Foundation Capital
@FoundationCap
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Building companies is in our bones.
Palo Alto, CA
Joined August 2009
This investment has been roughly 15 years in the making. That’s how long I’ve been trying to find a way to work with Driss again. Back in 2011 we worked together at @SmartBizBank, Driss was the head of product and I was a mostly useless intern. In all of my travels since I’ve
YO Labs has secured $10m in Series A financing, led by @FoundationCap with participation from @cbventures, @ScribbleVC, and Launchpad Capital. The raise will accelerate YO’s unified, risk-optimized yield platform as it powers the next generation of crypto and fintech apps.
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🔌One Ukrainian million homes reconnected in just seven days. Over the past week, DTEK emergency teams restored electricity to more than 1,000,000 households across five regions – Kyiv and Kyiv region, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk and Odesa region. This work comes amid
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.@alemartcard from @FoundationCap shares the massive opportunity in uncovering net new metrics hiding in plain sight on Solana
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YO Labs has secured $10m in Series A financing, led by @FoundationCap with participation from @cbventures, @ScribbleVC, and Launchpad Capital. The raise will accelerate YO’s unified, risk-optimized yield platform as it powers the next generation of crypto and fintech apps.
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Today we’re launching Automations - automatic onramps that turn ACH & wires into stablecoins on 20+ blockchains. Unique account & routing per customer. Fiat in, stablecoins out. Starting at $0.25/month and 0 bps. 🧵👇
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State-of-the-art TTS at $5/million characters. That's 90% less than ElevenLabs or Cartesia, with quality that outperforms both.
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By any reasonable definition, we hit AGI this year. Across image classification, reading comprehension, language understanding, visual reasoning, and competition-level mathematics, frontier models converged at or above human baselines. Human-level performance, once the ultimate
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We're watching the future of work unfold in real time, and last night in San Francisco, we gathered the people building it. @ashugarg opened the evening with Animesh, Founder of @playerzero_ai and Arjun, Cofounder of Docket, exploring how AI agents are evolving from tools that
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Every software company needs to be refounded for our AI era. Even early-stage startups are rethinking how they build culture, design orgs, and make decisions. How should leaders navigate this moment? General Partner @ashugarg spent time with founders across the Foundation
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Do yourself a favor and just build on @solana.
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Rio Grande LNG is dedicated to boosting the Rio Grande Valley economy through engaging approximately 175 local businesses. Data is from July 2023 – September 2025.
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Cal founders, we want to be your first believers. We’re now recruiting for the 7th cohort of Cal Build, our early-stage, free accelerator for Berkeley founders. So far, we’ve supported 50+ Cal founders at the earliest stage of their journey. Now we’re looking for 8 more
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Less than 1 week left to apply for IIT Build Cohort 8! IIT Build is Foundation Capital’s early-stage accelerator for IIT alumni. We’ve already supported 60+ IIT founders in starting and scaling companies and are looking for our next 8 to join. With an acceptance rate of ~3%,
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Two weeks later, and we're still buzzing from our launch party at @FoundationCap. When you put leading AI researchers, CTOs, and investors in the same room to discuss the future of software development, magic happens. The caliber of conversations—from our fireside chat to
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This past Wednesday at Foundation Capital's Palo Alto office, we gathered with an incredible community to celebrate PlayerZero officially coming out of stealth. The energy in the room was electric – leading AI researchers and engineering leaders deep in conversation about how
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Trading Nasdaq options? Enhance your existing trading strategies with a liquid, capital-efficient alternative that offers nearly 24-hour access – meet E-mini Nasdaq-100 options (NQ).
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Applications are now open for our 8th cohort of IIT Build. IIT Build is Foundation Capital’s early-stage accelerator for IIT alumni — and one of the most coveted founder communities in the Bay Area. We’ve backed 60+ IIT founders to date, and we’re looking for our next 8 to
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Every year, companies spend a staggering $140B on traditional ways of understanding their users like surveys and focus groups. This manual, episodic approach is quickly becoming outdated. AI agents are taking over tasks that used to eat up weeks, handling everything from
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Foundation model providers like OpenAI and Anthropic have evolved from simple API providers into full-stack product companies. They see which apps take off and which features keep people coming back, then fold those capabilities into their own tools. So how do you survive when
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Foundation model providers like @OpenAI and @AnthropicAI have abandoned the pure infrastructure play. They're vertically integrating at unprecedented speed: OpenAI's Agent Mode, Claude Code, Deep Research. Your startup's success becomes their product roadmap. Build something
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🔵 Dreamcash is now live! Trade digital markets 24/7 with 40x leverage. Seamlessly trade everything from Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP and 100+ other cryptocurrency to NVIDIA, GOOGL and AAPL. Fast. Simple. Addictive. Fun.
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Most financial institutions still run on people pretending to be software. Behind the polished apps and established systems is a hidden workforce doing what looks like automation, but isn’t. It’s a single human from compliance, manually pulling data from System A,
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