Foothill Ventures: from labs to founders

​Foothill Ventures has backed some amazing companies founded by Yale professors and graduates, including

• ​Couragene (Professor Jiangbing Zhou, Professor Yong-hui Jiang)

• ​CertiK (Professor Zhong Shao, Professor at Columbia & PhD of Yale Ronghui Gu)

• ​Protewise (Research Scientist Erik Gunther)

• ​Argospect (Postdoc Fellow Zhiping Mu)

​Foothill Ventures’ general partner Dr. Jinlin Wang shares his insights from years of working with technology startups out of leading innovation centers like Yale university, covering topics of how to get the startup off the ground, IP acquisition & strategy, fundraising strategy, and early-to-growth stage most common issues startup founders run into, etc. The talk will be held on September 28, 2024, 3-4pm, venue TBD of Yale campus.      

​About Foothill Ventures

​Foothill Ventures is a frontier tech-focused venture fund based in Silicon Valley. We make seed and A-round investments in startups across AI, carbon neutrality & battery tech, and neuroscience & brain tech.