VC  Founders Fund

https://foundersfund.com/





     Office Locations:

One Letterman Drive, Building D, Suite 500
Presidio of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA 94129

 

Stages:

  • Early


 

Industries:

  • Information Technology
  • Life Sciences & Healthcare
  • Media & Digital Media
  • Software & Internet
  • Transportation & Distribution

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    Description:

    The Founders Fund is a multi-stage, multi-sector venture capial firm with an emphasis on transformational technologies and companies. The firm's industries of interest include Advanced Machines, Aerospace & Transportation, Analytics & Software, Biotechnology & Health, and Consumer Internet & Media. Founders primarily invests at the seed stage, with a typical investment of $500,000-$5,000,000. The firm's partners previously founded PayPal. Initial subscriptions to the Founders Fund were $50 million.


     

    Funds:


      Fund Name


      Amount


      Date

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    Investment Firm Key

       VC = Venture Capital
       PE = Private Equity
       A = Angel
       I = Incubator
       MB = Merchant Bank
       VD = Venture Debt
       FI = Family Investment Office
       FOF = Fund of Funds
       ED = Economic Development Office   
       TT = Technology Transfer Office
       CVC = Corporate Venture Capital
       SEC = Secondary Purchaser
       HF = Hedge Fund/Mutual Fund
       
       
       
    COMPANY STAGEREVENUE
    Venture Capital
    Seed Stage
    (includes "pre-seed," or
    concept stage)
    No Revenue
    Early StageMinimal
    Revenue
    Growth Stage
    (also called Mid-stage)
    $2M-$7M
    Expansion Stage
    (also called Late-stage)
    $7M and greater
    Private Equity
    Lower Middle Market$10M-$249M
    Middle Market$250M-$499M
    Upper Middle Market$500M-$1B
    Large Cap>$1B
       
       
     

    Investment Team:


    Name   Title
    Get the complete investment team + individual email addresses for investment team partners. Get personal images, LinkedIn links, investment specialties, office locations and more with a National Database subscription or Silicon Valley Database subscription.
    Brian Singerman Partner
    Erin Gleason Lane Vice President of Communications
    Lauren Gross Partner and COO
    Lauren Gross Partner & COO
    Michael Solana Entrepreneur-in-Residence

     

    Recent Funding Events (trailing 12 months):


      Date


      Name


      State


      Amount


      Stage


      10/01/2024


      Impulse Space


      CA


      $150,000,000


      Series B


      08/30/2024


      Turntable Labs


      FL


      $8,200,000


      Seed


      07/23/2024


      Igloo


      FL


      $11,000,000


      Venture


      07/17/2024


      Aven


      CA


      $142,000,000


      Series D


      05/21/2024


      Scale AI


      CA


      $1,000,000,000


      Venture


      05/09/2024


      Lagrange Labs


      NY


      $13,200,000


      Seed


      05/07/2024


      Numeric


      CA


      $10,000,000


      Seed


      04/23/2024


      Pomelo


      CA


      $110,000,000


      Venture Debt & Equity


      04/17/2024


      RAMP


      MA


      $150,000,000


      Series D-2


      04/05/2024


      Varda Space Industries


      CA


      $90,000,000


      Series B


      02/20/2024


      9amHealth


      CA


      $9,500,000


      Series A Extension


      12/11/2023


      Armada


      CA


      $55,000,000


      


     

    Portfolio companies include:


      9am.health
        web link


      9amHealth
        web link


      Affirm


      Akash Systems
        web link


      Alloy Therapeutics
        web link


      AltSchool
        web link


      Arceo.ai
        web link


      AREVO


      Armada
        web link


      Asana


      Avalanche Energy
        web link


      Aven
        web link


      Ayar Labs
        web link


      BitGo


      BitPay


      Blend


      Bolt Threads


      Boom Fantasy
        web link


      Boxed


      Branch Metrics
        web link


      BuildOps
        web link


      Built Robotics


      Bungalow


      Campus


      Carats & Cake
        web link


      Cargo


      Carrot Fertility
        web link


      Cedar


      Cerby
        web link


      Chronosphere
        web link


      Cobalt Partners
        web link


      Coder
        web link


      Collective Health
        web link


      Compass


      Coursekit
        web link


      Crusoe Energy Systems
        web link


      Declara
        web link


      Density


      Domo


      Dover
        web link


      Drivetime
        web link


      Eco


      Emerald Therapeutics
        web link


      Flexport


      Flock Safety


      Forward Health
        web link


      Freenome


      Gecko Robotics


      Ghost
        web link


      Glow/ Upwards Labs Holdings
        web link


      Grabango


      GreenPark Sports
        web link


      Hampton Creek Foods
        web link


      Harbor


      HelloOffice
        web link


      Hinge


      Homee


      Hubble Contacts
        web link


      Igloo
        web link


      Impulse Space
        web link


      Indee Labs
        web link


      Inworld AI
        web link


      ISEE
        web link


      Knewton
        web link


      Kontor
        web link


      Lagrange Labs
        web link


      Lattice


      Leap Motion
        web link


      Literati
        web link


      Lula
        web link


      LUMASOL


      Magna
        web link


      MakeSpace
        web link


      Maverick Protocol
        web link


      Misfit Wearables
        web link


      Mobalytics
        web link


      Modern Animal
        web link


      Modern Health
        web link


      Mosaic Building Group
        web link


      Mosaic Tech
        web link


      Namecoach


      Nanotronics Imaging
        web link


      Natera
        web link


      NEON
        web link


      Nerd Street Gamers
        web link


      Neurotrack
        web link


      Newfront Insurance
        web link


      Notarize
        web link


      Nucleus Genomics
        web link


      Numeric
        web link


      Opal Camera
        web link


      Osaro


      Oscar Insurance
        web link


      Ostro


      Outbox
        web link


      Oyster


      Peptilogics


      Pietra


      Pipefy
        web link


      Pivot


      Planet Labs
        web link


      PlanGrid
        web link


      Plays.tv


      Pomelo


      Porch.com
        web link


      Postmates


      Price.com
        web link


      Qadium
        web link


      Radius


      RAMP
        web link


      Ramp Business
        web link


      Resilience


      Rigetti Computing
        web link


      RigUp
        web link


      Ringadoc
        web link


      Royal
        web link


      RunTitle
        web link


      Scale AI
        web link


      Searchlight
        web link


      Seed


      Siren


      SmithRx
        web link


      Sols
        web link


      Stord


      Stripe


      Summersalt


      SWORD Health
        web link


      Synthego
        web link


      Tachyus


      Tactic
        web link


      TaskRabbit
        web link


      Tempo Fitness
        web link


      The Boring Company


      Traina Interactive DBA IfOnly
        web link


      Transatomic Power
        web link


      TruckSmarter
        web link


      Turntable Labs
        web link


      Ultima Genomics
        web link


      UNITY Biotechnology


      Urban Compass
        web link


      Varda Space Industries
        web link


      Vise
        web link


      WanderJaunt
        web link


      Wild Earth


      Wish


      Workrise
        web link


      Workstream


      X-Vax Technology
        web link


      ZenBusiness


      Zenefits
        web link


      ZenReach
        web link


      Zesty
        web link


      Zinier


      ZocDoc
        web link


     

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