November 2025 Newsletter
The latest from Garuda Ventures, new investments, news from our portfolio, and a few tidbits!
Welcome to the Garuda Ventures newsletter, where we share the latest from us, news from our portfolio, new investments, and a few tidbits.
New Investments:
We partnered with four founding teams in recent months (all still unannounced, so stay tuned):
🩺 AI healthcare agents to handle key business workflows and give healthcare providers back more time with patients. We co-led the pre-seed.
🏠 An AI-native operating system for real estate, founded by a team with deep domain expertise. We co-led the pre-seed.
🚨Hardware + software platform for drones, to support first responders
🏗️ An AI-first warehouse robotics automation platform
Garuda on the Road: Over the last few months we’ve found ourselves meeting with founders, LPs, and fellow investors in San Diego, Dallas, and NYC. Special thanks to friends at Social Leverage, Primary Ventures, and our portfolio company APMC for the hospitality!
Garuda Fall Fête 2025: We hosted our Fall Fete 2025 at La Mar in SF last week for an incredible evening connecting with our amazing - and growing - community. Thank you to everyone who joined us and helped make the event so special!
Portfolio News
Archive Intel, the AI-powered client communication archiving, record keeping, and compliance software platform for regulated industries, raised a $6.3M Series A led by Gray Line Partners.
Atero, building GPU management and memory optimization, was acquired by Crusoe, the industry’s first vertically integrated AI infrastructure provider.
ConductorOne, the AI-native identity security platform, raised a $79M Series B led by Greycroft, with participation from Crowdstrike, Accel, Felicis, and others.
Iconic Air, a platform specializing in GHG emissions tracking for energy-intensive industries, was acquired by Asuene Inc.
Moonshot AI, the AI-powered platform that turns websites into fully automated, self-optimizing living organisms, raised a $10M seed round led by Mighty Capital and Uncorrelated.
Mesta, the global B2B fiat + stablecoin payment network, announced their $5.5M seed round led by Village Global with participation from Circle Ventures, Paxos, and WTI.
Rocksalt, which turns B2B companies’ subject matter experts into an inbound marketing channel, launched out of stealth, announcing their $3.5M seed round led by Lightspeed.
Hiring Across the Portfolio
The Garuda Ventures portfolio is always hiring! If you’re in the market for an exciting new role at an early-stage business, head to jobs.garuda.vc or click the button below to discover opportunities across our network of companies.
Garuda’s Bookshelf
In a world of bite-sized, easily consumable content, we love asking and getting the question, “Have you read any good books lately?” In this month’s bookshelf:
Non-fiction: Play Nice But Win by Michael Dell
Play Nice But Win is Michael Dell’s authoritative story of his own incredible life and career, interleaved with the dramatic story of his take-private of Dell in 2013 in partnership with Silver Lake. While much of the tech industry reads and fawns over the exploits of Silicon Valley-based and Ivy-league educated founders and CEOs, Dell’s life story and business career is decidedly Texan a UT Austin (almost) grad, who built Dell from his early 20s onward in the Austin area, and still resides there today. The book shares the story of Dell’s breakneck growth, through its IPO, their ultimate entry into infrastructure markets, and the eventual tie-up with EMC.
Fiction: Nuclear War, by Annie Jacobsen
Nuclear War presents a hypothetical, fictional scenario of nuclear war unfolding over 72 hours. Jacobsen’s deeply researched exploration of nuclear warfare is extremely unsettling. While the topic is grim, her ability to make complex scenarios accessible and engaging is remarkable. This minute-by-minute account of how a nuclear war might unfold is chilling, a major wake-up call we shouldn’t ignore.
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Michael Dell's "Play Nice But Win" is such a compeling read, especially for anyone intrested in the less glamorized side of tech entrepeneurship. Dell's Austin roots and UT background make his story uniquely grounded compared to the usual Silicon Valley narratives. The take-private story with Silver Lake is wild. How many founders could pull off somthing like that at that scale?