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.
Timeline
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
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
Peter Thiel
Ken Howery
Luke Nosek
Brian Singerman
San FranciscoCategories
CompanyA company, abbreviated 'co.', is a legal entity made up of an association of people, be they natural, legal, or a mixture of both, for carrying on a commercial or industrial enterprise.
Venture CapitalA form of financing or funding for emerging companies. Investment on early-stage companies in exchange for equity in the companies they invest in.
Related Topics
Biotechnology
AerospaceEngineering effort to fly in the atmosphere of earth (aeronautics) and surrounding space (astronautics)
Artificial intelligenceArtificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence exhibited by machines.
EnergyQuantitative physical property transferred to objects to perform heating or work on them
Contributors
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Dawson Sewell
Dawson Sewell is a STEM journalist and biologist seeking to explore startups and their technologies. - 2
Melanie Manipula
Researcher, writer and a former librarian - 3
Jude Gomila
Founder and CEO of Golden, Entrepreneur. Previously Co Founder of Heyzap. Investor in 100+ companies. Cantabrigian (Gonville and Caius). - 4
Alex Dean
Masters in Biostatistics/Epi UC Berkeley | BA in Biology Wesleyan