Forerunner Ventures

Forerunner Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm dedicated to the modern consumer. It backs high-growth, branded consumer companies at seed and early stages, providing capital along with strategic guidance and consumer insight to help entrepreneurs anticipate and meet evolving customer needs. The firm emphasizes bridging online and offline commerce, leveraging e-commerce, marketplaces, and social/mobile platforms, and targets sectors such as consumer products, health and wellness, finance, and technology-enabled services. With a track record of supporting influential brands like Dollar Shave Club, Warby Parker, and Hims & Hers, Forerunner focuses on hands-on partnerships to accelerate growth and shape industries.

Jason Bornstein

Principal

Kirsten Green

Founding Partner

Fawzi Itani

Investor

Nicole Johnson

Partner

Eurie Kim

Managing Partner

Past deals in Travel

Fora

Series C in 2025
Fora is a travel company focused on building a community of travel advisors, creators, and enthusiasts to empower travel entrepreneurs and curate exceptional experiences for travelers. Through its travel agency operations, Fora designs trips from scratch, coordinates bookings, and supports customers throughout the planning process. The company connects clients with advisors who understand individual travel styles and helps plan and book dream trips, ensuring personalized itineraries and seamless execution.

MindTrip

Seed Round in 2024
Mindtrip is a technology company that specializes in AI-driven travel assistance. It offers a platform that provides personalized travel experiences, allowing users to ask questions in natural language to receive tailored suggestions for places to visit, real-time availability data, and organized itineraries.

TravelJoy

Series A in 2024
TravelJoy is a travel management platform designed to enhance the trip planning experience for travel agents and their clients. It provides a suite of tools that streamline the booking process, allowing travel professionals to manage their businesses more efficiently. The platform offers modern, digital solutions that simplify invoicing and secure payments, enabling users to save time and stay organized. By focusing on these essential services, TravelJoy aims to help travel agents attract ideal clients more quickly and with less effort, thereby improving the overall efficiency of their operations in the tourism industry.

Fora

Series B in 2023
Fora is a travel company focused on building a community of travel advisors, creators, and enthusiasts to empower travel entrepreneurs and curate exceptional experiences for travelers. Through its travel agency operations, Fora designs trips from scratch, coordinates bookings, and supports customers throughout the planning process. The company connects clients with advisors who understand individual travel styles and helps plan and book dream trips, ensuring personalized itineraries and seamless execution.

Fora

Series A in 2022
Fora is a travel company focused on building a community of travel advisors, creators, and enthusiasts to empower travel entrepreneurs and curate exceptional experiences for travelers. Through its travel agency operations, Fora designs trips from scratch, coordinates bookings, and supports customers throughout the planning process. The company connects clients with advisors who understand individual travel styles and helps plan and book dream trips, ensuring personalized itineraries and seamless execution.

Fora

Seed Round in 2021
Fora is a travel company focused on building a community of travel advisors, creators, and enthusiasts to empower travel entrepreneurs and curate exceptional experiences for travelers. Through its travel agency operations, Fora designs trips from scratch, coordinates bookings, and supports customers throughout the planning process. The company connects clients with advisors who understand individual travel styles and helps plan and book dream trips, ensuring personalized itineraries and seamless execution.

Away

Series C in 2018
Away is a modern travel brand offering high-quality, affordable luggage designed with thoughtful features to enhance travel experiences.

Away

Series B in 2017
Away is a modern travel brand offering high-quality, affordable luggage designed with thoughtful features to enhance travel experiences.

Away

Series A in 2016
Away is a modern travel brand offering high-quality, affordable luggage designed with thoughtful features to enhance travel experiences.

Away

Seed Round in 2015
Away is a modern travel brand offering high-quality, affordable luggage designed with thoughtful features to enhance travel experiences.

Cotopaxi

Series A in 2015
Cotopaxi is a direct-to-consumer outdoor gear and apparel company focused on social impact. Based in Salt Lake City, it links its products to humanitarian causes in developing countries, with each sale supporting education, clean water, or health projects. The company offers travel packs, activewear, outerwear, footwear, and water bottles made from responsibly sourced materials, and a portion of revenue is dedicated to charitable initiatives. The business emphasizes transparency about the impact of its donations.

Cotopaxi

Seed Round in 2014
Cotopaxi is a direct-to-consumer outdoor gear and apparel company focused on social impact. Based in Salt Lake City, it links its products to humanitarian causes in developing countries, with each sale supporting education, clean water, or health projects. The company offers travel packs, activewear, outerwear, footwear, and water bottles made from responsibly sourced materials, and a portion of revenue is dedicated to charitable initiatives. The business emphasizes transparency about the impact of its donations.

HotelTonight

Series A in 2011
HotelTonight, Inc. is a mobile application designed for booking same-day hotel accommodations, specializing in last-minute deals for unsold rooms. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the platform provides a marketplace that allows hotels to fill last-minute vacancies that would otherwise remain unoccupied. Users can easily access these discounted rates through their smartphones and tablets, making it a convenient option for business travelers, leisure travelers, and locals alike. The application enables bookings for rooms up to 100 days in advance, catering to various travel needs while ensuring significant savings for its customers. As of April 2019, HotelTonight operates as a subsidiary of Airbnb, Inc.
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