Foothill Ventures
foothill.ventures Direct investor
Foothill Ventures is a technology-focused venture fund based in Los Altos, California. It makes early-stage investments in frontier tech, software infrastructure, AI applications, and life science.
Foothill Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Los Altos, United States. It invests directly in companies, from seed to Series A, in frontier tech, software infrastructure, AI applications and deep tech. 350 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We focus on frontier tech, making early-stage investments in infrastructure and AI applications.”
— Foothill Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Los Altos, United States
- Portfolio
- 350 companies
Team, as Foothill Ventures publishes it
- Xuhui Shao Partner
- Jinlin Wang Partner
- Max Von Poelnitz Partner
- Michael Jin Partner
- Charles Ling Investor
- Sophia Yu Investor
- Theresa Dai Investor
- Lu Wang Investor
- Phoebe Fan Director of Operations
- Ning Li Venture Partner
- Biao He Venture Partner
- John Matheny Venture Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on foothill.ventures. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 132 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- M Ventures 6 shared companies: metalenz.com, novolinc.com, chempower-corp.com, lucidean-inc.com…
- Entrada Ventures 5 shared companies: d-matrix.ai, pseudolithic.com, lucidean-inc.com, quintessent.com…
- Xora Innovation Pte Ltd 4 shared companies: aetherfuels.com, amperesand.io, hyperlightcorp.com, nexstrom.com
- Connecticut Innovations 3 shared companies: capacity.com, ampup.io, proteowise.com
- Fusion Fund 3 shared companies: subtlemedical.com, synaptechealth.com, otter.ai
- TSVC Management LLC 3 shared companies: d-matrix.ai, metalenz.com, avivalinks.com
- Autotech Management, L.L.C. 3 shared companies: hayden.ai, foxrobotics.com, ampup.io
- SAIC Capital 3 shared companies: am-batteries.com, ampup.io, tetramem.com
- MassVentures 3 shared companies: ascendelements.com, feonenergy.com, subconscious.dev
- SEEDS Capital 3 shared companies: amperesand.io, inchfab.com, nexstrom.com
and 122 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Foothill Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.foothill.ventures/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, sectors, thesis_quote, description, status, confidence, stage_min, stage_max
- https://www.foothill.ventures/portfoliostage_min, stage_max
- https://www.foothill.ventures/teamportfolio_count, people
Record 9158 · added 2026-09-29 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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