
Forerunner Ventures: A US-based venture capital firm investing in e-commerce, tech, and retail sectors.
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The company announced an investment in Clay.
The company published an article in The Information earlier this year about how consumer startup performance compares with enterprise startup performance.
Eurie Kim is a managing partner at Forerunner Ventures.
Kirsten Green is the founder and managing partner at Forerunner Ventures.
Forerunner is an early-stage venture firm that invests in founders with the vision to define entire categories and the courage to own the totality of what they build from the start.
Forerunner Ventures' privacy policy describes how it collects, uses, and protects information.
Pear VC’s PearX demo day highlights five startups that attract investor attention from its latest 16-company cohort. They include Speridlabs, which builds persistent-geometry 3D models; Saia, which says its flash-based inference chip uses less power than Nvidia’s Jetson; Ren, a privacy-focused AI assistant; Veros, an AI trust planner managing $250 million in assets; and Datum, which indexes 3D designs using geometric fingerprints.
Oct 2026 · TechCrunchNews article
Oura’s proposed $2.2 billion IPO directs most proceeds to existing shareholders, with the company offering 13.5 million of 50 million shares. Forerunner Ventures plans to sell its entire 9.3% stake, worth about $1.2 billion at the $42 midpoint; Oura expects to use nearly all its estimated $532.6 million in net proceeds to cover employee share-grant tax obligations. Membership revenue more than doubles to $240.5 million, with an 89% gross margin.
Sep 2026 · TechCrunchNews article
Town is raising $90 million at a $1 billion valuation in a Series B, according to sources cited by Upstarts Media. Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures co-lead the round, with a16z and First Round participating. Index Ventures is no longer investing after Instinct, another AI assistant startup, complains about a potential conflict of interest; Conviction also withdraws from the round.
Sep 2026 · Upstarts MediaNews article
Aug 2026 · Tanay KothariBlog post