Gracie Zaro

Overview

As a Partner at Foundation Capital's New York office, Gracie Zaro specializes in banking, embedded payments, and vertical software investments. She joined Foundation Capital after leading the consumer fintech practice at Stripes, where she focused on global opportunities and sourced the firm's first investment in Latin America. Gracie holds a bachelor's degree in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University, graduating with Distinction. She is also a dog mother to a French Bulldog named Misha, who prefers rolling on sidewalks to walking. Foundation Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 1995, investing in fintech, enterprise, and consumer sectors. The firm seeks founders with exceptional resilience, ambition, and vision, backing them from the earliest stages to build transformative companies. Their investment thesis centers on identifying individuals with exceptional resilience, ambition, and vision—founders who possess an internal drive to create something lasting and consequential. The firm's fintech practice focuses on backing founders building the future of money by both architecting new financial products and rewiring financial markets themselves. Their team spans all three, giving founders access to deep expertise and networks in each. They have lived in these markets for decades through evolving regulations, arcane infrastructure, and boom and bust cycles. Their belief that better financial services make for a better world keeps them committed.