Carya Venture Partners

Gen AI Cost Optimization, which strives to make Gen AI as cost-effective as possible, is a vital factor towards mitigating probabilistic AI’s considerable marginal costs. With Agentic Gen AI use cases, which often involve significant backend inference operations, gaining traction, Gen AI Cost Optimization is more important than ever. At Carya, we’re excited about companies creating and leveraging Gen AI Cost Optimization infrastructure and techniques. As a result, we’ve been taking a close look at this emerging field. We’re excited to release Part 2 of “Gen AI Cost Optimization in the Wake of Agentic Use Cases” in collaboration with Luke Bender on our Substack! Take a read below! https://lnkd.in/ebX9zm8a Sharath Keshava Narayana Marty Massih Sarim Sai Supriya Sharath Andy Lee Michael Greenbaum Ryan Snow Andrés Pérez Soderi Craig Tobin

Congratulations Tomás Vega, Corten Singer and Augmental on the fundraise announcement! It is not often we see such a beautiful combination of break-through tech and meaningful purpose at a company. Augmental is for users first - and the team's focus speaks to that. We're extremely proud to be a part of the journey in changing people's way to interact with the world, one MouthPad at a time! Sharath Keshava Narayana Andrés Pérez Soderi Marty Massih Sarim Andy Lee Sai Supriya Sharath Michael Greenbaum Ryan Snow Luke Bender

Congratulations Andy Lee and the entire Crescendo team on the latest round led by General Catalyst! At Carya we've always believed AI and Humans go hand-in-hand in CX. As the capabilities of AI increase, so too do the complexities of customer service tasks, and the opportunities to collaborate with customer service agents. Additionally, Crescendo's pay-per-outcome model allows for a more efficient pricing for customers, unlocked by owning the entire end-to-end customer interaction. Congratulations again to the entire team! Proud to be early investors in the future of CX! Sharath Keshava Narayana Andrés Pérez Soderi Andy Lee Marty Massih Sarim Sai Supriya Sharath Michael Greenbaum Ryan Snow Luke Bender

At Carya, we’ve been taking a close look at Cost Optimization - since probabilistic AI incurs a considerable variable cost structure, Gen AI Cost Optimization has emerged as a new field and industry subset, attempting to make Gen AI as cost effective as possible. The effects of Agentic Gen AI in Cost Optimization (and vice versa) will be felt within cloud-accessed LLMs’ decreased marginal costs and Edge Computing LLMs’ increased capabilities on local devices. Thus, as the practicality of Agentic and Edge Computing Gen AI increases, the market for Cost Optimization infrastructure will only become more exciting from an investor lens. We’re excited to release Part 1 of “Gen AI Cost Optimization in the Wake of Agentic Use Cases” in collaboration with Luke Bender on our Substack! Take a read below! https://lnkd.in/e5KJGerE Sharath Keshava Narayana Marty Massih Sarim Sai Supriya Sharath Andy Lee Michael Greenbaum Ryan Snow Andrés Pérez Soderi Craig Tobin

Founders are now building in the CX space at an unprecedented space, given it is becoming clear that it is one of the best industries for AI to prove its ROI at scale. However, most funds do not have CX, BPO or the right enterprise connections to be able to provide their founders with the adequate support in entering this massive industry. That's where Carya comes in - allowing our founders to break into this industry and deploy AI at scale, further pushing the transformation of the customer care industry.

So excited to see this partnership + investment between Accenture and Martian! Etan Ginsberg and Shriyash U. are world class builders and this next step is a critical one for bringing #Martian to life as the premier #ModelRouter and #Interpretability product out there. At Carya we've been following the adoption of AI and Automation in the outsourcing industry for a long time. In fact, it was one of the main reasons we started Sanas and Observe.AI, and now that AI is becoming more accessible than ever, companies like Martian are making it easier than ever to revolutionize workflows in one of the world's largest industries. Sharath Keshava Narayana Andrés Pérez Soderi Marty Massih Sarim Sai Supriya Sharath Andy Lee Michael Greenbaum Ryan Snow Maxim Serebryakov

We invested in Retell AI alongside Alt Capital, Y Combinator and Michael Seibel early last year as the team was finishing up #W24. Since then, the team has grown to over $3M annualized revenue and has continued to execute at breakneck speed - the demo is one of the most impressive we've seen (try it out for yourself below) and we could not be more excited to continue to work with the amazing Bing Wu, Weijia Y., Zexia Zhang. Evie Wang and Todd Li. Congrats team! Sharath Keshava Narayana Andrés Pérez Soderi Marty Massih Sarim Andy Lee Sai Supriya Sharath Michael Greenbaum Ryan Snow

It’s been amazing to watch the emergence of B2B Generative AI products. While LLMs have powered a variety of compelling, yet short-lived experiences, others resulted in truly disruptive offerings that have changed long-term usage habits. At Carya, we’ve been paying close attention to the patterns and pulse checks that define the latter, centering in on if Gen AI products meaningfully reduce an employee’s ‘Time to Value’ through their UXs and the content they generate. After the great reception towards Part 1 of Carya’s series on “Discerning Disruptive Generative AI Products from Hype”, we’re excited to release Part 2 in collaboration with Luke Bender on our Substack! Take a read below! https://lnkd.in/eUexHbFA Sharath Keshava Narayana Marty Massih Sarim Sai Supriya Sharath Andy Lee Michael Greenbaum Ryan Snow Andrés Pérez Soderi Craig Tobin

We've been thinking a lot about Gen AI and Time-To-Value in enterprise use cases at Carya - over the last year, Gen AI integration has shifted from an ambitious hypothetical to the backbone of heavily-funded initiatives and startups. While enthusiasm has only increased, it's apparent that the “wow factor” of LLMs alone isn’t enough to sustainably change user behavior... Thus, it’s crucial to develop a framework that discerns truly disruptive Gen AI products from those built on hype. Focusing on B2B Gen AI products, which leverage AI to generate content that an organization’s employees use in their workflows, a core pulse check that can distinguish viable products from novelties is if they meaningfully reduce an employee’s ‘Time to Value’. We've compiled our thoughts on minimizing TTV and maximizing EV through GenAI Products in a 2-part series, "Discerning Disruptive Generative AI Product from Hype" - now releasing in collaboration with Luke Bender on our new Substack! Take a read below! - https://lnkd.in/eXxj74sf Sharath Keshava Narayana Marty Massih Sarim Sai Supriya Sharath Andy Lee Michael Greenbaum Ryan Snow Andrés Pérez Soderi Craig Tobin

Excited to announce our new website, created by Confederation Studio and Studio Everywhere! Carya means #GetToWork in Sanskrit, and we mean it when we say we work for our founders. Our new branding reflects our ethos, as well as showcasing the community of amazing founders, LPs, advisors and team we've gotten to work with since we first started two years ago. We have lots more announcements to come in the short term, including in-depth thought pieces on what we are seeing in the market, tech deep-dives and industry case studies, all to come in our brand new Substack for everyone to read. We're just getting started in building the firm that we would want to partner with as founders. Follow for more updates! Check out our new site: https://www.carya.com/ Sharath Keshava Narayana Marty Massih Sarim Sai Supriya Sharath Andy Lee Michael Greenbaum Ryan Snow Andrés Pérez Soderi Jason Berg Nahim Afzal Luke Bender Craig Tobin #ForFoundersByFounders