Foundation Capital

Foundation Capital, LLC is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, founded in 1995. The firm specializes in investing in early-stage and growth-stage information technology companies, with a focus on sectors such as enterprise software, fintech, consumer technology, digital energy, and marketing technology. Foundation Capital aims to support entrepreneurs by providing capital and strategic guidance, believing that innovative ideas can transform industries. The firm has a diverse portfolio that includes investments in over 60 high-growth ventures, such as Lending Club, Sunrun, and Netflix. It typically invests between $1 million and $10 million per company and prefers to take the lead in investments, often securing board seats. Foundation Capital's successful track record includes 26 initial public offerings, reflecting its commitment to fostering transformative businesses.

Bill Elmore

General Partner and Founder

Rodolfo Gonzalez

General Partner

Ted Meyer

Administrative Partner

Charles Moldow

General Partner

Lauri Moore

Partner

Zach Noorani

Partner

Pandhi, Apoorva

Partner

Michael Schuh

General Partner

Nico Stainfeld

Partner

Siddhant Trivedi

Partner

Melissa Tucker

Director of Finance

Past deals in Life Insurance

CoinCover

Series B in 2023
Coincover is a cryptocurrency insurance-backed technology that helps protect digital assets from hacks and human error. Protection provides safety against the loss or theft of crypto assets, and fraudulent transactions. Coincover Protection provides end-users unparalleled safety against the loss or theft of crypto assets, and fraudulent transactions, ensuring assets are both safe and accessible. Coincover Protect delivers through a key combination of technology solutions Cryptocurrency Theft cover: protecting end-users against cryptocurrency theft from phishing, hacking and cyber attacks to criminal extortion. If the worst does happen, Coincover will retrieve the value of crypto funds fast. With no deductible, the full value of crypto is returned. Deposit Protection Guarantee: protection for end-user cryptocurrency deposits against lost access; including password, device and key loss as well as through business failure. Funds are guaranteed to always be accessible. Transaction Checker: real time transaction monitoring for crypto assets to ensure genuine transactions. Coincover identifies, investigates and flags any suspicious transactions in real time so end-users never need worry about theft of crypto funds.

EvolutionIQ

Series A in 2022
EvolutionIQ is an artificial intelligence transformation for insurance carriers. AI Guidance for Disability and General Liability Carriers. By reducing reserves and losses, cycle times, adverse events, lowering expenses, and increasing customer satisfaction, the company's platform improves claims processing, tracks team productivity, and detects fraud trends, allowing clients to receive a fraud detection dashboard and making insurance more fair, transparent, and affordable.

Seel

Series A in 2022
Seel is the leading U.S e-commerce insurer. Trusted by 2,000+ merchants, from starting DTC brands to multibillion dollar marketplaces.

Insurate

Seed Round in 2021
Insurate is a work comp MGA leveraging data science and analytics to more accurately assess risk. We help agents write and retain business with our appetite for hard-to-place codes and unbeatable premiums for safe companies.

agentero

Series A in 2021
Agentero Inc. develops an online application to manage insurance policies for insurance agency. It provides agents to monitor new business and existing clients, cross-sell, and up-sell insurance policies. The company’s application offers policyholders to manage insurance policies. It also offers suite of client interaction tools. Agentero Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Oakland, California with additional offices in Nashville, Tennessee; and Madrid, Spain.

Branch

Series B in 2021
Branch is a full-stack insurance company designed to make home and auto insurance simpler to buy and less expensive. Using data, technology, and automation, Branch created the world's first instant, online bundling capability which helps people save thousands of dollars a month in just minutes. Branch partners across the home and auto landscape to embed insurance at the moments that matter, delivering greater convenience and better savings.

iLife Technologies

Seed Round in 2021
iLife Technologies is a life insurance sales automation platform designed to enhance the efficiency of insurance producers in generating revenue online. The platform offers tools that simplify the buying and selling of life insurance, enabling agents and brokers to sell more policies quickly and from any location. It provides consumers with the ability to compare over 500,000 policy options and submit preliminary information for online applications with ease. Additionally, iLife's application programming interface streamlines the acquisition of new business, recruiting, and engagement by automating the presentation and delivery of essential product information, including policy illustrations and marketing materials, all within a single cloud-based interface. This integration helps insurance providers consolidate workflows and create customized digital client engagement experiences.

Seel

Seed Round in 2020
Seel is the leading U.S e-commerce insurer. Trusted by 2,000+ merchants, from starting DTC brands to multibillion dollar marketplaces.

Branch

Series A in 2020
Branch is a full-stack insurance company designed to make home and auto insurance simpler to buy and less expensive. Using data, technology, and automation, Branch created the world's first instant, online bundling capability which helps people save thousands of dollars a month in just minutes. Branch partners across the home and auto landscape to embed insurance at the moments that matter, delivering greater convenience and better savings.

agentero

Seed Round in 2020
Agentero Inc. develops an online application to manage insurance policies for insurance agency. It provides agents to monitor new business and existing clients, cross-sell, and up-sell insurance policies. The company’s application offers policyholders to manage insurance policies. It also offers suite of client interaction tools. Agentero Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Oakland, California with additional offices in Nashville, Tennessee; and Madrid, Spain.

EvolutionIQ

Seed Round in 2019
EvolutionIQ is an artificial intelligence transformation for insurance carriers. AI Guidance for Disability and General Liability Carriers. By reducing reserves and losses, cycle times, adverse events, lowering expenses, and increasing customer satisfaction, the company's platform improves claims processing, tracks team productivity, and detects fraud trends, allowing clients to receive a fraud detection dashboard and making insurance more fair, transparent, and affordable.

Mulberry

Seed Round in 2018
Mulberry Technology Inc., known as Mulberry, is a New York-based company that specializes in developing artificial intelligence-driven plugins for e-commerce platforms to facilitate the purchase of extended warranties. Founded in 2018, Mulberry connects insurers, brands, and consumers to streamline the signing of contracts and terms related to product protection. The company's offerings encompass a wide range of categories, including consumer electronics, furniture, appliances, jewelry, and fitness equipment, among others. By providing personalized product protection solutions, Mulberry aims to help brands generate additional revenue while enhancing the customer experience. Its platform utilizes application programming interfaces and AI to integrate customized protection programs seamlessly into the online shopping journey, thereby simplifying the process of obtaining insurance and improving operational efficiency for businesses.

Health IQ

Series C in 2017
Their mission: to increase health literacy around the world Over the last 100 years, the world’s language literacy has increased significantly. Their challenge over the next 100 years is to increase the world’s health literacy. They believe the best way to create change is to celebrate the people who are dedicated to their health, rather than harass the people who are not. The Health Conscious are the unsung heroes — the people who don’t get credit for their hard work. Help us spread health literacy to every corner of the world.

CoverWallet

Series B in 2017
CoverWallet is an online platform that offers insurance management services to its clients. CoverWallet’s range of insurance include general liability, workers’ compensation, commercial property, BOP, professional liability, E&O, medical malpractice, umbrella insurance, D&O, cyber liability, inland marine, EPLI, commercial auto, disability, health, and product and pollution liability. Its services are provided to firms in the administrative, agricultural, construction, consulting, contractor, education, finance, food, healthcare, management, manufacturing, mining, non-profit, scientific, and real estate industries. CoverWallet was launched in 2015 by Inaki Berenguer and Rashmi Melgiri and is based in New York.

agentero

Seed Round in 2017
Agentero Inc. develops an online application to manage insurance policies for insurance agency. It provides agents to monitor new business and existing clients, cross-sell, and up-sell insurance policies. The company’s application offers policyholders to manage insurance policies. It also offers suite of client interaction tools. Agentero Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Oakland, California with additional offices in Nashville, Tennessee; and Madrid, Spain.

Health IQ

Series B in 2016
Their mission: to increase health literacy around the world Over the last 100 years, the world’s language literacy has increased significantly. Their challenge over the next 100 years is to increase the world’s health literacy. They believe the best way to create change is to celebrate the people who are dedicated to their health, rather than harass the people who are not. The Health Conscious are the unsung heroes — the people who don’t get credit for their hard work. Help us spread health literacy to every corner of the world.

League

Seed Round in 2014
League is a platform technology company powering next-generation healthcare consumer experiences. League's healthcare CX platform creates personalized digital health experiences that drive measurable results.
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