Ventures
Palo Alto, US
Ashish Kumar Verma(Executive Officer, Director)Kedar Valmik Kekan(Executive Officer, Director)
Autonomous space labs enabling microgravity experiments and re-entry
AI agent for B2B websites for personalized web experiences
B2Brain is an event intelligence platform for B2B sales teams that enables lead capture, meeting booking, and CRM synchronization at trade shows and conferences.
Enterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSWilmington, US
Karthik Mahadevan(Founder)in
Co-investorsIdeaspring Capital
Co-investorsBetter CapitalUpsparks Capital
BosonQ Psi (BQP) develops BQPhy, a simulation software that integrates quantum computing with high-fidelity engineering simulations such as computational fluid dynamics.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechQuantum ComputingSaaS
Abhishek Chopra(Founder)
Co-investorsEMERGENT VENTURESPrana Tech VenturesTranspose Platform ManagementAlumni VenturesARC VENTURESArmory Square Ventures+1 more
Co-investorsDYDX CapitalPrana Tech Ventures
Carboledger provides compliance automation and AI-powered data validation for sustainability reporting across supply chains, helping companies meet evolving regulations like ISCC PLUS, REDCert, RED III, and CORSIA.
Climate TechEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Co-investorsAvaana Capital
Simplifying carbon transparency across the value chain
Space TechSan Francisco, US
Rifath Shaarook Raaj(Executive Officer, Director)Andrew J. Smith(Director)Niharika Naveen(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsTechstarsKDXNivesha VenturesOutlander VCPrana Tech VenturesTogether Fund
Construction material management platform
Human-first B2B conversational marketing platform
Customer education platform for SaaS businesses
Learning platform for data science and machine learning
DAXA is a platform that enables organizations to build and deploy generative AI applications with built-in data transparency, compliance, and security controls.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Co-investorsDreamit VenturesOakseed Ventures
Devtron is a Kubernetes-native platform that combines CI/CD, GitOps, observability, and security to manage software delivery.
Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Co-investorsInsight PartnersLeo Capital Ventures
DigitalAPI provides an all-in-one API developer portal where API providers can publish documentation, manage authentication, enable self-service onboarding, and offer sandbox testing from a single branded platform.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareBangalore, IN
Bharath Kumar(Founder & CEO)Rajanish GJ(CTO)Srinivasan Shanmuganathan(CPO)
Electronic signature and document automation platform
Pleasanton, US
Deep Chakraborty(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardNeelesh Bhatnagar(Director)Adeeb Asfari(Director)Philip Comberg(Director)
Enkrypt AI provides a platform for security and compliance of AI systems, offering real-time threat detection, guardrails, monitoring, and policy compliance automation for enterprises deploying generative AI applications.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Prashanth Harshangi(Co-founder)inSahil Agarwal(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsSmartGateVC
Enterprise agent framework for OGI
Essenvia offers a regulatory information management platform for medical device regulatory affairs teams, automating submissions (including FDA eSTAR), centralizing registrations, and providing AI-driven regulatory intelligence and lifecycle tracking.
AI & Machine LearningMedical DevicesSaaSWoodland Hills, US
Basant Sahoo(Director)Soumya Mahapatra(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsExpert DOJORebright PartnersBenhamou Global VenturesWavemaker Three-Sixty Health
Everything Design is a strategy-driven B2B branding and website agency that provides brand positioning, visual identity, Webflow website development, and video production.
Enterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSBengaluru, IN
Co-investorsStellaris Venture Advisors 2 Llp
Exlens builds exOS, an AI-native operations platform with a reasoning layer (SureLock) that sits on top of existing EAM, SCADA, historian, and ERP systems, plus standalone modules for maintenance, inventory, manufacturing execution, and quality.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareAustin, US
AD Veluri(Founder)Akhil Dhyani(Founder)
Co-investorsGaia VenturesTrucks VC
FirstHive is an AI-powered customer data platform that unifies fragmented customer data from multiple sources and enables real-time, autonomous decision-making and personalized customer experiences across channels.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureMarketing TechSunnyvale, US
Aditya Bhamidipaty(CEO)
BoardHemant Asher(Director)inKrishnakumar Natarajan(Director)inSunder Velamuri(Director)Amit Midha(Director)
Co-investorsInfo Edge VenturesMela VenturesSaama CapitalSUVAN VENTURESBenhamou Global Ventures
Future AGI provides a platform for simulating, evaluating, and monitoring AI agents in production.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Nikhil Pareek(Founder)inCharu G.(Founder)in
Co-investorsPowerhouse VenturesSnow Leopard Technology VenturesSaka Ventures
Data transparency, security and compliance for Gen AI
Melbourne, AU
Ashish Parnami(Founder)Raj Ramaswamy(Founder)
Co-investorsBAM VenturesZ5 CapitalWatertower Ventures Management, Llc
Jovian offers beginner-friendly, coding-focused online courses in data science and programming, covering topics like Python, SQL, data analysis, machine learning, deep learning with PyTorch, and web development.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEdTech
Co-investorsBetter Capital
Lincode builds LIVIS, an AI-based visual inspection system for manufacturing quality control that lets factory teams train and deploy computer vision models for surface defect detection, assembly verification, and anomaly detection through a no-code interface.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningRobotics
Rajesh Iyengar(CEO)in
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesBasecamp FundExpert DOJOGeek VenturesAccelAugment Ventures+1 more
Fine-tuning and inferencing open-source large language models
Lyzr builds infrastructure and platforms for deploying production-grade AI agents in enterprises, with emphasis on governance, security, observability, and human oversight.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSJersey City, US
Siva Surendira(Founder & CEO)inSurendirasiva Selvaraj(Executive Officer, Director)Jithin George(Founder)in
BoardMadhu Shalini Iyer(Director)inHenry Ford III(Director)
Co-investorsRocketship.vcAccenture VenturesBGVBetter CapitalGFT VenturesIn-Q-Tel+1 more
Maneva develops Video-to-Action AI for manufacturers, converting production-floor visual data into real-time actions for quality control, machine integrity, and line supervision (via its ALIS AI Line Supervisor).
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningRoboticsToronto
Rae Chan Jeong(Executive Officer, Director)Kelvin Chan(Co-Founder & CTO)Rae Jeong(Co-Founder & CEO)in
Co-investors640 OxfordBling CapitalEvolution VC PartnersN49PUS Venture PartnersFreestyle Capital
Nektar provides an infrastructure layer that automatically captures customer interactions (emails and meetings), matches them to the correct accounts, and writes structured data into a company's CRM without rep involvement.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales TechSan Francisco, US
Abhijeet Vijayvergiya(Founder)Aravind Ravi Sulekha(Founder)in
Co-investorsB Capital GroupB4 CapitalBetter CapitalCapria VenturesInsignia Ventures Partners3one4 Capital
Nirmata is an AI platform engineering assistant that helps teams write, validate, and enforce policy-as-code across Kubernetes infrastructure at scale.
Cloud ComputingCybersecurityDeveloper Tools
Ritesh Patel(Founder)in
Co-investorsDallas Venture CapitalDreamit VenturesPeak XV PartnersZ5 CapitalBenhamou Global Ventures
Obviously AI provides a no-code platform that enables users to build predictive machine learning models from raw data in minutes without requiring coding knowledge.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Nirman Pratikbhai Dave(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Tapojit Debnath Tapu(Executive Officer, Director)Tapojit (Tapu) Debnath(Founder)in
BoardKiran Mysore Ravi(Director)
Co-investorsDraft Ventures LlcFoothill VenturesGolden Gate VenturesUTECiSeed
Construction material management platform
Pay3 provides a payment infrastructure layer for agentic commerce, enabling AI agents to autonomously execute transactions using stablecoin rails with programmable spending controls, global settlement, and audit trails.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsGemba Capital Venture Partners
Pier39.ai converts e-commerce store thank-you pages into revenue-generating moments by displaying personalized offers from 150+ brand partners, earning merchants up to $100k per 100k orders while driving customer repeat purchases.
AdTechE-commerceSaaSSan Francisco, US
Ankita Verma(Founder)
Pipeshift provides managed inference infrastructure for deploying and scaling AI models with low latency and high reliability.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Arko C(Co-founder, CEO)inEnrique Ferrao(Founder)inPranav Reddy(Founder)in
Co-investorsGood News VenturesMyAsiaVCSenseAI VenturesStrategxy Ventures LLCY CombinatorgradCapital+1 more
PitCrew builds AI and automation tools aimed at improving operations for regulated firms, founded by a team with product experience from companies like LegalZoom, Intuit, and Atlassian.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS
Rishi(Co-founder)inRamesh(Product Executive)in
BoardNixon(Advisor)in
Post-purchase monetization network for e-commerce brands
Preimage converts 360° videos and drone footage into measurable 3D models with AI analytics, letting teams document sites, track construction progress, and conduct virtual walkthroughs.
AI & Machine LearningConstruction TechPropTech
Siddharth Jha(Founder)in
Co-investorsBetter CapitalSprint VcTDV PartnersUpsparks Capitalpi Ventures
Revv is contract management software that enables teams to create, negotiate, and approve contracts with features including e-signature, approval workflows, and document collaboration.
Enterprise SoftwareSaaSWalnut, US
Sameer Goel(Executive Officer, Director)Hrishikesh Gopal Kulkarni(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardDev Khare(Director)
RingCentral provides cloud-based unified communications and AI-powered contact center solutions for businesses, serving over 600,000 customers worldwide.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaS
Co-investorsAkkadian VenturesAlphaDriveDag VenturesKhosla VenturesSequoia CapitalWing+1 more
Rocketium offers AI Studio, a service combining AI agents, creative intelligence, and human design experts to produce on-brand, campaign-ready marketing and advertising creative assets.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningMarketing Tech
Co-investors1CrowdEMERGENT VENTURESFundamental VCTenacity Ventures
SimpliContract is an AI-native contract lifecycle management platform, powered by its proprietary mNemoAI engine, that extracts and structures contract data to track obligations, SLAs, rebates, and pricing terms.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLegalTechPleasanton, US
Guru Venkatesan(Founder)inMakesh Kumar(Founder)inJinaraj Patinjakkara Gopalan(Co-Founder & CTO)in
Co-investorsEMERGENT VENTURESFoster VenturesKalaari CapitalPICUS CAPITAL
Vitrina is a membership-based intelligence platform for the global entertainment supply chain, offering an AI assistant (VIQI) plus a curated database of companies, content titles, and executive profiles to help users plan content acquisitions, raise production financing, and find production, distribution, and vendor partners.
AI & Machine LearningMedia & EntertainmentSaaS
Co-investorsFoster VenturesMDSV CAPITALSparq Capital (SFO)
XCaliber Health builds AI assistants and a data platform that connects and processes structured and unstructured healthcare data, including real-time EHR data, for clinicians and healthcare organizations.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtech
Prakash Khot(Co-Founder & CEO)inTrushna Dave(Co-Founder, Business Development & Marketing)inBhupender Kumar(Co-Founder & Product)inVasanth Kumar(Co-Founder & Architect)in
Co-investorsBenhamou Global VenturesManchesterStory Group, LLCPrana Tech Ventures
ZapScale provides a customer intelligence platform that consolidates account data and enables visibility into customer health through automated analytics and adoption tracking, serving B2B software companies.
Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Co-investorsShastra VC
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Nektar · clinicaltrialvanguard.com · Aug 14, 2026
BQP · investing.com · Aug 5, 2026
Pipeshift · beststartup.us · Jul 17, 2026
Lyzr · citybiz.co · Jul 13, 2026
Maneva · betakit.com · Jun 12, 2026
Jovian · finsmes.com · Mar 3, 2026
Catalyx Space · pulse2.com · Nov 2, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Arka Venture Labs made?
- Arka Venture Labs has 68 tracked investments, including 4 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Arka Venture Labs invest at?
- Arka Venture Labs invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What is Arka Venture Labs's typical check size?
- Arka Venture Labs typically writes checks of $100K – $500K.
- What sectors does Arka Venture Labs focus on?
- Arka Venture Labs focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, Data & Infrastructure, Deep Tech, Enterprise Software, IoT, Mobility & Transportation, SaaS.
- Where is Arka Venture Labs located?
- Arka Venture Labs is headquartered in Mumbai, IN.
- Does Arka Venture Labs lead rounds?
- Yes, Arka Venture Labs leads investment rounds.
- Who does Arka Venture Labs co-invest with?
- Arka Venture Labs most often shares deals with Prana Tech Ventures, Better Capital, EMERGENT VENTURES, among 75 tracked co-investors.
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