Ashu Garg
Investor at databricks
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2008 - Current
Foundation Capital is a leading Silicon Valley based early stage venture capital firm. I focus on investing in bold founders who have a vision to transform markets and build enduring companies. We mostly invest in companies before they have revenues and work closely with them to improve their odds of finding product-market-fit. I have extensive experience across the stack from AI 1st applications to data/ML infrastructure, cyber security, and cloud infrastructure. I have the privilege of being an early investor in Data Bricks, Cohesity, Eightfold, Amperity (via an acquisition), Anyscale, Turing, Alation, Skyflow, Fortanix, TubeMogul (acquired by Adobe post IPO), and Tubi.tv. (acquired by Fox) amongst others. I truly feel my past experiences have prepared me in the most valuable way to become a partner to entrepreneurs. One thing I’m most proud of is being a valuable board member. In my view, a valuable board member is one who raises the aspirations of the founder and through him, the entire team. Something that I hope I’ve brought along with me from my time as an operator myself is that I feel that if entrepreneurs need one thing from a VC, it’s knowing that he or she really cares. It’s important that a VC is on board with them through the inevitable ups and downs that come along with being an entrepreneur. When I became a VC, one of the goals I set for myself was to become this kind of resource for my entrepreneurs. Being that person is the most rewarding aspect of being a VC. Hiring great executives is one of the most important things a founder needs to do. Helping a founder hire the best talent out there is rewarding for me. I love to step in, speak to a candidate and raise their aspirations around the job as well. Nothing makes me happier than helping my CEOs land a really difficult hire.
Foundation Capital is a venture capital firm made up of former entrepreneurs and helps companies and businesses grow.
Board Member
2020
Regie is an all-in-one AI content creation and management system for modern GTM teams.
Raised $20,800,000.00 from Khosla Ventures, Day One Ventures, South Park Commons, Scale Venture Partners and Foundation Capital.
Board Member
2020
Skyflow provides a data privacy vault with an API interface.
Raised $97,000,000.00 from Canvas Ventures, Firestreak Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Foundation Capital, Mouro Capital, MS&AD Ventures, Gokul Rajaram, Canvas Ventures, Foundation Capital and Insight Partners.
Board Member
2020
Arize AI offers a platform that explains and troubleshoots production AI.
Raised $61,024,999.00 from Battery Ventures, TCV, Swift Ventures and Foundation Capital.
Board Member
2019
Anvilogic's Multi-Data Platform SIEM is used by Enterprise SOC teams to force multiply their ability to detect, investigate, and hunt.
Raised $84,400,000.00 from G Squared, Myriad Venture Partners, Point72 Ventures, StepStone Group, Cervin Ventures, Evolution Equity Partners, Foundation Capital and Outpost Ventures.
Board Member
2018
Board Member
2017
Eightfold AI provides a complete AI platform for talent management to help companies find, recruit, and retain workers.
Raised $396,750,000.00 from Foundation Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, IVP, SoftBank Vision Fund, General Catalyst and Capital One Ventures.
Board Member
2017
Board Observer
2015
Cohesity is a data management technology firm that offers hyper-converged secondary storage solutions for backups, files, and analytics.
Raised $955,000,000.00 from NVIDIA and IBM.
Investor
2013
Databricks is an AI cloud data platform that interacts with corporate information stored in the public cloud.
Raised $3,997,000,000.00 from Firestreak Ventures and Bossa Invest.