Foundation capital
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Foundation Capital is a venture capital
firm located in Silicon Valley
. The firm was founded in 1995, and manages over $2.4 billion in investment capital. It raised its seventh and largest fund of $750 million in April 2008. It was one of Netflix
's original investors, and currently maintains investments in 67 information technology
, consumer product, and clean technology
companies.
Venture capital
Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...
firm located in Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is a term which refers to the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in the United States. The region is home to many of the world's largest technology corporations...
. The firm was founded in 1995, and manages over $2.4 billion in investment capital. It raised its seventh and largest fund of $750 million in April 2008. It was one of Netflix
Netflix
Netflix, Inc., is an American provider of on-demand internet streaming media in the United States, Canada, and Latin America and flat rate DVD-by-mail in the United States. The company was established in 1997 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, California...
's original investors, and currently maintains investments in 67 information technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
, consumer product, and clean technology
Clean technology
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companies.
Portfolio
Foundation Capital provided venture capital for the following companies:| Name | Date | Round | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cantaloupe Systems | 4/10 | Series C | $12.4M |
| FreeWheel Freewheel thumb|Freewheel mechanismIn mechanical or automotive engineering, a freewheel or overrunning clutch is a device in a transmission that disengages the driveshaft from the driven shaft when the driven shaft rotates faster than the driveshaft... |
4/10 | Unattributed | $16.8M |
| Lending Club Lending Club Lending Club is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Its CEO is Renaud Laplanche. Lending Club was the first peer-to-peer lender to register its offerings as securities with the SEC, completing its SEC registration in October 2008. As of July 18, 2011 Lending Club has originated a total of... |
4/10 | Series C | $24.5M |
| TransMedics Transmedics Transmedics, located in Andover, Massachusetts, is a medical device company involved in the design and production of new transplant devices. The company is responsible for designing the Organ Care System... |
3/10 | Series E | $36.M |
| Azure Power | 3/10 | Series B | |
| Purfresh | 3/10 | Series D | $10M |
| SiBEAM SiBEAM SiBEAM Inc., now a subsidiary of Silicon Image, was a fabless semiconductor company and a developer of high-speed wireless communication platforms. The company was among the leading innovators of millimeter wave... |
3/10 | Series D | $36.5M |
| Altor Networks Altor Networks Altor Networks, Inc., a Juniper Networks Company, is the leading innovator and provider of security for virtual data centers and clouds. The company developed the world’s first firewall purpose-built for virtual networks, a software security "appliance" that runs in a virtualized environment and... |
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 Silver Spring Networks Silver Spring Networks is a provider of smart grid products, headquartered in Redwood City, California, with offices in Australia and Brazil. Besides communications devices, Silver Spring Networks develops software for utilities and customers to improve energy efficiency.Founded in 2002 as a... |
12/09 | Unattributed | $100M |
| Serious Materials | 9/09 | Series C | $4.6M |
| Calix Calix Calix is a supplier of telecommunications access equipment for service providers. The company was incorporated in 1999.Calix is a North American provider of broadband communications access systems and software for fiber- and copper-based network architectures that enable communications service... |
9/09 | Unattributed | $50M |
| Simply Hired Simply Hired Simply Hired is a employment website for job listings and online recruitment advertising network. The company aggregates job listings from thousands of sites across the Web including job boards, newspaper and classified listings, associations, social networks, content sites and company career sites... |
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 Control4 Control4 is a company located in Salt Lake County, Utah, that manufactures home theater and automation controllers, and which are branded and sold under the same name.... |
7/09 | Series C | $4.6M |
| Ventiva | 7/09 | Unattributed | $8M |
| AdWhirl | 6/09 | Seed | $1M |
| nGenera CIM | 5/09 | Series C | $10M |
| FreeWheel Freewheel thumb|Freewheel mechanismIn mechanical or automotive engineering, a freewheel or overrunning clutch is a device in a transmission that disengages the driveshaft from the driven shaft when the driven shaft rotates faster than the driveshaft... |
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 Chegg Chegg or Chegg.com is an online textbook rental company in the United States based in Santa Clara, CA, which was created in 2001 by three Iowa State University students. Students rent textbooks typically by ordering online, and return books after the semester. It was founded by entrepreneurs Osman... |
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 Silver Spring Networks Silver Spring Networks is a provider of smart grid products, headquartered in Redwood City, California, with offices in Australia and Brazil. Besides communications devices, Silver Spring Networks develops software for utilities and customers to improve energy efficiency.Founded in 2002 as a... |
10/08 | Unattributed | $75M |
| Zetta Zetta Zetta- is a prefix in the metric system denoting a factor of 1021 or .Added to the SI in 1991, it is evocative of the French numeral sept, meaning seven, because it is equal to 10007.... |
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 Silver Spring Networks Silver Spring Networks is a provider of smart grid products, headquartered in Redwood City, California, with offices in Australia and Brazil. Besides communications devices, Silver Spring Networks develops software for utilities and customers to improve energy efficiency.Founded in 2002 as a... |
6/08 | Series C | $17.4M |
| Sun Run Generation | 6/08 | Series A | $12M |
| Solarflare Communications | 6/08 | Unattributed | $26M |
| Control4 Control4 Control4 is a company located in Salt Lake County, Utah, that manufactures home theater and automation controllers, and which are branded and sold under the same name.... |
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 SiBEAM SiBEAM Inc., now a subsidiary of Silicon Image, was a fabless semiconductor company and a developer of high-speed wireless communication platforms. The company was among the leading innovators of millimeter wave... |
4/08 | Series C | $40M |
| Xoopit | 4/08 | Series A | $5M |
| Altor Networks Altor Networks Altor Networks, Inc., a Juniper Networks Company, is the leading innovator and provider of security for virtual data centers and clouds. The company developed the world’s first firewall purpose-built for virtual networks, a software security "appliance" that runs in a virtualized environment and... |
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 Coverity Coverity is a software vendor based in San Francisco. It was incorporated in November 2002. It develops static code analysis tools, for C, C++ and other programming languages, used to find defects and security vulnerabilities in source code... |
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 TuVox TuVox is a company that produces VXML-based telephone speech-recognition applications to replace DTMF touch-tone systems for their clients.-History:... |
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 XMOS XMOS is a fabless semiconductor company that develops multi-core multi-threaded processors designed to execute several real-time tasks, DSP, and control flow all at once.-Company history:... |
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 Control4 Control4 is a company located in Salt Lake County, Utah, that manufactures home theater and automation controllers, and which are branded and sold under the same name.... |
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 PeakStream PeakStream was a parallel processing software company located in Redwood Shores, California founded by Matthew Papakipos and Asher Waldfogel in April 2005 and backed by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins. PeakStream released a high-performance parallel processing library targeting ATI graphics... |
9/06 | Series B | $17M |
| BoardVantage | 9/06 | Series D | $5.5M |
| SiBEAM SiBEAM SiBEAM Inc., now a subsidiary of Silicon Image, was a fabless semiconductor company and a developer of high-speed wireless communication platforms. The company was among the leading innovators of millimeter wave... |
8/06 | Series B | $21M |
| Virtugo Software | 7/06 | Series B | $13.6M |
| MarkMonitor MarkMonitor MarkMonitor, Inc. is a company that provides Internet access outside the firewall security and Internet brand protection services. The company was founded in 1998 in Boise, Idaho, and is currently headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. Companies that use MarkMonitor's services... |
5/06 | Unattributed | $12M |
| Simply Hired Simply Hired Simply Hired is a employment website for job listings and online recruitment advertising network. The company aggregates job listings from thousands of sites across the Web including job boards, newspaper and classified listings, associations, social networks, content sites and company career sites... |
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 SiBEAM SiBEAM Inc., now a subsidiary of Silicon Image, was a fabless semiconductor company and a developer of high-speed wireless communication platforms. The company was among the leading innovators of millimeter wave... |
5/05 | Series A | $15M |
| Purfresh | 4/05 | Series A | $10.6M |
| Codefast | 3/05 | Series A | $6.5M |
| EnerNoc EnerNOC EnerNOC develops and provides energy management applications and services for commercial, institutional, and industrial customers, as well as electric power grid operators and utilities. It chiefly provides demand response services that maintain real-time balance between electricity supply and demand... |
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 |