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What does Forerunner Ventures invest in?
Forerunner Ventures invests most often at Series A and Seed (60% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as B2b2c, Consumer and B2C.
Forerunner Ventures highlights
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31 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Series A and Seed: 60% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 8 rounds, median $9.5M
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2 exits from the portfolio
What they do
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.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $1.0M – $20M as they say
- Stages
- SeedSeries ASeries B
- Sectors
- B2b2cConsumerB2C
- Based in
- San Francisco, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first225 appearances
- 2026
22 rounds
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- Sept
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- 2025
42 rounds
- Dec
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- Dec
- Dec
- Nov
- Nov
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- Oct
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An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration9 named
BPBrian Patrick O'MalleyManaging Director of the General PartnersiFiling they signed
BOBrian O?MalleyManaging Director of the General PartneriFiling they signed
DJDated June 20 2001 The Colen TrustMember-Forerunner Ventures, GP III, LLCiForm ADV
EAEurie A. KimManaging Director of the General PartnersiFiling they signed
JMJennifer MariskaMember, Forerunner Ventures GP IV, LLCiForm ADV
KAKirsten Anne GreenManager - Forerunner Ventures Management, LLCiForm ADV
MKMichael KimManaging Director of CFGOF, LLCiFiling they signed
NJNicole JohnsonMember-Forerunner Ventures, GP III, LLCiForm ADV
SJSanford Joel ColenMember, Forerunner Ventures GP IV, LLCiForm ADV
We also hold 16 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$4.2Bgross assets of its fundsOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Forerunner Ventures Management, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 165109
Who backs their funds
1 LP on record in Forerunner Ventures's funds
- Funds
- 1
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: an LP list.
Cendana Capital1 fundFund Vintage Committed Forerunner Ventures - -
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
17 of 60 we have independently watched raise
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Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed2 in all
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.