Rishi Taparia @taps

It's only Thursday (on a short week), and it's already been a week for the books here at Garuda Ventures and for our LPs. While others wait with baited breath debating the timing and details of the Anthropic IPO at VC dinners, we are over here printing DPI for our LPs - via two acquisitions by Tier 1 enterprise software leaders - and writing new first check investments into explosive markets: 💰 A sizable acquisition of C1.ai by @Workday, bringing the leading agentic identity platform for people and agents to the enterprise agentic system of record for HR, finance, and IT. As Workday put it: "Today's companies run on a combined workforce of people and AI agents". C1 + Workday will secure that hybrid workforce. Congrats to the incredible Alex Bovee and Paul Querna, and the entire C1rew! 💰 Acquisition of our portfolio company ComplianceCow by @ServiceNow. ComplianceCow built agentic continuous controls monitoring - validating controls and exposures in real time for cyber risk and compliance - and will nicely complement and strengthen ServiceNow's Integrated Risk Management (IRM) product line. Congrats to the amazing Raj Krishnamurthy and the killer CCow team! 🚀 Committed to lead a pre-seed round for a robotics simulation infrastructure company. This market is taking off and we're pumped to back a hungry and technically ambitious team at Day 1 that is playing to win. More to come on this one soon! :) Thank you as always to the LPs and founders who bet on us and what we are building. You are how and why we do what we do, and Rishi and I are grateful for your partnership. Back to work!

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a week ago

@ai And then there's how to react to the "No" taps.substack.com/p/pass

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Yohei @yoheinakajima

2 weeks ago

first autonomous AI research with real human participants! congrats to @ExScienceAI on their peer-reviewed paper, also on the cover of Wiley's Advanced Science: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad… total runtime: ~17 hours agents involved: 50+ tokens used: 32.5 million code written: ~7696 lines marginal compute: ~$114 +- $30 human cost: $4500 (288 participants) "Closing the Empirical Loop: Autonomous AI Agents Conduct End-to-end Research With Human Participants" @advportfolio

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Rishi Taparia @taps

a week ago

@JayKapoor @ai If you can make it out to Orinda for a 6a session I'm in!

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a week ago

@JayKapoor @ai This was one a weekly tradition for @ai and I 😆

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a week ago

@amitku Been on this train this whole year! And since this post was published, have convinced at least three couples to get themselves a Model Y, including my in-laws who were the most suspect! taps.substack.com/p/self-drive

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Arpan Punyani @arpanpunyani

2 weeks ago

Huge congrats to @GarudaVC portfolio company C1! The agentic identity platform for people and agents. Identity is a critical problem in an agent-first world, and C1 built the leading platform to help enterprises govern agents securely while enabling businesses to move fast with agents. Incredible work by founders @alexbovee and @pquerna and the whole team. Thank you for letting us partner with you on the journey.

Workday @Workday

2 weeks ago

We’ve signed an agreement to acquire C1.ai, an agentic identity platform for people and AI agents. With C1.ai, Workday will become the identity governance layer for people, money, and agents. w.day/3UsJttH

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Rishi Taparia @taps

2 weeks ago

@packyM Kick a touchback! Why do we insist on making it hard for ourselves 🤦🏽‍♂️ Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

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Rishi Taparia @taps

2 weeks ago

@buckymoore @lightspeedvp Congrats!

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2 weeks ago

@rmstein Amen!

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Rishi Taparia @taps

2 weeks ago

So good. And so true. And absolutely hilarious. Whether you have two kids, want to kids, are expecting your second kid…worth the time!

Zach Baron @zachbaron

2 weeks ago

Wrote about having two kids gq.com/story/second-c…

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Rishi Taparia @taps

2 weeks ago

The role of the ‘fiduciary’ becomes increasingly important here. Who is acting in your best interests as the user and, importantly, potentially liable for the advice given or action taken. The router layer is important because most people want “one throat to choke” but what system / agent they get the info from matters a lot. Lots of CEOs have very capable Chiefs of Staff. But they are still going to ask the CFO for the numbers.