# Conductive Ventures

> Conductive Ventures is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 43 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 43
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 47%
- Last fund: Apr 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/conductivevc/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ConductiveVC
- Website: http://www.conductive.vc/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ConductiveVC/

Conductive Ventures is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Conductive Ventures invests in expansion stage companies with a focus on enterprise software and hardware. The team is led by institutional venture investors and operators with unmatched experience in the sector. Conductive Ventures focuses on deploying $100M into post-product companies with early customer success. The team works closely with itsportfolio companies to deliver demonstrable revenue acceleration through targeted introductions and partnerships. Portfolio companies include Ambiq Micro, CSC Generation, Desktop Metal, and Sprinklr.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $7.3M–$24M |
| Series B | $14M–$55M |
| Series C | $20M–$30M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 9 | 21% |
| Software | 7 | 16% |
| SaaS | 5 | 12% |
| Machine Learning | 3 | 7% |
| Financial Services | 3 | 7% |

78 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 10 | 23% |
| Series B | 10 | 23% |
| Seed | 4 | 9% |
| Series C | 4 | 9% |
| Series D | 3 | 7% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 20 | 47% |
| South Korea | 2 | 5% |
| Australia | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Carey Lai | Founding Member and Managing Director | 22 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carey-lai |
| Paul Yeh | Founding Member and Managing Director | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paul-yeh |
| Arif Damji | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arif-damji |
| Masahiro Kinoshita | Managing Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/masahiro-kinoshita |
| Norihiro Kondo | Head of Business Development | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/norihiro-kondo |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ume Tea | Ume Tea provides candy-colored bubble tea. | $10M | Series A | Oct 24, 2025 |  |
| evolvedMD | EvolvedMD is leading the integration of behavioral health services in modern primary care. | $34M | Series B | Jul 14, 2025 |  |
| Qualytics | Qualytics replaces reactive data firefighting with proactive, automated quality at scale. Our platform automates and maintains 95% of rules, aligning business and technical users in a single workflow. With governance, auditability, and security built-in, Qualytics delivers reliable data that drives faster decisions and AI readiness across theenterprise. | $10M | Series A | Jun 23, 2025 |  |
| Hopskip | Hopskip is a B2B SaaS-enabled marketplace that streamlines how companies source and book hotel meetings, events, and conferences. Planners can use Hopskip to create and send personalized RFPs for simple or complex event requests for room blocks and function space. Hopskip enables event planners to eliminate the manual and tedious work traditionallyinvolved in getting a business event booked at a hotel. | $3M | Seed | Jun 20, 2024 |  |
| Cloverleaf.me | Cloverleaf improves team dynamics by integrating disconnected HR data and insights into personalized, actionable development experiences at scale. Cloverleaf enables personalized coaching, clearer communication, and stronger team alignment throughout the entire employee lifecycle. Built upon validated behavioral assessments and real-timeperformance insights, Cloverleaf empowers managers and teams to collaborate effectively, resolve challenges proactively, and unlock greater human potential. Trusted by more than 30,000 teams, Cloverleaf helps organizations create cohesive, aligned teams, improving employee performance, engagement, and productivity. For more information, visit cloverleaf.me. | $7.3M | Series A | Mar 27, 2024 |  |
| Lily AI | Lily AI is the customer intent platform built to power the present and future of ecommerce. Lily AI injects robust product attribute data and unique customer intent into the entire ecommerce stack, supercharging retailers of all types by dramatically improving on-site search, personalized product discovery, recommendations and demand prediction,unlocking millions in new revenues.The company is venture-backed and headquartered in Mountain View, CA. | $20M | Series B | Mar 14, 2024 |  |
| MoeGo | MoeGo is a pet grooming software for your schedules, messages and payments. | $24M | Series A | Mar 04, 2024 |  |
| Empowerly | Empowerly is a data-driven education technology company providing a platform for personalized college and career guidance. Empowerly provides college application counseling that ensures college admission success through trained counselors who tailor services to students' specific needs. Empowerly enables students to be their best selves incollege admissions and beyond. | $15M | Venture - Series Unknown | Feb 21, 2024 |  |
| evolvedMD | EvolvedMD is leading the integration of behavioral health services in modern primary care. | $14M | Series A | Jun 13, 2023 |  |
| Lily AI | Lily AI is the customer intent platform built to power the present and future of ecommerce. Lily AI injects robust product attribute data and unique customer intent into the entire ecommerce stack, supercharging retailers of all types by dramatically improving on-site search, personalized product discovery, recommendations and demand prediction,unlocking millions in new revenues.The company is venture-backed and headquartered in Mountain View, CA. | $25M | Series B | Jun 09, 2022 |  |

10 of 43 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Altos Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altos-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Silverton Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/silverton-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Meritech Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/meritech-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Waterline Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/waterline-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Kickstart](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kickstart-seed-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Bosch Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robert-bosch-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Conductive Ventures invest in?

Conductive Ventures invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 43 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 Conductive Ventures's check size?

Conductive Ventures typically joins rounds of $7.3M–$24M at Series A, $14M–$55M at Series B and $20M–$30M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Conductive Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Conductive Ventures?

Public channels for Conductive Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Conductive Ventures?

The team at Conductive Ventures includes Carey Lai (Founding Member and Managing Director), Paul Yeh (Founding Member and Managing Director) and Arif Damji (Principal), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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