Race Capital
Palo Alto, California · Invests in US · Website
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Support founders building the next-generation infrastructure stack for the AI era. We back infra-first, engineering-led companies built for enterprises, with founder-market fit and execution speed.
Likely not a fit for
Consumer apps without technical depth, hardware-only plays, non-technical teams, unfocused founders
How they invest
- Lead or follow
- Usually leads
- Typical decision
- ~2 weeks
- Warm intro
- Not required
- Involvement
- Advisor
- Fund status
- Actively deploying
- Decision process
- Partnership vote
Partners & team
6 contacts on file
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Databricks is a leading Data and AI platform that empowers enterprises to build and scale data and AI applications, analytics, and agents. With a unified Data Intelligence Platform, it serves over 20,000 organizations globally, including more than 60% of the Fortune 500.
Goodnotes is a note-taking app that allows users to write, type, and collaborate in an intelligent digital notebook. It features AI-powered productivity tools, real-time collaboration, and customizable planners.
Vectara is an enterprise AI platform specializing in Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) for building AI agents and assistants, known for its accuracy and security. It offers comprehensive APIs and models for generative AI.
Groq is the AI inference platform delivering low cost, high performance without compromise. Its custom LPU and cloud infrastructure run today’s most powerful AI models instantly and reliably.
Play AI provided a platform for generating AI voices that mimic human speech, aimed at various business applications including hospitality, healthcare, real estate, gaming, and training.
Clerk is a company providing authentication services; its website offers contact, documentation, and career opportunities. Clerk's authentication strategies help identify users for applications.
Unify is an AI-powered platform that integrates intent data and outbound actions to enhance sales and marketing efforts. By combining AI technology with actionable insights, Unify aims to streamline the pipeline generation process for businesses, ensuring higher conversion rates.
Openlayer is an AI evaluation and governance platform that helps develop and monitor AI systems. It offers tools for testing, monitoring, and managing AI models and large language models.
Okareo provides a platform for simulating and evaluating AI agents, focusing on voice and chat interactions. It allows users to test real conversational behavior through simulations and evaluations, ensuring agents perform reliably before deployment.
Lightning Labs develops software for the Lightning Network, offering scalable, low-fee transactions. It focuses on open-source solutions for Bitcoin.
Recent activity
- Feb 2026
Opaque Systems
Series B · Participant
- Jul 2025
AirMDR
Seed · Lead
- May 2025
Unbound AI
Seed · Lead
- May 2025
Unbound
Seed · Lead
- May 2025
Openlayer
Series A · Participant
Race Capital in the news
AlleyWatch
The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 7/27/26
1 month ago
Pulse 2.0
SkyPilot Raises $20 Million Seed Round To Unify AI Compute Infrastructure
1 month ago
Blockworks
Saudi Arabia’s $620B Wealth Fund Has Backed Crypto-friendly VCs
6 months ago
Bloomberg
Watch Venture Capitalist Sees Sustained Agentic AI Traction
11 months ago
Axios
MaintainX's new round, WndrCo's $500m fund, and Monad's wallet
Jul 2025
The Economic Times
AI security startup Unbound raises $4 million in round led by Race Capital
May 2025
SiliconANGLE
Openlayer raises $14.5M to help developers assess and improve AI model performance
May 2025
CoinDesk
Edith Yeung Sees Big Things to Come for Crypto in Hong Kong
Jan 2025
Business Wire
Vectara Secures $25 Million Series A Funding to Advance the Trustworthiness of Retrieval Augmented Generation with New Mockingbird LLM
Jul 2024
TechCrunch
Goodnotes acquires an AI-powered video summary startup as it looks beyond education
Jan 2024
CNN
US investment curbs deal ‘major blow’ to Chinese startups
Aug 2023
TechCrunch
Vectara lands $28.5M to supercharge enterprise search
Jun 2023
asiasociety.org
New Era of VC and the Innovation Ecosystem
Mar 2023
Bloomberg.com
Race Capital Raises New $181 Million Fund Despite SVB Chaos
Mar 2023
Asia Society
Unlocking the Potential of Hong Kong's Startup Ecosystem
Jan 2023
The Business Journals
The Funded: 12 Bay Area startups just raised a total of nearly $300M
Nov 2022
TechCrunch
Web3 messaging infrastructure Notifi raises $10M seed round co-led by Hashed, Race Capital
Nov 2022
The Block
Race Capital leads Aptos wallet Martian’s $3 million raise: Exclusive
Oct 2022
The Business Journals
Early Money: Umami secures $1.5M in a pre-seed round from Race Capital
Jul 2022
GlobeNewswire
Umami Raises $1.5 Million Pre-Seed Funding Round Led by
Jul 2022
Blockworks
3AC Files for Bankruptcy as Co-founders’ Location Unknown
Jul 2022
AlleyWatch
The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 5/16/22
May 2022
Tatler Asia
Edith Yeung
Dec 2021
Venture Capital Journal
From LP to GP, Ontario Teachers’ Richard Lam joins Race Capital
Nov 2021
Business Insider
BEA Systems's Former CEO Launches a Fund to Back COVID-Era Startups
May 2020
chinadailyhk
Venture capitalists 'seizing opportunities from adversity'
May 2020
TMX Newsfile
Race Capital Corp. Announces Filing of Short Form Offering Document
Feb 2013
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