Category Archives: Foundry

Our New Look

We hope you’ve noticed that foundrygroup.com has a new look and feel. Designed by our friends at Slice of Lime, we felt that it was time to give a bit of a refresh to the Foundry site, which was feeling rather stale and outdated. We’ve tried to streamline things, make information more readily available and [...]

Our Investment in Betabrand

We are pleased to announce that Foundry Group is the lead investor in a $6.5m Series B investment in Betabrand Corporation.  Located in San Francisco, CA, Betabrand is an online clothing company that creates unique clothing that appeals to an individual’s sense of personal style, exclusivity, and creation.  By creating limited edition “inventions” Betabrand takes the [...]

A New Investment Theme? You Tell Us.

At Foundry Group, we spend a lot of time thinking about our Thematic Investing Approach.  We both rethink our current strategies within existing themes and also talk about what big picture and transformative trends are occurring that may lead to new themes. Previously, we’ve unearthed themes after we’ve made several initial investments in an area [...]

Our Investment in Cloudability

Yes, we’ve been busy with financings lately, but we’ve been very fortunate to meet a lot of great entrepreneurs.  And today we are excited to talk about Cloudability.  Cloudability, located in Portland, OR, is creating a software platform that collects, analyzes and models cloud computing costs and usage. We’ve long been believers in cloud computing, [...]

Hiring between portfolio companies

The question of how we handle companies within the portfolio company hiring from each other has come up a number of times recently and we thought it would be a good idea to hit the subject head on, publicly.  With over 40 companies in the Foundry portfolio, and with many of these companies concentrated in [...]