Foundation Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage and growth stage information technology companies. The firm prefers to invest in startups in their formative stages. It will consider investments in the following sectors: enterprise software and on-demand services; networking, storage, semiconductors, and telecommunications; mobile; fables semiconductor and EDA; clean tech; consumer electronics; consumer technology; marketing technology; design oriented companies; enterprise applications; website infrastructure software; consumer internet; data communication; energy management; digital media and online advertising; internet infrastructure and technologies; enterprise IT infrastructure, systems, enterprise software and services, software as an internet service, financial services; fintech, business-to-consumer e-commerce; internet media, and data networks. Within clean tech, the firm invests in energy efficiency and intelligence, green building materials and industrial processes, Mar-Tech, digital energy, cloud applications, cloud infrastructure and security, food quality, clean water, alternative energy and storage, advanced materials, carbon capture, and green consumer services and marketplaces. It prefers to invest in India and United States. It typically invests between $1 million and $10 million, with $13 million to $14 million budgeted for over the life of a company. It prefers to act as the lead investor and takes a board seat in its portfolio companies. Foundation Capital was founded in 1995 and is based in Menlo Park, California, with an additional office in Menlo Park, California and San Francisco, California.