Foundation Capital

Foundation Capital is a Menlo Park, California-based venture capital firm founded in 1995, one of Silicon Valley's long-running early-stage venture partnerships with a track record spanning multiple technology cycles and a portfolio that includes several of the most culturally consequential internet companies of the past thirty years. The firm invests at seed through Series B stages with initial checks from $1 million to $10 million in fintech, consumer internet, enterprise software, and healthcare technology companies. Netflix, which transformed television and became a global entertainment powerhouse, was backed by Foundation Capital in its earliest days. LendingClub completed a NYSE IPO in 2014. Responsys was acquired by Oracle for $1.5 billion in 2013. Chegg completed a NYSE IPO in 2013. Beyond its original investments in Lending Club, Netflix, Responsys, and Chegg, the portfolio includes additional fintech, consumer, and enterprise software companies across multiple fund vintages.