Carbide Ventures
carbideventures.com Direct investor
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.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 29 co-investors found.
- 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 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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