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Joanne Chen

General Partner at Foundation Capital

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Joanne Chen is a General Partner at Foundation Capital in San Francisco, with notable career highlights including leading investments in startups like Watchful and Tonkean. She has a strong background in mergers, entrepreneurship, and venture capital, investing in sectors such as MarketingTech, AI, and SaaS within the San Francisco Bay Area.

Work Experience 

  • General Partner

    2021 - Current

    Select investments: Tubi (acquired by Fox for $500m), Jasper (seed lead), CaptivateIQ (seed), Tonkean (seed lead), SafelyYou (seed lead), Tennr (seed lead), Arcade (seed lead), Fulcrum (seed lead), and others in stealth, EraDB (acq ServiceNow), Mya (acq Stepstone), Watchful (acq Thoughtworks)

  • Partner

    2014 - 2020

Foundation Capital is a venture capital firm made up of former entrepreneurs and helps companies and businesses grow.

  • Board Member & Investor (seed lead)

    2023

  • Board Member & Investor (seed lead)

    2023

Tennr is a healthcare AI startup that provides an automation platform for medical documents.

Raised $60,000,000.00 from Foundation Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Andreessen Horowitz.

  • Board Member & Investor (seed lead)

    2022

Arcade allows its users to create interactive bits of their product that they can share on their website, blog, or social media.

Raised $21,500,000.00 from Foundation Capital, Kleiner Perkins and Upfront Ventures.

  • Board Observer and Investor (seed lead)

    2021

Jasper is an enterprise AI marketing platform.

Raised $131,000,000.00 from Z Nation Lab, Founders Circle Capital, Insight Partners, Foundation Capital, Coatue, Bessemer Venture Partners, IVP, HubSpot Ventures and Angel Collective Opportunity Fund.

  • Board Member & Investor (seed lead)

    2019

Tonkean provides an enterprise no-code process orchestration platform.

Raised $83,200,000.00 from Accel, Foundation Capital, Scott Farquhar, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Eric Schmidt.

  • Board Member & Investor (seed co-lead)

    2018

SafelyYou provides fall detection and prevention technology for dementia care.

Raised $71,324,998.00 from Horizon Technology Finance.

  • Investor (seed)

    2018

CaptivateIQ develops a sales compensation platform designed to help businesses leverage the power of incentives to motivate teams.

Raised $164,600,000.00 from S28 Capital, Amity Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator, ICONIQ Growth, Sapphire Ventures, Elad Gil, Workday Ventures and Frederic Kerrest.

  • Board Member & Investor (seed lead)

    2020 - 2022

    Acquired by ServiceNow

  • Board Member & investor (Series B)

    2017 - 2021

    Acquired by Stepstone

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