Arka Venture Labs

Arka Venture Labs is a first-of-its-kind India-US cross-border accelerator platform, launched in partnership with three leading VC firms - Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV), Blume Ventures and Emergent Ventures. The program is designed to facilitate a faster global transition for Indian B2B start-ups. Arka Venture Labs provides seed and pre-seed capital of up to 200K USD, besides mentorship, infrastructure and access to the Silicon Valley ecosystem which is critical for scaling up B2B startups in the US. This platform is only open to B2B startups that have an MVP or paying customers with a strong potential in the US or European region, backed by strong core technology and economic differentiators. Arka Venture Labs will operate out of Blume’s offices in India and BGV’s offices in Silicon Valley. While Blume Ventures brings extensive knowledge and experience of the Indian entrepreneurial ecosystem, BGV and Emergent Ventures provide deep operational experience in the B2B sector and cross-border investments. Who are the people behind the Arka Venture Labs? http://www.arka.vc/team.html What is the Arka vision? The Arka vision is to create an increasing number of valuable B2B start-ups from India. What does Arka provide? Arka Ventures draws from the strengths of its founding partners. A primer on each fund can be found here: http://www.arka.vc/about.html While Blume brings extensive knowledge and experience of the Indian Entrepreneurial ecosystem, BGV and Emergent provide deep operational experience in the B2B sector and cross-border investments. Portfolio companies will receive mentorship from not only the Arka Venture Labs team and partners of the founding VC firms, but also from a diverse group of experienced professionals in India and US sharing go-to-market and technology perspectives. Capital up to $200K USD will be provided. Working space in the Valley will also be provided for startups.