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Wade Foster

InvestorUnicorn founder

Founder at Zapier · Operator Advisor at Redbud VC

San Francisco Bay Area

FoundedZapier$5B · YC

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About

Wade Foster is the co-founder and CEO of Zapier, an automation platform that connects thousands of apps and supports workflows for users worldwide. He started the company at Missouri Startup Weekend in 2011 and grew it as a fully remote, globally distributed team, raising only a small amount of outside capital. He focuses on making workflow automation accessible to businesses of all sizes.

Likely email· guessed from name + firm domain, not firm-published

Invests in

Future of WorkSaaS

Founder at ZapierYC S12

Intro paths

YC

Wade went through Y Combinator (Summer 2012) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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In turn, Wade can intro founders to Zapier's investors below.

Zapier's investors · 22

Andreessen HorowitzMenlo Park · $500K – $50M checks · since 2014Anvil CapitalBoston · since 2014Bessemer Venture PartnersSan Francisco · $50K – $100M checks · since 2014BoxGroupNew York · $250K – $1M checks · since 2014Caesar VenturesBerlin · since 2014CapitalXLynnwood · $250K checks · since 2014Category VenturesSan Francisco · since 2014Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ)San Mateo · since 2012Felicis VenturesSan Francisco · $500K – $15M checks · since 2014General CatalystSan Francisco · $30M checks · since 2014Kyber Knight CapitalSan Francisco · since 2014LaunchBay CapitalLondon · since 2014Salesforce VenturesSan Francisco · $5M – $50M checks · since 2014Sequoia CapitalMenlo Park · $100K – $50M checks · since 2014Start Capitalsince 2014SV AngelSan Francisco · $150K – $20M checks · since 2014Threshold VenturesPalo Alto · $500K – $20M checks · since 2014True VenturesSan Francisco · $500K – $3M checks · since 2014Village GlobalCovina · $500K – $3M checks · since 2014Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2012Zero Indexsince 2014ZillionizePalo Alto · $200K checks · since 2014

Co-founders at Zapier

BHBryan Helmig
Bryan HelmigCTO, , engineer
MKMike Knoop
Mike KnoopFounder

Investments

Per curated public sources.

Colleagues at Redbud VC

Amy Susán
Head of Investor Relations at Redbud VC
Brett Calhoun
General Partner at Redbud VC
Bruno Ostarcevic
Venture Partner at Redbud VC
Collin Hickey
Investor at Redbud VC
Dylan Kurt
Content & Media at Redbud VC
Hemkesh Agrawal
Head of Engineering at Redbud VC
Jabbok Schlacks
General Partner at Redbud VC
Jai Malik
Venture Partner at Redbud VC

Frequently asked questions

Who is Wade Foster?
Wade Foster is the co-founder and CEO of Zapier, an automation platform that connects thousands of apps and supports workflows for users worldwide. He started the company at Missouri Startup Weekend in 2011 and grew it as a fully remote, globally distributed team, raising only a small amount of outside capital. He focuses on making workflow automation accessible to businesses of all sizes.
Where does Wade Foster work?
Wade Foster is Founder of Zapier and Operator Advisor at Redbud VC.
What does Wade Foster invest in?
Wade Foster invests in Future of Work, SaaS.
What companies did Wade Foster found?
Wade Foster founded Zapier.
What companies has Wade Foster invested in?
Investments tracked here include OneSchema, Routable.

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