Welcome to the

Palo Alto Foundry

Palo Alto Foundry LLC makes startup investments, provides startup advisory services, investment advisory services, executive coaching, enterprise product management consulting, executive search, and PM coaching. Led by former startup founder and Google executive, Tom Leung. LinkedIn.

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We write lots of small checks

We'd love to be the first check in. Often we participate as part of a syndicate. Checks are usually ($5K-$25K). We've made about 20 investments in 2024 and expect to make 10 more in 2025.Any company we invest in can count on us for founder-friendly advice, investor intros, product feedback, help with hiring, public promotion to 10K tech industry followers, and second opinions.Portfolio companies include OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, Anduril, Figure AI, Epirus, SpaceX, SOMATIC, Bearing.ai, Opal, Spot AI, Jellie AI, Orbit, Growit, Ionic Mineral Tech, Agility Robotics, Supermove, MultiOn, Truleo, The Complete Human, ProofPerks, and Standard Metrics, where I've co-invested alongside Andreessen Horowitz, Kholsa Ventures, Sequoia, Accel, General Catalyst, AI Fund, Berkeley Skydeck, and other leading seed stage venture firms.We also do some long-term public equities investing with current holdings in Lucid Motors, Rivian, NuScale Power, Oklo, and META.

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Our advice is probably most useful

If you're really early and pre-angel or you're not raising an angel round, we often come in as an advisor asking for 0.25-0.75% depending on how far along you are and the impact we can have.Our partners have 25 years of experience in the tech industry at big tech like the early AdWords and Google Analytics V1 team and as a director at YouTube and Google Health AI. The other half of our careers have been at venture backed startups usually as the first PM or as a co-founder of exited businesses.When it comes to the early founder journey, product strategy, and leadership - we've got your back. Check out the Fireside PM substack here.

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We're always incubating

We also work with a network of experienced XFN professionals and interns to help explore interesting ideas such as a RAG based on paywalled content for market research, a marketplace for micro-internships for university students, and an AI enhanced, peer advisory community for product managers.

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