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Forerunner Ventures
Forerunner Ventures is a San Francisco-based American venture capital firm. Founded in 2012, Forerunner focuses on early-stage consumer investing. The firm was founded by Kirsten Green, a venture capitalist. Forerunner invests in health & wellness, retail & ecommerce, consumer finance, education, and social networking. The firm’s notable investments include Chime (company), Chime, Faire, Oura Health, Jet.com, Hims & Hers Health, Hims&Hers, Glossier, Dollar Shave Club, and Warby Parker. As of 2025, Forerunner has raised nearly $3 billion in assets under management. Its most recent fund, Fund VII, is a $500 million fund dedicated to early-stage investing and was the firm’s seventh flagship fund. The firm’s previous fund was a $1 billion fund with two $500m vehicles, one for early-stage and another for growth-stage. References {{reflist Venture capital firms of the United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirsten Green
Kirsten Green is an American venture capitalist. She is the founder and managing partner of Forerunner Ventures."A Day in the Life of Silicon Valley Power Player Kirsten Green" WSJ, October 3rd, 2017 Early life Green was born and raised outside of , . She attended the |
San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of 2024, San Francisco is the List of California cities by population, fourth-most populous city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population, 17th-most populous in the United States. San Francisco has a land area of at the upper end of the San Francisco Peninsula and is the County statistics of the United States, fifth-most densely populated U.S. county. Among U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco is ranked first by per capita income and sixth by aggregate income as of 2023. San Francisco anchors the Metropolitan statistical area#United States, 13th-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S., with almost 4.6 million residents in 2023. The larger San Francisco Bay Area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California
California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an international border with the Mexico, Mexican state of Baja California to the south. With almost 40million residents across an area of , it is the List of states and territories of the United States by population, largest state by population and List of U.S. states and territories by area, third-largest by area. Prior to European colonization of the Americas, European colonization, California was one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse areas in pre-Columbian North America. European exploration in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the colonization by the Spanish Empire. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821, following Mexican War of Independence, its successful war for independence, but Mexican Cession, was ceded to the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguous states border Canada to the north and Mexico to the south, with the semi-exclave of Alaska in the northwest and the archipelago of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. The United States asserts sovereignty over five Territories of the United States, major island territories and United States Minor Outlying Islands, various uninhabited islands in Oceania and the Caribbean. It is a megadiverse country, with the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest land area and List of countries and dependencies by population, third-largest population, exceeding 340 million. Its three Metropolitan statistical areas by population, largest metropolitan areas are New York metropolitan area, New York, Greater Los Angeles, Los Angel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venture Capital
Venture capital (VC) is a form of private equity financing provided by firms or funds to start-up company, startup, early-stage, and emerging companies, that have been deemed to have high growth potential or that have demonstrated high growth in terms of number of employees, annual revenue, scale of operations, etc. Venture capital firms or funds invest in these early-stage companies in exchange for Equity (finance), equity, or an ownership stake. Venture capitalists take on the risk of financing start-ups in the hopes that some of the companies they support will become successful. Because Startup company, startups face high uncertainty, VC investments have high rates of failure. Start-ups are usually based on an innovation, innovative technology or business model and often come from high technology industries such as information technology (IT) or biotechnology. Pre-seed and seed money, seed rounds are the initial stages of funding for a startup company, typically occurring earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chime (company)
Chime Financial, Inc. is an American financial technology company, based in San Francisco, California, that provides fee-free mobile banking services through two national banks, Stride Bank and The Bancorp Bank. The company offers early access to paychecks, negative account balances without overdraft fees, high-yield savings accounts, peer-to-peer payments, and an interest-free Credit card#Secured credit cards, secured credit card. Chime's mobile banking services do not rely on monthly service or overdraft fees or minimum balance requirements. Chime earns the majority of its revenue from the collection of Interchange fee, interchange fees on debit card transactions. Chime is able to offer its services via its relationships with banks despite the company not being a bank itself; customer funds are routed to a chartered bank. FDIC insurance is only available to users via the partnered banks, not directly through Chime. In 2021 and 2022, Chime was criticized for closing customer a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oura Health
Oura Health Ltd (natively Oura Health ) is a Finland, Finnish health technology company, known for the Oura Ring (stylized Ōura), a smart ring used to track sleep and physical activity. The company was founded in 2013 by Petteri Lahtela, Kari Kivelä, and Markku Koskela. Harpreet Singh Rai was the CEO from 2018 until 2021, when he was replaced on an interim basis by Michael Chapp. In 2022, Tom Hale was appointed CEO. The company is headquartered in Oulu, Finland, with other locations in Helsinki, Finland, and San Francisco, United States. The company raised its initial US$2.3 million seed funding in 2015 led by Lifeline Ventures, introduced the first-generation ring via Kickstarter in 2016 and launched the ring at the Slush (event), Slush tech conference in 2017. In total, Oura Health has raised more than $300M across multiple funding rounds. In 2020, Oura Health received the 'Best Consumer Wellness Company' award from the UCSF Digital Health Awards and ''Time (magazine), Time'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hims & Hers Health
Hims & Hers Health, Inc. is an American telehealth company established in 2017. The company provides prescription medications, over-the-counter medications, and personal care products. Hims & Hers operates with a direct-to-consumer model. Consumers consult licensed healthcare professionals and access treatments and products through the company's platform. Customers pay for a consultation with a doctor to prescribe the drug along with the price of the drug itself. The company has expanded its offerings to include health solutions for both men and women, along with mental health services. Founding, expansion, and public offering Hims Inc. was established in 2017 by Jack Abraham, Andrew Dudum and Hilary Coles as a part of the Atomic Labs portfolio. In January 2019, Hims raised $100 million in a Series C funding round with a pre-money valuation of $1 billion. In the same month, Hims was launched in the United Kingdom with a catalogue limited by European regulation. Public offe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glossier
Glossier is a beauty brand founded by Emily Weiss in 2014. It started as an online-only company, building on the popularity of the beauty blog ''"Into the Gloss"''. Glossier was one of the first direct-to-consumer beauty companies when it launched in 2014, and has grown to over 10 retail locations in addition to global distribution in Sephora, Space.NK, SpaceNK, and Mecca (cosmetics), Mecca. The brand's products span skincare, makeup, bodycare, fragrance, and merch. History Weiss began her career in the fashion industry and gained public attention through her beauty blog ''"Into The Gloss"'' while working at Vogue. Inspired by the direct interactions with her readers, she founded Glossier with the mission to democratize beauty and create products that enhance natural beauty. Glossier raised $2 million in seed funding from Forerunner Ventures, and launched Glossier.com with four products: an all-purpose balm, a facial mist, a sheer skin tint, and a moisturizer. The site develo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dollar Shave Club
Dollar Shave Club, Inc. is an American company based in Venice, California, that delivers razors and other personal grooming products to customers by mail. It delivers razor blades on a monthly basis and offers additional grooming products for home delivery. History Dollar Shave Club was founded by Mark Levine and Michael Dubin. The pair met at a party and spoke of their frustrations with the cost of razor blades. With their own money and investments from start-up incubator Science Inc., they began operations in January 2011 and launched their website in April 2011. Dollar Shave Club was backed by a variety of venture capitalists. In March 2012, seed investors provided $1 million in funding from groups that included Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Andreessen Horowitz, Shasta Ventures, and others. The same group, joined by Venrock, provided $9.8 million in series A funding in October 2012. A year later, a $12 million series B round was raised led by Venrock, Comcast Ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warby Parker
Warby Parker Inc. is an American eyewear brand and retailer of prescription glasses, contact lenses, and sunglasses, based in New York City. Founded in 2010, it was initially an online-only retailer. It now receives (about two-thirds) of its revenue from its 276 physical retail stores, 271 of which are in the U.S. and 5 of which are in Canada. It also offers eye exams. The company has 2.28 million customers, with an average order value of $263. The company's goal is to operate 900 stores. Warby Parker is headquartered in New York City. The name "Warby Parker" derives from two characters that appear in a journal written by Jack Kerouac. Warby Parker designs its products in-house and sells them directly to consumers through its website and stores. The company orders its own materials and works directly with partners in Italy, Vietnam, Japan, and China to manufacture their frames, often in the same factories as competitors such as Luxottica. History The company was founded in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forbes
''Forbes'' () is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917. It has been owned by the Hong Kong–based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014. Its chairman and editor-in-chief is Steve Forbes. The company is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey. Sherry Phillips is the current CEO of Forbes as of January 1, 2025. Published eight times per year, ''Forbes'' feature articles on finance, industry, investing, and marketing topics. It also reports on related subjects such as technology, communications, science, politics, and law. It has an international edition in Asia as well as editions produced under license in 27 countries and regions worldwide. The magazine is known for its lists and rankings, including its lists of the richest Americans (the Forbes 400, ''Forbes'' 400), of 30 notable people under the age of 30 (the Forbes 30 Under 30, ''Forbes'' 30 under 30), of America's wealthiest celebrities, of the world's top companies (the Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
