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Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies.

About Founders Fund Stock

Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm that invests at every stage in companies building revolutionary technologies. The firm and its partners have been investors, founders, and early employees of prominent technology companies including PayPal, Facebook, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), and Palantir Technologies. Founders Fund was formed in 2005 and has raised five funds to date with more than $2 billion in aggregate capital under management. The firm has historically invested in a wide variety of sectors, including aerospace, artificial intelligence, advanced computing, energy, health, and consumer Internet.

Management

Serial Entrepreneur & Managing Partner Emeritus

Sean Parker

Co-Founder & Partner

Luke Nosek

Partner

Scott Nolan

Director of Communications

Erin Gleason

Partner

Geoff Lewis

Accounting Manager

Denny Lai

CFO

Neil Ruthven

Principal

Napoleon Ta

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Ken Howery

General Counsel

Neil Pai

Press

VC Daily: Tokenizing Real Estate; Hunkering Down for ‘Crypto Winter’

Wall Streets Journal - Nov, 28 2018

Bunch scores $3.8M to turn mobile games into video chat LAN parties

TechCrunch - Nov, 15 2018

Elon Musk’s New Boring Co. Faced Questions Over SpaceX Financial Ties

Wall Streets Journal - Dec, 17 2018

Synapse raises $6M to bring neural net weapon detection to x-ray machines

TechCrunch - Jan, 3 2019

Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures targets $350M for new funds

TechCrunch - Jan, 14 2019

Austin in January: Cash rich and maturing

TechCrunch - Feb, 2 2019

Ritual raises $25M for its subscription-based women’s daily vitamin

TechCrunch - Feb, 5 2019

Instagram's Favorite Multivitamin Ritual Just Raised $25 Million To 'Stay The Course'

Forbes - Feb, 5 2019

Teckro scores $25M Series C round to speed up clinical trials

TechCrunch - Feb, 14 2019

Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund just invested in a women’s fashion brand

Fast Company - Feb, 14 2019

Indonesia-focused Intudo Ventures raises new $50M fund

TechCrunch - Feb, 13 2019

The “PayPal Mafia” is teaming up once again at Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund

Recode - Feb, 20 2019

Keith Rabois joins Founders Fund amid transition at the firm

TechCrunch - Feb, 20 2019

Founders Fund, a Premier Venture Firm in Transition, Has Outsize Returns

Wall Streets Journal - Feb, 26 2019

Morphin instantly Deepfakes your face into GIFs

TechCrunch - Mar, 20 2019

Founders Fund invests in Tibber, a Norwegian AI to smartly manage energy

TechCrunch - Mar, 19 2019

Top 4 Reasons Franchises Are The MVP Of Esports

Forbes - Mar, 28 2019

Expanse, which lets its customers know when their digital assets aren’t safe, has raised $70 million in new funding

TechCrunch - Apr, 9 2019

VC Firms Polish Their Own Brands to Chase the Next Consumer Hit

Wall Streets Journal - May, 2 2019

Startups Weekly: VCs are drunk on beverage startups

TechCrunch - May, 25 2019

This Under 30 Startup Just Raised Another $32 Million To Manufacture Chemicals With Bacteria

Forbes - May, 22 2019

Maisie Williams’ talent discovery startup Daisie raises $2.5 million, hits 100K members

TechCrunch - May, 20 2019

Making The Oil Patch A Little Greener: Plant-Based Cleaner Manufacturer In Growth Mode

Forbes - Jun, 7 2019

Heeding The Call For Better Technology, Dollars Flow Into 911 Communications

Forbes - Jul, 16 2019

Keith Rabois, BoxGroup back New York-based Brex competitor

TechCrunch - Aug, 8 2019

Scale AI and its 22-year-old CEO lock down $100 million to label Silicon Valley’s data

TechCrunch - Aug, 5 2019

SexTech, Kobalt, sales efficiency, philanthropy and ethics, Brexit, and startup growth tactics

TechCrunch - Sep, 14 2019

OpenGov raises $51M to boost its cloud-based IT services for government and civic organizations

TechCrunch - Sep, 3 2019

Facebook buys startup building neural monitoring armband

TechCrunch - Sep, 23 2019

Growth is out, profitability is in

TechCrunch - Oct, 25 2019

Modern Animal raises $13.5 million to make going to the vet suck less

TechCrunch - Oct, 24 2019

Koio, the D2C luxury sneaker brand, raises $6 million

TechCrunch - Oct, 22 2019

Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund Builds New War Chest in Strategy Shift

Wall Streets Journal - Oct, 21 2019

YouTube founder secretly building sports fan game GreenPark

TechCrunch - Oct, 21 2019

Faire, A Wholesale Marketplace, Notches $1 Billion Valuation

Forbes - Oct, 30 2019

Roof’s Take: SoftBank Needs to Win Back Trust of Venture Investors

Wall Streets Journal - Nov, 14 2019

Remrise Emerges From Stealth With $8.2 Million In Funding To Help You (Naturally) Get More Zzzs

Forbes - Nov, 20 2019

Luko raises $22 million to improve home insurance

TechCrunch - Nov, 18 2019

What Makes a ‘Narrative Violation’?

New York Times - Nov, 26 2019

Meet Mira: The App Intersecting Beauty And Artificial Intelligence

Forbes - Dec, 4 2019

Practice Fusion, once backed by top VCs, pushed doctors to prescribe opioids in kickback scheme

TechCrunch - Jan, 27 2020

Eight Sleep CEO says his startup is more than a mattress company

TechCrunch - Feb, 12 2020

The Org nabs $8.5M led by Founders Fund to build a global database of company org charts

TechCrunch - Feb, 19 2020

Founders Fund confirms $3 billion in new capital across two funds

TechCrunch - Feb, 19 2020

Cyan Banister leaves Founders Fund for Long Journey Ventures

TechCrunch - Mar, 2 2020

A Massive Opportunity Exists To Build “Picks And Shovels” For Machine Learning

Forbes - Mar, 23 2020

Trade Republic, a German Robinhood, raises $67M led by Accel and Founders Fund

TechCrunch - Apr, 16 2020

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