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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Bolt ThreadsBolt Threads is a biotechnology company that makes high performance fabrics and materials using biology.
Fashion
Synthetic biology
Cellular agriculture
Emeryville, California
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.
Public transport
TwilioA cloud communications platform for building SMS, Voice & Messaging applications on an API built for global scale that was founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Application programming interface (API)
Telecommunication
San Francisco
California
United States
FlexportFlexport is a licensed freight forwarder and shipping company based in San Francisco, CA, USA. They manage global logistics for businesses.
Logistics
Supply chain management
TranscripticA biotechnology company that has built a robotic cloud lab which allows on-demand services for biology laboratories.
Biotechnology
NubankNubank is a financial technology company based in Brazil.
Financial technology
Financial services
São Paulo
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.
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
Blend (company)Blend invites companies that service the mortgage industry to sell digital tools--APIs--through its platform.
Big data
Bitcoin
Blockchain
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
The Long-Term Stock ExchangeThe Long-Term Stock Exchange is a financial services company and Securities Exchange.
Collective HealthAn insurance technology offering a platform for companies to manage health insurance policies for their employees.
Wild Earth (company)Company using cellular agriculture to produce pet food.
Pet food
Food technology
Berkeley, California
QuidA business intelligence company offering an artificially intelligent analytics web-based software platform .
Artificial intelligence (AI)
RigUpA technology company offering a platform for supporting the energy workforce.
Energy industry
Austin, Texas
Unity BiotechnologyA biotechnology company developing drugs and treatments to diminish negative health effects associated with aging.
Drug discovery
Therapy
Brisbane, California
Practice FusionPractice Fusion is a San Francisco-based company founded by Matthew Douglass, Jonathan Malek and Ryan Howard.
Electronic health record
Powerset (company)A company that created an internet search engine. It was started in 2005 and acquired by Microsoft in 2008.
Internet
SynthegoSilicon Valley-based genetic engineering startup.
CTRL-labsCTRL-labs develops brain-machine interface technology.
Neuroscience
Machine learning
Manhattan
Asana (software)Asana provides a project management platform to organize and plan workflows.
ZocdocZocdoc is a company an online medical care appointment booking service.
Roivant SciencesRoivant Sciences is a pharmaceutical company founded by Vivek Ramaswarmy. It focuses on the discovery and development of late-stage drug candidates.
Pharmaceutical industry
Hamilton, Bermuda
Affirm (company)Affirm is a financial technology services company offering installment loans to consumers at the point of sale.
Associated investment funds
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
Cloud9
Consumer Internet & Media
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
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Ken Howery
Luke Nosek
Brian Singerman
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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. Investor in 100+ companies. Cantabrigian (Gonville and Caius). Interested in the universe. - 6
Mevludin Mešanović
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering - 7
Alex Dean
Masters in Biostatistics/Epidemiology @ UC Berkeley | BA in Biology @ Wesleyan University - 8
Edita Rexha
Third-year student at the University of Prishtina
Founders Fund
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Categories
Related Topics
Contributors
- 1
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. Investor in 100+ companies. Cantabrigian (Gonville and Caius). Interested in the universe. - 6
Mevludin Mešanović
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering - 7
Alex Dean
Masters in Biostatistics/Epidemiology @ UC Berkeley | BA in Biology @ Wesleyan University - 8
Edita Rexha
Third-year student at the University of Prishtina