Investing Profile

Apoorva Ruparel

VCStrategy OperatorSales OperatorFounder

Partner at venturerock

vantagepoint.fundSan Francisco, California

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Networks Apoorva is a member of

The Wharton School Network

238 CONNECTIONS

Robyn Frankel Network

147 CONNECTIONS

Newcastle Dive Center Network

141 CONNECTIONS

University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business Network

20 CONNECTIONS

University of Mumbai Network

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Current Investing Position

venturerock Partner

Investment Range

$500K - $1M

Sweet Spot

$750K

Investments On Record

Apoorva Ruparel is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

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Apoorva Ruparel's Investments On Record (6)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Nibiru Chain	SeedFeb 2024$12M	$21M
Co-investors: Jahed Momand (Cerulean Ventures), Brandon Gath (Kraken Ventures), Arjun Sethi (Kraken Digital Asset Exchange)
Armorblox	Series UnknownSep 2022	$64M
Co-investors: John Thompson (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Steve Herrod (General Catalyst), Ron Conway (SV Angel), Dave Barrett (Polaris Partners), TJ Rylander (Next47), DJ Patil (‎GreatPoint Ventures), Ramu Arunachalam (A Capital), Ronald Conway Sr. (NewCo), Rob Salvagno (Cisco Investments), Gerhard Eschelbeck, Oliver Friedrichs
Seashell	SeedJan 2022$6M	$12M
Co-investors: Sandeep Nailwal (Polygon), Brett Calhoun (First Republic Bank), Mark Cuban (PKF The Consulting House, Dubai - UAE), Elad Gil (Think Colorado), Bernardt Vogel (VU Venture Partners)
Rain	SeedAug 2019$4M	$580M
Co-investors: Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Jai Das (Sapphire Ventures), Adam Nelson (FirstMark Capital), Justin Overdorff (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Paul Veradittakit (Pantera Capital), Casey Caruso (Paradigm), Nigel Morris (QED Investors), Julian Roeoes (Picus Capital), Amr Abdelaziz (A'Z Angels), Fritz Lanman (ClassPass), Parker Barrile (Norwest Venture Partners), Alex Macdonald (sequel), Ansaf Kareem, Balaji Srinivasan
Miles	SeedJul 2018$4M	$17M
Co-investors: Tak Miyata (Scrum Ventures), Gabe Klein (Fontinalis Partners), Harris Barton, Ashish Toshniwal
Rain Neuromorphics	Funding RoundN/A
Co-investors: Louis Beryl (Andreessen Horowitz), Brian Bell (Team Ignite Ventures), Mary Lin

most interested in

Interested in founders building Agentic Workflows to create autonomous org functions, which are measured with the metric of human intervention reduction units. We are also closely looking at investing in the Enablement Layer (tooling, routing, aggregation) of the Gen AI stack.

Apoorva Ruparel's Experience

Angel Investor DaxaPresent

CoFounder & CEO Robyn FrankelPresent

Sales Manager NortelPresent

Partner venturerockPresent

Venture Investor Sapien StudioPresent

Co-Founder & CEO SubtraPresent

Founder CEO Arraystorm Lighting Pvt Ltd ( RR Global Company)Present

Lead Consulting iGATE Global SolutionsPresent

CoFounder & CEO Cleanray ( Acquired by WIPRO Lighting & Consumer Care)Present

Co-Founder & VP Growth Strategy AirMe IncPresent

Co-Faculty at University of California Launch Accelerator LAUNCH: The University of California's Startup AcceleratorPresent