Forerunner Ventures
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Forerunner Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2012 that invests in consumer and AI-native companies. It focuses on founders who define categories and build from the start, with a portfolio including Chime, Glossier, and Oura.
Forerunner Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco, United States, founded in 2012. It invests directly in companies, from seed to growth, in consumer, AI, marketplaces and brands. $3B under management and 100 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“Forerunner is an early-stage venture firm that invests in founders with the vision to define entire categories and the courage to own the totality of what they build from the start.”
— Forerunner Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Founded
- 2012
- Assets under management
- $3B
- Portfolio
- 100 companies
Team, as Forerunner Ventures publishes it
- Kirsten Green Founder, Managing Partner
- Eurie Kim Managing Partner
- Nicole Johnson Partner
- Jason Bornstein Partner
- Fawzi Itani Investor
- Sam O'Donnell Investor
- Tess Krensky Investor
- Jennifer Mariska Partner, COO
- Kira McCroden VP, Head of Marketing & Communications
- Tandis Moeini VP, Finance
- Anthony Perez VP, Finance
- Alicia Prodromou Executive Assistant
Names and roles exactly as listed on forerunnerventures.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 179 co-investors found.
- Felicis Ventures 6 shared companies: humansand.ai, slingshotai.com, prenuvo.com, getteal.com…
- Inspired Capital Partners, LLC 5 shared companies: chime.com, suno.com, arcade.ai, basiccapital.com…
- Menlo Ventures 5 shared companies: chime.com, wisprflow.ai, suno.com, monarchmoney.com…
- Next Legacy Management, LLC 4 shared companies: chime.com, superpower.com, joy.co, hims.com
- SV Angel 4 shared companies: decagon.ai, faire.com, humansand.ai, warbyparker.com
- Index Ventures 3 shared companies: decagon.ai, glossier.com, jump.com
- Lightspeed Venture Partners 3 shared companies: faire.com, zola.com, getbalance.com
- Abstract 3 shared companies: natural.co, showrunner.xyz, anon.com
- Clocktower Technology Ventures 2 shared companies: chime.com, monarchmoney.com
- Homebrew 2 shared companies: chime.com, headway.co
and 169 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Forerunner Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.forerunnerventures.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, aum, portfolio_count, people, status, confidence
- https://www.forerunnerventures.com/team/kirsten-greenpeople
- https://www.forerunnerventures.com/team/eurie-kimpeople
- https://www.forerunnerventures.com/team/jason-bornsteinpeople
- https://www.forerunnerventures.com/team/fawzi-itanipeople
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