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At Foundation Capital, we're entrepreneurs first and foremost. Each of us left successful careers in industry to work in venture capital because we wanted to pursue our passion: working with other entrepreneurs to build great new companies. That involves money, of course. But even more important is the effort, the perspective, the experience and the enthusiasm we invest. That's especially important when working with companies in their formative stages, which is our preference. We have backed successful entrepreneurs across various sectors — from enterprise software to clean technology to consumer Internet and fabless semiconductors. Typically, we make an initial investment of $1 to $10 million and follow that by participating in each subsequent round of financing. As lead investors, we also are often asked to fill board seats.

April 7, 2008
Foundation Capital Closes $750 Million Venture Capital Fund and Expands Clean Technology Focus: Firm expects to allocate $250 million to expand cleantech practice. Read More »

 Portfolio Company Spotlight

Foundation Capital Cleantech Portfolio Recognized for Global Leadership in Energy Industry: World Economic Forum Names Silver Spring Networks and EnerNOC Technology Pioneers

Foundation Capital, a venture capital firm committed to early stage company building, announced that two of its clean technology portfolio companies, Silver Spring Networks and EnerNOC, Inc. (NASDAQ: ENOC) have been honored as Technology Pioneers by the World Economic Forum. Silver Spring Networks is being honored as a 2008 Technology Pioneer for its transformational impact on the delivery of utility services and EnerNOC was chosen as a 2007 Technology Pioneer. Nominated by the world's leading venture capital and technology companies, Technology Pioneers are selected by a prestigious panel of leading technology experts specially appointed by the World Economic Forum. Read more »

 
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