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 [...]
We’ve written extensively about our thematic investment approach and a handful of our active themes, most recently our Distribution theme which we’ve been working on for several years but had yet to formalize and discuss publicly. Over the past few quarters, we’ve been thinking more about the online advertising investments that we’ve made over the [...]
We recently led the $5.4 million Series B funding round of Urban Airship. Besides our normal excitement of finding another great company to partner with, we are especially pleased to announce this as our first investment in our second fund. Launched in June 2009, Urban Airship has found early success providing mobile developers with tools [...]
We are very happy to announce today the closing of our second fund, Foundry Venture Capital 2010, L.P. The fund is the same size as our last one: $225,000,000 in limited partner commitments. We are pleased to be working with a great group of investors. We will continue to do exactly what we have always [...]
Oblong founder John Underkoffler was recently profiled where he spoke about the origins of the company. When we speak about the history of Oblong, we tend to start with the movie Minority Report, where John was Steven Spielberg’s science advisor. If you haven’t seen the movie in a while, check it out. It is one [...]
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