Foster Ventures
Venture capitalActively deployingFoster City · Pre-Seed–Series A · 6 people tracked
Investment thesis
Foster Ventures backs early-stage B2B Enterprise SaaS founders from around the world, investing at pre-seed, seed, and Series A. The firm positions itself as a founder-first fund acting as an extended team to help companies achieve product-market fit, build their MVP, develop go-to-market strategy, and secure design partners and customer introductions. Portfolio companies receive ongoing mentorship from a global network of experienced advisors covering customer success, finance operations, revenue recognition, upsell strategy, global expansion, and investor introductions. Its diligence process centers on getting to know the founding team before other steps.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 11, 2026.
Team · 6 people
from the firm's website & public directories
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What they invest in
from 16 of 16 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×14SaaS ×10Enterprise Software ×9Future of Work ×3Developer Tools ×2Fintech ×2HR Tech ×2Logistics & Supply Chain ×2
HQs:United States×5
Investments · 16 tracked
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Adopt AI provides no-code AI agents that operate a company's existing software—modern SaaS, legacy apps, and internal tools—to automate operational workflows such as data entry, cross-system reconciliation, and document extraction.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Deepak Anchala(Co-Founder & CEO)inRahul Bhattacharya(Co-Founder & CTO)inAnirudh Badam(Co-Founder & Chief AI Officer)in
PartnerPriya Ramachandran· solo GP
Co-investorsElevation CapitalPowerhouse Ventures
Arvist provides an AI platform for warehouse operations that integrates with existing systems to automate claims management, detect errors, and improve supply chain efficiency.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareIoTLogistics & Supply ChainWilmington, US
Nilay Parikh(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardWerner Stapela(Director)
PartnerPriya Ramachandran· solo GP
Co-investorsChicago Early Growth Ventures (CEGV)Geek VenturesIron PrairieKOMPAS VCNew Leaf InvestRackhouse Venture Management Lp+9 more
Atomicwork provides an AI-powered employee support platform that resolves IT service requests — such as password resets, software access provisioning, and incident management — directly within tools employees already use like Slack, Microsoft Teams, and browsers.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of Work
Drivetrain provides driver-based financial planning software that lets finance and revenue teams model revenue, run scenarios, and forecast without spreadsheets or consultants.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSNew York City, US
Tarkeshwar Thakur(CTO & Co-founder)inAlok Goel(CEO & Co-founder)Saurav Bhagat(Head of Product & Co-founder)
Co-investorsElevation CapitalJungle VenturesVenture Highway
Gloroots is an Employer of Record platform that lets companies hire, onboard, pay, and manage full-time employees or contractors across 150+ countries without setting up local entities.
Future of WorkHR TechSaaS
Co-investorsUpsparks CapitalZ21 Ventures
Lyric builds a supply chain decision platform with composable, ready-to-use apps, native data integrations, and configurable workflows powered by supply chain algorithms and science.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply Chain
Ganesh Ramakrishna(Founder & CEO)
Co-investorsNewBuild.VCPermanent Capital VenturesPrimary Venture PartnersInsight PartnersPrimaryVMG Partners
Precanto offers an AI and ML-based financial planning platform that generates predictive P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow statements, tracks spend and headcount, and answers plain-English finance questions in real time.
AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaS
Co-investorsArray Ventures Management LlcAiSprouts VC
Profit.co is a strategy execution platform that combines OKR goal-setting, performance management (reviews, 360° feedback, surveys, recognition), and project portfolio management, with AI agents that automate goal authoring, progress tracking, and risk detection.
AI & Machine LearningHR TechSaaS
Co-investorsHourglass Venture Partners
Reo.dev is a go-to-market platform that uses AI agents and technical buying signals from over 50 sources to help sales teams identify in-market accounts, map technical profiles to economic buyers, and run personalized outreach.
AI & Machine LearningSaaSSales Tech
Achintya Gupta(Founder)inPiyush Agarwal(Founder)in
Co-investorsHeavybitIndia QuotientpeerchequeVeridical Ventures
Rocketlane is an AI-powered platform that unifies service delivery, project management, and customer experience by automating workflows, resource allocation, and business operations through intelligent agents.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US
Deepak Bala(Founder)inVignesh Girishankar(Founder)inSrikrishnan Ganesan(Founder)
Co-investors8VCAll In CapitalFirst ChequeInsight PartnersZ478i Ventures+2 more
Rockfish generates high-coverage, labeled synthetic data—including rare events, edge cases, anomalies, and drifts—from a customer's schema, sample, or production export to build evaluation sets for testing AI models and agents.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSeattle, US
Vyas Sekar(Executive Officer, Director)inGiulia Cecilia Fanti(Executive Officer, Director)Muckai Krishnan Girish(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Dr. MuckAI Girish(Co-founder & CEO)Dr. Vyas Sekar(Co-founder & Chief Technologist)inDr. Giulia Fanti(Co-founder & Chief Scientist)
Co-investorsEMERGENT VENTURESMilliways VenturesNewBuild.VCTen13
SimpliContract is an AI-native contract lifecycle management platform, powered by its proprietary mNemoAI engine, that extracts and structures contract data to track obligations, SLAs, rebates, and pricing terms.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLegalTechPleasanton, US
Guru Venkatesan(Founder)inMakesh Kumar(Founder)inJinaraj Patinjakkara Gopalan(Co-Founder & CTO)in
Co-investorsArka Venture LabsEMERGENT VENTURESKalaari CapitalPICUS CAPITAL
Stack Internal is a knowledge management platform that captures, structures, and validates enterprise knowledge to provide trusted context for AI agents and human teams.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsEnterprise Software
Joel Spolsky(Founder)in
PartnerPriya Ramachandran· solo GP
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzElevation CapitalHeavybitIndia Quotient
StreamAlive is an audience engagement tool that turns the meeting chat on Zoom, Teams, and in-person sessions into live interactions such as polls, word clouds, quizzes, Q&A, and maps, without requiring QR codes or app downloads.
AI & Machine LearningEdTechSaaS
Vitrina is a membership-based intelligence platform for the global entertainment supply chain, offering an AI assistant (VIQI) plus a curated database of companies, content titles, and executive profiles to help users plan content acquisitions, raise production financing, and find production, distribution, and vendor partners.
AI & Machine LearningMedia & EntertainmentSaaS
Co-investorsArka Venture LabsMDSV CAPITALSparq Capital (SFO)
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
RocketLane · infotechlead.com · Jul 9, 2026
Adopt · prnewswire.com · Jul 7, 2026
Rockfish Data · gamesindustry.biz · Apr 9, 2026
Gloroots · trysignalbase.com · Mar 25, 2026
Lyric · finsmes.com · Dec 3, 2025
Arvist · menlotimes.com · Oct 6, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Foster Ventures made?
- Foster Ventures has 13 tracked investments.
- What stage does Foster Ventures invest at?
- Foster Ventures invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What is Foster Ventures's typical check size?
- Foster Ventures typically writes checks of $100K – $500K.
- What sectors does Foster Ventures focus on?
- Foster Ventures focuses on Enterprise Software, SaaS.
- Where is Foster Ventures located?
- Foster Ventures is headquartered in Foster City, US.
- Who does Foster Ventures co-invest with?
- Foster Ventures most often shares deals with Arka Venture Labs, EMERGENT VENTURES, NewBuild.VC, among 26 tracked co-investors.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
featuring the teamPriya Ramachandran, Foster Ventures Founder on B2B SaaS & GTM
Grace Gong · Priya Ramachandran
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