Spencer Foust
Managing Director at Sozo Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Investor
2024 - Current
Ema uses AI-powered agents to automate tasks in HR, customer support, and data management, making enterprise workflows more efficient.
Raised $61,000,000.00 from Accel, Hitachi Ventures, Frontier Ventures, Microsoft for Startups, Sozo Ventures, Colle Capital Partners, Wipro Ventures, Prosus Ventures, S32 and SCB 10X.
Investor
2024
Molten Industries develops clean technology with the goal of decarbonizing the hydrogen market.
Raised $27,000,000.00 from Steelhead Capital Management, Moai Capital, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, J4.Ventures, Jane Woodward, Fifty Years, Mark Heising, Peter Attia, Union Square Ventures and UVC Partners.
Managing Director
2021
Partner
2016 - 2021
SaaS, Logistics, Fintech, Crypto across all stages
Kauffman Fellow
2023
Class 28
Co-investment VC firm supporting the mission of the Kauffman Fellows
Angel / LP / Advisor
2019
- Dash Fund (LP) - Comma Capital & Collective (LP) - Harmonic.ai (preseed advisor) - Ecosapiens (seed) - Lendtable (seed) - OnDeck (seed) - Purpose Card (preseed) - The Network - Series Financial - Several others
Investor
2023
Series B
Workera is an enterprise skill assessment and upskilling platform for data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
Raised $44,500,000.00 from Owl Ventures, Sozo Ventures, Jump Capital, New Enterprise Associates and AI Fund.
Investor
2022
Series A
SaaS Database monitoring for all your databases wherever they reside.
Board Observer
2022
Series B
Vendr is aSaaS buying and management platform that helps companies find, buy, and manage their stack, money-back guaranteed.
Raised $216,000,000.00 from Y Combinator, Sound Ventures, Sozo Ventures, Craft Ventures, Tiger Global Management, F-Prime Capital and SoftBank Vision Fund.
Investor
2022
Stord is the leading e-commerce enablement platform that powers seamless checkout and delivery experiences for brands across all channels.
Raised $325,039,990.00 from Lux Capital, Sozo Ventures, Founders Fund, 137 Ventures, Franklin Templeton, Salesforce Ventures, Dynamo, Susa Ventures, Strike Capital and Kleiner Perkins.
Board Member
2022
Led Seed