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Foresite Capital

VC
San Francisco, CAWebsite

Foresite Capital is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in San Francisco, CA investing in Other, Healthcare, Deep Tech. The firm typically writes $100K–$1.0M checks and has 9 portfolio companies in our records.

Check size
$100K–$1.0M
Portfolio
9 companies on record
Partners
10 listed
AUM
$3.5B
Stage
Pre-Seed, Seed
Sectors
Other, Healthcare, Deep Tech
HQ
San Francisco, CA

Last verified: 2026-05-22

How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$100K – $1.0M

AUM

$3.5B

Portfolio

9+ companies

Team

10 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Focuses on transformative life sciences technologies, with a strong interest in biotech tools and platforms that enable next-generation research and development.

How Foresite Capital invests

Foresite Capital is a vc firm based in San Francisco, CA. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, Healthcare, Deep Tech.

Foresite Capital typically writes checks of $100K–$1.0M per investment, backed by approximately $3.5B in assets under management.

Foresite Capital has backed 9 companies in our records, including Arzeda, Inscripta, XinThera.

Partners & Team

JT

Jim Tananbaum

CEO

MC

Marvin Correa

Director

MR

Michael Rome

Managing Director

AS

Amelia Stoj

Chief Compliance Officer

LB

Luke Bagaason

Director

JR

Jonathan Robbins

Director

KK

Kevin Kelly

Head Trader

HT

Hadi Tabbaa

Managing Director

DR

Dennis Ryan

Chief Financial Officer

VP

Vijay Pande

General Partner

Biotech
Life Sciences
DeepTech

Industry Focus

Invests In

Other
Healthcare
Deep Tech

Portfolio Companies (9)

Other

AR

Arzeda

Biotech Tools
IN

Inscripta

Life Sciences
XI

XinThera

HE

Health Verity

EI

Eikon Therapeutics

10

10x Genomics

TH

Theseus Pharmaceuticals

PA

Pardes Biosciences

XA

Xaira Therapeutics

How to pitch Foresite Capital
  • Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • Lead with your fit in Other, Healthcare, Deep Tech — the sectors they actively back.
  • Size your ask to their typical $100K – $1.0M check.
  • warm intro preferred
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Jim Tananbaum, CEO.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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