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Founders Fund stages, portfolio and investment profile
San Francisco and New York venture firm founded in 2005, backing ambitious founders in deep tech, AI, defense, and space. Known for early bets on Facebook, SpaceX, Palantir, Stripe, and Anduril with $3B+ AUM.
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Stage-based planning range
$1M–$10M
This is a planning range inferred from stage coverage, not a firm-disclosed check size.
Methodology: Stage bucket inferred from the rounds a fund leads or invests in.
No firm-specific check-size disclosure is recorded.
Investment stages
Leads: Series A, Series B+
Participates: Seed, Series A, Series B+
Sector focus
Not recorded
Geography
New York, NY
Founded 2005
Fund size / AUM
$3B+
A separate fund-size evidence record is not yet available.
Portfolio in our directory
70
Linked startup profiles
Recent tracked investment
Not recorded
No dated round explicitly links this fund.
Rounds they lead
Rounds they invest
Last verified: Not recorded. Check-size evidence is labeled by basis so planning estimates are not presented as firm disclosures.
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Recent investments, portfolio developments and our research on this investor.
Portfolio companies we track
Startups in our directory that list Founders Fund as an investor (24 total).
- Affirm Public buy-now-pay-later lender founded by Max Levchin (NASDAQ: AFRM).
- Airbnb Global marketplace connecting guests with short-term stays and experiences.
- AirGarage Full-stack parking management platform for commercial real estate owners.
- AltSchool Personalized K-8 micro-school network and edtech platform (later Altitude Learning).
- Amca Integrated aerospace and defense manufacturing platform for critical components.
- Anduril Software-defined defense systems — drones, counter-UAS, and autonomous military platforms.
- Arda Industries AI software for manufacturing engineering and assembly planning.
- Armada Modular edge AI data centers and full-stack edge computing platform.
- Asana Work management and team collaboration software.
- Automatic OBD-II connected car adapters and apps for diagnostics, safety, and usage-based insurance.
- Black Ore Technologies AI platform automating tax prep and financial-services workflows (Tax Autopilot).
- Blend Labs Digital lending platform for mortgages and consumer banking (NYSE: BLND).
- Bonfire Studios Independent game studio (Arkheron) from former Blizzard VP Rob Pardo.
- Branch Mobile deep-linking and attribution infrastructure (Branch.io).
- BuildZoom Data-driven marketplace matching homeowners with licensed contractors.
- Cadre Institutional real-estate investing marketplace (acquired by Yieldstreet).
- Cantina AI Social AI platform for persistent characters across voice, video, and text (Cantina).
- Cedar Patient financial engagement platform simplifying medical billing for health systems.
- Cognition Autonomous AI software engineer Devin — agents that code, debug, and ship production software for enterprises.
- Covenant Defense startup that unveiled Anthem, a heavy-payload cruise missile, with $250M lifetime capital disclosed — not a dated September round; no valuation.
- Dynamic Web3 wallet authentication SDK — embedded wallets and passkey onboarding (acquired by Fireblocks, 2025).
- Dynamic Labs, Inc. Legal entity for Dynamic wallet auth SDK (acquired by Fireblocks, Oct 2025).
- Eco Digital wallet and savings platform with crypto-linked rewards.
- Endurance Energy Develops modular seafloor geothermal generators for coastal and industrial electricity demand.
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