# Taurus Ventures

> Taurus Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Financial Services. See 36 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 36
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 3%
- Fund size: $580k
- Last fund: Dec 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhardwajhemant
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/TaurusVC
- Website: http://www.taurus.vc/

Taurus Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Financial Services. Taurus Ventures they provide services for technology.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$7M |
| Pre-Seed | $200k–$1.1M |
| Series A | $6.3M–$170M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 22% |
| Financial Services | 6 | 17% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 17% |
| Internet | 5 | 14% |
| FinTech | 4 | 11% |

48 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 24 | 67% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 6% |
| Series A | 2 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 22% |
| India | 5 | 14% |
| Indonesia | 5 | 14% |
| Singapore | 5 | 14% |
| Philippines | 1 | 3% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hemant Bhardwaj | Managing Partner & Founder | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hemant-bhardwaj |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Starcloud | Starcloud is building a network of megawatt-scale data centers in space, scaleable to gigawatt capacity. Falling launch costs allow Starcloud to take advantage of the abundant energy, passive cooling, and high-speed connectivity in space. | $170M | Series A | Mar 30, 2026 |  |
| Multifactor | Multifactor provides secure identity management with authentication, authorization, and auditing using strong cryptography. It provides a secure account-management and access-sharing platform designed for both humans and AI agents. The service functions as a “vault” for passwords, passkeys, 2FA codes, and other authentication materials, enablingusers to store all their login credentials in one secure place. | $15M | Seed | Dec 04, 2025 |  |
| Momos | At Momos, we put restaurants at the forefront of everything we do. We are building Shopify for Restaurants; with our cloud-based marketing and analytics tools, restaurants are able to harness their data across all their online channels and use it to maximize their growth. As a result, Momos is modernizing the entire approach to Food and Beverage,and helping restaurants embrace the digital change. | $10M | Series A | Apr 19, 2024 |  |
| Rivia Clinics | Rivia is an asset-light healthcare chain that partners with existing clinics to improve their quality of service to patients. They offer their partners:1. Loans for infrastructure upgrades and inventory. 2. A hospital management system to simplify administrative tasks. 3. Support with customer acquisition and marketing. 4. Adherence to"Rivia Standards", a set of patient-centric quality guidelines. Overall, Rivia aims to provide a "modern healthcare experience" for patients in emerging markets. | $200K | Pre-Seed | Jan 18, 2024 |  |
| Positional | Over the last decade, our team has built and scaled content channels in some of the most competitive verticals (ex. insurance, personal loans, b2b SaaS). Today, we are building a toolset for content teams to scale their content channels faster and drive more traffic from organic search. | $2.6M | Seed | Feb 01, 2023 |  |
| Driffle | Driffle is a digital goods marketplace that connects gamers with sellers all over the world. The platform sells games, digital gift cards, and gaming points for gamers. Driffle was founded in 2021 by Chetan Bhardwaj, Gaurav Kumar Jha, Mayank Chawla, and Abhishek Kumar with the goal of making online gaming accessible, affordable, and safer forgamers worldwide. | $3.4M | Seed | Nov 08, 2022 |  |
| Shipmates | Shipmates is a courier platform to connect online store to different couriers. | $2.2M | Seed | Sep 08, 2022 |  |
| Kaito | AI-powered research platform for digital assets, backed by Dragonfly, Sequoia and Jane Street | $5.3M | Seed | Aug 17, 2022 |  |
| Kaito | AI-powered research platform for digital assets, backed by Dragonfly, Sequoia and Jane Street | $5.3M | Seed | Aug 17, 2022 |  |
| Better Opinions | Better Opinions is a stock market of opinions platform that allows users to trade their opinion on an outcome of an event. | $2.5M | Seed | Jul 22, 2022 |  |

10 of 36 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Taurus Ventures invest in?

Taurus Ventures invests primarily in Software, Financial Services and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 36 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 Taurus Ventures's check size?

Taurus Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$7M at Seed, $200k–$1.1M at Pre-Seed and $6.3M–$170M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Taurus Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Taurus Ventures?

Public channels for Taurus Ventures 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 Taurus Ventures?

The team at Taurus Ventures includes Hemant Bhardwaj (Managing Partner & Founder). 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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