Kirsten Green

We're proud to back depthfirst in their $80M series B! Started by former leaders of Faire, DeepMind, and Databricks, we’ve built tremendous respect for this team's approach to securing the next er...

I've watched this vision take shape up close and what makes Pie different is that the product insight and the go-to-market are the same thing. The creator isn't a distribution hack, they're the pro...

Here's a little late-night note I sent to my team — an unfinished working thesis that's developing every week in our work across the Forerunner portfolio: There seems to be a new playbook in verti...

This team is wasting no time rewarding its hard-working builders, and putting a stake in the ground for the emergent category they're leading: always-on concierge CX. Decagon ⚡ ⚡ https://lnkd.in...

A fun, lesser-known fact: Eurie Kim was (inadvertently) OURA's first women's health customer, adopting the technology in new ways based on her needs and helping demonstrate just how expansive OURA'...

Loved teaming up with Ben Lang and Next Play on this post spotlighting the career-making consumer AI companies that are hiring now. So much imagination and fun in this bunch. 🌟 https://lnkd.in/gt...

Consumer powerhouses are generally built through three key levers: • An aspirational vision that makes people feel something bigger • An incredible and consistent product experience • Top quality, ...

humans& captures so much about what we care about most at Forerunner in 2026. This team of former Anthropic, Google, and xAI researchers has a simple but bold view: today's technology shift can ma...

In this market, when there is so much frenzy and opportunity up for grabs, teams stand out more than ever. Because if there’s a good idea, prepare to see 100s of it. There’s a lot of sameness, and ...

My Word of The Year: Discernment To start every January, I step back and decide on a word to shape my mindset for how I live the year ahead. I find the simplicity of a single word to be especially...

Today’s technology shift has a narrative problem. It’s no surprise why. The topic of the past ~2 years has focused on efficiency: how much cost can we strip, how much time can we collapse, how many...

Didn't hold back in my recent interview with a16z speedrun. We went everywhere: my early, pre-VC ambitions to be an architect, what founder pitches are grabbing my attention most these days, and ...

I have always been long SF. So long, I've lived here more years (decades) than I'm going to share here 🙃 Anyone here today knows this city is going through a special shift: new energy, a new sens...

Chime being named to Fast Company’s Brands That Matter list feels exactly right. They’ve built something rare in consumer fintech: a brand rooted in trust, clarity, and real impact for people man...

Great to be on Library of Minds with Dara Ladjevardian. The questions pushed me to revisit a part of my journey that I don’t get to reflect on often. I started Forerunner with no venture experien...

New tech, new moats. For the past two decades, the strongest moats were built around external forces: network effects and economies of scale. Cognition is different. It doesn't depend on one mass...

This team ⚡⚡ $370M in volume on Novig in just the last month alone. Insanity growth for a truly superior product: • the first zero-commission sports industry prediction exchange • a peer-to-pe...

Daydream is live on iOS! Julie Bornstein and team are building the next generation of fashion discovery, where deep industry intelligence, thoughtful design, and an understanding of real consumer ...

Building "wrappers" was once assumed to be simplistic, even to the point of lacking true defensibility. The reality has turned out to be far more complex — and far more interesting. True differen...

Long Faire 🚀 Long indie retail, long local communities, and long craft, quality products. Today's $5.2B tender offer led by crossover investor WCW signals that Faire has the attributes of a publi...