Ashu Garg: Foundation Capital backs Tessera, Olive, and Reggie for context graphs
Ashu Garg · AI Needs to Know Why You took THAT decision | Ashu Garg, Investor at Foundation Capital · Feb 27, 2026 · at 4:40
Ashu Garg, venture capitalist at Foundation Capital, discusses enterprise startups actively constructing context graphs across different business domains.
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“There is Tessera who's doing it for ERP migrations and automations. There is Olive that is doing that for sales and Reggie for demand generation. So we have many examples of these, this in our portfolio, and there are many examples outside our portfolio to be fair.”
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