Rishi Taparia

Rishi Taparia is Co-founder and General Partner at Garuda Ventures. Garuda’s official team page describes him as a tech executive and investor with more than 15 years of experience in strategy, operations, and finance. Before Garuda, he was SVP of Strategy and Operations at Legion, an AI/ML-powered HR tech company, where he helped launch a new product line and raise $80M across multiple rounds. Prior to Legion, he was VP of Business Operations at Poynt, a commerce and payments platform acquired by GoDaddy for $365M in 2021; Garuda says he was Poynt’s first business hire and helped scale it to more than 130,000 merchants and raise $150M in follow-on capital. Earlier, he worked at Matrix Partners, where he sourced the firm’s seed investment in Canva, and at Scale Venture Partners. He graduated with honors from Northwestern and lives in Orinda, CA.