Garuda Ventures takes its name from the Garuda of Hindu/Buddhist scripture and Indonesia's national emblem, reflecting the founders' personal ties to Indonesia, and its partnership pairs someone who helped source Canva's seed investment with someone who built Okta's early M&A and partnerships functions, a combination it tested through a $3M fund backing 32 founding teams before raising its $31M debut fund. The firm says it often invests before a product or revenue even exists, focuses on infrastructure-heavy B2B areas like manufacturing, robotics, and physical supply chains, includes operators from its own network as LPs and advisors, and tells founders it will never reduce them to an entry in a CRM.