Alfred Chuang
General Partner @ Race Capital
San Francisco, United States
Alfred Chuang is a Series A investor at Race Capital in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Alfred Chuang is the General Partner of Race Capital, a San Francisco-based early-stage venture capital fund. Previously, Mr. Chuang was a founder of BEA Systems Inc., a leading provider of enterprise infrastructure middleware products. Alfred graduated from the University of San Francisco and UC Davis.
- Total investments:
- 27
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 37%
Last updated:
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Industries Alfred Chuang invests in
Stages Alfred Chuang invests in
Countries Alfred Chuang invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $3.2M–$50M
- Series A
- $2.3M–$50M
- Series B
- $11M–$24M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (26%)
- Artificial Intelligence 7 (26%)
- Machine Learning 5 (19%)
- SaaS 4 (15%)
- Analytics 4 (15%)
Stage
- Series A 10 (37%)
- Seed 9 (33%)
- Series B 3 (11%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (4%)
- Series D 1 (4%)
Country
- United States 18 (67%)
- Mexico 1 (4%)
- Hong Kong 1 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Opaque is a startup that helps organizations analyze encrypted data in the cloud. Opaque Systems offers a service for secure data analytics and machine learning in the cloud. Opaque commercializes the open source MC2 Platform, which leverages a novel combination of two key technologies layered on top of state-of-the-art cloud security—securehardware enclaves and cryptographic fortification. | $24M / Series B / Feb 12, 2026 | ||
| AirMDR uses an AI-powered virtual security analyst for investigating threats, triaging incidents, and executing responses. This innovation significantly enhances the speed and precision of incident investigation and response, while simultaneously reducing costs and alleviating the workload of human security analysts. With a primary focus on an AIvirtual analyst, customers elevate their threat detection and intelligence capabilities, ensuring uninterrupted 24/7 incident response. | $10.5M / Seed / Jul 09, 2025 | ||
| Groq is a technology company that designs and provides specialized artificial intelligence compute solutions focused on accelerating AI inference workloads using its custom-built Language Processing Unit (LPU) hardware and associated software stack. The company’s core products include purpose-designed silicon and cloud-accessible platforms thatsupport real-time execution of large language models and other AI tasks with low latency and high throughput, enabling developers and enterprises to integrate AI services into production environments efficiently. Groq also delivers cloud-based services that allow customers to access inference capabilities via APIs compatible with popular development tools, supporting seamless integration into existing AI workflows. Its engineering efforts emphasise deterministic performance and streamlined deployment, targeting use cases where speed and cost predictability are critical. Groq engages with partners and customers across sectors that require rapid AI inferencing, and the company’s technology has attracted significant strategic interest and investment within the broader AI infrastructure ecosystem. | $640M / Series D / Aug 05, 2024 | ||
| SaaS | $25M / Series A / Jul 16, 2024 | ||
| Opsin provides a comprehensive security orchestration layer that empowers organizations to build GenAI applications securely with their data. From a security perspective, Opsin includes enterprise-level security tools such as auditing and data lineage in GenAI models to meet security and compliance requirements from the outset. Our platformprevents sensitive data from being exposed or leaving the organization, safeguarding information at every step of the process. From a development perspective, our solution allows for the seamless integration of data from structured, unstructured, and CRM sources. This enables developers to create permission-aware GenAI applications that ensure only authorized users can access their permitted data. | $7M / Seed / Jun 05, 2024 | ||
| SaaS | $28.5M / Seed / May 30, 2023 | ||
| Airtrain AI is the AI Data Platform. From our LLM Playground to our Dataset Explorer to batch evaluation and custom LLM fine-tuning — Airtrain enables AI teams to build and deploy scalable, precise, data-intensive AI workflows easily while reducing operational costs. Built by Machine Learning veterans from Cruise and Instacart, today Airtraintechnology is trusted by AI professionals in a wide range of global industries. For more information, visit https://airtrain.ai or follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/AirtrainAI or YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@AirtrainAI. | $3.2M / Seed / Nov 17, 2022 | ||
| Zeet is a developer-focused application platform that deploys any code or app to AWS, GCP, and other cloud providers. Zeet provides the greatest cloud-native DevOps configuration, that allows the client to concentrate on releasing products. Founded in 2020, Zeet is based in San Francisco, California, United States. | $4.3M / Seed / Sep 06, 2022 | ||
| Umami is a open-source and privacy-focused web analytics platform | $1.5M / Pre-Seed / Jul 19, 2022 | ||
| Opaque is a startup that helps organizations analyze encrypted data in the cloud. Opaque Systems offers a service for secure data analytics and machine learning in the cloud. Opaque commercializes the open source MC2 Platform, which leverages a novel combination of two key technologies layered on top of state-of-the-art cloud security—securehardware enclaves and cryptographic fortification. | $22M / Series A / Jun 28, 2022 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Race Capital
Race Capital is an early-stage venture fund focused on all things infrastructure across Web2 and Web3. They are early investors in Databricks, Vectara, Zeet, RapidAPI, Agora.io, etc and have built a top notch team spanning across networks in terms of industry background and operating experience.
Race Capital Contacts
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Chris McCann
General Partner
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Edith Yeung
General Partner
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Phil Chen
General Partner
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Richard Lam
Partner
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Alfred Chuang
General Partner
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FAQ
What does Alfred Chuang invest in?
Alfred Chuang invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 27 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Alfred Chuang's check size?
Alfred Chuang typically joins rounds of $3.2M–$50M at Seed, $2.3M–$50M at Series A and $11M–$24M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Alfred Chuang participates in.
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When did Alfred Chuang last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Alfred Chuang closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 27 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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