# Rupa Popat

> Rupa Popat is a seed investor at Arāya Ventures backing Health Care. See 9 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Firm: [Arāya Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ar%C4%81ya-ventures)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 56%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rupapopat

Rupa Popat is a seed investor at Arāya Ventures in London focused on Health Care and Wellness. Rupa Popat is Co-Founder & Director of VAC Ventures.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 3 | 33% |
| Wellness | 2 | 22% |
| Generative AI | 2 | 22% |
| SaaS | 1 | 11% |
| Music | 1 | 11% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 44% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 33% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 22% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 67% |
| Canada | 1 | 11% |
| United States | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bodycare | Bodycare engages in the manufacture and supply of fragrance, skincare, makeup, nails, hair, false tan, luxury bath, and body products. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 03, 2026 | https://www.bodycareonline.co.uk |
| BeatpulseLabs | With 500K+ hours of video, speech, and music data, BeatpulseLabs powers generative AI training across audio, video, and multimodal use. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Jun 08, 2026 | https://www.beatpulselabs.com/ |
| Paypercut | Paypercut is a fintech startup that allows small and mid-scaled merchants to offer Buy Now, Pay Later at checkout via a single integration. | $5.8M | Seed | Jun 03, 2026 | https://paypercut.co/ |
| MyARC | MyARC is a fitness app for content creators and their fans. | $2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 26, 2026 | https://www.myarc.fitness/ |
| Curvo AI | Curvo is building the real-time intelligence layer for sales, giving every rep the answers, structure, and confidence of a world-class performer, live on every call. We believe the future of AI is on-device and private, and that elite sales performance shouldn't depend on memory, luck, or years of experience. Curvo makes every call your bestone. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Dec 01, 2025 | https://curvo.ai |
| Unfabled | Unfabled is a women’s health consumer platform that delivers curated and personalised solutions. | $1.7M | Seed | Oct 13, 2025 | https://unfabled.co/ |
| Jude | Hey, we're Jude. A healthcare start-up on a mission is to bring bladder care into the mainstream. | $2.6M | Pre-Seed | Mar 07, 2022 | https://wearejude.com/ |
| Your Juno | Your Juno is a financial education platform for women and non-binary people. | $2.2M | Seed | Mar 01, 2022 | https://www.yourjuno.co/ |
| WFHomie | WFHomie is an employee engagement and culture-building platform for remote teams. WFHomie team leaders build informal connections between remote employees through a whole range of services, including our epic virtual icebreaker activities. | $1.5M | Seed | Dec 15, 2021 | https://www.wfhomie.com/ |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Avalancha Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avalancha-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [LOI Venture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/loi-venture) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Morgan Stanley](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/morgan-stanley) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Access VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/access-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BlackWood Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackwood-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Rupa Popat invest in?

Rupa Popat invests primarily in Health Care, Wellness and Generative AI startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Rupa Popat?

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### When did Rupa Popat last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Rupa Popat closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 9 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?

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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