Eric Rosenblum

Eric Rosenblum is a Managing Partner at Foothill Ventures, where he invests in seed and early-stage startups across AI/Robotics, Cleantech, Cybersecurity, and Enterprise SaaS. He invests primarily in the United States with a focus on California and the San Francisco Bay Area/Silicon Valley. He serves on the board of Track Group and has invested in companies such as Leap.ai, PlayFab, CarbonSix, NovoLINC, and Koidra. Previously, he was an Executive in Residence at Columbia Technology Ventures; an executive at Palantir Technologies; COO (and earlier VP of Product) at Drawbridge (acquired by LinkedIn); Director of Product and Director of Strategy and Operations at Google; CEO and Chairman (2001–2005) and later Director at Smartpay (www.172.com—acquired by Ping'an Group); GM, Strategy and Managing Director, Greater China at RealNetworks; COO at ChinaNow Ltd; and a Consultant at The Boston Consulting Group. Eric holds a degree from MIT Sloan School of Management and resides in Palo Alto, California.