After two years of a dedicated experiment, we've decided to stop making new investments via our FG Angels Syndicate. We?ve learned a lot, achieved some of our goals, but ultimately have decided that the effort required to maintain our investment pace on AngelList is too great for us, at least for now. A long history […]

We are excited to announce that Lindel Eakman is joining Foundry Group to lead a new initiative we are creating called Foundry Group Next. Over the years at Foundry Group we?ve built an extensive network of companies. While we?ve invested in some of these directly, this actually represents the smallest set of companies that we […]

Today we?re excited to announce that Foundry has lead a $3 million financing round in Revolar. Quite simply, Revolar transforms the way people keep themselves and those they love safe by providing a simple way to notify friends, family or a monitoring service that they feel threatened or are in trouble. Revolar is a discrete, […]

We are pleased to announce that Foundry Venture Capital 2016, L.P. has completed its initial investment in Havenly, Inc. Based in Denver, CO, Havenly is creating a marketplace matching interior designers with clients. Nearly $60B in annual home furnishing sales are not influenced by an interior designer. ?The vast majority of people either try to [...

We are pleased to announce we led an $8.7 million investment in TrackR. Based in Santa Barbara, CA, TrackR has a series of products to help you locate all the physical things you own. As mobile phones and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) become ubiquitous, each of us is now carrying around a GPS-enabled supercomputer in […]

Two Bit Circus, that is. Today, we are excited to announce that we?ve co-led a $6.5m Series A investment in Two Bit Circus with our friends at Techstars Ventures. Our Human Computer Interaction theme continues to evolve and provide fertile ground for investments. One of our core beliefs about HCI is that as computing continues […]

This year?s local election in Boulder is a critical one. The city that we love risks shutting its doors. While the business community in Boulder has contributed immeasurably to the vibrancy, charitable contribution base, economic development, and success of our community, there is a faction in Boulder that feels that our city should stop moving [&#...

We are pleased to announce that we have completed an investment in AvidXchange. Based in Charlotte, NC. AvidXchange (Avid) is a leading mid-market B2B payments provider with a complete invoice workflow management solution, enabling its customers to seamlessly handle invoice ingestion and payments to their respective suppliers. Avid was founded in 2...

We are pleased to announce that we have completed our initial investment in Chewse, Inc. Based in San Francisco, CA, Chewse has created a platform that makes it easy for businesses to order and manage meals for their employees. The U.S. market for corporate food delivery is over $30 billion a year.? It?s not a […]

We are very happy to announce today the closing of our fifth?fund, Foundry Venture Capital 2016, L.P. The fund is the same size as our last one: $225,000,000 in limited partner commitments. We are pleased to be working with a great group of investors. We will continue to do exactly what we have always done: […]

We are pleased?to announce that we have led?a $9 million round in?Glowforge, a Seattle-based?desktop 3D Laser Printer company. In 2010, when we invested in Makerbot, the maker movement was just beginning. While 3D printing technology had been around for 30 years, there were no desktop 3D printers. The concept of using an additive process for [̷...

We?ve recently invested in Simbulus the makers of Woot Math. Located in Boulder, CO, the company is building a software application that we believe will revolutionize the way that kids learn math. We?ve long believed that current education methodologies are archaic. The process of education seems to be one of the last markets that have […]

A little over a year ago – and very shortly after AngelList announced their ?syndicates? functionality – we decided rather than postulate about how AngelList Syndicates may or may not change, transform, or challenge the venture capital industry, we?d jump in with both feet. When we formed FG Angels we were?the first institutional ventur...

Last week we led a $6.5 million investment in Mattermark. Based in San Francisco, Mattermark?s mission is to organize the world?s business information to answer questions about the companies you want to do business with. While there have been numerous efforts over the last 20 years to organize detailed private company data on the Internet, […...

We are pleased to announce we have invested in Spare5.? The company is building a software platform that allows experts to monetize their spare time via mobile device. As our newest theme ?Marketplace? evolves, we think about underserved markets that should be working together, but through lack of technology are not.? We have a special […]

We?re pleased to announce that we?ve co-led (along with Techstars? Bullet Time Ventures andwith participation from FreshTracks Capital) a Series A financing for Ello, a new and disruptive social network. Based in Burlington, Vermont and founded and run by our long time friend Paul Budnitz, Ello is basing their business on a fundamentally different ...

We are pleased to announce that we?ve co-led the $11m Series B funding of about.me. Based in San Francisco, about.me is a platform for representing personal identity online allowing users to create and maintain a curated page for self-expression. For examples, take a look at Brad Feld, Seth Levine, Ryan McIntyre, and Jason Mendelson. We […]

As of today we have made 13 investments via FG Angels – 11 have been announced and two will be closed within a week. On 10/1/13, we announced that we were going to create a syndicate on AngelList and start doing seed investments that way. Our plan was to make 50 seed investments by the […]

Today we?re pleased to announce our Series A investment in Nix Hydra. Nix Hydra is a software entertainment company dedicated to creating fun, interactive products for young women on new and emerging technology platforms. The studio?s debut game, Egg Baby, is a virtual pet egg that hatches into a variety of gift-giving creatures depending on [̷...

We are pleased to announce that we?ve co-led Distil Networks? Series A financing, along with Techstars? Bullet Time Ventures. Based in Arlington, VA, Distil Networks provides advanced bot detection and mitigation capabilities to its customers on public and private clouds. The term ?bot? refers to an automated software program that runs over the int...

We?re happy to announce our latest FG Angels investment in?Rachio. Rachio has created a device called ?Iro? which is a smart irrigation controller that is powered by intelligent cloud-based software and is controlled via an intuitive, lightning-fast iPhone and Android app or web-dashboard. Iro is incredibly easy to install and set up, replacing onl...

Sometimes we come across a company that we know is going to change the world. They?ve got something magic in the tank that?s simply inevitable. It?s like they?re travelling back in time and building something that that in the future will be considered obvious. That's Mozaik. Brad will join the board with this Series B […]

We?re excited to announce our latest FG Angels investment: Uvize. Uvize provides schools with an innovative software platform that their helps military veterans succeed in college. They partner with universities to deliver an online extension to their veterans center. The community site is a essentially a network that connects students with the rig...

We?re excited to announce our latest FG Angels investment. We continue to review a large number of opportunities, and our FG Angels Syndicate recently closed a $339,631 seed investment in RABBL. RABBL is a social booking platform, which enables bands and fans to market and pre-sell tickets to potential shows, and, once critical mass is […]

We are excited to announce our fourth FG Angels investment in Drync – who have raised $434K from our FG Angels syndicate. Drync builds a smartphone application that bridge the gap between experiencing wine and being able to catalogue and purchase it. ?The company likes to call this ?impulse commerce for wine.? ?With their application, […...

Last week we formally launched a new publishing company, FG Press. Our first book – Uncommon Stock: Version 1.0 by Eliot Peper was released yesterday. It?s in a new genre we are helping pioneer called ?startup fiction.? We believe that life often imitates fiction (or is it the other way around) and one can learn […]

We are excited to announce our third FG Angels investment in?ARTtwo50?- who have raised $285K from our FG Angels syndicate. If you've been to our offices, you know we are fans (and collectors) of original art. But, the art world is very top-down, rigid, and has remained relatively unchanged for decades.?The ARTtwo50 team of designers, […]...

We are excited to announce that we?ve led Bounce.io?s Series A financing. Based in Louisville, CO, Bounce.io is an email infrastructure company that provides services to domain registrars, ISPs, and mail services providers to better manage and monetize bounced email traffic. We love the email market, as evidenced by our investments over the years i...

We?re excited to announce our investment in Prompt.ly, our second FG Angels investment. Today, Prompt.ly announced they have closed a $1.5M financing, with $325,000 coming from our FG Angels syndicate. Prompt.ly provides a mobile-first SaaS platform to empower the ?invisible economy? of service providers across the world – think psychologists...

We are excited to announce our first FG Angels investment in OnTheGo Platforms. Today, OnTheGo announced they have closed a $700,000 financing with $330,000 coming from our FG Angels syndicate. We are fascinated with Google Glass and the potential for more tightly integrated human computer interaction as a result of technologies like Google Glass. ...

Today, our portfolio company DataHero announced their product is exiting beta into GA release, and that they raised a new round of funding led by Foundry Group. Even better, they announced integration with their portfolio company cousin SendGrid, allowing easy analysis of send and open rates, and easy drag-and-drop cohort analysis of SendGrid?s dat...

We are pleased to announce that we?ve co-led the $11m Series A funding of littleBits. Based in New York, littleBits mission is to democratize electronics so that society can be creative with electronics in the way it is with software. We love robots and electronics. The maker movement is in full swing. 3D printing doesn?t

Today, we are excited to announce the closing of our fourth fund, Foundry Group Select. While it is exactly the same size ($225 million) as our previous funds, it has a different focus. The Foundry Group Select Fund will invest solely in our Foundry Group and previous funds' portfolio companies that have achieved significant success.

(Boulder): ?Today,?Foundry Group,?a venture capital firm that invests in U.S.-based seed and early stage technology companies?announced, via video, a major change to their investing program. ?Previously, the firm has focused on cutting edge technologies within their well-known?investment themes. ?Effective immediately, however, the firm will focus ...

We've been floored by the amount of interest the community has shown in our AngelList syndicate, FG Angel. Alongside that interest has come a lot of questions which have been helpful to us as we work through the details of creating our AngelList Syndicate and making our first FG Angel investment. To provide clarity where

Yesterday, at our weekly Monday (sushi, sometimes tacos) lunch, we talked about AngelList. Over the weekend we each read blogs about how AngelList was going to transform venture capital, including The Great Venture Capital Rotation, AngelList Syndicates Will Also Pit Angel Against Angel, Leading vs. Following, and Is @AngelList Syndicates Really Su...

Cloudability is a Portland/Bay Area based startup that is changing the way companies measure, monitor and analyze?their cloud based infrastructure. With a growing team that works closely together, we move fast and enjoy what we do. Over 7,000 companies across the globe use our platform today. Come join the fun and build?something big with us.

We?ve?long?felt?that?machines?are?taking?over?the?world.??Given?the?ra pid?cost?decreases?in?sensory?components?(brought upon,?inpart, by?the?proliferation of smart phones and other mobile devices), it?s easier and cheaper than ever to construct hardware?that?can interact with?the?outside?world?in?a fully or partially autonomous way. Over?the?past f...

When we started Foundry Group in 2007, part of our strategy was to build a national venture capital firm based in Boulder, Colorado. Brad and Seth already lived here; Ryan and Jason made the move from San Francisco to Boulder. Since then we?ve all called Boulder home. While only about 30% of our investments are

We recently led an investment in Kato. We are excited to be an investor in another great company that has gone through the TechStars Boulder program. Brad will be joining the board. Kato has a straightforward goal – solve the world?s enterprise messaging problem. In the last decade, there has been a proliferation of efforts

Today, Foundry Group portfolio company awe.sm announced a new social analytics product targeted at brands and agencies which leverages theirpowerful social ROI measurement platform. As we discussed when we invested in awe.sm, the company fits comfortably into our Glue and Protocol themes, and the company caught our eye because several of our portfo...

We are pleased to announce that we?ve completed an investment in Modria.? Located in San Jose, CA, Modria is building an online dispute resolution and mediation platform. With the explosion of online activities, people are transacting at a rate never before seen.? This obviously includes ecommerce, but also includes mundane things like paying bills...

We are pleased to announce that Foundry Group is the lead investor in a $7m Series A financing in Chute Corporation. Chute provides ?instant media infrastructure? to web and mobile app developers at companies such as CNN, The House of Blues, the NBA, Conde Nast, and many more. Chute fits squarely into our Glue theme.

We hope you?ve noticed that foundrygroup.com has a new look and feel. Designed by our friends at Slice of Lime, we felt that it was time to give a bit of a refresh to the Foundry site, which was feeling rather stale and outdated. We?ve tried to streamline things, make information more readily available and

We are pleased to announce that Brad will be joining the board of Harmonix. The company, best known for developing three massive game franchises – Guitar Hero, Rock Band, and Dance Central – is hard at work on a new generation of games that transform the way humans and computers interact. Given our deep focus

We are pleased to announced that we have led a $7m Series B financing in Rover.com, the leader in digital dog boarding that connects dog owners with approved, reviewed, and insured sitters. In addition to making our dogs Brooks, Bear, Einstein, and Mosley happy, we are excited to be funding another great Seattle-based company as