Sean Foote has been a venture capitalist investing in early-stage companies since 1998, and is currently a co-founder or Partner in five venture capital firms. He actively assists Venture Capitalists through fractional GP services, including fundraising, sourcing, evaluating and assisting investments.
His prior firms, Transform Capital, Co=Creation=Capital, and Labrador Ventures, invested in more than 150 companies, including Hotmail, Pandora, Turing.ai, Yugabyte, and Jackpocket (sold to Draftkings). He has co-founded several entrepreneurial companies, most recently Fifty Five Financial, and spends his non-profit time in the fields of impact investing and education (and fair trade and health care).
Before venture investing, Mr. Foote was a management consultant with Boston Consulting Group, working in a wide range of industries such as telecom, computers, healthcare, banking, and automotive on topics ranging from strategic alliances to Internet strategies. Mr. Foote also worked as a systems engineer for AT&T Bell Laboratories, developing artificial intelligence systems for testing the most complicated parts of telecommunications networks.
Since 2003, Mr. Foote has been teaching venture capital and private equity at the University of California's Haas School of Business. He has taught courses in impact investing at Stanford University, with a real time simulcast to 100 business school campuses around the country. He has also taught classes on entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan's Business School, University of Virginia's Darden School of Business and University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. He has written and published cases on venture capital and microfinance.
Mr. Foote received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri Rolla (1988), and his MBA from the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business (1993), where he received the Shermett Award granted to the top 3% of students. He was the first Foote to attend college.
