Founders Fund

The Founders Fund is an American venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California.

Organization

Name Position Notes
Delian Asparouhov Partner[1] Varda Space Industries
Peter Thiel Partner[2] Palantir Technologies

Portfolio

Companies invested in by the Founders Fund include:[3]

  • Affirm
  • Airbnb
  • Anduril Industries
  • Asana
  • Blend
  • Calibrate
  • Cedar
  • Facebook
  • Faire
  • Figma
  • Flexport
  • Hive[4]
  • Kavak
  • LeafLink
  • Modern Health
  • Mosaic
  • Nubank
  • OpenSea[5]
  • OpenStore
  • Oscar
  • Palantir Technologies
  • Paxos
  • Persona
  • Polychain Capital[6]
  • PsiQuantum
  • Ramp
  • Rippling
  • Scale
  • Solugen
  • SpaceX
  • Spotify
  • Stord
  • Stripe
  • Sword Health
  • Synthego
  • Tagomi
  • Trade Republic
  • Varda
  • Wave
  • Wish
  • Workrise
  • Workstream

  1. Delian Asparouhov. Founders Fund. Retrieved July 29, 2024, from https://web.archive.org/web/20240729220858/https://foundersfund.com/team/delian-asparouhov/ ↩︎

  2. Peter Thiel. Founders Fund. Retrieved July 29, 2024, from https://web.archive.org/web/20240729220952/https://foundersfund.com/team/peter-thiel/ ↩︎

  3. Portfolio. Founders Fund. Retrieved November 10, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221110034305/https://foundersfund.com/portfolio/ ↩︎

  4. Series A - Hive - 2016-12-15 - Crunchbase Funding Round Profile. Crunchbase. Retrieved July 17, 2023, from https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/hive-dc0c-series-a--e140953c ↩︎

  5. Matney, L. (2021, March 18). NFT marketplace OpenSea raises $23 million from a16z. TechCrunch. https://web.archive.org/web/20230412065729/https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/18/nft-marketplace-opensea-raises-23-million-from-a16z/ ↩︎

  6. Deveau, S., & Pearson, N. O. (2018, January 29). Crypto Hedge Fund Polychain Says It Won’t Proceed With IPO. Bloomberg. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-29/crypto-hedge-fund-polychain-said-to-plan-ipo-in-canada#xj4y7vzkg ↩︎

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