Foundation Capital
VC Fund
Palo Alto, United States
Foundation Capital is a venture capital firm dedicated to the proposition that one entrepreneur's idea, with the right support, can become a business that changes the world. The company is made up of former entrepreneurs who set out to create the firm they wanted as founders. This forward-thinking team of VCs has helped companies like Lending Club change the way money is lent and borrowed, Sunrun reinvent the residential clean energy market, and Netflix revolutionizes media distribution and consumption, among many others. Foundation Capital is currently invested in more than 60 high-growth ventures in the areas of consumer, information technology, software, digital energy, financial technology, and marketing technology. These investments include AdRoll, Beepi, Bolt Threads, DogVacay, Kik, ForgeRock, Lending Home, Localytics, and Visier. The firm's twenty-six IPOs include Lending Club, OnDeck, Chegg, Sunrun, MobileIron, Control4, TubeMogul, Envestnet, Financial Engines, Netflix, NetZero, Responsys and Silver Spring Networks.
- Total investments:
- 800
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 30%
- Fund size:
- $600M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Foundation Capital invests in
Stages Foundation Capital invests in
Countries Foundation Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 16 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.5M–$10M
- Series A
- $6M–$30M
- Series B
- $6M–$60M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 130 (16%)
- Artificial Intelligence 70 (9%)
- Information Technology 64 (8%)
- Financial Services 53 (7%)
- FinTech 47 (6%)
Stage
- Seed 191 (24%)
- Series A 144 (18%)
- Series B 99 (12%)
- Series C 64 (8%)
- Series D 33 (4%)
Country
- United States 344 (43%)
- Mexico 11 (1%)
- Canada 8 (1%)
- United Kingdom 7 (1%)
- China 4 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jennifer Kaehms
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Steven Vassallo
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 69 | Find email | |
Ashu Garg
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 71 | Find email | |
Bill Elmore
General Partner and Founder
|
General Partner and Founder | Total investments: 16 | Find email | |
Charles Moldow
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 79 | Find email | |
| See all 16 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Imperial operates a decentralized finance platform providing a high-performance, centralized-exchange-style interface for perpetual futures trading on the Solana blockchain. The platform aggregates liquidity from leading decentralized venues, including its flagship perpetual automated market maker (AMM) project, Armada, which routes external depth to eliminate user slippage. Its core value proposition focuses on maximizing execution efficiency, lowering transaction fees, and delivering advanced order triggers alongside institutional-grade analytics to self-custodial on-chain derivatives traders. | $1.5M / Seed / Oct 06, 2026 | ||
| International Payments Identity(IPiD) is a international payments addressing platform that provide solutions to validate bank account of the payee and fetch his banking information by mapping proxies with bank account details. | $16M / Series A / Sep 24, 2026 | ||
| Dextr AI provides AI workforce and automation solutions for hospitality businesses, supporting hotels, resorts, vacation rentals, campgrounds, and property management companies. Its platform uses AI agents to manage reservations, guest communications, front-desk activities, housekeeping coordination, maintenance requests, and other operational workflows. Dextr AI also offers an AI concierge, voice and text communication, guest feedback analysis, online review monitoring, booking tools, and revenue-related functions. Its Dextr OS connects with property management systems, enterprise resource planning platforms, point-of-sale systems, payment services, messaging tools, and other business software to coordinate information and tasks. The company also provides solutions for reservation contact centers, marketing activities, website booking experiences, and property-level management. | $6.7M / Seed / Sep 24, 2026 | ||
| Catchback Cards offers a platform for buying, selling, storing, and auctioning collectibles with pack opening and card-backed loan services. | $8M / Seed / Sep 22, 2026 | ||
| RadiantOps solves AI adoption for software teams. RadiantOps surfaces the work worthy of an engineering leader's attention, names what changed and who understood it, and compares it with the team's own history. Engineering leaders see whether agents are making their teams faster, what that is doing to quality, and what it costs, across every coding agent in the organization. Those answers justify a renewal, a headcount plan, or an AI budget. Every answer threads back to ground truth. RadiantOps reads the commits, reviews, tickets and agent runs a team already produces (GitHub, Jira, Slack, and the coding agents themselves, including Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and Codex) and ties them to the work they belong to. We surface the change, attach the evidence, and leave the verdict with the people who know the terrain. | $7M / Seed / Sep 16, 2026 | ||
| Shennon Biotechnologies analyzes and manipulates a massive number of cells on the single-cell level to develop more effective treatments for human diseases. It functionally profiles millions of immune cells to find the best targets for cancer immunotherapy. | $12M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 14, 2026 | ||
| SciFin is an AI-powered revenue intelligence platform designed to close the “context gap” faced by modern revenue teams. Sales information is often scattered across CRM systems, emails, call notes, documents, spreadsheets, people, and multiple AI tools. SciFin brings this information together to create a more complete and current view of deals,accounts, representatives, pipelines, and territories. The platform helps sales leaders and revenue operations teams identify at-risk deals earlier, improve forecasting, understand rep and pipeline performance, and reduce the time spent manually collecting and reconciling information. Sales managers can use the resulting context to focus coaching where it matters most, while sales representatives can quickly understand account history, risks, open questions, and next steps before customer meetings. | $44M / Seed / Sep 01, 2026 | ||
| International Payments Identity(IPiD) is a international payments addressing platform that provide solutions to validate bank account of the payee and fetch his banking information by mapping proxies with bank account details. | $9.6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 20, 2026 | ||
| Search Party helps brands get discovered inside AI-driven search interfaces. Search party specializes in Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), a new discipline built for the era of conversational AI and large language models. Instead of optimizing for web crawlers, Search party deploys agents that position brands to appear, be cited, and berecommended within generative platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. | $3.5M / Seed / Aug 06, 2026 | ||
| AegisAI is a next-generation email security technology that uses self-driving AI agents to analyse each email like a human analyst would. | $36M / Series A / Jul 23, 2026 | ||
| See all 800 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Foundation Capital invest in?
Foundation Capital invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 800 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Foundation Capital invest in?
Foundation Capital typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$10M at Seed, $6M–$30M at Series A and $6M–$60M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Foundation Capital's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Foundation Capital took part in.
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Who are the partners at Foundation Capital?
The team at Foundation Capital includes Jennifer Kaehms (Partner), Steven Vassallo (General Partner) and Ashu Garg (General Partner), among 16 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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