# Carya Venture Partners

> Carya Venture Partners is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 38 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 38
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 11%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Carya Venture Partners is a VC fund focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Carya Ventures operates as an investment firm.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 18 | 47% |
| Software | 10 | 26% |
| SaaS | 9 | 24% |
| Machine Learning | 4 | 11% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 11% |

61 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 19 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 9 | 24% |
| Series A | 5 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 5% |
| Angel | 1 | 3% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 24 | 63% |
| India | 2 | 5% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| Australia | 1 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fish Audio | Fish Audio is an AI platform for expressive text‑to‑speech and voice cloning with pro‑grade voices and multilingual support. | $52M | Seed | Jul 27, 2026 |  |
| General Compute | General Compute provides an ASIC-based cloud inference platform focused on running AI inference workloads. The company offers an OpenAI-compatible API that allows users to access hosted large language models and switch from existing GPU-based providers by changing the base URL and API key. It supports deploying both its own supported models andcustomer-supplied models on its infrastructure, emphasizing high token throughput and low time to first token. General Compute also offers dedicated custom deployments with service-level agreements, custom scaling, and guaranteed capacity for production workloads. Its infrastructure targets use cases such as AI agents, coding assistants, and real-time voice applications that require low-latency, high-throughput inference. | $15M | Seed | May 28, 2026 |  |
| Fluency | Fluency is reshaping how businesses do processes. For too long, documentation has been completely manual, and automation reserved for technical wizards. Fluency automates process documentation, identifies efficiencies in new processes, and unlocks no-code automation. | $6M | Seed | Feb 09, 2026 |  |
| Stuut | AI for Business needing to generate more money from their customers | $29.5M | Series A | Nov 20, 2025 |  |
| Matters.AI | OptIQ is an artificial intelligence-driven platform that enables developers to manage cloud infrastructure, deployment, monitoring, logging, and cloud security compliance in a single platform without having core DevOps expertise. | $4.8M | Seed | Oct 15, 2025 |  |
| HiOctave | HiOctave AI solution helps small and mid' sized businesses (SMBs) automate and personalize customer experiences. | $15M | Seed | Oct 08, 2025 |  |
| Ethosphere | Ethosphere is changing the brick-and-mortar retail game through innovative voice-AI technology that drives incredible employee experiences, next-level customer engagement, and unparalleled brand insights. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Sep 16, 2025 |  |
| Bling | At Bling, we help businesses (small and big) around the globe manage all their customer communication in ONE place with our easy to use, modern and scalable B2B SaaS platform powered by AI so that they don't have to worry about lost revenue, high overhead and slow response time.We are backed by Techstars Atlanta powered by JP Morgan and a YCalum who co-founded Sanas.AI and Observe.AI |  | Seed | Jul 01, 2025 |  |
| Stuut | AI for Business needing to generate more money from their customers | $6M | Seed | Nov 01, 2024 |  |
| Oloid | OLOID is a passwordless authentication platform tailored for frontline workers and shared devices. Fortune 500 companies in manufacturing, retail, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and other frontline industries rely on OLOID to securely authenticate deskless workers using non-smartphone enabled factors such as face, NFC, RFID badges, etc., all whilemeeting strict security and regulatory requirements. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, OLOID is backed by leading investors including Dell Technologies Capital, Yaletown Partners, Honeywell Ventures, Okta Ventures, Unusual Ventures, and Emergent Capital. | $6M | Series A | Oct 24, 2024 |  |

10 of 38 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Khosla Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/khosla-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [1984 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1984-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Activant Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/activant-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Nexus Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nexus-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Page One Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/page-one-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Carya Venture Partners invest in?

Carya Venture Partners invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 38 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Carya Venture Partners last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Carya Venture Partners closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 38 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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