Foothill Ventures is a technology-focused venture fund based in Los Altos, California. We make pre-seed, seed (preferred), and A-round investments in startups across software, life science, and deep tech.
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Personalized brain functional map using rs-fMRI, facilitating brain disease diagnosis, treatment, and recovery.
First and only company to simultaneously hold autonomous driving permits in China, US, UAE, and Singapore.
Inventor of “Big Memory” computing to allow software to be run at blazing fast speeds.
World’s first “meta-surface” lens, replacing conventional optics with a chip.
We invest in seed stage companies that demonstrate technical differentiation. This means that one of their major reasons for future success will be technical or product-level superiority
Our first criteria is the quality of the founding team. In addition to favoring strong technologists, we look for a consistent past record of leadership success.
We have had great success betting on immigrant founders, female founders and PhD founders. When a founding team contains diversity among the founders, we tend to lean in.
We believe that very large opportunities are created when two disciplines collide. Many of our top investments are in cross-disciplinary areas like autonomous vehicles and synthetic biology.
