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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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.
FinSMEs
August 26, 2021
FinSMEs
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
Reza Chowdhury
May 7, 2021
AlleyWatch
The Pulse of New York Tech
Reza Chowdhury
May 6, 2021
AlleyWatch
The Pulse of New York Tech
AlleyWatch
May 1, 2021
AlleyWatch
The Pulse of New York Tech
Ingrid Lunden
April 29, 2021
TechCrunch
Gaming and streamed video have been two of the biggest pastime winners during the last year+ of pandemic living. Today a startup that has created an app that brings those two entertainment formats together is announcing a notable seed round of funding as it prepares to come out of closed beta. PortalOne, a hybrid gaming [...]
Ingrid Lunden
April 29, 2021
TechCrunch
Gaming and streamed video have been two of the biggest pastime winners during the last year+ of pandemic living. Today a startup that has created an app that brings those two entertainment formats together is announcing a notable seed round of funding as it prepares to come out of closed beta. PortalOne, a hybrid gaming [...]
Brittany Chang
April 23, 2021
Business Insider
Regent's Seaglider will be able to shuttle passengers from Boston to New York or Los Angeles to San Francisco potentially by 2025.
Replica
April 21, 2021
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/PRNewswire/ -- Replica, the data platform that makes complex, rapidly-changing urban ecosystems easier to understand, today announced that it has secured $41...
Samantha Hurst
April 9, 2021
Crowdfund Insider
Click HERE to find out ⭐ Mexico-Based E-Commerce For Cars Platform KAVAK Raises $485 Million Through Series D Funding Round Led By D1 Capital Partners, Founders Fund, Ribbit, & BOND. | Crowdfund Insider: Global Fintech News, including Crowdfunding, Blockchain and more.
AlleyWatch
March 29, 2021
AlleyWatch
The Pulse of New York Tech
AlleyWatch
April 5, 2021
AlleyWatch
The Pulse of New York Tech
Heather Landi
March 1, 2021
FierceHealthcare
Ensoma banked $70 million to advance genomic medicine, Innovaccer joined the ranks of digital health unicorns with a $105 million funding round, and more funding news in February.
Heather Landi
February 11, 2021
FierceHealthcare
Riding the wave of investor interest in virtual behavioral health startups, Modern Health has closed a $74 million Series D investment round. This latest investment brings the company's total funding to over $170 million in less than two years and raises its valuation to $1.17 billion.
Christine Hall
February 3, 2021
Crunchbase News
Garner's platform analyzes large amounts of medical insurance claims to identify the highest quality doctors in a city or neighborhood.
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