Investing In AI Roundtable - Atlanta, Georgia
Join the Arka team and Aditya, and select industry leaders like yourself, for an enterprise AI roundtable. Hosted by Yash (General Partner at BGV, Founding Partner at Arka) and Viraj (Partner at Arka), Aditya Papanaidugari (Head of Product and Strategy, Oracle) we will discuss the state of the AI industry, and how to invest in the next generation of enterprise AI companies. This is an unconference- minimal slides, and an open, practical discussion over wine, beer, coffee and some appetizers!
About Arka:
Arka is Benhamou Global Ventures’ cross-border pre-seed and seed fund focused on US-India enterprise AI startups (US-headquartered or planning to redomicile, but having operations and/or engineering in India). We’re a US Delaware fund enabling Indian-origin founders building from India to scale globally.
We’re currently raising Arka 2.0, our $20M Fund II, and have achieved our first close, with BGV (www.bgv.vc) as our anchor LP. BGV is a cross-border VC with expertise in enterprise AI and a strong presence in Silicon Valley, Israel, France, and India.
Fund I Success:
Launched in 2018 with $7M, Fund I is on track to be a top performer, with already a DPI of about 40% across 32 investments.
Fund I has achieved 9 exits, with 6 companies > $1M ARR, 1 in YC, and 17 raising follow-on rounds totaling > $100M.