# Tarek Alaruri

> Tarek Alaruri is a pre-seed investor at Stuut backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 23 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Stuut](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stuut)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 23
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarekalaruri
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/talaruri
- Website: https://x.com/TAlaruri

Tarek Alaruri is a pre-seed investor at Stuut in New York focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Tarek Alaruri is based out of New York, New York and is the CEO & Co-founder of Stuut. Tarek previously worked at Fairmarkit as a Co-Founder and COO. Tarek Alaruri attended the Indiana University Bloomington.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.5M–$7M |
| Pre-Seed | $125k–$4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 39% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 9 | 39% |
| SaaS | 5 | 22% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 13% |
| B2B | 2 | 9% |

45 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 10 | 43% |
| Seed | 7 | 30% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 9% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 4% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 17 | 74% |
| Chile | 1 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Everstar | Everstar is an AI-powered system designed to assist with the operation and management of nuclear power plants. | $4M | Pre-Seed | Feb 18, 2025 |  |
| Drillbit | Drillbit is an AI back office support CRM platform that provides business management solutions. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Sep 25, 2024 |  |
| Retell AI | RetellAI is an API for creating human-like conversational voice AI. Developers can build a voice AI similar to JARVIS in just a day — with an ~800ms response time and the ability to handle interruptions. | $4.6M | Seed | Apr 03, 2024 |  |
| Atopile | Atopile develops tools for crafting electronic circuit board designs using code. By replacing the traditional point-and-click schematic interface with code, they bring software development methodologies such as reuse, validation, and automation into the realm of electronics. | $125K | Pre-Seed | Apr 03, 2024 |  |
| TollBit | TollBit is a content monetization platform that allows AI bots and data scrapers to pay websites directly to license their content and protects the health of the entire content ecosystem. | $7M | Seed | Mar 05, 2024 |  |
| Corgea | Corgea automatically secures your vulnerable source code. Corgea leverages AI to reduce development effort by 80%, enabling security teams to issue pull requests for source code fixes for engineering approval. |  | Pre-Seed | Aug 22, 2023 |  |
| Zelta | Zelta.ai (Techstars NYC W23) helps product teams in B2B SaaS companies prioritize their roadmap with confidence and maximize the value of each decision. Zelta uses generative AI to communicate insights on top customer pain points found in companies’ most valuable asset - qualitative sources of customer feedback such as sales call transcripts,support tickets and user surveys. |  | Pre-Seed | Nov 08, 2022 |  |
| HyperDX | HyperDX is a SAAS company that offers simple workflows that assit engineers in resolving production bugs quicker. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Sep 07, 2022 |  |
| Corgea | Corgea automatically secures your vulnerable source code. Corgea leverages AI to reduce development effort by 80%, enabling security teams to issue pull requests for source code fixes for engineering approval. |  |  | Aug 22, 2022 |  |
| Tank Payments | Tank Payments is a venture-backed technology business that is creating an all-in-one freight finance center. Founded in 2022 and is based in Austin, Texas. |  |  | Aug 22, 2022 |  |

10 of 23 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Quiet Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/quiet-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Bloomberg Beta](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bloomberg-beta) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Bossa Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bossanova-investimentos) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [DN Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dn-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Stuut

VC Fund · New York, United States

AI for Business needing to generate more money from their customers

2 contacts available at Stuut.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Tarek Alaruri | CEO & Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tarek-alaruri |
| Miraj Mohsin | Chief Design Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/miraj-mohsin |

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## FAQ

### What does Tarek Alaruri invest in?

Tarek Alaruri invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 23 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 Tarek Alaruri's check size?

Tarek Alaruri typically joins rounds of $3.5M–$7M at Seed and $125k–$4M 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 Tarek Alaruri participates in.

### When did Tarek Alaruri last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Tarek Alaruri closed in Feb 2025. Shizune tracks 23 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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