Carbide Ventures
VC Fund
Carbide Ventures is a venture capital firm.
- Total investments:
- 29
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 41%
Last updated:
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Industries Carbide Ventures invests in
Stages Carbide Ventures invests in
Countries Carbide Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
1 more contact available
Round size
- Seed
- $623k–$7.5M
- Series A
- $3.9M–$20M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $2.9M–$234M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 10 (34%)
- Software 7 (24%)
- SaaS 6 (21%)
- Information Technology 5 (17%)
- Machine Learning 4 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (24%)
- Series A 6 (21%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 6 (21%)
- Series B 4 (14%)
- Series C 2 (7%)
Country
- United States 8 (28%)
- Japan 7 (24%)
- United Kingdom 2 (7%)
- Canada 1 (3%)
- Germany 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Pankaj Tibrewal
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Bill Tai
Special Limited Partner
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Special Limited Partner | Total investments: 60 | Find email | |
Dan Weirich
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
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Takuo Inoue
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Magic Shields
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Magic Shields is a manufacturer and seller of floors, nursing care, and welfare products. | $6.5M / Series B / Apr 21, 2026 | |
Lakefusion.ai
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We are the only MDM platform that is specifically designed for Medallion. Our technology is centered around adopting the speed and scale of Databricks using their native platform. In addition, our engineers have been born and raised with Delta Lake and have implemented many with customers enabling them to understand the nitty gritty details of theDatabricks platform. | $7.5M / Seed / Apr 09, 2026 | |
zypl.ai
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zypl.ai applies 'no data' AI at scale to advance financial inclusion in emerging and frontier markets. Our SaaS solution enables banks and microfinance organizations to instantly and accurate underwrite loans, both offline and digitally, to consumers with limited or no credit history.zypl's proprietary approach includes training AImodels on synthetically generated data with simulation of 'black swan' conditions, providing stable and adaptable SaaS in spite of macro volatility in developing markets. Apart from analyzing traditional variables such as social, demographic, and professional background of clients, our SaaS reviews device metadata, psychometrics, web trace, and macroeconomic factors to arrive at credit decisions.In the process, we fully customize AI models to risk appetite of each individual enterprise partner with the goal of reflecting their competitive market advantages. Additionally, we offer complete flexibility on mode of integration through either cloud or on-premise deployment based on enterprise preference. We only deploy explainable AI models with embedded 'weight-of-evidence' interpretation of each decision made by the software, complying with emerging regulatory requirements on credit scoring.Having launched our beta last year, we have scaled presence to 10 enterprise clients in 4 markets across Central Asia. In this time, we have underwritten >$9 million in consumer and small business (services, trade, agriculture) loans to over 12 thousand consumers with staggeringly low 0.7% portfolio-at-risk rate. Since booking first revenue earlier this year, we have surpassed 25% compounded monthly growth rate and reached financial break-even this month.As a complement to credit scoring, our product team has ventured into churn prediction in telecom sector through partnerships with 3 leading telcos in Central Asia. Our rapid product iteration and development is a result of an AI Academy that we have launched to nurture talent internally.zypl.ai was ideated at Stanford University's Startup Garage and recently completed the Silkway Accelerator by Google for Startups and Astana Hub. Our startup was launched with a grant from the Islamic Development Bank as part of the Transform Fund. With our pre-seed capital raise, we plan on globalizing our AI SaaS solution by expanding to new markets in MENA, Southeast Asia, and Eastern Europe. | $5.5M / Convertible Note / Mar 17, 2026 | |
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Lakefusion.ai
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We are the only MDM platform that is specifically designed for Medallion. Our technology is centered around adopting the speed and scale of Databricks using their native platform. In addition, our engineers have been born and raised with Delta Lake and have implemented many with customers enabling them to understand the nitty gritty details of theDatabricks platform. | Seed / Nov 14, 2025 | |
Canly
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Canly is a cloud based system to reduce management & operating costs in a retail store along with being in the media & advertising business. | $13M / Series C / Nov 04, 2025 | |
Plaud
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Plaud is building the world's most trusted AI work companion for professionals to elevate productivity and performance through note-taking solutions, loved by over 2 million users worldwide since 2023. With a mission to amplify human intelligence, Plaud is building the next-generation intelligence infrastructure and interfaces to capture,extract, and utilize what you say, hear, see, and think.Plaud Inc., is a Delaware-incorporated, San Francisco-based company pushing the boundary of human–AI intelligence through a hardware–software combination. With full GDPR, EN18031, SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance, Plaud is committed to the highest standards of data security and privacy protection.To learn more about Plaud, please visit https://www.plaud.ai. | $5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 02, 2025 | |
Findy
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Findy Japan helps engineering organizations and individuals improve their development experiences. The company uses machine learning and natural language processing technology to provide innovative human resources services, with a focus on engineering recruitment. Findy was created by fusing algorithms and humanity. will build a universal platformon which all engineers can take on challenges without fear. Individual opportunities should be created, organizational productivity should be improved, and a virtuous cycle for human resources in society should be established. | $14.4M / Series D / May 26, 2025 | |
Lumber
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Lumber is an automated payroll, time-tracking, accounts payable, compliance, and onboarding platform for the construction industry. | $15.5M / Series A / Mar 24, 2025 | |
NutmegLabs
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NutmegLabs takes care of tourism and leisure by helping with online booking and digitizing the business. It was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States. | $3.3M / Series B / Feb 27, 2025 | |
Lazuli
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Lazuli is a SaaS platform that enables companies to organize, generate and transform product data into useful format by AL/ML. | $6.6M / Series B / Dec 10, 2024 | |
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FAQ
What does Carbide Ventures invest in?
Carbide Ventures invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 29 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 Carbide Ventures's check size?
Carbide Ventures typically joins rounds of $623k–$7.5M at Seed, $3.9M–$20M at Series A and $2.9M–$234M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Carbide Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at Carbide Ventures?
The team at Carbide Ventures includes Pankaj Tibrewal (General Partner), Bill Tai (Special Limited Partner) and Dan Weirich (General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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