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# Founders Fund
- URL: https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/founders-fund/
- Published: 1999-01-02T16:10:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-21T22:49:50.000Z
- Author: Liam Sturgess
- Tags: Profiles, #docs, #organization

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

## Organization

| Name              | Position             | Notes                                                                                |
| ----------------- | -------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Delian Asparouhov | Partner[\[1\]](#fn1) | Varda Space Industries                                                               |
| Peter Thiel       | Partner[\[2\]](#fn2) | [Palantir Technologies](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Palantir-Technologies) |

### Portfolio

Companies invested in by the Founders Fund include:[\[3\]](#fn3)

- Affirm
- Airbnb
- [Anduril Industries](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Anduril-Industries)
- Asana
- Blend
- Calibrate
- Cedar
- [Facebook](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Facebook)
- Faire
- Figma
- Flexport
- Hive[\[4\]](#fn4)
- Kavak
- LeafLink
- Modern Health
- Mosaic
- Nubank
- OpenSea[\[5\]](#fn5)
- OpenStore
- Oscar
- [Palantir Technologies](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Palantir-Technologies)
- Paxos
- Persona
- [Polychain Capital](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Polychain-Capital)[\[6\]](#fn6)
- PsiQuantum
- Ramp
- Rippling
- Scale
- Solugen
- SpaceX
- Spotify
- Stord
- Stripe
- Sword Health
- Synthego
- Tagomi
- Trade Republic
- Varda
- Wave
- Wish
- Workrise
- Workstream

## External links

- [Campfire Wiki](https://www.campfire.wiki/doku.php?id=founders%5Ffund)
- [Website](https://foundersfund.com/)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founders%5FFund)

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1. *Delian Asparouhov.* Founders Fund. Retrieved July 29, 2024, from <https://web.archive.org/web/20240729220858/https://foundersfund.com/team/delian-asparouhov/> [↩︎](#fnref1)
2. *Peter Thiel.* Founders Fund. Retrieved July 29, 2024, from <https://web.archive.org/web/20240729220952/https://foundersfund.com/team/peter-thiel/> [↩︎](#fnref2)
3. *Portfolio*. Founders Fund. Retrieved November 10, 2022, from <https://web.archive.org/web/20221110034305/https://foundersfund.com/portfolio/> [↩︎](#fnref3)
4. *Series A - Hive - 2016-12-15 - Crunchbase Funding Round Profile.* Crunchbase. Retrieved July 17, 2023, from <https://www.crunchbase.com/funding%5Fround/hive-dc0c-series-a--e140953c> [↩︎](#fnref4)
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/> [↩︎](#fnref5)
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> [↩︎](#fnref6)