Garuda Ventures is a first-check B2B venture firm focused primarily on pre-seed and seed, investing early institutional capital behind technically strong founders with deep founder-market fit. The firm forms independent conviction at Day 0, backs large business markets being reshaped by AI, infrastructure, security, commerce, and climate digitization, and is explicitly not a consumer-focused investor.
Garuda’s partners emphasize founder quality and founder‑market fit first, evidenced by repeated language about “Day 0” partnerships, leading or co‑leading pre‑seed rounds, and backing teams solving problems they’ve lived. Their posts highlight deep domain and technical excellence (“deeply technical founders with commercial aptitude”), repeat/seasoned builders (“operators built for operators”), and founders described as “forces of nature” who are commercially minded. Investment write‑ups consistently tie conviction to: (1) a clear, urgent customer pain with an early wedge, (2) founders’ prior experience directly in the problem domain, and (3) early proof points (design partners, early users, public beta). They explicitly say they “get to conviction ourselves, don’t ask ‘who else is in?’” signaling independent decision‑making over social proof. Traction helps (e.g., FlexPoint processing “millions” in GMV soon after beta), but at their preferred entry point it’s not a prerequisite—team and wedge in a large B2B market dominate.
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