Foundation Capital

Foundation Capital, founded in 1995 and based in Menlo Park, California, is a venture capital firm that invests primarily in early-stage and growth-stage technology companies. The firm focuses on various sectors, including enterprise software, fintech, digital energy, consumer technology, and clean tech. It typically invests between $1 million and $10 million, with a total budget of $13 million to $14 million over the life of each company. Foundation Capital aims to act as a lead investor and often takes a board seat in its portfolio companies. The firm has a strong track record, having supported over 60 high-growth ventures, including notable companies like Lending Club and Netflix, and has participated in 26 initial public offerings. With a commitment to fostering innovative ideas, Foundation Capital emphasizes the potential of entrepreneurs to create transformative businesses.

Bill Elmore

General Partner and Founder

Rodolfo Gonzalez

General Partner

Jaya Gupta

Partner

Andrew Han

Partner

Jennifer Kaehms

Partner

Alejandra Martinez

Partner

Ted Meyer

Administrative Partner

Charles Moldow

General Partner

Lauri Moore

Partner

Lauri Moore

Partner

Zach Noorani

Partner

Mike Schuh

General Partner

Nico Stainfeld

Partner

Siddhant Trivedi

Partner

Sid Trivedi

Partner

Melissa Tucker

Director of Finance

Gracie Zaro

Partner

Past deals in Data Visualization

Ikigai Labs

Seed Round in 2021
Ikigai helps modern analysts and operations teams automate data-intensive business, finance, analytics, and supply-chain operations within clicks without VLOOKUPs. IKIGAI's Inventory Ops Automate inventory tracking and monitoring by creating a single, real-time view of inventory across all locations and channels, even down to the component level.

Visier

Series E in 2021
Visier, Inc. specializes in developing a cloud-based workforce intelligence platform that assists organizations in managing their human resources effectively. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with an additional office in San Jose, California, Visier offers solutions that enable HR professionals to recruit, retain, and develop their workforce while addressing complex workforce questions. The company's flagship product, Visier People™, provides analytics and insights to support strategic decision-making across various industries, including healthcare, financial services, technology, energy, manufacturing, and retail. Visier's platform allows users to access real-time data without the need for technical resources, facilitating informed business strategies and actions. With a subscription model that includes ongoing support, Visier is committed to delivering continuous value to its clients.

DataDistillr

Seed Round in 2021
Operator of an enterprise platform intended to standardize data discovery across the organization. The company's data platform allows connecting to any data set in any location, uploading data across various formats, managing, filtering, and sharing data along with other functions, enabling data scientists to simulate, filter, visualize data and get more value out of it.

DataDistillr

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Operator of an enterprise platform intended to standardize data discovery across the organization. The company's data platform allows connecting to any data set in any location, uploading data across various formats, managing, filtering, and sharing data along with other functions, enabling data scientists to simulate, filter, visualize data and get more value out of it.

Mode Analytics

Series D in 2020
Mode Analytics, Inc. is a developer of a collaborative analytics platform designed to facilitate data-informed decision-making. Established in 2013 and based in San Francisco, the company offers a solution that enables data analysts and data scientists to analyze, visualize, and share data effectively. The platform features a central repository that allows analysts to access work in real-time, helping them to resolve issues without the need to recreate previous analyses. Mode Analytics serves a variety of industries, including consumer packaged goods, finance, healthcare, retail, media, and software as a service, offering tailored solutions for data, finance, operations, product, and sales and marketing functions.

Layer 9

Seed Round in 2019
Developer of a microservices diagnosability application designed to track services and data stores. The company's application provides service-level visibility of client systems with metrics via a microservice catalog, dependency graph, schema changes, and errors, thereby enabling clients to reduce their downtime by diagnosing problems in complex modern stacks.

Mode Analytics

Series C in 2019
Mode Analytics, Inc. is a developer of a collaborative analytics platform designed to facilitate data-informed decision-making. Established in 2013 and based in San Francisco, the company offers a solution that enables data analysts and data scientists to analyze, visualize, and share data effectively. The platform features a central repository that allows analysts to access work in real-time, helping them to resolve issues without the need to recreate previous analyses. Mode Analytics serves a variety of industries, including consumer packaged goods, finance, healthcare, retail, media, and software as a service, offering tailored solutions for data, finance, operations, product, and sales and marketing functions.

Quilt Data

Seed Round in 2017
Quilt Data, Inc., founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California, operates a cloud-based platform that facilitates crowdsourced data collection and organization. The platform is designed to enable collaboration across all levels of an organization, empowering employees beyond data scientists to engage with data efficiently and effectively. By providing tools for managing code, sharing insights, and conducting analytics, Quilt enhances the decision-making process, allowing companies to act swiftly and gain a competitive edge in a data-driven landscape. Additionally, Quilt offers custom information development and training, supporting teams in machine learning and computational biology to iterate quickly, minimize errors, and deploy sophisticated models.

Mode Analytics

Series B in 2017
Mode Analytics, Inc. is a developer of a collaborative analytics platform designed to facilitate data-informed decision-making. Established in 2013 and based in San Francisco, the company offers a solution that enables data analysts and data scientists to analyze, visualize, and share data effectively. The platform features a central repository that allows analysts to access work in real-time, helping them to resolve issues without the need to recreate previous analyses. Mode Analytics serves a variety of industries, including consumer packaged goods, finance, healthcare, retail, media, and software as a service, offering tailored solutions for data, finance, operations, product, and sales and marketing functions.

Visier

Series D in 2017
Visier, Inc. specializes in developing a cloud-based workforce intelligence platform that assists organizations in managing their human resources effectively. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with an additional office in San Jose, California, Visier offers solutions that enable HR professionals to recruit, retain, and develop their workforce while addressing complex workforce questions. The company's flagship product, Visier People™, provides analytics and insights to support strategic decision-making across various industries, including healthcare, financial services, technology, energy, manufacturing, and retail. Visier's platform allows users to access real-time data without the need for technical resources, facilitating informed business strategies and actions. With a subscription model that includes ongoing support, Visier is committed to delivering continuous value to its clients.

SketchDeck

Seed Round in 2015
SketchDeck is a design service company founded in 2013 and headquartered in the United States. It offers on-demand graphic design solutions that cater to both small businesses and large enterprises, as well as individuals. The company specializes in creating a variety of design materials, including presentations, infographics, and other marketing collateral, all managed through a user-friendly web platform. By transforming sketches and notes into polished, custom-made designs, SketchDeck aims to provide a consistent branding experience across all projects. Its services are trusted by notable clients such as Okta, Microsoft, and Cognizant, underscoring its commitment to making quality design accessible and scalable for marketing teams.

Mode Analytics

Series A in 2015
Mode Analytics, Inc. is a developer of a collaborative analytics platform designed to facilitate data-informed decision-making. Established in 2013 and based in San Francisco, the company offers a solution that enables data analysts and data scientists to analyze, visualize, and share data effectively. The platform features a central repository that allows analysts to access work in real-time, helping them to resolve issues without the need to recreate previous analyses. Mode Analytics serves a variety of industries, including consumer packaged goods, finance, healthcare, retail, media, and software as a service, offering tailored solutions for data, finance, operations, product, and sales and marketing functions.

gifs.com

Seed Round in 2015
Gifs.com is the best place to edit a video online.

Visier

Series C in 2014
Visier, Inc. specializes in developing a cloud-based workforce intelligence platform that assists organizations in managing their human resources effectively. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with an additional office in San Jose, California, Visier offers solutions that enable HR professionals to recruit, retain, and develop their workforce while addressing complex workforce questions. The company's flagship product, Visier People™, provides analytics and insights to support strategic decision-making across various industries, including healthcare, financial services, technology, energy, manufacturing, and retail. Visier's platform allows users to access real-time data without the need for technical resources, facilitating informed business strategies and actions. With a subscription model that includes ongoing support, Visier is committed to delivering continuous value to its clients.

Visier

Series B in 2013
Visier, Inc. specializes in developing a cloud-based workforce intelligence platform that assists organizations in managing their human resources effectively. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with an additional office in San Jose, California, Visier offers solutions that enable HR professionals to recruit, retain, and develop their workforce while addressing complex workforce questions. The company's flagship product, Visier People™, provides analytics and insights to support strategic decision-making across various industries, including healthcare, financial services, technology, energy, manufacturing, and retail. Visier's platform allows users to access real-time data without the need for technical resources, facilitating informed business strategies and actions. With a subscription model that includes ongoing support, Visier is committed to delivering continuous value to its clients.

Prevedere

Seed Round in 2012
Prevedere is a company that specializes in predictive analytics and industry insights, aiding business leaders in making informed decisions by offering a real-time perspective on future performance. Unlike traditional methods that focus solely on internal metrics, Prevedere’s platform continuously monitors external data, such as economic and consumer behavior trends, to identify potential opportunities and threats to business performance. By leveraging advanced forecasting software and a team of experts, including data scientists and economists, Prevedere enables organizations to understand key leading indicators that influence revenue and profitability. The company has received several accolades for its innovative approach and effective solutions, working with prominent global enterprises to enhance their strategic decision-making capabilities.

Quantivo

Series A in 2008
Quantivo delivers the industry's first ad-hoc analytics tool for marketing that is fast, flexible, and frictionless. Unlike traditional solutions, Quantivo empowers you to quickly audit, load, integrate and analyze large data sets from disparate sources – within hours, not weeks. This is only possible because of Quantivo's proven, proprietary pattern-store technology, advanced query engine, and elastic cloud architecture. These powerful capabilities drastically simplify the loading of data, and enables users to discover associations in their data through a drag-and-drop interface. Through this intuitive query interface, users receive answers from complicated queries within seconds. The combination of a friendly UI, short learning curve, and affordable pricing model allows Quantivo to be adopted by larger audiences within the organization and brings powerful ad-hoc analysis to companies of all sizes. With Quantivo's patented technology platform, business users can directly interact with their massive data assets to gain business insight and uncover key monetizable trends that are often buried in complex storage systems, lost within channels between business users and IT support, or inaccessible with traditional analytics solutions that lack insight into event-level detail. Quantivo's analytics platform has been in commercial use by Fortune 500 companies since 2005 and has been awarded five US patents. Quantivo is backed by top-tier venture capital firms, including Foundation Capital and Partech International.
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