Carbide Ventures
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Carbide Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in pre-seed, seed, and Series A companies, with a focus on B2B and the 'New Age of Compute'. It supports companies with Japan market entry and helps Japanese companies expand globally.
Carbide Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Palo Alto, United States. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to Series A, in B2B, artificial intelligence, blockchain and quantum computing. 25 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We make high conviction investments in pre-seed, seed and Series A companies.”
— Carbide Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Palo Alto, United States
- Invests in
- North America, Asia, Europe
- Sectors
- B2B, artificial intelligence, blockchain, quantum computing, materials, SaaS, enterprise software, AI
- Portfolio
- 25 companies
Team, as Carbide Ventures publishes it
- Bill Tai Special Limited Partner
- Dan Weirich General Partner
- Hiro Yoshikawa General Partner
- Kate Fry CFO
- Kengo Horiuchi General Partner
- Pankaj Tibrewal General Partner
- Stephen Lee General Partner
- Takuo Inoue Partner
- Toshiaki Hagiwara Principal
Names and roles exactly as listed on carbideventures.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 29 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Global Brain 2 shared companies: lazuli.ninja, findy.co.jp
- Anthemis Group 1 shared company: cledara.com
- CommerzVentures 1 shared company: cledara.com
- Notion Capital 1 shared company: cledara.com
- Presto Ventures 1 shared company: zypl.ai
- Prosus Ventures 1 shared company: zypl.ai
- Coral Capital 1 shared company: lazuli.ninja
- LB Investment 1 shared company: findy.co.jp
- Silverton Partners 1 shared company: lakefusion.ai
- AfterWork Ventures 1 shared company: offerfit.ai
and 19 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Carbide Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.carbideventures.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, status
- https://www.carbideventures.com/about-us/hq_country, hq_city
- https://www.carbideventures.com/portfolio/portfolio_count
- https://www.carbideventures.com/team/people
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Record 3186 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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