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Kirsten Green

Managing Partner at Forerunner Ventures

San Francisco, CA

Writes $250K – $15M checks · typically $7.5M

Midas 2026 · #57Midas 2025 · #70Midas 2024 · #66Midas 2023 · #59Midas 2022 · #56Midas 2021 · #74Midas 2020 · #86Midas 2019 · #95Midas 2018 · #77Midas 2017 · #98

About

Kirsten Green founded Forerunner Ventures in 2010 and built it into the definitive consumer-focused venture firm, with early bets on Dollar Shave Club, Warby Parker, Glossier, Chime and Hims & Hers. A former equity analyst covering retail, she pairs consumer-behavior research with early-stage investing and has been a fixture on the Forbes Midas List for seven straight years.

Invests in

ConsumerE-commerceFintechHealthtechSocial

Deals · 1

FaireBoard seat

via Forerunner Ventures · filed May 2022 · $596.2M raise

Attribution from SEC filings, press coverage, and firm rosters.

Podcasts & interviews

featuring Kirsten Green

How Kirsten Green Built Forerunner Ventures

The Peel with Turner Novak

Kirsten Green of Forerunner Ventures w/ Lisa & Paul Jauregui of BK Beauty | Operators Series: Ep 14

ShipBob

Kirsten Green, Founding Partner of Forerunner Ventures

Goldman Sachs

Kirsten Green, founder of Forerunner Ventures, explains how retail needs to change | Code Commerce

Recode

Colleagues at Forerunner Ventures

Network5

Investors connected to Kirsten in public investor directories — a warm-intro map.

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