Foothill Ventures Fund III

About Foothill Ventures Fund III

Foothill Ventures Fund III is a venture capital firm based in United States, focusing on Pre-Seed stage investments. The fund actively supports founders building innovative solutions in AI/ML, SaaS, providing strategic guidance and capital to help startups scale.

Investment Focus

Location / RegionUnited States

Funding StagePre Seed

Industry Focus

Ai Ml

Saas

Investor Signals Profile

active

Sweet Spot

Deep tech founders solving AI infrastructure or data-movement limits

legal tech

applied AI

enterprise software

deep tech

AI infrastructure

Bullish Signals

Portfolio co Supio actively hiring, scalingexternal

Launched deep-tech newsletter, signals convictionlinkedin

Expanding thesis: compute → interconnect stacklinkedin

Silicon photonics & CPO on radarlinkedin

60%+ datacenter energy: data movement focuslinkedin

'The Interconnect' newsletter now livelinkedin

Copper limits = structural shift thesis forminglinkedin

400x model growth: data-movement thesis validatedlinkedin

Value reallocation: compute → packaging & designlinkedin

Contrarian Signals

Thesis broadening — focus risk emerginglinkedin

Founder Do's

Build in AI infrastructure or interconnect stack

Show structural market shift thesis

Connect to data-movement bottleneck problem

Address energy efficiency in data centers

Work on optics, photonics, or CPO technologies

Founder Don'ts

Pitch incremental compute-only improvements

Ignore energy efficiency angle

Ignore interconnect or packaging layer

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Fund Overview

Fund Size$110M

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Key People

Eric Rosenblum