Arka invests in the next wave of global B2B innovation from India by partnering with passionate entrepreneurs poised to disrupt global markets.
We are the only pre-seed fund dedicated to accelerating Indian B2B Founders with global ambitions—the fastest-growing segment in the Indian Entrepreneurial ecosystem, spanning both sides of the corridor.
Arka's expertise lies in creating a supportive investor network, a strategy deemed beneficial for fledgling startups, ensuring a diverse investor base.
Our Arka Fund II is dedicated to AI-first companies at the pre-seed and seed stage. We are sector agnostic and interested in companies across the AI tech stack, from vertical application software to AI trust and safety.
Our Investment Themes
Vertical Solutions
Vertical companies developing niche, domain-specific applications with predictive or classification systems hold the key to accelerating digital transformation.
Vertical Solutions
We focus on investing in vertical companies developing niche, domain-specific applications with predictive or classification systems. We believe they hold the key to accelerating digital transformation.
Our investments empower enterprises with solutions across key business functions given the existence of proprietary data sets, tailored GTM channels, and the ability to embed deep into business workflows.
Digi-Acceleration & Agility
Startups in our portfolio are poised to revolutionize enterprise software development, marking a new era of digital acceleration and agility.
Digi-Acceleration & Agility
We invest in horizontal and foundational platform companies that create the essential infrastructure and tools for the contemporary digital stack. This includes versatile machine learning systems, algorithms, frameworks, and workbenches designed to address challenges across various industries.
Startups in our portfolio are poised to revolutionize enterprise software development, marking a new era of digital acceleration and agility.
Emerging Tech
We invest in companies pioneering new frontiers in emerging tech, expanding the limits of current possibilities , all rooted in major scientific or technological breakthroughs.
Emerging Tech
Climate tech focused on environmental sustainability and deep tech startups in domains like Robotics, Blockchain, Edge Computing, and Spatial Computing, are of special interest to us.
As these technologies mature, they hold the promise of solving complex challenges and opening up new frontiers of human potential.
Our Process
Below we outline the steps and process to reaching the Investment Committee (IC) stage:
Introduction
An initial meeting to discuss the opportunity and get to know you. We ask founders to share relevant material beforehand.
Deep Dive
In this phase we get to know the tech, vision, product, roadmap and possibly a demo.
Reference Calls
We bring in a few of our venture partners/functional specialists with relevant experience who can both provide feedback & help the company, often through a customer/tech reference call.
Investment Committee
A Q&A session with the full investment team.
FAQs
Any B2B tech / Enterprise / SaaS start-up looking to build a global company with their primary customer being in US/Northern Europe is encouraged to reach out.
We invest in pre-seed and seed stage start-ups. You can be pre-revenue and pre-traction as long as you have a MVP ready to do a pilot or onboard an early adopter.
Occasionally, we incubate ideas where we have deep operational and investment experience based on a few thesis we have developed.
At Arka, we want to help the company position itself to create a space in the global market. Global ambitions are critical.
Deep understanding of the market and market dynamics.
Founding team, their backgrounds and their cohesiveness.
Deep technical knowledge and differentiation.
Prefer “as-a-service” business models, cloud native stacks and full stack solutions.
Making use of the amazing talent pool in India across both development and go-to-market sides of the business.
Ability to get coaching and mentoring from our network to get to product market fit faster.
Vertical Solutions
Digital Acceleration
Emerging Tech
$100k - $500k in the first round. We also work with our network of co-investors to bring in more capital to help you close your round.
Introduction: An initial meeting to discuss the opportunity and get to know you. We ask founders to share relevant material beforehand.
Deep Dive: In this phase we get to know the tech, vision, product, roadmap and possibly a demo.
Customer / Tech reference call: We bring in a few of our venture partners/ functional specialists with relevant experience who can both provide feedback & help the company.
Investment Committee: A Q&A session with the full investment team.
Companies targeting the US market benefit greatly from being a US Delaware company. Ask us about our learnings from the 30+ companies in our portfolio.
We have supported founders in their journey to be a global company. While we cannot provide immigration help (as we are not immigration attorneys), we have a lot of learnings to share. Ask us about it.
