# Arka Venture Labs

> Arka Venture Labs is a VC fund in Palo Alto backing Software and SaaS. See 58 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 58
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 31%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/arka-venture-labs/?viewAsMember=true
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ArkaVentureLab
- Website: http://arka.vc/

Arka Venture Labs is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Software and SaaS. This platform is open only to B2B startups that have a minimum viable product (MVP) with a strong potential in the US or in Europe, backed by strong core technology and economic differentiators. Arka Venture Labs will operate out of Blume’s offices in India and BGV’s offices in Silicon Valley. Apart from mentoring and funding, the platform alsoprovides working spaces for these startups.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $700k–$4.7M |
| Pre-Seed | $200k–$1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 14 | 24% |
| SaaS | 12 | 21% |
| Information Technology | 12 | 21% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 12 | 21% |
| Machine Learning | 8 | 14% |

71 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 31 | 53% |
| Pre-Seed | 7 | 12% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 5% |
| Series A | 2 | 3% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 29 | 50% |
| India | 5 | 9% |
| Singapore | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Yashwanth Hemaraj | Founder & Partner | 20 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yashwanth-hemaraj |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Xcaliber | Xcaliber provides a digital health platform that automates healthcare data tasks using AI agents. The platform supports integration across various healthcare systems, including EHRs, APIs, and clinical data. It offers agents for data management, workflow automation, and compliance tasks, with customizable options for different healthcare needs. Theplatform ensures secure data access, governance, and traceability while supporting both technical and non-technical teams through APIs and natural language interfaces. | $6.5M | Seed | May 05, 2026 |  |
| Lyzr | Lyzr is an enterprise agent framework for building reliable and self-learning AI agents that can communicate and exchange intel with one another, forming a knowledge mesh that leads to OGI - Organizational General Intelligence. At Lyzr, we take enterprise data privacy seriously, and hence, we designed the entire agent framework, including the APIstudio and OGI studio, to run locally on the customer's own cloud (VPC) or on-prem servers. | $8M | Series A | Oct 29, 2025 |  |
| AgntID.ai | AgntID — IAM+ for Gen AI Agent Builders | $500K | Pre-Seed | Sep 15, 2025 |  |
| Catalyx | Catalyx offers end-to-end services, handling every detail, including launch logistics, data reception, licensing, and satellite construction and payload integration. | $5.5M | Seed | Aug 21, 2025 |  |
| Bruviti | Bruviti is an enterprise AI platform that uses AI & Ml to to connect with customers, deliver exceptional service and complete the most critical feedback loop to accelerate repeat buys, increase accessory sales and improved margins. Bruviti's proprietary decision fabric engine enables companies to make smarter, faster, data-driven decisionsby providing predictive, actionable service recommendations. Bruviti is addressing 500B+ equipment service market that is going to define next generation of Customer Service Experience. | $6M |  | Aug 07, 2025 |  |
| Pipeshift | Pipeshift is a modular orchestration platform for building with open-source AI components—embeddings, vector databases, LLMs, vision models, and audio models—across any cloud or on-premise. Enterprises get to deploy their AI workloads in production faster and more reliably. | $2.5M | Seed | Jan 23, 2025 |  |
| Enkrypt AI | Enabling faster and secure adoption of Gen AI models in Enterprises. | $2.4M | Seed | Feb 27, 2024 |  |
| RagaAI | RagaAI is the #1 AI testing platform which helps enterprises mitigate AI risks and make their models secure and reliable.The AI-testing methods used by most today are Ad-hoc, which both increases the time-commitment and reduces productivity while building models. Also it leaves un-foreseen risks, so they perform poorly post deployment and thuswaste both time and money for the business.We have built an end-to-end AI testing platform which’ll help enterprises drastically improve their AI development pipeline and prevent inefficiencies and risks post deployment. Visit www.raga.ai to start your AI integrity journey today. | $4.7M | Seed | Jan 23, 2024 |  |
| Fractl | Fractl is a data-oriented, declarative programming language that allows the development of business applications. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Nov 11, 2023 |  |
| ZapScale | ZapScale is a business-to-business SaaS customer success platform. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Delaware. | $2.5M | Seed | Jun 12, 2023 |  |

10 of 58 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [B Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/b-capital-group) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Blume Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blume-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Tempo Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tempo-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Emergent Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emergent-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [1Crowd](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1crowd) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Arka Venture Labs invest in?

Arka Venture Labs invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 58 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Arka Venture Labs's check size?

Arka Venture Labs typically joins rounds of $700k–$4.7M at Seed and $200k–$1M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Arka Venture Labs participates in.

### How do I contact Arka Venture Labs?

Public channels for Arka Venture Labs include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Arka Venture Labs?

The team at Arka Venture Labs includes Yashwanth Hemaraj (Founder & Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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