Founders Fund

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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People

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Aaron VanDevender

Chief Scientist and Principle

Brian Singerman

Partner

Cyan Banister

Partner

Eric Scott

Principle

Erin Gleason Lane

Vice President of Communications

Documentaries, videos and podcasts

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Affirm

Consumer Internet & Media

Airbnb

Consumer Internet & Media

AltSchool

Analytics & Software

Anduril

Advanced Machines & Intelligence

Asana

Analytics & Software

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News

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Health tech funding snapshot--Oprah backs Maven Clinic; Whoop scores $200M to build out fitness tracking tech

Heather Landi

September 8, 2021

FierceHealthcare

Equum Medical pulled in $20 million to build out acute care telehealth, Oprah Winfrey backs Maven Clinic's $110 million round, a startup that developed a voice vital sign to quantify depression banked $26 million and other funding news in August.

Workstream Raises $48M in Series B Funding

FinSMEs

August 26, 2021

FinSMEs

Dover raises $20M to bring the concept of 'orchestration' to recruitment

Ingrid Lunden

July 19, 2021

TechCrunch

Despite being one of the earliest adopters of using the world wide web to disrupt how its business is done and connect with more potential customers, the recruitment industry ironically remains one of the more fragmented and behind the times when it comes to using new, cloud based services to work more efficiently. A new [...]

Pietra raises $15M from Founders Fund to help creators launch their own product lines

Lucas Matney

June 30, 2021

TechCrunch

In the white-hot creator economy space, startups are increasingly looking to build paint-by-numbers platforms to help budding creators more easily execute on what were once seemingly insurmountable business challenges. The ex-Uber team at Pietra is cashing in on this vision with a plan to build a backend for launching and scaling creator product lines. The [...]

Miami VCs and startup founders share where they go to eat, drink, and get deals done

Candy Cheng

May 21, 2021

Business Insider

Insider spent several days in Miami, getting a sense of where VCs and startup founders regularly go to grab coffee, dine and talk business.