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Charles Moldow

General Partner at Foundation Capital

Palo Alto, California

Overview 

Charles Moldow is a General Partner at Foundation Capital in Palo Alto, California, specializing in investing in early-stage fintech startups. With a focus on sectors like FinTech and Consumer Internet, Moldow has made significant investments in companies like Fairmatic, Coincover, and Doma, serving as a board member for multiple successful ventures. Moldow's career highlights include leading investments in Fairmatic's Series B round and playing a key role in Doma's Series C funding, showcasing his expertise in identifying and supporting promising startups in the financial technology sector.

Work Experience 

  • General Partner

    2005 - Current

    Investing in early-stage fintech (seed/series A), with a focus on AI innovators looking to transform traditional players in the insurance, real estate, financial services infrastructure, and payments industries.

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

  • Board Member

    2017

Doma is an insurtech platform that uses machine intelligence to remove friction from residential real estate transactions.

Raised $679,615,152.00 from Lennar Ventures, Wells Capital Management, The Gores Group, Spencer Rascoff, Fidelity, SoftBank Capital and BlackRock.

  • Board Member

    2014

  • Board Member

    2022

Fairmatic is an AI-based insurance company that provides commercial auto insurance services.

Raised $88,000,000.00 from Foundation Capital, Aquiline Technology Growth, Bridge Bank, Oren Zeev, Jerry Yang, Bill Tai and Battery Ventures.

  • Board Member

    2013

Kiavi is a private lender that offers investment property loans for residential real estate investors.

Raised $798,900,000.00 from ZMT Capital and Benefit Street Partners.

  • Board Member

    2012

  • Board Member

    2022

  • Board Member

    2021

We're bringing higher quality medical care to residents of senior living communities.

Raised $43,500,000.00 from Gradient and First Round Capital.

  • Board Member

    2019

Canopy Servicing is the most configurable loan management and servicing platform.

Raised $30,200,000.00 from Foundation Capital, Infinity Ventures, Canaan Partners, BoxGroup, Homebrew and Foundation Capital.

  • Board Member

    2022

Insurate is a work comp MGA leveraging data science and analytics to more accurately assess risk.

Raised $4,500,000.00 from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, HSCM Ventures, Clocktower Technology Ventures, Foundation Capital and Sure Ventures.

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