Ashu Garg

Ashu is a General Partner at Foundation Capital, where he works with startups across the enterprise stack, with a focus on how AI is reinventing software. He's an early investor in one decacorn (Databricks) and six unicorns (Cohesity, Eightfold, Amperity, Turing, Anyscale, and Alation). He currently serves on the boards of Anvilogic, Arize, Coefficient, Conviva, Fortanix, Ikigai Labs, OpsMx, Skyflow, and Docket.Ashu is passionate about helping technical founders find product-market fit and scale as CEOs. His podcast, B2BaCEO, has featured prominent industry leaders including Eric Yuan, Ali Ghodsi, Jennifer Tejada, Aaron Levie, and Frank Slootman. Before joining Foundation Capital in 2008, Ashu was the general manager of Microsoft’s online-advertising business. Earlier in his career, he was with McKinsey, advising technology companies on scaling their go-to-market strategies. He holds a bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, where he was awarded the President’s Gold Medal. Ashu has lived in India, Nigeria, and Sudan, and currently resides in California with his wife, Pooja, an entrepreneur, and their two sons.