Carbide Ventures — Full Portfolio

nLIGHT designs and manufactures high-power semiconductor lasers for defense systems, directed energy applications, and advanced manufacturing.

Deep TechDefense TechHardwareVancouver, US

SKScott Keeney(Founder)inJake Bell(Executive Officer)David Schaezler(Executive Officer)Rob Martinsen(Executive Officer)inJoseph DeBartolo(Executive Officer)

BoardBill Ericson(Director)

Co-investorsBOBonaventure CapitalMEMenlo VenturesMUMultiplier CapitalOAOak Investment PartnersMOMohr Davidow Ventures

BrazeAI Decisioning Studio is an AI platform that helps marketers make personalized 1:1 customer decisions by optimizing channel, offer, creative, and timing across hundreds of customer attributes.

AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechBoston, US

George Khachatryan(Executive Officer, Director)Victor Kostyuk(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardMGMike Ghaffary(Director)in

Co-investorsAFAfterWork VenturesBLBlack Nova VCCACanvas VenturesHAHarmony PartnersMEMenlo VenturesRIRidge Ventures+1 more

Prior team investment (NYSE:EGHT).

Co-investorsFRFrancisco PartnersG2G20 Ventures

Beetexting is a business texting platform that lets sales, service, operations, recruiting, and marketing teams communicate with contacts over SMS through shared inboxes, automations, and bots.

Enterprise SoftwareSaaSSales Tech

Bifrost provides GPU-accelerated simulation and synthetic data generation for physical AI systems, enabling teams to train, test, and evaluate robotic and autonomous systems using photorealistic, multi-modal sensor data.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechRoboticsSingapore, SG

CWCharles Wong(Founder)in

Co-investorsCHChampion Hill VenturesINIn-Q-TelMDMD One VenturesPEPeak XV PartnersTETechstarsAIAirbus Ventures+2 more

Chronosphere is an observability platform for microservices and containers, offering an end-to-end observability solution and a telemetry pipeline (from the creators of Fluent Bit and Calyptia) to collect, transform, and route telemetry data while controlling cost and complexity.

Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools

Co-investorsACACTAI VenturesSISierra Ventures

Software platform for retail store operations management.

Co-investorsFIFIRSTLIGHT CapitalJIJIC Venture Growth InvestmentsNENew Commerce VenturesOROriental Land InnovationsJAJAFCO Group

Design platform; Blackbird invested when it was just an idea and in every round since.

SocialSurry Hills, Nsw, AU

MPMelanie Perkins(Co-founder & CEO)inClifford Obrecht(Executive Officer, Director)COCliff Obrecht(Co-founder & COO)inCACameron Adams(Co-founder & CPO)inIan LeeJeffrey Story

Co-investors50500 GlobalAIAirTree VenturesALAlkeon InnovationALAlpha Square GroupALAltra VentureATAthletic Ventures+40 more

Platform connecting corporations with volunteer and giving opportunities for CSR.

SRSukhendra Rompally(Founder)in

Chronosphere provides an observability platform for microservices and containers that helps teams detect and fix customer-impacting issues while controlling costs and complexity.

Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSaaSNew York, US

MMMartin Mao(Co-Founder & CEO (now SVP, GM Observability, Palo Alto Networks))inRSRob Skillington(Co-Founder & CTO)inAshley Alexander(Chief People Officer)inMDMargaret Dawson(Global Head of Marketing)inBHBill Hineline(Field Chief Technology Officer)inISIan Smith(Chief of Staff to the CEO and Head of Strategy)in

Co-investorsACACTAI VenturesADAdditionANAntiBABasis Set VenturesCACardinia VenturesFOFounders Fund+13 more

Cledara provides a software management platform for finance teams to discover, purchase, manage, and cancel software subscriptions across their organization.

Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSLondon, GB

CVCristina Vilain

Co-investorsANAnthemis VentureCOCommerzVenturesNANauta CapitalNONotion CapitalTETechstarsMAMassive

IBM Cloudant is a managed NoSQL database service based on Apache CouchDB, designed for building hyperscale, globally distributed applications with features including encryption, multi-region availability, full-text search, and geospatial indexing.

Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareBoston, US

MMMichael Miller(Founder/Chief Scientist)inAlan Hoffman(Founder/Director of Product)inAKAdam Kocoloski(Founder/CTO)in

Co-investorsAVAvalon Ventures Management, LlcF-F-Prime CapitalTOToba CapitalY Y CombinatorMAMasthead Venture Partners

Dyad converts unstructured healthcare data into structured clinical codes (SNOMED, ICD-10, CPT) using its GENIE graph-based AI and clinical knowledge graph, delivering outputs into existing EHRs, applications, and data lakes.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureHealthtech

SHSteven Hamblin(Founder)in

Co-investorsACACTAI VenturesGEGeneral Catalyst

Live interactive video platform for community engagement and monetization.

Co-investorsACACTAI Ventures1C1confirmation

Fan and community engagement platform in Japan.

LakeFusion provides AI-powered Master Data Management (MDM) software integrated with the Databricks Lakehouse platform, giving businesses a unified platform to manage, integrate, and optimize their data.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software

Co-investorsSISilverton Partners

Lazuli provides a product data platform that uses generative AI to collect, organize, and enrich product information for enterprises.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaSTokyo, JP

SHSeigen Hagiwara(Founder)in

Co-investorsCOCoral CapitalGLGlobal Brain

Liven offers an all-in-one technology platform for hospitality businesses that integrates back-of-house and front-of-house operations.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFoodTechRetail TechSaaSMelbourne, AU

Co-investorsACACTAI VenturesARArtesianBLBlitzscaling VenturesPEPerennial Partners

Lumber offers an AI-based workforce management platform for construction companies, covering certified payroll, prevailing wage and union compliance, hiring and credential tracking, and real-time field operations visibility.

AI & Machine LearningConstruction TechHR TechSan Jose, US

SRShreesha Ramdas(Founder)in

Co-investorsCOConvergeFIFirsthandVC

Coroyawa is a specialized flooring material designed to reduce fracture and trauma risk for elderly users by combining stable walking comfort with impact absorption during falls.

HardwareHealthtechMedical DevicesNew MaterialsHamamatsu, JP

YMYuya Miyajimain

Co-investorsHUHulic StartupINInclusion JapanJIJIC Venture Growth InvestmentsMOMonozukuri VenturesMPMPowerTETechstars

Co-investorsCACaesar Ventures

Nutmeg provides smart maps and guest portals for attractions and hotels, enabling personalized visitor experiences and revenue optimization.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSTravel & Hospitality

Nutmeg is a tourism DX platform that helps tourism operators—such as theme parks, attractions, transport services, and aquariums—increase direct sales through online booking, electronic ticketing, CRM/marketing automation, and fan-building tools.

Marketing TechSaaSTravel & HospitalityBerkeley, JP

Takashi Nakaguchi(Chief Executive Officer and President)

Co-investorsCOCoral Capital

Plaud is an AI note-taking application that captures and extracts intelligence from conversations for professionals.

AI & Machine LearningFuture of WorkHardwareSaaSSan Francisco, US

NXNathan Xu(Founder)in

QuEra develops neutral-atom quantum computers, building both the quantum hardware and the classical control systems that operate them, along with related software and applications.

Deep TechHardwareQuantum Computing

NGNate Gemelke(Co-founder, Chief Technology Strategist)inVladan Vuletić(Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer)inMikhail Lukin(Co-founder & Chief Scientist)Markus Greiner(Co-founder)TKTakuya Kitagawa(President)inDean Bogdanovic(SVP Engineering)in

Co-investorsSASafar PartnersSOSoftBank Vision FundFIFinTech VenturesNVNVenturesVAValor Equity Partners

Runetale provides a secure mesh network (VPN) that automates point-to-point connectivity with zero configuration, using WireGuard-based peer-to-peer encryption and least-privilege access.

Cloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise Software

Co-investorsDEDelight Ventures

Skillnote is a skills management platform that visualizes and analyzes employee skills, licenses, and training plans on a single matrix, and centralizes records for quality standard audits such as ISO 9001 and IATF 16949.

Advanced ManufacturingHR TechSaaS

SOUNDRAW is an AI music generator that creates royalty-free, legally licensed tracks trained exclusively on in-house produced music.

AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyMedia & Entertainment

Co-investorsANANOBAKAAPAPOLLO CAPITALMImint VCDEDEEPCORE Inc.ISiSGS Investment WorksMIMint+1 more

Springdel builds an enterprise-grade EdgeOps platform (Springmatic) for managing and running interactive edge devices at scale, offering fleet visibility, device and data control, and AI-ready deep-learning insights.

Enterprise SoftwareIoTSaaS

CCCalvin Chung(Founder)in

Co-investorsBEBeyond Ventures

Synacor provides cloud-based software and services for video, internet, and communications providers, device manufacturers, governments, and enterprises.

Cloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareMedia & EntertainmentSaaSBuffalo, US

William J. Stuart(Executive Officer)HBHimesh Bhise(Executive Officer, Director)inDHDrake Harvey(Chief Executive Officer (CEO))inIBIra Berger(Chief Finance Officer (CFO))inACAnthony Chadd(Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), Zimbra)inBCBret Cunningham(Chief Product Officer (CPO))in

Co-investorsNONorth Atlantic CapitalWAWalden Catalyst

TheSEA provides an operating system and workflow platform for beauty brands to integrate AI into their creative processes from the ground up.

AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaSTokyo, JP

YLYanjin Li(CEO & Cofounder)inYOYoshihiro Onchi(CMO & Cofounder)in

WALT automates data pipeline optimization and decision-making workflows for organizations of any size.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software

Treasure Data offers the Personalization AI Suite, an AI-native tool that uses unified customer data and real-time signals to automatically personalize web content, offers, and experiences for individual customers.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureMarketing Tech

HYHiro Yoshikawa(Founder)in

Co-investorsHAHaymaker VenturesHEHeavybitSOSoftBank Vision Fund

Type Five combines modular design with construction methods to build customizable accessory dwelling units and living spaces, offering up-front pricing and faster move-in times.

Construction TechPropTechBerkeley, US

BoardABAleksis Bertoni(Director)TTTim Thimmaiah(Executive Officer, Director)in

Co-investorsBABackwards CapitalBLBlack Jays VenturesHAHawk Hill VenturesNINight CapitalZEZelda VenturesVIVillage Global

Widevine provides digital rights management solutions that enable media service providers to secure and deliver high-quality video and audio content across consumer electronics devices.

Cloud ComputingCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareMedia & EntertainmentSaaS

Co-investorsVAVantagePoint Capital Partners

Wish is a mobile-first, low-price e-commerce marketplace connecting mainly Chinese merchants with bargain shoppers worldwide.

San Francisco, US

PSPeter Szulczewski(Founder)in

Co-investors13137 Ventures8V8VCACAcequia Capital (AceCap)CHChina Growth CapitalCOCoatue ManagementCRCRV (Charles River Ventures)+15 more

zypl.ai is a financial technology platform that uses AI and machine learning to assess credit risk and issue loans.

AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaSDubai, AE

Co-investorsPRPresightPRPresto Ventures

Findy Inc. runs a set of services for software engineers and engineering organizations, including a job-matching service for engineers, a freelance/side-job matching service, and a SaaS product for measuring and supporting engineering team performance.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsHR TechSaaSTokyo, JP

山田 裕一朗(代表取締役 (Representative Director))YYYamada Yuichiro(Representative Director)SMSato Masataka(Director CTO)in

Co-investorsKDKDDI Open Innovation FundZEZENRIN FUTURE PARTNERS