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Footwork

VC

USConsumerB2B SaaSAI/MLFintechHealthtechClimateMarketplacesEnterprise

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Investment thesis

Footwork is an early-stage focused venture capital firm that leads and co-leads Seed and Series A rounds in companies with early signs of product-market fit. The firm focuses on consumer technology and the consumerization of enterprise technology, backing founders building the next generation of category-defining companies. Footwork's equal partnership combines world-class investing and operating experience, and the firm takes a thesis-driven approach, going deep in specific swim lanes — including AI-native products, vertical SaaS, fintech infrastructure, and climate tech — while maintaining a concentrated portfolio of a handful of new investments per year.

Notable quotes

It's very rare you have someone like Nikhil, that is early in his venture career and has amazing returns, and someone like me, that sat in a C-level seat at an under ten-person company and helped scale it to a public company.

Mike Smith · Forbes, 'Footwork, New VC Firm From Investor Nikhil Basu Trivedi And Former Stitch Fix Executive Mike Smith, Launches With $175 Million' · 2021-04-15

We have a lot of motivation to show that instead of the academic chatter about diversity driving better results, we can show it.

Mike Smith · Forbes, 'Footwork, New VC Firm From Investor Nikhil Basu Trivedi And Former Stitch Fix Executive Mike Smith, Launches With $175 Million' · 2021-04-15

We want Footwork's brand to be built based on the success of our portfolio, not in advance of it. This takes time, especially when you invest like we do at the early-stage with just a handful of new investments every year.

Nikhil Basu Trivedi · Footwork at Year 5 — next big thing (Substack) · 2026-04-19

Team

Nikhil Basu Trivedi

Co-Founder and General Partner

ConsumerAI/MLB2B SaaSHealthtechFintech

Mike Smith

Co-Founder and General Partner

ConsumerEnterpriseMarketplacesFintech

Mercedes Chatfield-Taylor

Partner

Katherine Fewer

Team Member

Rachel Coffman

Principal

Recent investments

CompanyRoundSizeDate
MonkSeries A$25m2026-04-21
FuseSeries A$25m2026-03-16
SnoutSeries A2026-01-28
ProtegeSeries A2026-01-08
ElicitSeries A$22m2025-02-26
GPTZeroSeries A$10m2024-06-01
Table22Series A$11m2024-10-01
WatershedSeed2021-01-01
WindBorneSeed2022-01-01
CradlewiseSeed2021-01-01

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