# Tomales Bay Capital

> Tomales Bay Capital is a VC fund backing Software and Machine Learning. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 36%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tomales-bay-capital/
- Website: http://www.tomalesbaycapital.com

Tomales Bay Capital is a venture capital and private equity firm that partner with founders to build compounding franchises. Tomales Bay Capital applies a concentrated investment approach to build long-term positions in the companies at critical inflection points of their growth trajectory.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 36% |
| Machine Learning | 3 | 27% |
| Content | 2 | 18% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 18% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 18% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 3 | 27% |
| Series C | 3 | 27% |
| Series A | 1 | 9% |
| Series D | 1 | 9% |
| Series E | 1 | 9% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 55% |
| India | 2 | 18% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Iqbaljit Kahlon | Founder & Managing Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iqbaljit-kahlon |
| Harish Bahl | Venture Partner | 18 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harish-bahl |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Equal AI | Equal Identity operates as an ID-sharing platform. | $30M | Series B | Jun 12, 2026 |  |
| Equal AI | Equal Identity operates as an ID-sharing platform. | $10M | Series A | Nov 11, 2024 |  |
| Zupee | Zupee is a game publisher specializing in online skill-based games and gamification for learning and skilling. | $72M | Series B | Jan 05, 2022 |  |
| Osaro | Osaro creates machine intelligence software that combine state-of-the-art perception with powerful adaptive decision-making abilities to help computer and robotic systems act efficiently and intelligently.Like many advanced machine learning technologies, Osaro's software automatically extracts information from high-dimensional,time-varying data. Osaro goes beyond merely classifying data. The technology interacts with the environment to learn, discover, and achieve a specific goal.By making machines more adaptive, intelligent, and efficient, Osaro frees up humans to focus time, energy, and capital on higher level tasks. | $30M | Series C | Aug 18, 2021 |  |
| Zupee | Zupee is a game publisher specializing in online skill-based games and gamification for learning and skilling. | $30M | Series B | Aug 17, 2021 |  |
| Extend, Inc. | Extend is an API first company that allows any merchant to offer extended warranties and protection plans, both online and offline, while also providing the merchant's end customers with a vastly improved and modern support experience that eliminates many of the issues customers face today with legacy underwriters. Their intelligent decisionengine uses machine learning to optimize warranty offers in real-time, thereby improving warranty and cart conversions and generating the most revenue for the merchant. Extend platform is integrated into leading eCommerce solutions including Shopify, Magento, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, BigCommerce, and others so that they can be up and running quickly, with no technical requirements. They also provide custom API integrations for larger merchants who have their own eCommerce platform. It stores all the details of an individual's product purchase and warranty plan for them, while also assisting throughout the claim process to create a seamless experience from start to finish.It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $260M | Series C | May 18, 2021 |  |
| ExtendMedia | ExtendMedia provides software and media services that enable content providers and distributors to quickly and securely create, deliver, manage & monetize online content offerings over many devices. Their flagship product, OpenCASE, is a trusted foundation on which providers are building their digital media businesses. ExtendMedia has over16 years of experience working closely with the world's most successful and innovative communications and media companies. Their in-depth knowledge has been built into OpenCASE: an open architecture for integration with existing systems; features for skillful automation of even the largest content delivery systems to increase efficiency; and support for flexible business models. | $260M | Series C | May 18, 2021 |  |
| Hive | Hive is the leading provider of cloud-based AI solutions to understand, search, and generate content, and is trusted by hundreds of the world’s largest and most innovative organizations. The company empowers developers with a portfolio of best-in-class, pre-trained AI models, serving billions of customer API requests every month. Hive also offersturnkey software powered by proprietary AI models and datasets, unlocking breakthrough applications for critical business needs with deep learning and generative AI. Collectively, Hive’s technology is transforming approaches to platform integrity / content moderation (including AI-generated content detection), brand protection, sponsorship measurement, context-based ad targeting, and more.Hive has raised over $120M in capital from leading investors, including General Catalyst, 8VC, Glynn Capital, Bain & Company, Visa Ventures, and others. In April 2021, Hive announced a $50M Series D at a $2B valuation. The San Francisco-based company has 175+ full-time employees globally, in addition to a distributed workforce of more than 2.5 million global contributors that supports data labeling operations.For more information, visit thehive.ai or follow on LinkedIn. | $50M | Series D | Apr 21, 2021 |  |
| Carta | Carta is a transfer agent for private companies that enables seed-stage to pre-IPO companies to manage equity electronically with the participation of their shareholders, employees, auditors, and legal counsel. It digitizes paper stock certificates along with stock options, warrants, and derivatives to create a real-time image of who owns what at astartup.Carta receives funding from a group of investors, including Draper VC, Expansion VC, k9 Ventures, Elefund, Subtraction Capital, Scott Banister, XG Ventures, Kima Ventures, Andy Palmer, and Structure Capital.It was founded by Manu Kumar and Henry Ward in 2012 as eShares, Carta is based in Mountain View, California. | $180M | Series F | May 10, 2020 |  |
| Hive | Hive is the leading provider of cloud-based AI solutions to understand, search, and generate content, and is trusted by hundreds of the world’s largest and most innovative organizations. The company empowers developers with a portfolio of best-in-class, pre-trained AI models, serving billions of customer API requests every month. Hive also offersturnkey software powered by proprietary AI models and datasets, unlocking breakthrough applications for critical business needs with deep learning and generative AI. Collectively, Hive’s technology is transforming approaches to platform integrity / content moderation (including AI-generated content detection), brand protection, sponsorship measurement, context-based ad targeting, and more.Hive has raised over $120M in capital from leading investors, including General Catalyst, 8VC, Glynn Capital, Bain & Company, Visa Ventures, and others. In April 2021, Hive announced a $50M Series D at a $2B valuation. The San Francisco-based company has 175+ full-time employees globally, in addition to a distributed workforce of more than 2.5 million global contributors that supports data labeling operations.For more information, visit thehive.ai or follow on LinkedIn. | $13.5M | Series B | Aug 08, 2018 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Tomales Bay Capital invest in?

Tomales Bay Capital invests primarily in Software, Machine Learning and Content startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at Tomales Bay Capital?

The team at Tomales Bay Capital includes Iqbaljit Kahlon (Founder & Managing Partner) and Harish Bahl (Venture Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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