Joanne Chen
General Partner at Foundation Capital
San Francisco, California
Overview
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