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San Francisco-based venture capital firm
Founders Fund is an American venture capital fund founded in 2005 based in San Francisco. The fund has roughly $17 billion in total assets under management
Founders_Fund
American defense technology company
by Founders Fund, an early Oculus investor. Luckey met Trae Stephens, 30, who had recently been persuaded to leave Palantir and join Founders Fund by
Anduril_Industries
American entrepreneur and venture capitalist (born 1967)
conservative political activist. A co-founder of PayPal (1998), Palantir Technologies (2003), and Founders Fund (2005), he was also the first outside
Peter_Thiel
American venture capitalist
American venture capitalist and businessman. He is a partner emeritus at Founders Fund, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm with over $11 billion under
Brian_Singerman
Los Angeles-based venture capital firm
ventures. Thiel Capital has incubated several major investment firms—Founders Fund, Mithril, and Valar Ventures—as well as other business and philanthropic
Thiel_Capital
American technology executive and investor
2019 Rabois left Khosla Ventures and joined Founders Fund as a general partner. In 2021 while at Founders Fund Rabois co-founded Miami-based OpenStore, a
Keith_Rabois
American venture capital firm
the Founders Fund's investments in early stage startups, but according to Bloomberg, from the start, the two firms have competed. The Founders Fund did
Mithril_Capital
American venture capitalist and entrepreneur (born 1983)
the Founders Fund in 2013. It is known that he has a close relationship with Thiel at the Founders Fund. In 2014, he became a partner at Founders Fund, where
Trae_Stephens
American writer
is the Chief Marketing Officer of the venture capital firm Founders Fund and the founder of media company Pirate Wires. Solana attended Boston University
Mike_Solana
American AI company
Peter Thiel's Founders Fund which provided $21 million in early 2024, valuing the company at $350 million. In April 2024, Founders Fund led a $175 million
Cognition_AI
American entrepreneur and philanthropist (born 1979)
became a managing partner at Founders Fund, a San Francisco-based venture-capital fund founded by Peter Thiel. Founders Fund is focused on investing in
Sean_Parker
Polish-born American entrepreneur; co-founder of PayPal
Roof, Katie (July 28, 2017). "PayPal co-founder Luke Nosek leaving Founders Fund, reportedly for SpaceX-focused fund". TechCrunch. Retrieved February 16,
Luke_Nosek
Group of former PayPal employees
founder and former CEO. Sometimes called the "don" of the PayPal Mafia, he is a founder of Palantir and chairs its board, a founder of Founders Fund,
PayPal_Mafia
American financial technology company
that same month when it raised about $15 million in a Series A led by Founders Fund. By December, Ramp raised an additional $30 million in follow-on financing
Ramp_(company)
American nuclear-fuel company
Scott Nolan, a former employee of SpaceX and partner at the Founders Fund, was co-founder. When at SpaceX, Nolan helped to develop the Merlin engine systems
General_Matter
American identity verification company
delivery and short-term rental providers. Persona has raised capital from Founders Fund and other venture-capital firms and investors; in September 2021, the
Persona (identity verification service)
Persona_(identity_verification_service)
Venture capital fund
declining performance of his older firm, the Founders Fund, nor did they seem to impede the Founders Fund in making new deal: "In fact, Thiel's launch
Valar_Ventures
Technology podcast
also worked as entrepreneur in residence at Peter Thiel’s venture firm Founders Fund. Jordi Hays founded Branded Native, a YouTube advertising company, as
TBPN
Israeli technology company
raised about $24 million in venture funding (including backing from Founders Fund, the first Israeli startup in that fund's portfolio) and was valued near
Carbyne_(company)
American anonymous social media app
included Greylock Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Founders Fund, Semyon Dukach, Bee Partners, Dorm Room Fund, and American investor Wayne Chang. In October
Tbh
Artificial intelligence company
funding from Founders Fund, Dustin Moskovitz, Adam D’Angelo (former Facebook CTO and co-founder of Quora), Felicis Ventures, and Palantir co-founder Joe
Vicarious_(company)
American investor and entrepreneur
when she became the first woman partner at Founders Fund, a Silicon Valley venture capital fund. At Founders Fund, Banister invested in companies like Niantic
Cyan_Banister
American defense manufacturing company
aerospace suppliers. Founders Fund is another longtime backer, having invested in Hadrian since its seed round. In July 2025, the Founders Fund co-led the $260
Hadrian_Automation
Former American company
Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, and SOSV, as well as several angel investors. In May 2012, Leap Motion announced a $12.75M Series A funding round led by Highland
Leap_Motion
American venture capital firm
previously interned at Founders Fund and is influenced by Peter Thiel's thinking. In 2016, she joined General Catalyst where she helped fund Anduril, before
Andreessen_Horowitz
American writer and venture capitalist
million in 2014. He then moved to Founders Fund, a venture capital fund started by Thiel. Thiel and Founders Fund were the earliest outside investors
Bruce_Gibney
German online broker and bank
capital firms including Creandum, Project A Ventures, Accel Partners and Founders Fund invested more than €60 million in the company, reducing Sino's shareholding
Trade_Republic
US-based media company
culture. It was founded by American conservative political commentator, Founders Fund vice-president and entrepreneur Mike Solana in 2020, during the COVID-19
Pirate_Wires
Scholarship founded by Peter Thiel
fellowship but missed the date. Nevertheless Thiel funded his first startup, Oculus VR, and the Founders Fund incubated the company he was primarily known for
Thiel_Fellowship
American space manufacturing company
include venture capitalists such as Khosla Ventures and Peter Thiel's Founders Fund. Varda Space was founded in January 2021 by Will Bruey and Delian Asparouhov
Varda_Space_Industries
Form of private-equity financing
the founders, and Pitch Johnson formed Asset Management Company at that time. It was also in the 1960s that the common form of private-equity fund, still
Venture_capital
American venture capital firm
was just beginning to develop. Sequoia formed its first venture capital fund in 1974, and was an early investor in Atari the next year. In 1978, Sequoia
Sequoia_Capital
US-based software and services company
Catalyst and Red Cell Partners, the Founders Fund incubated the defense incubator Valinor Enterprises. The co-founders are former Palantir senior vice president
Palantir
Bitcoin payment service provider
In May 2013, BitPay announced that they had raised $2 million via Founders Fund. In September 2013, the company announced it had reached the milestone
BitPay
American businessman (born 1980/1981)
2025-05-07. Konrad, Alex (2023-07-10). "Flexport Founder Ryan Petersen Joins VC Firm Founders Fund". Forbes. Retrieved 2025-06-06. Konrad, Alex. "Flexport
Ryan_Petersen_(businessman)
Biotech company
raise capital in multiple rounds. Key investors include Founders Fund, Schooner Capital, OS Fund, Alcazar Capital, Western Technology Investment, Sound
Emerald_Cloud_Lab
Capital FirstMark Capital Flagship Pioneering Foundation Capital Founder Collective Founders Fund Gaingels General Catalyst GE Ventures Greycroft Greylock Partners
List_of_venture_capital_firms
Student-run newspaper in California
(graduated 1989, founding editor-in-chief from 1987–1989), co-founder of PayPal, Founders Fund, Palantir Technologies Jay Bhattacharya (graduated 1990, former
The_Stanford_Review
Person who creates a new organization
organization. If there are multiple founders, each can be referred to as a co-founder. If the organization is a business, the founder is usually referred as an
Organizational_founder
venture capitalist. He is a partner at the venture capital firm Founders Fund and the co-founder and president of Varda Space Industries, a space manufacturing
Delian_Asparouhov
SEC-registered national securities exchange
company received early funding of approximately $19 million from around 70 investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Greylock Partners, SV
Long-Term_Stock_Exchange
American computer programmer and entrepreneur
AI which developed Devin AI. It raised $21 million in funding from Peter Thiel's Founders Fund. A more comprehensive list of achievements can be found
Scott_Wu
American financial technology company
Chairman), Marc Benioff, Khosla Ventures, Correlation Ventures, Founders Fund, and Collaborative Fund. Upstart raised a Series C round of $35M from Third Point
Upstart_Holdings
South African-American entrepreneur (born 1972)
million VC fund". Axios. Retrieved May 31, 2018. Sacks, David (November 11, 2019). "Announcing Craft II: $500 Million for Founders Backing Founders". Medium
David_Sacks
German Internet company
Oliver and Alexander Samwer and was once also connected to the European Founders Fund, an associated company. In 2008, Rocket Internet founded Zalando, emulating
Rocket_Internet
American entrepreneur and diplomat (born 1975)
the 27th United States Ambassador to Denmark. He is a co-founder of PayPal and Founders Fund. He served as the U.S. ambassador to Sweden from 2019 to
Ken_Howery
American venture capital firm
fund amid launch of early-stage founders program". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2026-07-19. Temkin, Marina (2026-07-16). "Why Greylock capped its new fund at
Greylock_Partners
Scientific social network (launched 2008)
from 25,000 to more than 1 million. A second round of funding led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund was announced in February 2012. On June 4, 2013, it closed
ResearchGate
American businessman (born 1980)
created a major risk for small businesses. WeatherBill secured funding from Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Google Ventures, New Enterprise Associates,
David_Friedberg
Robotics company
it's valuation to $11 billion. Investors included Founders Fund, Lightspeed, Thrive Capital, Index Fund, NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos, T. Rowe Price. Knight, Will
Physical_Intelligence_Inc.
American aerospace engineer (born 1988)
capital fund in New York focused on early-stage investments in hardware technology companies. After meeting Delian Asparouhov from Founders Fund in 2019
Will_Bruey
American venture capital firm
Makes A Surprise Return To Khosla Ventures, Five Years After Joining Founders Fund". Forbes.com. "Khosla Ventures Raises $405 Million to Invest in OpenAI
Khosla_Ventures
American entrepreneur and software engineer (born 1979)
American software engineer and internet entrepreneur. He is one of the co-founders of YouTube and the first person to upload a video to the site. The site's
Jawed_Karim
American entrepreneur and investor
platform, along with his wife, Julia Hartz and Renaud Visage. Hartz joined Founders Fund in September 2016 and served as a partner. He later announced his exit
Kevin_Hartz
American seed stage venture capital firm
most aligned fund for founders at seed stage". Founder Collective often provides the first seed capital to the startups it backs. Its fund sizes are intentionally
Founder_Collective
Businessman (born 1971)
Motors founders: Now there are five". CNET. Archived from the original on November 15, 2020. Retrieved April 17, 2020. Tesla Motors and co-founder Martin
Elon_Musk
English charitable non-profit
Goldberg, co-founder and CEO of Founders Pledge, stated that 80,000 Hours' work has influenced the organization's trajectory. Founders Pledge was named
Founders_Pledge
American businessman
Cheng, Candy. "Meet OpenStore, the new stealth Miami startup founded by Founders Fund VC Keith Rabois and Atomic's Jack Abraham". Business Insider. Retrieved
Jack_Abraham
Telecommunications company in Singapore
company closed another round of funding for an undisclosed amount, led by Singapore's Government-linked EDBI and Founders Fund. This marks the first time the
Circles.Life
American businessman
Nosek (co-founder of PayPal and Founders Fund). Before co-founding Gigafund, Oskoui was a venture partner at Founders Fund. Prior to Founders Fund, Oskoui
Stephen_Oskoui
Astrological social networking service
early 2018, the company raised a $750,000 pre-seed round from Female Founders Fund. In 2019, Co–Star raised a $5.2 million seed round from Maveron, Aspect
Co–Star
Menstruation and ovulation tracking app
Series A funding from venture capital firms Founders Fund and Andreesen Horowitz. In 2014, Glow raised an additional $17 million in Series B funding, with
Glow_(app)
American home improvement review website
Series B round, led by Valor Equity Partners. Backers included Lowe's, Founders Fund, Battery Ventures, Panorama Point Partners, Capricorn Investment Group
Porch_(company)
Former American child actress and attorney
dispute between McKellar and Mithril, but his more prestigious firm, the Founders Fund, chose to invest alongside her. Bloomberg referred to her as one of
Crystal_McKellar
US cloud communications company
capital growth funding. Twilio received its first round of seed funding in March 2009 for an undisclosed amount from Mitch Kapor, The Founders Fund, Dave McClure
Twilio
American hedge fund management firm
August 2024). "Troubled Hedge Fund Two Sigma Replaces Feuding Founders". The New York Times. "Two Sigma's feuding founders step down as Co-CEOs - Hedgeweek"
Two_Sigma
Term for venture capitalists who invest early
general partners and other principals, without passive investors in the fund Fund principals who are experienced entrepreneurs Avoid joining boards as a
Super_angel
British space startup
graduates of Imperial College London. Initially funded by a $2 million pre-seed round led by Founders Fund in 2020, the company has since secured public
Magdrive
American technology company
2021 led by Valor Equity Partners with participation from SoftBank and Founders Fund. In 2022, Eight Sleep acquired health coaching company Span Health.
Eight_Sleep
American venture capital firm
manufacturing startup Hadrian closes $260 million funding round led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund". CNBC. Rychlewski, Claire (3 June 2025). "Pro Rata
Lux_Capital
California video game developer
artists. Furthermore a successful Series B funding led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Founders Fund and Altos Ventures was confirmed. Drimage
Bonfire_Studios
American entrepreneur and investor (born 1974)
The fund's third cohort raised $100 million for 15 founders. Companies backed by Spearhead founders include Neuralink, Opendoor, and Rippling. Ravikant
Naval_Ravikant
American investment firm
fund focus on blockain-based digital tokens. Investors of Polychain include Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Union Square Ventures and Founders Fund
Polychain_Capital
American internet entrepreneur (born 1967)
featured interviews with well-known founders and leaders including Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky, Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi
Reid_Hoffman
New Zealand agricultural technology company
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-20/peter-thiel-s-founders-fund-backs-ai-cow-collar-startup-at-2-billion-valuation "Halter claims the
Halter_(company)
New Zealand engineer and entrepreneur
(US$220 million) at a valuation of NZ$3.4 billion (US$2 billion), led by Founders Fund, the venture capital firm associated with Peter Thiel. Additional investors
Craig_Piggott
American multinational personal finance company
$2.5 million Series A funding round led by QED Investors, with participation from SV Angel, Felicis Ventures and Founders Fund. By 2013, the company secured
Credit_Karma
Defunct American investment management and hedge fund company
management and hedge fund company pursuing a global macro strategy. It was founded in San Francisco in 2002 by Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and early
Clarium_Capital
American venture capital firm and family office
Horowitz was also an investor) Flexport (alongside Founders Fund, Joe Lonsdale, SoftBank Vision Fund, and First Round Capital) FiscalNote (alongside Temasek)
Winklevoss_Capital_Management
American supply chain management and logistics company
$94 million in venture capital from such investors as Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, First Round Capital and Google Venture. In July 2016, it had 420 employees
Flexport
February 2024, Bitwala closed its first post-relaunch funding round from Blockchain Founders Fund, raising its valuation from €3.5 million to over €5 million
Bitwala
American programmer and tech executive (born 1961)
co-founder and CEO of Brave Software, a Web browser platform company that raised $2.5 million in early funding from angel investors like Founders Fund,
Brendan_Eich
American startup airliner company
series B investment round led by Sam Altman. Other investors included Founders Fund, In-Q-Tel, and existing investors Khosla Ventures, Canaan Partners,
Hermeus
Social-networking website and instant messenger
The company raised 12 million dollars in funding from investors including Accel Partners and Founders Fund. The service was shut down on September 30
Raptr
American startup accelerator
includes "office hours", where startup founders meet individually and participate in group meetings. Founders also participate in weekly meetups where
Y_Combinator
American multinational private equity firm
22 private equity funds, two real estate funds and one capital solutions fund, which have invested over $130 billion in more than 1,100 companies across
Warburg_Pincus
US nonprofit foundation funding scientific racism
(Rassenpolitisches Amt) prior to the founding of the Pioneer Fund. According to the Pioneer Fund site, all founders capable of doing so participated in the war against
Pioneer_Fund
Naren Gupta from Nexus Venture Partners along with Kevin Hartz from Founders Fund. HyperTrack has offices in San Francisco, Zaporizhia and Bangalore.
HyperTrack
Ukrainian-American software engineer
as Innovator of the Year. Levchin is one of a group of roughly twenty founders and former employees of PayPal who have become referred to as the "PayPal
Max_Levchin
Italian venture capitalist
com/news/articles/2024-12-23/why-vc-partners-are-leaving-firms-like-a16z-founders-fund-and-more Andy Reinhardt (August 25, 1997). "Michaelangelo Volpi Vice-president
Mike_Volpi
Privately pooled investment fund using diverse strategies to seek high returns
A hedge fund is a pooled investment fund that holds liquid assets and that makes use of complex trading and risk management techniques to aim to improve
Hedge_fund
American educational technology company
million series D round of funding led by the Founders Fund. In December 2013 the company closed a $51 million series E round of funding led by Atomico, joined
Knewton
American entrepreneur (born 1994)
Lucinda (21 August 2023). "Scoop: Bolt's Breslow seeks to raise the next "Founders Fund"". Axios. Retrieved 31 March 2025. Bertoni, Steve (April 4, 2022). "Millennial
Ryan_Breslow
American entrepreneur
entrepreneur who is the founder of telehealth service Dr. B and the founder of the investment fund humbition. He is also the founder of Zocdoc and was the
Cyrus_Massoumi
History of a space corporation
$20 million investment from Founders Fund. In early 2012, approximately two-thirds of the company was owned by its founder and his 70 million shares were
History_of_SpaceX
Latin American Entrepreneur (born 1983)
Greenoaks Capital, and Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, which collectively invested over $1 billion. In its Series C funding round led by SoftBank, Kavak reached
Carlos_García_Ottati
Turkish entrepreneur
its first round of investment and agreed to be partners with European Founders Fund, in 2008. In 2012, Yemeksepeti announced a $44 million investment led
Nevzat_Aydın
Artificial intelligence company
funded by Founders Fund, You & Mr Jones, Endeavor and Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. At the One Young World conference started by David Jones, founder
AI_Foundation
American venture capital firm
socially conscious founders are wising up". Business Insider. Retrieved 2025-06-20. Loizos, Connie (2018-08-15). "AppDynamics founder Jyoti Bansal and longtime
Unusual_Ventures
American television and film producer, director, and CEO
league's board. The league was backed by investors such as Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, The Chernin Group and former NFL player Jared Allen, and employed coaches
Charlie_Ebersol
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