Tsingyuan Ventures is now Foothill Ventures! Read about our rebranding here

Foothill Ventures backs entrepreneurs pursuing world-changing breakthroughs.

Personalized brain functional map using rs-fMRI, facilitating brain disease diagnosis, treatment, and recovery

The largest and most advanced autonomous taxi fleet in China

Inventor of “Big Memory” computing to allow software to be run at blazing fast speeds

World’s first “meta-surface” lens, replacing conventional optics with a chip

Our portfolio is very broad.

We invest in 3 major areas.
We invest in seed stage companies that demonstrate technical differentiation
This means that one of their major reasons for future success will be technical or product-level superiority

What do we look for?

Our first criteria is the quality of the founding team
In addition to favoring strong technologists, we look for a consistent past record of leadership success

We have had great success betting on immigrant founders, female founders and PhD founders
When a founding team contains diversity among the founders, we tend to lean in

We believe that very large opportunities are created when two disciplines collide
Many of our top investments are in cross-disciplinary areas like autonomous vehicles and synthetic biology

How Foothill Adds Value

Foothill Ventures
280 2nd Street
Los Altos, CA 94022