Race Capital
Venture capitalPalo Alto · Pre-Seed–Series B · 4 people tracked
Also known as RACE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT COMPANY, L.L.C.
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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 Sep 15, 2026.
Team · 4 people
from public directories
What they invest in
from 36 of 52 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×23Enterprise Software ×16Data & Infrastructure ×11Developer Tools ×11SaaS ×10Crypto & Web3 ×8Fintech ×7Cybersecurity ×5
HQs:United States×21United Kingdom×2
Investments · 52 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 52025 · 32024 · 72023 · 22022 · 32021 · 52017 · 12016 · 127 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
Vectara is an enterprise AI agent platform for building, deploying, and governing AI agents with retrieval-augmented generation, offering high accuracy and low hallucination rates.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareCupertino, US
Tallat M. Shafaat(Founder)inAmr Awadallah(Founder)in
Co-investorsBrighter CapitalFusionMDSV CAPITALPage One VenturesSamsung NextSparkLabs Korea+5 more
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 provides cross-chain infrastructure that enables asset transfers between EVM and non-EVM blockchains.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsFintech
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)inTed Eltringham(Founder)in
Co-investorsInsiders VenturesProject A VenturesRLC VenturesTogether FundTq Ventures Llc
Chicago fintech building institutional trading technology, US brokerage services and AX, a perpetual futures exchange on traditional assets.
Brett Harrison(Founder)in
Co-investorsCoinbase VenturesParaFi CapitalSolari CapitalGalaxy VenturesMotivate Venture CapitalStrobe 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)inWei Jiang(Co-Founder, President & COO)inCasey Bullock(Chief Executive Officer)in
BoardDavid Feinleib(Director)Priti Choksi(Director)in
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)inStella Fulman(Co-Founder)Will Chertoff(Founder)in
Co-investorsMento vcTranspose Platform ManagementAltaIR CapitalHF0
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)inMatei Zaharia(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)inReynold Xin(Founder)inPatrick Wendell(Founder)inAndy Konwinski(Founder)in
Co-investors137 VenturesA.Capital VenturesAglae VenturesAlkeon InnovationAltra VentureAmplify Partners+72 more
DexLab is a Solana-based platform for creating, launching, and trading tokens without code, including a token minting tool, swap/liquidity pools, a Telegram bot, and an API.
Crypto & Web3
Co-investorsGenblock CapitalAxia8 VenturesCryptomeria CapitalEvernew CapitalNGC VenturesParataxis Capital+3 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 ComputingSemiconductorsPalo Alto, US
Jonathan Ross(Founder & CEO)inDouglas Wightman(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardChamath Palihapitiya(Director)in
Co-investorsAccess Ventures (New York)Acequia Capital (AceCap)Alumni VenturesB CapitalBasecamp FundBeyond Capital+41 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
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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 VenturesLemniscapCoinFundDeepWork CapitalFramework Ventures+1 more
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)in
Co-investorsAbstract VenturesCraft VenturesDigital Currency GroupHivemind Ventures, LlcSlow VenturesSommet AB+9 more
Nitro offers off-chain execution and simulation infrastructure for Solana, enabling developers to batch transactions, test alternative execution scenarios, and replay transactions with identical mainnet conditions without smart contract modifications.
Crypto & Web3Developer Tools
Co-investorsFlowdeskBorderless CapitalLemniscap
Notifi is an AI-first field service management platform for home-service businesses, handling lead capture, missed-call text-back, dispatching and crew scheduling, estimates, and invoicing in one system.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech
Paul Kim(Founder)in
Co-investorsEntrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA)HashedStruck CapitalSuperscryptWintermute
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)in
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)in
BoardGuillermo Rauch(Founder & CEO of Vercel)
Co-investorsGround Up VenturesKPN VenturesMantis CapitalMento vcMindset VentureNXTP+4 more
Opsin offers an AI agent security platform that correlates an agent's intent with user activity, behavior, data access, and tools to detect risks that traditional security tools miss.
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
Redis provides an in-memory caching layer that delivers sub-millisecond data access for real-time applications across on-premise, cloud, and hybrid environments.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Co-investors83NorthBain Capital VenturesFrancisco PartnersSoftBank Vision FundTCVAccel+21 more
Saber Interactive is a video game publisher and developer operating 13 studios across the Americas and Europe, creating games for major platforms based on original and licensed IPs.
GamingMedia & Entertainment
Co-investorsCrestview PartnersJump Capital
Shinami provides developer infrastructure for building decentralized applications, including a gas station service that lets apps sponsor gas fees for users and wallet services that abstract Web3 complexity.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US
James C(Founder)Nikhil C(Founder)Hao Xia(Founder)in
Co-investorsCoinbase Ventures6th Man VenturesAptos FoundationCircle & Co.Mysten Labs
SkyPilot is an AI compute platform that unifies GPUs across clouds, neoclouds and Kubernetes clusters for AI teams.
Co-investorsAugust CapitalZouk CapitalAmplify Partners CVCoatue ManagementFoundation CapitalHouse+1 more
Sorcerer provides targeted weather observation systems and AI forecasting tools that collect atmospheric data from undermonitored regions, including over oceans and below the equator.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningClimate TechHardwareSan Francisco, US
Austin Tindle(Founder/CEO)inMaxmillion McLaughlin(Founder/CTO)inAlessandro Vecchi(Founder/CPO)in
Co-investorsTranspose Platform ManagementY CombinatorCraft VenturesEvolution Equity PartnersFirstMark Capital
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 Security builds an Agent Access Security Broker (AASB) that discovers, assesses, and enforces security policies across AI coding agents within organizations.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Co-investorsEvolution Equity PartnersWayfinder VenturesBlueRed PartnersGoldman SachsInnovation EndeavorsNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)
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)inDouglas Kitani(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
Co-investorsA.Capital VenturesAbstraction CapitalBattery VenturesJ12 VenturesLeonis CapitalLunar Ventures+10 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 VenturesPitchdrive
Zeta Markets is a decentralized exchange on Solana offering derivatives trading with up to 100x leverage.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Tristan Frizza(Founder)
Co-investorsEquilibrium VenturesRyze LabsAirTree VenturesAlameda ResearchAmber GroupElectric Capital+7 more
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
BatteriesinclClerk AICommunication InfrastructureMartianwalletMidaslabsOpsinScarfSolendThrulineVectara
Exits · 4
4 acquisitions · showing 2HyperDXacq. by ClickHouseUnbound Securityacq. by Coinbase
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Databricks · techcrunch.com · Aug 13, 2026
SkyPilot · portalerp.com · Jul 24, 2026
Citcon · funderintel.com · Jul 16, 2026
Unify · m.economictimes.com · Jul 15, 2026
Sorcerer · startupintros.com · Jul 13, 2026
Groq · groq.com · Jun 22, 2026
Architect · ascendants.in · Jun 20, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Race Capital made?
- Race Capital has 52 tracked investments, 4 of which have exited, including 13 dated in the last 24 months.
- 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
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White Crypto · Chris McCann
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Co-investors · 54
Hashed is a venture firm backing founders building in AI, crypto, and frontier technology, offering hands-on ecosystem support to portfolio companies from inception to global scale.
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, known for pioneering the platform model with a large team of operators supporting founders across stages.
Craft Ventures is a venture capital firm run by a team of former founders, operators, and investors who partner closely with founders to help build and scale technology companies.
New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is a venture capital firm that invests in and provides long-term support to founders building new companies.
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.
Abstract is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm managing $1.8 billion in assets, investing in seed and early-stage companies across all sectors.
ParaFi Capital is a multi-strategy investment firm operating across public and private markets, focused on financial technology and capital markets innovation, including digital assets.
FPV Ventures is an early-stage investment firm that backs mission-driven founders.
Mento is a data-driven venture firm backing frontier technology that aims to multiply human potential, using a proprietary AI-driven sourcing engine to identify breakout startups early.
Accel is a venture capital firm that partners with exceptional teams, positioning itself as a first partner to founders globally.
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.
▶42 more co-investors
Bain Capital VenturesElectric CapitalIntel CapitalKindred VenturesUncorrelated VenturesDigital Currency GroupSmash CapitalSAV (Scale Asia Ventures)GreatPoint VenturesStrawberry Creek VenturesE1 VenturesWalden CatalystARK Investment ManagementSequoia CapitalGV (Google Ventures)FJ LabsSpark CapitalB Capital GroupFreestyle CapitalAccel-KKRCaffeinated CapitalTrinity VenturesTrajectory VenturesRidge VenturesBAM VenturesTwo Sigma VenturesThe Chernin Group (TCG Crypto)Standard Capital7percent VenturesK2 GlobalUP PartnersPresight CapitalSolana VenturesMassMutual VenturesLife BiosciencesCherubic VenturesNIVVenture Guides Management, L.P.AsymmetricAngel Ventures MexicoMountain Group CapitalCrypto com Capital
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