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.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 179 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- 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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Record 743 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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