From Operating to Investing: Insights with Rishi Taparia

Rishi Taparia is the Co-Founder and General Partner at Garuda Ventures. He is a seasoned tech executive and investor with over 15 years of experience in strategy, operations and finance. He was most recently the SVP of Strategy and Operations at Legion, an AI/ML powered HR tech company, where he helped launch a new product line, and raise $80M in capital across multiple rounds of funding. Prior to Legion, Rishi served as the VP of Business Operations at Poynt, a hardware and software company building a commerce and payments platform, acquired by GoDaddy for $365M in 2021. Rishi joined as the company’s first non-technical hire and helped scale the company’s business to serve over 130,000 merchants globally, and raise $150M in follow-on capital. He joined Poynt from Matrix Partners, an early stage-venture firm where he sourced the firm’s seed investment in Canva, most recently valued at $40B. Prior to Matrix, Rishi was an investor at Scale Venture Partners. Rishi began his career at Merrill Lynch in the Financial Institutions group. Rishi graduated with honors from Northwestern University. - Identifying Promising B2B Software Startups - Building a Venture Capital Fund - AI in B2B Software #VentureCapital #StartupInvesting #B2BSoftware #ArtificialIntelligence #TechStartups