Foothill Ventures
VC Fund
Los Altos, United States
Foothill Ventures is a technology-focused venture fund that invests in seed-to-A-round startups in the United States. It is a successor fund to the TEEC Angel Fund. Foothill Ventures was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Los Altos, California.
- Total investments:
- 137
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 19%
- Fund size:
- $19M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Foothill Ventures invests in
Stages Foothill Ventures invests in
Countries Foothill Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 14 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.1M–$12M
- Series A
- $7.3M–$40M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 20 (15%)
- Software 19 (14%)
- Biotechnology 13 (9%)
- Health Care 12 (9%)
- Medical 9 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 48 (35%)
- Series A 23 (17%)
- Funding Round 15 (11%)
- Series B 6 (4%)
- Pre-Seed 4 (3%)
Country
- United States 77 (56%)
- China 3 (2%)
- Canada 1 (1%)
- Singapore 1 (1%)
- South Korea 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Michael Jin
Managing Partner & Co-founder
|
Managing Partner & Co-founder | Total investments: 15 | Find email | |
Wenxiang Ma
Venture Partner / Advisor
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Venture Partner / Advisor | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Biao He
Venture Partner
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Venture Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Eric Rosenblum
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 13 | Find email | |
Hong Ge
Venture Partner
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Venture Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 14 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Quintessent
|
Quintessent is a Santa Barbara start-up that commercializes quantum dot-based lasers and photonic integrated circuits. Its solutions leverage the unique properties of quantum dot gain media with co-designed architectures to enable future applications in optical networking, deep learning systems, and sensing.It is based in Santa Barbara,California. | $40M / Series A / Aug 24, 2026 | |
Subconscious
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Subconscious Systems builds infrastructure that makes large language models faster, cheaper, and more reliable to run at scale. Its platform combines a custom inference runtime with model-driven agent capabilities that handle context management, reasoning, and tool use automatically. Customers use Subconscious to deploy production-grade AI agentsthat stay coherent across long workflows and operate efficiently on existing hardware. The company originated from MIT research and serves developers and enterprises building advanced AI applications. | $5.1M / Seed / Aug 24, 2026 | |
CarbonSix
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CarbonSix develops AI-powered robotics technologies for manufacturing automation, with a focus on tasks that involve high product variation and changing production conditions. Its platform uses imitation learning to enable industrial robots to learn from human demonstrations and perform complex manipulation tasks that are difficult to automateusing conventional programming methods. The company combines robotics hardware and AI software to improve robot adaptability while meeting industrial quality and reliability requirements. Its solutions are designed for manufacturing environments where flexible automation is needed for assembly and other variable production processes. | $40M / Series A / Jul 01, 2026 | |
Hyperlight
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HyperLight provides thin-film lithium niobate photonic integrated circuit solutions. They deliver groundbreaking electro-optic and nonlinear optical solutions with scalable manufacturing processes. They work closely with their customers from conceptualization, design, prototyping, and transfer to volume production. | $80M / Series C / Jun 18, 2026 | |
LineWise
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LineWise is a AI Engineer troubleshoot system that helps manufacturers maximize production uptime. | $6M / Seed / Jun 03, 2026 | |
Nervonik
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Nervonik is a medical device company developing an opioid-free peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) system. Nervonik is focused on advancing clinical research and achieving regulatory milestones to bring its innovative therapies to market. | $52.5M / Series B / Apr 27, 2026 | |
Aether Fuels
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Aether Fuels is a cutting-edge climate technology firm that seeks to use ground-breaking methods for creating scalable, affordable, and sustainable fuels to decarbonize "hard-to-abate" sectors including aviation and ocean shipping. | $15M / Convertible Note / Dec 30, 2025 | |
NovoLINC
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NovoLINC is a pioneering startup that provides thermal interface solutions. It develops a distinctive system of nanostructured materials and a proprietary manufacturing process with the objective of transforming thermal management. | $10.2M / Seed / Dec 18, 2025 | |
Neuraworx Medical Technology
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Neuraworx Medical Technology is a neurotechnology company developing first-in-class bioelectronic solutions for brain health. | Seed / Dec 18, 2025 | |
Lucidean
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Lucidean develops optical interconnects and link solutions for data center and AI networks. The company designs hardware that combines photonics and electronics to move data with higher bandwidth and lower energy per bit. Work includes coherent optical links, with a mixed-domain architecture the company demonstrates at OFC 2025 to extend reach andcapacity inside and between racks. Products focus on scaling throughput while managing cost and power constraints for large training and inference clusters. Capabilities span optical link design, integration of photonic integrated circuits with control electronics, and system-level prototyping and validation. | $18.4M / Seed / Dec 11, 2025 | |
| See all 137 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Foothill Ventures invest in?
Foothill Ventures invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Biotechnology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 137 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Foothill Ventures's check size?
Foothill Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$12M at Seed and $7.3M–$40M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Foothill Ventures participates in.
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Who are the partners at Foothill Ventures?
The team at Foothill Ventures includes Michael Jin (Managing Partner & Co-founder), Wenxiang Ma (Venture Partner / Advisor) and Biao He (Venture Partner), among 14 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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