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Cagla Kaymaz
Partner, Category Ventures
Company

Based in
San Francisco, CA
Invests
Pre-Seed or Seed
Type
Investor
Cagla Kaymaz is a partner at Category Ventures, an early-stage fund based in San Francisco investing in enterprise software and AI infrastructure, including its first physical AI bets. She led the firm's seed investment in Antioch, a robot simulation startup working to close the sim-to-real gap for autonomous systems, and backed Soma Energy, which coordinates power for AI data centers. Before Category, she invested at Citi Ventures and worked as a software engineer at Microsoft. She holds degrees from Stanford and an MBA from Harvard.
Relevant Investments
Antioch
Cloud simulation software that closes the sim-to-real gap so robots trained in digital twins work in the physical world.
Seed 2026
antioch.com
Soma Energy
Coordinates generation, storage, and consumption in real time to unlock grid capacity for AI data centers.
Seed 2026
www.soma.energy
Mandel AI
Automates supply chain coordination for manufacturers by reading supplier emails and flagging disruptions in real time.
Seed 2026
www.mandel.ai
In the News
Apr 16, 2026
TechCrunch
This simulation startup wants to be the Cursor for physical AI
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Apr 2, 2026
PR Newswire
Soma Energy Emerges from Stealth with $7 Million in Funding to Unlock Power for the AI Economy
Read
Oct 10, 2025
Venture with Grace (podcast)
Çağla Kaymaz, Category Ventures Partner on AI Infra & Enterprise SaaS
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