Tribe Capital
Menlo Park, CA · Invests in US; Asia; North America; Europe; MENA; LATAM · Website
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🔒 $•• – $••Thesis
Apply AI and data science to identify and invest in N-of-1 companies with 10-100x potential. Back founders who expand individual freedom and decentralize power. Invest in companies that embody principles from the Bill of Rights (voice, fair process, proportionality, user power) and Bitcoin whitepaper (trust-minimized, verifiable, aligned incentives, open access).
Likely not a fit for
No non-technical founding teams. No companies purely driven by top-down TAM assumptions. No extractive business models. No ventures with unclear path to unit economics.
How they invest
- Lead or follow
- Usually leads
- Typical decision
- ~1 week
- Warm intro
- Not required
- Involvement
- Takes a board seat
- Fund status
- Actively deploying
- Assets under mgmt
- $2.2B
- Decision process
- Partnership vote
Partners & team
10 contacts on file
Portfolio
SpaceX designs and manufactures rockets and spacecraft, founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology. It offers human spaceflight and research opportunities.
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
x.ai is a company focused on advanced AI, known for its Grok product and recently raised $20B in Series E funding. It offers an API and has a careers section.
Kraken is a cryptocurrency exchange and trading platform offering services for individual and institutional traders. It provides support, trading tools, and institutional crypto trading solutions.
Carta provides an end-to-end suite connecting private capital, offering solutions for equity management and fund management, including cap table management, valuations, fund administration, and more.
Docker helps developers bring their ideas to life by conquering the complexity of app development. Actively used by millions of developers around the world, Docker Desktop and Docker Hub provide unmatched simplicity, agility and choice.
Airtable is a cloud-based collaboration platform that combines the simplicity of a spreadsheet with the power of a database. It enables teams to organize their work, automate processes, and collaborate in real-time through customizable workflows and integrations.
Saildrone builds autonomous systems that dominate the world’s oceans, delivering continuous, real-time intelligence in the toughest oceans on Earth. Their unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) collect critical insights above and below the surface to support border security, law enforcement, naval operations, and undersea infrastructure protection.
Shiprocket is an all-in-one eCommerce growth partner that simplifies logistics and empowers online businesses with AI-driven technology and services for shipping, marketing, and financial support.
Instabase enables the world's leading enterprises to automate their most complex, document-heavy workflows and realize immediate value from their AI initiatives. Its platform transforms unstructured document packets into reliable, auditable data before applying agentic reasoning to execute complex business logic.
Apollo.io is an AI-powered sales platform that helps businesses streamline their outbound and inbound sales processes, enhance data enrichment, and accelerate deal execution.
Rula is dedicated to making mental healthcare accessible and effective for everyone, providing a comprehensive behavioral health solution that connects individuals with licensed professionals.
Recent activity
- Dec 2025
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Tribe Capital in the news
alternativeswatch.com
Carta launches Claude plugins to streamline fund admin work
1 month ago
Medianet News Hub
Carta Rearchitects Private Capital Operations with Plugins for Claude
1 month ago
Fortune
Christina Qi left a hedge fund trading $7 billion a day. Her new startup just raised $97 million
2 months ago
forbes.com
Startup Raises $6.5 Million with Technology Designed To Ease Payments Made By ‘AI Employees’
2 months ago
CoinDesk
Crypto's future is bright in the context of AI's assault on SaaS, says Kraken-backed SPAC
5 months ago
Failory
Top 300 Venture Capital Firms in the United States (2026)
8 months ago
AlleyWatch
The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 12/8/25
9 months ago
CoinDesk
Kraken Scores $800M Raise Backed by $200M Citadel Securities Investment
9 months ago
CoinDesk
Kraken Raises $500M in Funding Round Valuing Crypto Exchange at $15B: Fortune
11 months ago
Ventureburn
Kraken Secures $500M Funding Round as IPO Push Accelerates
11 months ago
Fortune
Kraken quietly closes $500M round as its unusual CEO pushes toward the IPO finish line
11 months ago
Venture Capital Journal
Tribe Capital reaches $150m target for fourth AI fund
11 months ago
The Business Journals
Menlo Park dominates Time's top VC firms list with 10 entries in top 50
Aug 2025
TechCrunch
Tribe Capital eyes leading $75M-plus funding in India’s Shiprocket
Dec 2023
CNBC
India's startup ecosystem is still moving 'pretty slowly,' venture capital firm CEO says
Sep 2023
coindesk.com
Venture Capital Firm Tribe Capital Targets $100M for Latest Crypto Fund: Sources
May 2023
Business Insider
How Tribe Capital selected and ranked the 2023 Seed 100 and Seed 30 lists of the best early-stage venture capitalists
May 2023
Bloomberg.com
FTX Crypto Exchange Restart Plan Draws Possible Bid From Tribe Capital
Apr 2023
Fortune
VC firms are getting stingier with startups. Tribe Capital’s struggles show why
Dec 2022
Business Insider
Leaked Deck Shows VC Fund Tribe Capital Returns, New Fund
Oct 2022
Forbes
The College Dropout Who’s Helping Manage A $1.5 Billion Fund
Aug 2022
CryptoRank
Tribe Capital
May 2022
Institutional Investor
Cracking Private Companies: Investors Buy Into Tribe Capital’s Vision of Disrupting Silicon Valley Itself
Jul 2021
Business Insider
How Tribe Capital's Arjun Sethi uses data, not feelings, to choose the startups his fund backs
Apr 2021
PR Newswire
UAE's Arrow Capital Co-sponsors $240 million Nasdaq tech SPAC in partnership with Silicon Valley-Based VC Tribe Capital
Mar 2021
The Information
Tribe Capital Plans Challenge to AngelList
Oct 2020
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