# Rishi Taparia

> Rishi Taparia is a seed investor at Garuda Ventures backing Financial Services. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Garuda Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/garuda-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Sep 2025
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rktaparia
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/taps
- Website: https://rishitaparia.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/rktaparia

Rishi Taparia is a seed investor at Garuda Ventures in San Francisco focused on Financial Services and Software. Rishi Taparia is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Co-Founder of Garuda Ventures. Rishi previously worked at Legion Technologies as a Legion Technologies. Rishi Taparia attended the Northwestern University.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 3 | 38% |
| Software | 2 | 25% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 25% |
| SaaS | 1 | 13% |
| FinTech | 1 | 13% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 50% |
| Series A | 2 | 25% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 50% |
| Canada | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mesta | Mesta, a fintech company changing global payment networks with hybrid fiat and stablecoin payment rails, has launched its cross-border payment platform. | $5.5M | Seed | Sep 30, 2025 | https://www.mesta.xyz/ |
| FlexPoint | LendARR provides a digital payments platform that modernizes the way technology is bought and sold. | $12M | Series A | May 13, 2025 | https://www.lendarr.com/ |
| Mesta | Mesta, a fintech company changing global payment networks with hybrid fiat and stablecoin payment rails, has launched its cross-border payment platform. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Jan 22, 2025 | https://www.mesta.xyz/ |
| Starboard | Starboard revolutionize global trade by empowering SMB freight forwarders with cutting-edge AI tools. | $5.5M | Seed | Dec 17, 2024 | https://www.starboard.biz/ |
| Monark Markets | Monark Markets is an institutional-grade technology infrastructure, legal framework, and network connecting brokerages, advisors and custodians to private market securities. Monark owns and operates a broker dealer subsidiary and exempt reporting advisor subsidiary. | $2.2M | Seed | Oct 22, 2024 | https://monark-markets.com |
| FlexPoint | LendARR provides a digital payments platform that modernizes the way technology is bought and sold. | $5M | Seed | Mar 18, 2024 | https://www.lendarr.com/ |
| FlexPoint | LendARR provides a digital payments platform that modernizes the way technology is bought and sold. | $2.4M | Seed | Sep 25, 2023 | https://www.lendarr.com/ |
| Arena | Arena accelerates testing, debugging, and optimization for the world’s most advanced hardware. Atlas is an AI hardware engineer grounded in applied physics with an understanding of the real-world environment. | $32M | Series A | Aug 02, 2022 | https://arena-ai.com/ |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Far Out Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/far-out-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Canonical Crypto](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canonical-crypto) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Cascade Seed Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cascade-angels-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [FOVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fovc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Haymaker Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/haymaker-ventures-c523) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Garuda Ventures

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Garuda Ventures is a B2B focused pre-seed fund, most often leading a founder's initial round of financing as their first true believer.

3 contacts available at Garuda Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Arpan Punyani | Co-Founder and GP | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arpan-punyani |
| James Richards | Co-founder & Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-richards-2 |
| Rishi Taparia | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rishi-taparia |

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## FAQ

### What does Rishi Taparia invest in?

Rishi Taparia invests primarily in Financial Services, Software and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Rishi Taparia?

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### When did Rishi Taparia last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Rishi Taparia closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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