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Foundation Capital

Palo Alto, California · Invests in US; Europe; MENA; LATAM · Website

Pre-SeedSeedSeries AB2B SaaSAI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsCybersecurityFintechCrypto & Web3Enterprise SoftwareDeveloper Tools & InfrastructureFintech & PaymentsSecurity & Cybersecurity

Thesis

We back founders who believe the purpose of life is to be briefly extraordinary. We invest at day zero when ideas haven't yet become innovations, seeking founders with superhuman grit, authentic vision, and the drive to create something lasting.

Likely not a fit for

We avoid non-technical founders, consumer apps without enterprise potential, obvious trend-chasing, and founders without authentic mission or drive.

How they invest

Lead or follow
Usually leads
Typical decision
~2 weeks
Warm intro
Not required
Involvement
Takes a board seat
Fund status
Actively deploying
Assets under mgmt
$3B
Decision process
Partnership vote

Partners & team

14 contacts on file

JG

Jaya Gupta

PartnerPartner · Primary contact

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j•••@fo•••.com

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Farzad Tabaee

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Steve Vassallo

General PartnerGeneral Partner

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AG

Ashu Garg

General PartnerGeneral Partner

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RG

Rodolfo Gonzalez

General PartnerGeneral Partner

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CM

Charles Moldow

General PartnerGeneral Partner

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JC

Joanne Chen

General PartnerGeneral Partner

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ST

Sid Trivedi

PartnerPartner

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LL

Leo Lu

PartnerPartner

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AM

Alejandra Martinez

PartnerPartner

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NS

Nico Stainfeld

PartnerPartner

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ZN

Zach Noorani

PartnerPartner

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GZ

Gracie Zaro

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PH

Paul Holland

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Portfolio

SolanaFintech Payments

Solana is a high-performance blockchain network that powers internet capital markets, payments, and crypto applications. It is known for being fast, decentralized, and scalable.

NetflixMedia Entertainment

Netflix is one of the world’s leading entertainment services offering TV series, films, games and live programming across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

Arize.aiEnterprise Software

Arize AI is an LLM observability and evaluation platform designed to help developers monitor, debug, and continuously improve their AI agents and systems, particularly in the context of complex AI models like LLMs and multimodal systems.

SunrunClimate Clean Energy

America's largest provider of residential battery storage, solar, and home-to-grid power plants, offering innovative energy solutions through a subscription model.

LendingClubFintech Payments

LendingClub is a leading digital marketplace bank that provides personal loans, auto refinancing, and banking services, designed to help customers meet their financial goals.

TubeMogulMarketing Adtech

TubeMogul, now part of Adobe Advertising, offers a digital advertising platform that allows users to plan, buy, measure, and optimize advertising spend across various channels.

Cerebras SystemsEnterprise Software

Cerebras Systems is at the forefront of AI innovation, building the world's fastest AI inference and training platform. Their technology is utilized across various fields including medical research, cryptography, energy, and agentic AI.

PlayerZeroEnterprise Software

PlayerZero is pioneering predictive software quality, helping enterprises ship flawless software faster by fixing, learning from and preventing problems before they impact customers. The company's AI-powered platform deeply understands how code works across entire systems, predicts failures before they happen and continuously learns from every issue to strengthen software resilience.

AegisaiSecurity Cyber

Aegis AI is an AI-native Email Security platform. Our AI agents think like human analysts—stopping Zero-day Phishing, BEC, and Malware attacks while cutting false positives by up to 90%.

AnyscaleEnterprise Software

Anyscale provides a platform to run and scale all machine learning and AI workloads, enabling developers to build applications that operate seamlessly from a laptop to a data center using Ray.

AnomaloEnterprise Software

Anomalo is an automated AI enterprise data quality platform that helps organizations ensure the accuracy and integrity of their data across various industries.

AlationEnterprise Software

Alation provides an Agentic Data Intelligence Platform that helps organizations scale and accelerate the delivery of AI and data initiatives, focusing on building trusted AI and applications with trusted data.

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Foundation Capital: 30 Years of Backing Founders at Day Zero Investment Thesis Foundation Capital is a 30-year-old early-stage venture capital firm that backs technical founders building transformative companies at the earliest stages. Their core thesis centers on identifying individuals with exceptional resilience, ambition, and vision—founders who possess an internal drive to create something la

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