The Founders Fund is a venture capital firm investing in a wide variety of companies developing technologies and businesses in aerospace & transportation, biotechnology & health, advanced machines & artificial intelligence, energy, analytics & software, consumer internet & media. Peter Thiel, Ken Howry, and Luke Nosek founded the Founders Fund in 2005, and the firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Notable investments made by the Founders Fund include: Airbnb, Lyft, Spotify, Facebook, ZocDoc, Palantir Technologies, and SpaceX.
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Associated investment funds
San FranciscoFunded Companies
FacebookOnline social networking service
Social media
Virtual reality
Advertising
Menlo Park, California
SpaceXSpace Exploration Technologies Corporation, better known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California.
MixhaloMixhalo is a technology company that has created a closed wifi network capable of transmitting audio in near real-time from a sound source to an app on a smartphone. It was founded in 2016 and is located in San Francisco, California.
TranscripticA biotechnology company that has built a robotic cloud lab which allows on-demand services for biology laboratories.
Biotechnology
Synthetic biology
Oscar HealthAn insurance technology company utilizing technology, design and data to humanize health care. and offer health insurance.
Insurance
Healthcare
Software
New York City
New York
United States
The Long-Term Stock ExchangeThe Long-Term Stock Exchange is a financial services company and Securities Exchange.
Financial services
Wild Earth (company)Company using cellular agriculture to produce pet food.
Cellular agriculture
Pet food
Food technology
Berkeley, California
Unity BiotechnologyA biotechnology company developing drugs and treatments to diminish negative health effects associated with aging.
Drug discovery
Therapy
Brisbane, California
LyftLyft is an American transportation network company. It designs, markets and operates a mobile application for matching drivers with passengers.
Transportation network company
Peer-to-peer
SynthegoSilicon Valley-based genetic engineering startup.
Collective HealthAn insurance technology offering a platform for companies to manage health insurance policies for their employees.
California
Asana (software)Asana provides a project management platform to organize and plan workflows.
CTRL-labsCTRL-labs develops brain-machine interface technology.
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Neuroscience
Machine learning
Manhattan
Harbor (blockchain)Harbor is a company developing and providing a decentralized compliance protocol for standardizing cryptocurrency (tokenized) securities.
Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
ZocdocZocdoc is a company an online medical care appointment booking service.
Buddy Media is a social media marketing platform.
Scale AIAn artificial intelligence company making an API for validating and training data for applications.
Big data
The Climate CorporationThe Climate Corporation (Climate) is a digital agriculture company that is a subsidiary of Bayer. The Climate Corporation, founded in 2006 and based in San Francisco, examines weather, soil and field data.
Risk management
Agriculture
Powerset (company)A company that created an internet search engine. It was started in 2005 and acquired by Microsoft in 2008.
Internet
Leap MotionAmerican manufacturer of computer hardware sensor devices
Augmented reality
Betable
Mobile game
Gambling
Gaming
SpotifyA platform for listening to music and podcasts.
Music
Streaming media
Music industry
Stockholm
Yammer
KnewtonKnewton is a New York City-based company founded by Jose Ferreira.
Mathematics education
Curriculum
University
Education
theAudience (company)theAudience is a social media company founded by Oliver Woodley.
People
Aaron VanDevender
Chief Scientist and Principle
Brian Singerman
Partner
Cyan Banister
Partner
Eric Scott
Principle
Erin Gleason Lane
Vice President of Communications
Jeff Lonsdale
Managing Director, Asia
John Luttig
Associate
Ken Howry
Partner
Lauren Gross
Partner and Chief Operating Officer
Matias Van Thienen
Principle
Michael Solana
Vice President
Mike Petriano
Creative Director
Napoleon Ta
Partner
Neil Pai
General Counsel
Neil Ruthven
CFO
Peter Thiel
Partner
Scott Nolan
Partner
Trae Stephens
Partner
Zachary Hargreaves
Principle
Further reading
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
Brandon Kochkodin , Jen Skerritt , and Craig Giammona
Web
In-car commerce startup Cargo raises $22 million led by Founders Fund
Kristen Korosec
Web
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
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Companies
Affirm
Consumer Internet & Media
AltSchool
Analytics & Software
Anduril
Advanced Machines & Intelligence
Branch
Analytics & Software
Cedar
Analytics & Software
Collective Health
Biotechnology & Health
Compass
Analytics & Software
Credit Karma
Consumer Internet & Media
Forward
Biotechnology & Health
Harbor
Analytics & Software
HQ
Consumer Internet & Media
Hubble
Biotechnology & Health
Founders Fund
Company
Peter Thiel
Ken Howery
Luke Nosek
Brian Singerman
Venture capital
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Dawson Sewell
Seeking to explain science and technology through simple writing. - 2
Jed Christiansen
Special Projects & Business Development at Golden, Founder - Seed-DB. - 3
Neelam Jhaveri
Techno Geek + Gamer + Fashionista + Sense of Humor = It's ME - 4
Melanie Manipula
Researcher, writer and a former librarian - 5
Jude Gomila
Founder and CEO of Golden, Entrepreneur. Previously Co Founder of Heyzap. Investor in 100+ companies. Cantabrigian (Gonville and Caius). - 6
Alex Dean
Masters in Biostatistics/Epidemiology @ UC Berkeley | BA in Biology @ Wesleyan University
