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Ashu Garg

Ashu Garg

VC

General Partner, Foundation Capital

AI-first enterprise software and infrastructure investor

Palo Alto, CA3 notable investments
Pre-SeedSeedSeries A
LinkedIn𝕏@ashugargFoundation Capital
AIEnterprise SaaSDataSecurityInfrastructure

Background

Ashu Garg is a General Partner at Foundation Capital, joining in 2008 after serving as general manager of Microsoft's online-advertising business and leading one of the first ML teams at Microsoft. He grew up across India, Nigeria, and Sudan, holds degrees from IIT New Delhi and IIM Bangalore (President's Gold Medal), and has backed one decacorn (Databricks) and six unicorns including Cohesity, Eightfold, and Turing.

Investment Thesis

Backs pre-revenue, deeply technical founders building AI-first companies with potential to become $100B+ enterprises.

Investment Focus

Stages

Pre-SeedSeedSeries A

Sectors

AIEnterprise SaaSDataSecurityInfrastructure

Based in: Palo Alto, CA (North America)

Notable Investments

Databricks

Data and AI platform, decacorn

Eightfold AI

AI-powered talent intelligence platform, unicorn

Cohesity

Data management platform, unicorn

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Last updated: Jun 11, 2026