Foothill Ventures is focusing on the investment cluster of 'AI to infrastructure' which includes AI applications, software infrastructure, hardware compute infrastructure, hardware interconnect infrastructure, and semiconductor manufacturing technologies.
There has been an explosion of deep learning models, particularly in the areas of vision and language, creating a demand for AI software infrastructure to manage compute costs.
To address the compute bottleneck, Foothill Ventures made investments in companies aimed at AI processing in both datacenters and the edge.
Next, the focus is on addressing the networking bottleneck, as advances in processing speeds have outpaced networking speeds. Foothill Ventures has invested in companies working on next-generation interconnect solutions.