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Foothill Ventures
Venture capital · Los Altos, CA, United States · North America
Foothill Ventures is a technology-focused venture fund based in Los Altos, California. It makes early-stage investments in frontier tech, including infrastructure and AI applications, and partners with early-stage companies that demonstrate technical differentiation.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsfrontier techdeep techai applicationsinfrastructuresoftwaretechnical founders
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Or find every investor that fitsFoothill Ventures lists 95 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 17 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 43% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (27%), Healthcare & Biotech (19%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (15%). 92% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Entrada Ventures, TDK Ventures and Y Combinator.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Foothill Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Foothill Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 15 companies; its own site lists 95. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 43% |
| Series A | 43% |
| Series B | 7% |
| Growth | 7% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 11 | 0 |
| '26 | 6 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 95th | 95 companies |
| Recent activity | 95th | 10 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 67th | 43% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 82th | 13% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 40th | 27% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 84th | 6 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 27% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 19% | 15% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 15% | 7% |
| Cybersecurity | 7% | 4% |
| Enterprise Software | 7% | 8% |
| Space & Defense | 5% | 3% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 5% | 1% |
| Fintech | 3% | 12% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Entrada Ventures | 5 |
| TDK Ventures | 5 |
| Y Combinator | 5 |
| IQT | 4 |
| Autotech Ventures | 3 |
| Connecticut Innovations | 3 |
| Intel Capital | 3 |
| SAIC Capital | 3 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers95100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Entrada Ventures
Compare Foothill Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Foothill Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Sept 2026 | Seed | |
| 24 Aug 2026 | Series A | |
| 1 Jul 2026 | Series A | |
| 18 Jun 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 3 Jun 2026 | Seed | |
| 27 Apr 2026 | Series B | |
| 23 Dec 2025 | Seed | |
| 18 Dec 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Foothill Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Foothill Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
95 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company focuses on promoting neuroprotection and suppressing neuroinflammation to slow down or halt disease progressions in neurodegenerative diseases. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Abacus Power makes power semiconductors for AI processors | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Aether Fuels converts waste carbon into liquid fuels for industries like aviation and ocean shipping | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Aira Technologies provides AI-powered solution suites to support Operators’ operational, energy, and spectral efficiency goals | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Airtap provides a personal AI assistant that performs tasks such as searching, booking, and writing | AI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| AM Batteries manufactures lithium-ion battery electrodes using a dry coating process | Industrial & ManufacturingClimate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| Amperesand develops and manufactures medium voltage solid state transformers for critical power infrastructure | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Nov 2025Series A | Page + round | |
| AmpUp makes EV charging easy for fleets, workplaces, multifamily communities, and public sites. | E-commerce & MarketplacesIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| ANJET Corporation develops semiconductors to enhance energy efficiency for the sustainability of society. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Anyware Robotics develops and deploys general-purpose robots for physically demanding work, such as container unloading and depalletizing. | Robotics & HardwareIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
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| Avotres does research related to autoimmune diseases and cancer. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Axbio develops and manufactures products for gene sequencing and molecular diagnostics. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| BioEclipse Therapeutics develops immunotherapies to treat cancer | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides an AI platform to automate and assist customer interactions across various channels. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| CarbonSix develops robotics automation for manufacturing using artificial intelligence and robotic hands to teach and deploy tasks on the factory floor | Robotics & HardwareAI & Machine Learning | Jul 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| The company is developing a digital health platform to monitor, diagnose and treat life threatening conditions. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| CertiK provides security audits, penetration testing, and compliance platforms for institutions, protocols, and regulators. | CybersecurityFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| ChEmpower develops technology for chip manufacturing | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- foothill.ventures
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 21 Jan 2025
- Companies checked
- 95
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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