Carya Venture Partners
Venture capitalPalo Alto · Pre-Seed–Seed · 8 people tracked
Also known as SIDKA, LLC
Investment thesis
Carya positions itself as a founder-obsessed, hands-on investor whose team members are themselves founders and operators. It seeks visionary founders pursuing bold, science-fiction-scale ideas and commits to patient, active support through the pivots and hardships that shape most successful companies. The firm emphasizes partnering with entrepreneurs who show restlessness, courage, and willingness, and describes itself as a supporter of unconventional genius across stages, aiming to accelerate founders toward building transformational businesses with 'active capital.'
Source: firm website, verified Aug 25, 2026.
Team · 8 people
from the firm's website
Founder mafia
2 people who came through Carya Venture Partners went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 11 of 13 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×9Enterprise Software ×6SaaS ×6Fintech ×4AdTech ×1Circular Economy ×1Cleantech ×1Cybersecurity ×1
HQs:United States×8
Who they back
founder profiles across 7 portfolio companiesWhere their founders studiedfrom 11 founders with education data
Stanford University ×3University of Southern California ×3
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
Investments · 13 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 12024 · 12023 · 13 dated
Develops AI tools for tax and accounting professionals to improve compliance, financial planning, and decision-making capabilities.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechLegalTechSan Francisco, US
David Yue(Co-founder)inFinsam Samson(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsKhosla VenturesAlumni VenturesBasecamp FundDcode CapitalGen CapitalGeneral Catalyst+3 more
Andean develops sustainable extraction of critical metals and offers recycling of electronic waste and industrial scrap.
Circular EconomyCleantechNew Materials
Co-investorsCantos VenturesLink Ventures
Aakrit Prasad(Founder)in
Co-investorsCounterpart VenturesPathbreaker VenturesStage 2 CapitalUnusual VenturesNational Grid Partners
Arc provides a unified platform for managing cash, accessing competitive yield, raising debt capital, and using AI-powered financial services, serving businesses and organizations.
FintechSan Francisco, US
Nick Lombardo(Founder)in
Co-investorsClocktower VenturesY CombinatorAndreessen Horowitz
Crescendo offers a customer experience platform that combines AI agents with human agents to handle contact center, ticketing, automation, workforce management, and knowledge functions in one system with a shared data model.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Matt Price(Founder)
DualEntry is an AI-native enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform designed to replace legacy accounting systems for mid-market to enterprise businesses.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSNew York, US
Santiago Nestares(Co-founder)inBenedict Dohmen(Founder)in
Co-investorsContraryKhosla VenturesLightspeed Venture PartnersGV (Google Ventures)Ludlow VenturesOutsiders+9 more
Fluency is a digital advertising operating system that automates paid media campaign execution across walled gardens and the open web for advertising agencies and ad teams.
AdTechAI & Machine LearningSaaSBurlington, US
Eric Mayhew(Executive Officer, Director)Mike Lane(Founder)inMichael Lane(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardKristin Halpin Perry(Director)Brian McVey(Director)Scott Gale(Director)
Co-investorsFraser McCombs CapitalVermont Center for Emerging Technologies (VCET)AccelArchangel
Martian is an AI research lab focused on understanding machine intelligence, working on model interpretability, feature geometry, and the mathematics of what large language models learn.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper Tools
Co-investorsNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)Web3com Ventures
Matters.AI is an AI security engineer for data that autonomously detects, analyzes, and remediates data misuse across hybrid clouds, endpoints, microservices, and AI pipelines.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Keshava Murthy. (K)(Founder)in
Co-investorsBetter Capital
Retell AI builds an enterprise-grade voice AI platform that handles phone calls for industries including healthcare, delivery, and insurance.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Bing Wu(Founder)inTodd Li(Co-Founder)inEvie Wang(Founder)inWeijia Yu(Founder)inZexia Zhang(Founder)inWeijia Y(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorAlt Capital
Sanas builds real-time Speech AI technology that removes communication barriers caused by accents, languages, background noise, and audio quality issues.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSStanford, US
Shawn Zhang(Founder)inMax Serebryakov(Founder)Andrés Pérez Soderi(Founder)inSharath Keshava Narayana(CEO and Co-founder)in
Co-investorsDN CapitalHuman CapitalInsight PartnersGeneral CatalystQuadrille CapitalAdapt Ventures+7 more
Stuut builds AI agents that autonomously run the accounts receivable and order-to-cash process end-to-end—covering collections, payments, cash application, and deductions across email, SMS, and voice.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaSNew York, US
Ben(Co-founder)Adam(Co-founder)Adam Chaarawi(Founder)Tarek Alaruri(Co-founder)
Co-investors1984 Ventures Management, LlcActivant CapitalAndreessen HorowitzPage One VenturesVesey Ventures
Santa Monica-based Voice AI operates a real-time speech-to-speech AI voice-changing platform for creators and gamers.
Santa Monica, US
Paul Kats(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Heath Ahrens(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
BoardOmar Hamoui(Director)
Co-investorsSenseAI Ventures359 Capital645 VenturesAndreessen HorowitzCapital TodayCoreline Ventures+4 more
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Retell AI · emitrr.com · Jul 9, 2026
DualEntry · erp.today · Jun 26, 2026
Arc · startupfortune.com · May 26, 2026
Fluency · fluency.inc · Feb 25, 2026
Stuut · fintechfutures.com · Nov 21, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Carya Venture Partners made?
- Carya Venture Partners has 10 tracked investments, 1 of which have exited via acquisition or IPO, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does Carya Venture Partners invest at?
- Carya Venture Partners invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
- What sectors does Carya Venture Partners focus on?
- Carya Venture Partners focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Data & Infrastructure, Enterprise Software, Fintech, SaaS.
- Where is Carya Venture Partners located?
- Carya Venture Partners is headquartered in Palo Alto, US.
- Who does Carya Venture Partners co-invest with?
- Carya Venture Partners most often shares deals with Vesey Ventures, Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, among 39 tracked co-investors.
Co-investors · 6
GV (Google Ventures) is a venture capital firm that has invested in artificial intelligence and machine learning since its early days, building a global portfolio of more than 100 AI companies across infrastructure, life sciences, and applications.
Plug and Play is an innovation platform that connects corporations, governments, startups, investors, and universities to drive innovation.
Innovation Endeavors is an early-stage venture fund that invests in founders and supports venture creation through pre-team and pre-idea programs. The firm provides portfolio companies with access to mentors, advisors, and an entrepreneur ecosystem.
Sierra Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in first-principles founders, backing companies from inception through Series A across AI infrastructure, applied/vertical AI, deep tech, and physical/embodied AI.
SRB Ventures is a technology venture investment fund founded and led by Sahil Bloom, investing across all stages and sectors.
Berkeley SkyDeck is UC Berkeley's accelerator and associated fund, formed as a partnership between the Haas School of Business, the College of Engineering, and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, offering startups accelerator resources, advisors, industry partners, and access to accredited investors.
Firms observed investing alongside Carya Venture Partners, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with Carya Venture Partners's recorded portfolio.
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