Foundation Capital

Foundation Capital
Type Private
Industry Venture capital
Founded 1995
Founder(s) Bill Elmore, Kathryn Gould, and Jim Anderson
Headquarters Menlo Park, California, USA
Employees ~ 30 worldwide
Website www.foundationcap.com

Foundation Capital is a venture capital firm located in Silicon Valley. The firm was founded in 1995, and manages over $2.4 billion[1] in investment capital. It raised its seventh and largest fund of $750 million in April 2008[2]. It was one of Netflix's original investors[3], and currently maintains investments in 67 information technology, consumer product, and clean technology companies.

Portfolio

Foundation Capital provided venture capital for the following companies[4]:

Name Date Round Size
Cantaloupe Systems 4/10 Series C $12.4M
FreeWheel 4/10 Unattributed $16.8M
Lending Club 4/10 Series C $24.5M
TransMedics 3/10 Series E $36.M
Azure Power 3/10 Series B
Purfresh 3/10 Series D $10M
SiBEAM 3/10 Series D $36.5M
Altor Networks 3/10 Series B $10M
CalStar Products 2/10 Unattributed $15M
Pano Logic 2/10 Series C $20
Bella Pictures 12/09 Debt $10.3M
Silver Spring Networks 12/09 Unattributed $100M
Serious Materials 9/09 Series C $4.6M
Calix 9/09 Unattributed $50M
Simply Hired 8/09 Series C $4.6M
Sun Run Generation 7/09 Series B $18M
BigDeal 7/09 Unattributed $4.5M
eMeter 7/09 Series C $32M
Control4 7/09 Series C $4.6M
Ventiva 7/09 Unattributed $8M
AdWhirl 6/09 Seed $1M
nGenera CIM 5/09 Series C $10M
FreeWheel 5/09 Series C $12M
Naverus 4/09 Series D $4M
Pixazza 3/09 Series A $5.75M
Numerate, Inc 3/09 Series B $5.5M
Jasper Design Automation 2/09 Series D $7M
Pano Logic 2/09 Series B $6M
National Payment Network 2009 Series B
Chegg 12/08 Series C $25M
Waterfront Media 11/08 Series E $20M
Interact Public Safety Systems 11/08 Unattributed $28M
Azure Power 11/08 Series A
CalStar Products 11/08 Series A $8.04M
Silver Spring Networks 10/08 Unattributed $75M
Zetta 9/08 Series A $10.7M
Conviva 8/08 Series B $20M
Aktin 8/08 Series C $14.2M
Canopy Financial 8/08 Series B $8M
Conformia Software 7/08 Series D $2.95M
Silver Spring Networks 6/08 Series C $17.4M
Sun Run Generation 6/08 Series A $12M
Solarflare Communications 6/08 Unattributed $26M
Control4 5/08 Series F $20M
SilkRoad technology 5/08 Series C $54M
ONStor 4/08 Series F $14.8M
eMeter 4/08 Series E $12.5M
SiBEAM 4/08 Series C $40M
Xoopit 4/08 Series A $5M
Altor Networks 4/08 Series A $6M
Rearden Commerce 4/08 Series E $100M
Serious Materials 3/08 Series B $2.38M
Yaolan.com 3/08 Unattributed $17.7M
Purfresh 2/08 Series C $25M
Naverus 2/08 Series C $10M
Helpstream 2/08 Series B $8.6M
Coverity 2/08 Series A $22M
Pano Logic 1/08 Series A $12M
Quanti 1/08 Series A $7.1M
Mobius Microsystems 12/07 Series B $10.2M
TuVox 12/07 Series D $20M
Serious Materials 11/07 Unattributed $50M
Guardian Analytics 10/07 Series B $4.5M
CloudShield Technologies 9/07 Unattributed $15M
XMOS 9/07 Series A $16M
Waterfront Media 9/07 Series D $25M
ONStor 8/07 Unattributed $27M
Hammerhead Systems 8/07 Series D $18M
VaST Systems Technology 7/07 Series D $12M
Virtugo Software 6/07 Unattributed $4M
Powerset 6/07 Series A $12.5M
Therative 5/07 Series C $9M
Conformia Software 5/07 Series C $12.3M
eMeter 4/07 Series D $11.8M
Control4 4/07 Series E $11M
Conviva 4/07 Series A $9M
Extreme DA 4/07 Series B $7.38M
nGenera Corporation 3/07 Unattributed $20M
Synfora 3/07 Series C $3.5M
Rohati Systems, Inc 3/07 Series B $11M
Ketera 1/07 Unattributed $14M
Biz360 2007 Unattributed $3.8M
Mendocino Software 2007 Unattributed $1.7M
Novazone 12/06 Series B $7M
Purfresh 12/06 Series B $7M
Xoopit 12/06 Angel $1.5M
Venafi 11/06 Series B $5M
Conformia Software 10/06 Unattributed $12M
PeakStream 9/06 Series B $17M
BoardVantage 9/06 Series D $5.5M
SiBEAM 8/06 Series B $21M
Virtugo Software 7/06 Series B $13.6M
MarkMonitor 5/06 Unattributed $12M
Simply Hired 3/06 Series B $13.5M
Hammerhead Systems 1/06 Series C $30M
Guardian Analytics 2006 Series A $1.25M
Rearden Commerce 9/05 Series C $25M
SiBEAM 5/05 Series A $15M
Purfresh 4/05 Series A $10.6M
Codefast 3/05 Series A $6.5M
EnerNoc 1/05 Series B $7.75M
Rearden Commerce 1/04 Unattributed $42M
Responsys 4/03 Unattributed $9.4M
Responsys 4/01 Unattributed $20M
Responsys 2/00 Unattributed $22.5M

References

  1. ^ Reuters, "Foundation Capital raises $750 million fund” http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0746834620080407
  2. ^ VentureBeat, “Foundation Capital raises $750M fund, claiming focus on cleantech” http://deals.venturebeat.com/2008/04/07/foundation-capital-raises-750m-fund-claiming-focus-on-cleantech/
  3. ^ Bloomberg, “Chegg Seeks to Become the Netflix of Textbook Rentals” http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=aE6qkSD26c74
  4. ^ Foundation Capital profile on CrunchBase http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/foundation-capital