Race Capital
Venture capitalPalo Alto · Pre-Seed–Series B · 4 people tracked
Also known as RACE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT COMPANY, L.L.C.
Investment thesis
Led by founder-operator Alfred Chuang, it focuses on Web2 and Web3 infrastructure, offering CEO-to-CEO coaching and access to a team of first-check backers in Databricks, Solana, FTX, Slack, Binance.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 25, 2026.
Team · 4 people
from public directories
What they invest in
from 29 of 39 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×18Enterprise Software ×14SaaS ×9Data & Infrastructure ×8Developer Tools ×7Fintech ×6Crypto & Web3 ×5Cybersecurity ×4
HQs:United States×17United Kingdom×2
Investments · 39 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 22025 · 22016 · 15 dated
DataHive provides proprietary, rights-cleared datasets — including multilingual and multi-dialect speech/audio, images, video, and eCommerce product listings and reviews — built for AI/ML training such as speech recognition, TTS, computer vision, and analytics.
AI & Machine LearningData & Infrastructure
Co-investors6th Man VenturesNural CapitalSide Door VenturesWAVE
AirMDR provides managed detection and response (MDR) services powered by AI and automation for security teams, targeting small and medium-sized enterprises.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Kumar SaurabhinAnthony Morrisin
Co-investorsStorm VenturesFoundation Capital
Airtrain AI provides a no-code platform for preparing and evaluating training data to fine-tune open-source language models as alternatives to proprietary AI models.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Emmanuel Turlay(Founder)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorLeonis CapitalSoma Capital
Allbridge Core is a cross-chain bridge that enables stablecoin swaps between EVM and non-EVM blockchains, along with messaging and extra-gas features.
Crypto & Web3Developer Tools
Architect provides an AI agent that installs on a company's website with one line of code to answer visitor questions, personalize pages in real time, and help convert visitors into buyers.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaSLondon, GB
Chris Nicolas(Founder)Ted Eltringham(Founder)
Co-investorsInsiders VenturesProject A VenturesRLC VenturesCoinbase VenturesGalaxy VenturesStrobe Ventures+4 more
Citcon provides cross-border and mobile payment solutions for global e-commerce and digital wallet transactions.
E-commerceFintechSaaSSan Jose, US
Chunbo Huang(Executive Officer, Director)Chuck Huang(Founder)in
BoardDavid Feinleib(Director)Priti Choksi(Director)inBenjamin Malka(Director)inDouglas Krause(Director)
Co-investorsBright Pixel CapitalCota CapitalNorwest Venture PartnersSierra VenturesSonae IMTSVC
Clerk Chat is a business messaging platform that adds AI to telecommunication, letting companies send and receive text messages (including RCS and messaging within Microsoft Teams, Webex, and Zoom) for sales, support, and marketing.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkMarketing TechSaaSSales TechSan Francisco, US
Alexander Haque(Co-Founder)Stella Fulman(Co-Founder)Will Chertoff(Founder)in
Co-investorsMento vcTranspose Platform Management
Seattle, US
Paul Kim(Founder)in
Co-investorsAlphaLab CapitalCaladanLongHash VenturesStruck CapitalWintermuteHashed
Databricks provides a unified platform for data engineering, analytics, and artificial intelligence, enabling organizations to build and deploy data and AI applications on cloud infrastructure.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Ali Ghodsi(Co-founder & CEO)inIon Stoica(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Matei Zaharia(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)inReynold Xin(Founder)inPatrick Wendell(Founder)inAndy Konwinski(Founder)in
Co-investors137 VenturesA.Capital VenturesAglae VenturesAlkeon InnovationAltra VentureAmplify Partners+71 more
Groq designs and manufactures the LPU (Language Processing Unit), a chip purpose-built for AI inference, and operates GroqCloud, a platform for running inference workloads with low latency and cost efficiency across global data centers.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingSemiconductors
Jonathan Ross(Founder & CEO)in
Co-investorsAcequia Capital (AceCap)Alumni VenturesB CapitalBasecamp FundBeyond CapitalBlueYard Capital+36 more
Huma Technologies is a US-based company running a blockchain-based lending platform for businesses and individuals.
Fintech
Erbil Karaman(Founder)inRichard Liu(Founder)in
Co-investors500 Global57Blocks CapitalParaFi CapitalSignum Capital
HyperDX provides distributed tracing and observability software for developers, enabling end-to-end request tracing from browsers and phones to backend servers.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Michael Shi(Founder)inWarren Lee(Founder)in
Co-investorsHawk Hill VenturesY Combinator
Irys is a blockchain platform designed to store large volumes of data on-chain, enabling smart contracts to access it directly while providing proof of data persistence over time.
Crypto & Web3Data & Infrastructure
Josh Benaron(Founder)in
Co-investorsBreedHypersphere VenturesLemniscapCoinFundFramework Ventures
Lightning Terminal is a web-based dashboard and management platform for Bitcoin Lightning Network node operators that simplifies node management and provides liquidity tools.
Crypto & Web3FintechPalo Alto, US
Elizabeth Stark(Founder)Olaoluwa Osuntokun(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
Co-investorsAbstract VenturesCraft VenturesDigital Currency GroupHivemind Ventures, LlcSlow VenturesSommet AB+5 more
Okareo tests conversational and voice AI agents using synthetic users ("Drivers") that simulate real customers across long, multi-turn conversations in 30+ languages to expose edge cases and regressions.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaSSan Francisco, US
Boris Selitser(Founder)
Co-investorsAV8 VenturesBee Partners
OPAQUE provides a hardware-enforced trust layer for AI systems that enables organizations to run AI on sensitive data with independently verifiable proof of data protection.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Ion Stoica(Co-founder)inRaluca Ada Popa(Co-founder)inRishabh Poddar(Co-founder)inChester Leung(Co-founder)inWenting Zheng(Co-founder)inAaron Fulkerson(CEO)in
Co-investorsIntel CapitalStorm VenturesWalden Catalyst
Openlayer provides a platform for testing, monitoring, and managing AI models across the development and production lifecycle.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Gabriel Bayomi Kalejaiye(Founder)inVikas Nair(Founder)inRishab Ramanathan(Founder)inBoard Guillermo Rauch(Founder & CEO of Vercel)Gabriel Bayomi Tinoco Kalejaiye(Founder)
BoardGuillermo Rauch(Founder & CEO of Vercel)
Co-investorsGround Up VenturesKPN VenturesMantis CapitalMento vcMindset VentureNXTP+3 more
Opsin provides an enterprise AI security platform that discovers employee-built AI agents, maps their permissions and data access, and models each agent's behavior against its intended purpose to prioritize and remediate risks.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Persana is a go-to-market platform that combines 100+ intent data sources, AI agents, and automation to help sales teams identify prospects, enrich lead lists, and personalize outreach at scale.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSales TechSan Francisco, US
Sriya Maram(Co-founder and CEO)inRush Shahani(Founder)inSriya M(Founder)in
Co-investorsY Combinator
PlayAI builds voice AI models that can replicate any voice or accent and produce speech in real-time for conversational applications.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
hammad Syed(Founder)inMahmoud felfel(Founder)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorKindred VenturesSoma Capital
PolySign builds private blockchain infrastructure for securing, storing, and transacting in digital assets, targeting financial institutions across capital markets and payments.
Crypto & Web3Enterprise SoftwareFintechOakland, US
Arthur Britto(Co-founder)David Schwartz(Co-founder)
Co-investorsBoathouse Capital
Co-investors468 Capital
Co-investorsPlaceholder VC
Unbound builds security infrastructure to govern AI coding agents in enterprise environments.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US
Rajaram Srinivasan(Founder)inVignesh Subbiah(Founder)inRajin
Co-investorsNorthside VenturesY Combinator
Unbound Babes designs and sells body-safe vibrators, sexual wellness products, and accessories directly to consumers.
Direct to ConsumerE-commerceWellness & Fitness
Co-investorsOutbound VenturesSocial StartsSoGal VenturesWayfinder VenturesY Combinator
Unify provides AI agents that handle routine business tasks across communications, sales, operations, and engineering by executing pre-built workflows or custom automation.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaSLondon, GB
Daniel Lenton(Founder)in
Co-investorsA.Capital VenturesAbstraction CapitalBattery VenturesJ12 VenturesLeonis CapitalLunar Ventures+9 more
Vectroid is a managed vector database offering vector search, full-text search, hybrid search, and filtered queries at scale, designed to index billions of vectors with low latency and high recall.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Talip Ozturk(CEO and Co-Founder)Kevin Hanson(Head of Operations and Co-Founder)Zoltán Baranyi(Co-Founder)
Co-investorsScaleX Ventures
The Vision Lab creates high-density action labeling datasets for video and industrial data using proprietary vision language models combined with human annotation.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeep TechRoboticsSan Francisco, US
Tanachart (James) Kujareevanich(Founder)inZhichu Ren(Founder)inWill Wenbo Zhang(Founder)inTrevor Madigan(Managing Member)
Co-investorsAngel InvestY Combinator500 GlobalEarlybird Venture CapitalFoothill Ventures
Zeta Markets is a decentralized exchange on Solana offering derivatives trading with up to 100x leverage.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Tristan Frizza(Founder)
Co-investorsEquilibrium VenturesRyze Labs
Vectara is an enterprise agent platform for building AI agents deployable via SaaS, customer-managed VPC, or on-premise, with model-agnostic support and built-in governance.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareCupertino, US
Tallat M. Shafaat(Founder)Amr Awadallah(Founder)in
Co-investorsBrighter CapitalFusionMDSV CAPITALPage One VenturesSamsung NextSparkLabs Korea+5 more
Exits · 1
IPOs and acquisitions across the tracked portfolioHyperDXacq. by ClickHouse
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesUnbound · moneycontrol.com · Aug 19, 2026
Databricks · techcrunch.com · Aug 13, 2026
Citcon · funderintel.com · Jul 16, 2026
Unify · m.economictimes.com · Jul 15, 2026
Groq · groq.com · Jun 22, 2026
Architect · ascendants.in · Jun 20, 2026
Vision Lab · thevisionlab.ai · Jun 15, 2026
Unbound · ascendants.in · Apr 16, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Race Capital invest at?
- Race Capital invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B stages.
- What is Race Capital's typical check size?
- Race Capital typically writes checks of $250K – $2M.
- What sectors does Race Capital focus on?
- Race Capital focuses on Consumer, Data & Infrastructure, Enterprise Software, Fintech, SaaS.
- Where is Race Capital located?
- Race Capital is headquartered in Palo Alto, US.
- Does Race Capital lead rounds?
- Yes, Race Capital leads investment rounds.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the teamRace Capital’s Alfred Chuang: tech cannot reinvent itself without bubbles, and this is a large one
CNBC International Live · Alfred Chuang
Edith Yeung General Partner Race Capital on Covid-19 crisis for startups
FinTech Silicon Valley · Edith Yeung
Meet Harrison Chase, Founder - LangChain & Edith Yeung, General Partner Race Capital, Berkeley 2023
Race Capital · Edith Yeung
VC Crystal Ball: Predictions for 2024 #WebSummitRio - Edith Yeung, General Partner at Race Capital
Race Capital · Edith Yeung
Race Capital's Alfred Chuang on Bloomberg TV on 2023 Venture Capital Landscape
Race Capital · Alfred Chuang
4000X on Solana🤑 FTX. NFT. MonkeDAO. Chris McCann Race Capital VC. Interview with investor. $SOL.
White Crypto · Chris McCann
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Co-investors · 54
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New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is a venture capital firm that invests in and provides long-term support to founders building new companies.
Uncork Capital (formerly SoftTech VC) is a seed-stage venture firm that invests early in founders, with a focus on AI-native companies building leverage and scale.
Foundation Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that commits to founders at the idea stage and maintains long-term relationships with portfolio companies through their growth journey.
Coatue Management is a technology-focused investment firm that invests in innovation across both public and private markets with responsible risk management.
Intel Capital is the corporate venture capital arm associated with Intel, investing in and supporting technology companies as they scale.
Kindred Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that backs technology startups in their earliest financing rounds, often helping form and fund companies before they exist. It has backed 100+ startups.
Digital Currency Group (DCG) is a long-term investor in and operator of businesses across the crypto and blockchain industry, holding equity, fund, and token positions.
▶42 more co-investors
SAV (Scale Asia Ventures)Strawberry Creek VenturesE1 VenturesParaFi CapitalWalden CatalystHashedSequoia CapitalGV (Google Ventures)AccelFJ LabsBain Capital VenturesSpark CapitalB Capital GroupFreestyle CapitalAccel-KKRCaffeinated CapitalElectric CapitalTrinity VenturesTrajectory VenturesRidge VenturesBAM VenturesTwo Sigma VenturesUncorrelated VenturesThe Chernin Group (TCG Crypto)Standard Capital7percent VenturesK2 GlobalUP PartnersSmash CapitalPresight CapitalSolana VenturesGreatPoint VenturesMassMutual VenturesLife BiosciencesCherubic VenturesNIVVenture Guides Management, L.P.AsymmetricAngel Ventures MexicoARK Investment ManagementMountain Group CapitalCrypto com Capital
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