Eurie Kim

Who they are

Eurie Kim is Managing Partner at Forerunner Ventures — joined at the firm's founding in April 2012 and has held board seats at companies including ŌURA and The Farmer's Dog.

Person

Eurie joined Forerunner Ventures in April 2012, when it was a brand-new, consumer-focused early-stage fund just finding its footing. Over more than a decade she's grown into Managing Partner — a long-tenure arc that spans the firm's full maturation from seed-stage upstart to one of the more recognized consumer-focused VC brands in the Bay Area. Her portfolio footprint shows a consistent taste for consumer businesses with direct relationships to end customers: Chime in fintech, The Farmer's Dog in pet care, Faire in B2B commerce, and ŌURA in consumer health, where she served as board Chairman until September 2025. She also holds board positions at A-Frame Brands and Acely. Most recently she led Forerunner's seed investment in Viewpoints AI in 2025 — a signal that AI-native consumer tools are now inside her thesis. Possibly — her content themes around consumer investing, founder support, and AI suggest she's been sharpening a point of view on how AI changes the consumer business model, not just the tooling.

Company

The 'Forerunner' in the Target company claims describes a govtech platform — an AI-powered geospatial system for government agencies — that is a different company from Forerunner Ventures, where Eurie Kim is Managing Partner. After dropping those mismatched claims, no usable company_air data for Forerunner Ventures remains in the provided claims. [insufficient_data]

Network

No edges or named colleagues are available from the network probe. Eurie's board work surfaces named company connections — she has sat alongside leadership at ŌURA (through September 2025), The Farmer's Dog, A-Frame Brands, Acely, Faire, and Chime — but no specific individuals are named in the claims.

How they likely show up

  • Joined Forerunner at founding in April 2012 and remains Managing Partner today — a long-tenure shape suggesting she thinks in fund cycles and multi-year company arcs, not quarterly pivots.
  • Board Chairman at ŌURA and board seats at The Farmer's Dog, A-Frame Brands, and Acely simultaneously → comfortable carrying governance responsibility across multiple companies at once, likely organized and deadline-driven.
  • Portfolio spans fintech (Chime), pet care (The Farmer's Dog), health wearables (ŌURA), and B2B commerce (Faire) → consumer generalist lens, pattern-matches on customer relationship quality rather than vertical.
  • Led Forerunner's seed in Viewpoints AI in 2025 → willing to move early on AI-native consumer bets, not waiting for the Series A to be de-risked.
  • Possibly — occasional public writing signal on consumer investing and AI themes suggests she communicates her thesis selectively, not broadly; she likely prefers depth over broadcast.

Conversation tips

  • → Reference the Viewpoints AI seed investment specifically — it's her most recent named deal and signals where her thesis is evolving; asking what drew her to it will get a more engaged answer than a general AI question.
  • → She's spent time at the board level on consumer health (ŌURA) and direct-to-consumer (The Farmer's Dog) — she'll have opinions on what good board governance looks like at growth-stage companies; ask from that angle.
  • → Don't treat Forerunner as a generalist fund — she joined when it was consumer-focused from day one; frame any conversation around the consumer relationship, not broad market trends.
  • → Acknowledge the long arc: 13+ years at one firm is rare in VC; she'll have a perspective on how the consumer investing environment has shifted that most partners won't have.

Toolbox

Openers

  • Open on the Viewpoints AI seed in 2025 — she led it herself, making it the most recent named investment in the public record, and it sits at the intersection of AI and consumer that she's been building toward.
  • Reference her ŌURA board chairmanship through September 2025 — she was at the table through the company's rise as a consumer health wearable, and that tenure gives her a specific, lived vantage point on scaling a hardware-plus-subscription consumer brand.
  • The Farmer's Dog board seat is a pointed data point — a direct-to-consumer pet food company that scaled through a subscription model; it anchors a conversation about what makes consumer retention defensible.

Discovery questions

  1. You led Forerunner's seed in Viewpoints AI — what about that bet fits the consumer thesis you've been building since 2012, and what's different about evaluating AI-native consumer tools versus earlier consumer software?
  2. You were board Chairman at ŌURA until September 2025 — what did running governance at a consumer health hardware company teach you that you couldn't have learned from a software board seat?
  3. Forerunner has been consumer-focused since you joined at founding — how has your definition of 'consumer' shifted over more than a decade, especially as B2B-consumer hybrids like Faire entered the portfolio?

Avoid

Don't pitch or frame things around enterprise or B2B SaaS — her entire track record is consumer-first, and generic enterprise framing will signal you haven't done the work.

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