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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

  • 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

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 co-lead)

    2018

SafelyYou provides fall detection and prevention technology for dementia care.

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

  • 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.

  • 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)

    2019

The Machine Teaching Solution for Data-Centric A.I. We accelerate AI dev by 10-100x by focusing on the most important part: The Data.

Raised $3,999,897.00 from Zero Prime Ventures and Quiet Capital.

  • Investor (pre launch)

    2018

Oasis Labs is a privacy-first cloud computing platform on blockchain technology.

Raised $45,000,000.00 from Breyer Labs, Pantera Capital and Electric Capital.

  • Board Member & Investor (seed lead)

    2020 - 2022

    Acquired by ServiceNow

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