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Everyone told us to just focus on prompts. Over the last two years, we kept hearing the same advice from security experts - smart, seasoned people who meant well: "The big risk is prompt injection. Just build a firewall for that." We understood the concern. Prompts are part of the equation - just like network firewalls are part of traditional security. But here's what they missed: in AI, the bigger attack surface is the data. Prompts may open the door, but data is the house. AI doesn't just access data - it learns from it, reasons through it, and acts based on it. If you don't control the data, you don't control the behavior. Or the risk. 🔐 And unlike prompts, data is everywhere. It's fragmented. It's messy. It lives in documents, knowledge bases, APIs, emails, and user memory. It's the hardest part to secure - but also the most critical. Team Daxa chose to take on that harder problem. While others raced to prompt firewalls, we built runtime data controls for AI apps and agents. Not just detecting malicious input - but enforcing what can be retrieved, reasoned on, and revealed. Now, with data-focused attacks like EchoLeak making headlines, the shift is happening. Prompt firewalls are becoming checkboxes. The data ingested by AI is becoming the core of AI governance and security for enterprises. Today: We're proud to be protecting production AI apps at Fortune 100 companies 💼 We're humbled to be recognized by leading analysts like Gartner 📘 And we're fielding inbound requests from $20B+ enterprises that understand what's at stake 📈 It's a good reminder for anyone building something new: if you believe in what you're doing, don't give up just because the experts don't get it yet. Sometimes the clearest truths take the longest to be seen. Keep building. Keep listening to your convictions. The world eventually catches up. 🚀 Daxa, Inc Nico Popp Tammy Schuring Apoorva Ruparel Habib Baluwala Ph.D VR Satish Ryan Tolentino Anand Singh, PhD Mehlam Shakir Rajat Srivastava Yashwanth Hemaraj Viraj Phanse Chee-We Ng Anand Jagannathan @

A few months ago, I shadowed a sales rep at one of our customer companies. He had 14 tabs open. Slack was blowing up. His manager wanted pipeline updates. Ops wanted Salesforce cleaned up. And his calendar… was a mess. At 6:30PM, he turned to me and said, “None of this is selling. It’s just admin work I have to do before I can sell.” That moment stuck with me. So we built Zams — an AI agent that takes sales busywork off your plate without having to create complex workflows or Zaps. Simply say something like: “Log a $280K renewal deal for Nike in Hubspot, flag potential Q2 expansion, send a usage summary in Slack using data in Snowflake and once signed notify the team to create a provisioning ticket in Asana.” ... and it's done! Slack, Salesforce, HubSpot, Notion, Asana, Google Sheets, Outlook, Snowflake and 100+ apps. Whatever your team runs on, Zams automates. It's fundamentally crafted to be your Jr. AI-RevOps hire that just works 24x7. Zams is now live. If you're tired of clicking through tools instead of closing deals, give it a try: 👇 Link in Comments 👇

A few months ago, I shadowed a sales rep at one of our customer companies. He had 14 tabs open. Slack was blowing up. His manager wanted pipeline updates. Ops wanted Salesforce cleaned up. And his calendar… was a mess. At 6:30PM, he turned to me and said, “None of this is selling. It’s just admin work I have to do before I can sell.” That moment stuck with me. So we built Zams — an AI agent that takes sales busywork off your plate without having to create complex workflows or Zaps. Simply say something like: “Log a $280K renewal deal for Nike in Hubspot, flag potential Q2 expansion, send a usage summary in Slack using data in Snowflake and once signed notify the team to create a provisioning ticket in Asana.” ... and it's done! Slack, Salesforce, HubSpot, Notion, Asana, Google Sheets, Outlook, Snowflake and 100+ apps. Whatever your team runs on, Zams automates. It's fundamentally crafted to be your Jr. AI-RevOps hire that just works 24x7. Zams is now live. If you're tired of clicking through tools instead of closing deals, give it a try: 👇 Link in Comments 👇

📣 📣 📣 Why we invested in BQP... Abhishek Chopra Rut Lineswala Jash Minocha Yashwanth Hemaraj Viraj Phanse Aarushi K.

Happy Friday!⚡️ Big week of momentum across the BGV portfolio - here’s what our incredible companies have been up to: ➤ KULR becomes the exclusive U.S. distributor of German Bionic’s AI-powered exoskeletons - bringing adaptive, next-gen robotics to the frontline workforce and transforming how physical work gets done. Full article via RoboticsTomorrow.com: https://lnkd.in/eN_7iMiw ➤ COVU continues its rapid growth with a 6th acquisition - Mitchell Insurance Agency joins the platform as they reshape digital insurance. More here: https://lnkd.in/gU75ExhP ➤ Lyzr AI was featured in Swami Sivasubramanian’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit keynote - a key milestone in their journey to become the enterprise standard for building AI agents. ➤ Arka Venture Labs portfolio company BQP secured a $5M oversubscribed seed round, following a pilot deal with the U.S. Air Force Research Lab for their quantum digital twin platform. Details: https://lnkd.in/gTc3pUmp Congrats to all - proud to be supporting these visionary teams💡 Armin G. Schmidt | Ali Safavi | Siva Surendira Eric Buatois | Eric Benhamou | Ekaterina (Katya) Evchenko | Yashwanth Hemaraj | Viraj Phanse #Enterprise50 #HumancentricEnterpriseAI #CrossBorderInnovation

Proud to invest in BQP, a cutting edge company accelerating complex simulations for mission critical industries with quantum computing to compress product cycles by 50% and save billions of dollars! Aarushi K. Yashwanth Hemaraj Viraj Phanse

Glad to see Arka Venture Labs’ portfolio company Lyzr AI feature in Swami Sivasubramanian’s keynote at Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit, #NewYork Lyzr makes it very easy to securely build enterprise AI agents at scale with guardrails built-in! Siva Surendira Anirudh Narayan Aarushi K. Yashwanth Hemaraj Viraj Phanse

Your idea has potential. This could be the conversation that accelerates it. Funding Fridays at TiE Silicon Valley gives startup founders the opportunity to meet investors 1:1, get real feedback, and open doors.  🎯This session features Viraj Phanse, Partner at Arka Venture Labs  🛄Format: In-person 1:1 investor meetings  📈Ideal for founders preparing to raise pre-seed or seed capital Register here - https://lnkd.in/gFJbXFEY #FundingFridays #TiESiliconValley #StartupFunding #EarlyStageStartups #VentureCapital Anita Manwani Anand Jagannathan Andy Tsao Preetha Ram Preethy Padmanabhan Krishna K. Chittabathini Uday Bellary Sandeep Bhat

‘Investing in AI’ coming to #Atlanta in August, 2025! Please do not miss it. 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! https://lu.ma/5hpnyjpj Luma link in comments as well. Yashwanth Hemaraj Aditya Papanaidugari Viraj Phanse Aarushi K.

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