Foundry Venture Capital
1050 Walnut Street
Suite 210
Boulder, CO 80302
(303) 642-4050 Phone
Foundry website
Background
Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, Foundry Group invests in information technology companies across the United States.
Foundry Group is typically the first institutional investor in the companies in which we invest, and we are comfortable participating in seed-level financings. Though we are early-stage investors, our expectation is that we will continue to fund the companies in which we invest throughout their lifecycles. Accordingly, we seek to take a substantial early ownership position and maintain it through successive financings.
Key Contacts
- Brad Feld (Managing Director): Brad has been an early stage investor and entrepreneur for over 20 years. Prior to co-founding Foundry Group, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and, prior to that, founded Intensity Ventures, a company that helped launch and operate software companies and later became a venture affiliate of the predecessor to Mobius Venture Capital.
Previously, Brad served as chief technology officer of AmeriData Technologies. AmeriData acquired Feld Technologies, a firm he founded in 1987 that specialized in custom software applications. Brad had grown Feld Technologies into one of Boston’s leading software consulting firms prior to the acquisition. He also directed the diversification into software consulting at AmeriData, a $1.5 billion publicly-traded company which was acquired by GE Capital in 1995.
Brad holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Management Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Brad is also an avid art collector and long-distance runner. He has completed eight marathons as part of his mission to run a marathon in each of the 50 states.
- Seth Levine (Managing Director): Seth’s career spans venture capital investing as well as operational, transactional and advisory roles at both public and private companies. Prior to co-founding Foundry Group, Seth began his venture capital career at Mobius Venture Capital.
Seth is a summa cum laude graduate of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is active throughout the entrepreneurial community in Colorado. Seth is a member of the board of CU Denver’s Bard Center for Entrepreneurship, chair of the award committee for the Boulder Chamber of Commerce ESPRIT Awards, and a member of the advisory board of High Country Ventures, a fund hired by the State of Colorado to invest money generated from certain tax credits in early stage companies across the state. Seth was previously a member of the board of the Denver chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth.
- Ryan MacIntyre (Managing Director): Ryan has been an early stage investor and entrepreneur for over 14 years. Prior to co-founding Foundry Group, Ryan started his career in venture capital at Mobius Venture Capital.
Ryan was a member of the technical staff for the Hewlett Packard Division at Oracle Corporation, where he worked on several releases of the Oracle Office platform. Before joining Oracle, Ryan was a software engineer at Canon Research of America. Ryan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Symbolic Systems with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence from Stanford University.
- Jason Mendelson (Managing Director): Jason has over a decade of experience in the venture capital and technology industries in a multitude of investing, operational and engineering roles. Prior to co-founding Foundry Group, Jason was a Managing Director and General Counsel for Mobius Venture Capital, where he also acted as its chief administrative partner overseeing all operations of the firm.
Jason previously was a senior consultant and software engineer at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) where he focused on financial institution re-engineering engagements. While at Accenture, Jason supervised programming teams up to 40 people in size and was responsible for managing deliverables in multi-billion dollar engagements.Jason holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics, with distinction and a Juris Doctorate, cum laude from the University of Michigan.
- Chris Wand (Managing Director): Chris has over ten years experience in venture capital investing and technology startups. Prior to co-founding Foundry Group, Chris started his venture capital career with Mobius Venture Capital.
Prior to MessageMedia, Chris was a management consultant at LEK Consulting, where he focused on mergers and acquisitions advisement and general strategy consulting to Fortune 500 clients in a variety of industries including high-tech, media and entertainment, communications, OEM electronics, industrial products and agri-business.
Chris holds a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in industrial engineering from Stanford University. He also serves on the board and executive committee of the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado at Boulder and on the board of directors for the Colorado Venture Capital Association.
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