Forerunner Friends
SlowingSan Francisco, CARetailing, Other Travel, Business ServicesLast fund filed February 2022
3 on a current fund
last 24 months
across filed funds
| Vehicle | Filed | Target | Sold to date | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forerunner Friends VI | February 2022 | $5.2M | $5.2M | 28 |
| Forerunner Friends IV | September 2018 | $4.6M | $4.6M | 41 |
Amounts are Item 13 as filed: the target is the whole offering, and the amount sold is cumulative across amendments rather than a final close. The filing carries no per-investor amount, so a firm’s own cheque is not recoverable here.
3 partners are named across this firm’s filings, 3 of them on a fund it is deploying now.
| Partner | Activity | Categories | Board seats | Last 24mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eurie Kim | Slowing | Digital health, E-commerce & marketplaces, Education | 9 | 1 |
Classified sectors of Forerunner Friends’s own portfolio companies, based on 38 with a verified or cited source.
| Firm | Shared boards | Companies |
|---|---|---|
| Forerunner Partners | 38 | ANDROMEDA ROBOTICS, Arrived Holdings, Be Tenth, BONOBOS, Dahlia Labs, Dollar Shave Club, Duetto Research, Eclipse Foods, Faire Wholesale, FORA TRAVEL, Gametime United, Global Uprising,PBC, GLOSSIER, Guildery, Hotel Tonight, iShopShops, JRSK, LAUNCH KIDS, Leland, LONGEVITY SCIENCES HOLDINGS, Luma Home, Medical Bill AI Labs, Metafy, MoveWith, Narvar, natals, Outdoor Voices, Per.Se Beauty, RCW, SERENA & LILY, Shuddle, Smart SKUs, Sproose Holdings, Sucro Holdings, Sucro, This Land, Viddy, WaJao Inc. (dba Retention Science) |
| Forerunner Builders | 26 | ANDROMEDA ROBOTICS, Be Tenth, BONOBOS, Dahlia Labs, Dollar Shave Club, Eclipse Foods, Faire Wholesale, Global Uprising,PBC, GLOSSIER, Guildery, iShopShops, JRSK, LAUNCH KIDS, Leland, LONGEVITY SCIENCES HOLDINGS, Medical Bill AI Labs, MoveWith, natals, Outdoor Voices, Per.Se Beauty, RCW, SERENA & LILY, Shuddle, Smart SKUs, Sproose Holdings, WaJao Inc. (dba Retention Science) |
| Brian O'Malley | Quiet | E-commerce & marketplaces, Enterprise software, Food & agriculture | 12 | 0 |
| Kirsten Green | Quiet | E-commerce & marketplaces, Biotech & pharma, Consumer apps & internet | 17 | 0 |
Activity is filed board seats in the last 24 months: 4+ Active, 2–3 Selective, 1 Slowing, none Quiet. A firm's tier totals its partners, so an active firm may be four partners with one seat each. It undercounts partners who invest without taking a board seat, and filings lag a closing by weeks, so Quiet means the paperwork is quiet, not the person.
Not a filing value: this is Lev’s own classification of each company, one company one vote regardless of how many of Forerunner Friends’s partners are named on its board, shown only when we found a specific, checkable source. Companies with no source read as unclassified and are left out of the shares above.
| Bear Coast | 3 | LAUNCH KIDS, Outdoor Voices, RCW |
| GC | 3 | LAUNCH KIDS, Outdoor Voices, RCW |
| General Catalyst | 3 | LAUNCH KIDS, Outdoor Voices, RCW |
| Battery Ventures | 2 | Hotel Tonight, Narvar |
| Accel | 1 | BONOBOS |
| Accel India | 1 | BONOBOS |
| Amplify Partners | 1 | Duetto Research |
| Founders Fund | 1 | Faire Wholesale |
| Icon Ventures | 1 | Duetto Research |
| Institutional Venture Partners | 1 | GLOSSIER |
| Khosla Ventures | 1 | Faire Wholesale |
| Lightspeed Venture Partners | 1 | BONOBOS |
| Lobby Capital | 1 | LAUNCH KIDS |
A shared board seat: a company where filings name a Forerunner Friends partner and a partner at the other firm, both with a clean identity match. Not a claim either firm led or co-led the round, only that both are named on the same board.