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Founded7/05
DescriptionMulti-Stage Venture Capital

Funds

Total$1.15B
Founders Fund III, 1/10 $250M
Founders Fund II, 1/07 $220M
Founders Fund I, 1/05 $50M
Founders Fund IV, 12/11 $625M

Offices

HQ
One Letterman Drive, Building C, Suite 420
The Presidio of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA, 94129
USA

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Founders Fund

Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm which invests at every stage in companies with revolutionary technologies. The firm’s six partners, Peter Thiel, Sean Parker, Ken Howery, Luke Nosek, Bruce Gibney, and Brian Singerman have been founders of or early investors in numerous well-known companies such as Facebook, PayPal, Napster, and Palantir Technologies. Founders Fund was formed in 2005 and has launched four funds to date with more than $1 billion in aggregate capital under management.

Recent Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
BitPay 5/13Seed$2M1
Natera 5/13Venture Round$54.6M6
Upstart 4/13Series A$5.9M7
Postmates 3/13Venture Round$5M3
Domo 3/13Series B$60M6
StartX 2/13Venture Round$400k4
Lyft 1/13Series B$15M4
Ringadoc 1/13Seed$1.2M2
Leap Motion 1/13Series B$30M2
Urban Compass 12/12Seed$8M4
theAudience 11/12Series A$20M5
Oyster 10/12Venture Round$3M5
Tribogenics 9/12Series A$6.2M1
Wallaby Financial 8/12Seed$1.1M6
Vicarious 8/12Series A$15M5
Asana 7/12Series B$28M4
TaskRabbit 7/12Series C$13M6
Jawfish Games 7/12Angel$2.6M1
Betable 7/12Seed10
Practice Fusion 6/12Series C$34M11
The Climate Corporation 6/12Series C$50M8
Brit + Co. 4/12Seed$1.25M6
Cherry 4/12Series A$4.5M5
StyleSeat 3/12Seed$775k5
Yammer 2/12Series E$85M12
ResearchGate 2/12Series B6
Backplane 2/12Venture Round$4M5
Prior Knowledge 2/12Seed$1.4M1
ooma 1/12Venture Round$17.3M2
AppCard 2012Series A$6.5M4
TwitSpark 1/12Seed$1.13M5
PharmacoFore 12/11Series A$10M1
100Plus 11/11Venture Round$500k1
GoodRx 11/11Seed$1.5M7
Clickable 10/11Series C$12M4
Knewton 10/11Series D$33M5
BillGuard 10/11Series B$10M8
Airtime 10/11Series A$8.3M16
Practice Fusion 9/11Venture Round$6M9
Rapleaf 9/11Venture Round$1M4
Moat 8/11Angel$1.5M8
Azumio 7/11Series A$2.5M3
Quid 7/11Series C$10M6
Leap Motion 6/11Seed$1.3M5
Portalarium 6/11Venture Round3
Ostrovok 5/11Series A$13.6M14
140 Proof 4/11Series B$2.5M4
Practice Fusion 4/11Series B$23M5
Topsy Labs 3/11Series C$15M5
Lumier 3/11Angel$350k7
Inigral 2/11Series B$4M3
Lascaux Co. 12/10Grant$100k1
Yammer 11/10Series C$25M4
Space Exploration Technologies 11/10Series C$50M3
Estately 11/10Angel$800k5
Path 11/10Angel$2.5M28
Causes 10/10Series C$9M2
bitly 10/10Series B$10M10
Votizen 9/10Venture Round$1.5M13
HipChat 8/10Angel$100k3
fflick 8/10Angel2
ZocDoc 7/10Series B$15M3
Palantir Technologies 6/10Series D$90M6
SendGrid 4/10Series A$5M10
Worldly Developments 3/10Seed$800k14
Spotify 2/10Series C€11.6M2
YouNoodle 1/10Series A3
Quantcast 1/10Series C$27.5M5
CarWoo! 1/10Seed$300k13
Twilio 12/09Series A$3.7M6
Credit Karma 11/09Series A$2.5M5
Mint.com 8/09Series C$14M6
CoTweet 7/09Series A$1.1M6
140 Proof 7/09Series A$3M2
OLX 5/09Series C$5M5
Geni 1/09Series C$5M2
Yammer 1/09Series A$5M2
Topsy Labs 12/08Series B$11M4
ooma 9/08Series C$16M6
Raptr 9/08Series A$9M2
Space Exploration Technologies 8/08Series A$20M1
Clickable 7/08Series B$14.5M3
Frogmetrics 6/08Venture Round4
Social Gaming Network 5/08Series A$15M4
OLX 4/08Series B$13.5M4
Zivity 3/08Series A$7M2
Causes 3/08Series B$5M1
Gowalla 2/08Series A$2M2
Quantcast 1/08Series B$20M2
SmartDrive Systems 11/07Series D$46M6
Inigral 11/07Seed$580k1
OLX 9/07Series A$10M4
Rapleaf 6/07Series B3
Powerset 6/07Series A$12.5M5
Quantcast 3/07Series A$5.7M2
SmartDrive Systems 1/07Series C4
Causes 1/07Series A$2.35M4
Geni 1/07Series A$1.5M1
ooma 12/06Series B$18M6
Slide 11/06Series C$20M4
Engage 7/06Series A$5M3
Facebook 4/06Series B$27.5M4
Slide 7/05Series B$8M2

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  4. Founders Fund Closes Fourth Suite of Funds at $625M (finsmes.com) [edit]
  5. ecommerce Comment 8 With PayPal-Like Ambitions For Bitcoin, BitPay Raises $2M Led By Founders Fund (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  6. Natera Completes $54.6M Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
  7. Upstart, A Site For Crowdfunding People, Raises $5.9M From First Round, Eric Schmidt, And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  8. To Expand Into Seattle And Beyond, Postmates Has Raised $5 Million From Founders Fund And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  9. Domo Closes $60 Million Series B Financing, Bringing Total Funding To More Than $125 Million (domo.com) [edit]
  10. Stanford Student Startup Accelerator StartX Raises Another $400,000, Bringing Total Funding To About $1.5 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  11. Ahead Of Expansion, Lyft Parent Zimride Closed $15M In New Funding From Founders Fund And Existing Investors (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  12. Ringadoc Raises $1.2M From Founders Fund’s FF Angel To Connect Doctors With Patients On-Demand (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  13. Leap Motion Raises $30M More For Its Gesture-Based Controller, Announces Bundling Deal With Asus (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  14. With $8M In Seed Funding From Founders Fund, Goldman Sachs; Urban Compass Wants To Build A Hyper-Local, Human-Powered Database (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  15. Sean Parker, Ari Emanuel And Oliver Luckett’s theAudience Raises $20M To Help Celebs Navigate Social Media (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  16. Oyster raises $3 million from Founders Fund for “Spotify for books” (pandodaily.com) [edit]
  17. Tribogenics Raises $6.2 Million Series A Round Led by Founders Fund (finance.yahoo.com) [edit]
  18. Wallaby Raises $1.1 Million For Cloud-Based, Universal Credit Card (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  19. Vicarious Raises $15M Led By Dustin Moskovitz’s Good Ventures To Build Software That ‘Learns Like A Human’ (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  20. Workplace Collaboration Tool Asana Raises $28M At A $280M Valuation (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  21. TaskRabbit Gets $13M From Founders Fund And Others To “Revolutionize The World’s Labor Force” (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  22. Bridge Funding (jawfishgames.com) [edit]
  23. Betable Brings Legal Gambling Mechanics To Social Game Developers (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  24. Practice Fusion Pulls In $34M Series C Led By Artis To Crush The Other Electronic Medical Record Startups (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  25. The Climate Corporation Raises $50M For Big Data Driven Weather Insurance (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  26. Brit Morin Engages $1.25M From Marissa Mayer, Aileen Lee, Founders Fund And More To Launch Her First App, Weduary (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  27. Shasta Ventures, Founders Fund Put $4.5 Million In The Uber For Carwashes, Cherry (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  28. StyleSeat Looking Pretty With $775K From Founders Fund, Ashton Kutcher (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
  29. Enterprise Social Networking Platform Yammer Raises $85M From DFJ Growth, Khosla, And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  30. Founders Fund Invests in ResearchGate, The Professional Network For Scientists (researchgate.net) [edit]
  31. Lady Gaga-Backed Backplane Raises Over $4M From Sequoia & More; Acquires Sharing Platform Cortex (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  32. Exclusive: Prior Knowledge wants to be your data oracle (gigaom.com) [edit]
  33. Ooma Raises $17.3 Million For Its “Free” Home Calling Service (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  34. thenextweb.com [edit]
  35. De Standaard (standaard.be) [edit]
  36. PharmacoFore, Inc.: Series A $10M (onbiovc.com) [edit]
  37. 100Plus Receives Initial Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  38. GoodRx Grabs $1M+ From SV Angel, Founders Fund & More To Help You Find Cheap Prescription Drugs (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  39. AmEx Leads $12 Million Round In Clickable, Which Wants To "Become The AdWords Of Social" (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  40. Founders Fund Leads $33 Million D Round In Learning Startup Knewton (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  41. Khosla, Founders Fund, and Eric Schmidt Put $10 Million Into BillGuard (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  42. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  43. Practice Fusion Announces New Investors Helping to Drive Health Tech Innovation (practicefusion.com) [edit]
  44. RapLeaf announces $1M fund for data personalization apps (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  45. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  46. Azumio Raises $2.5M in Series A Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  47. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  48. OcuSpec Raises 1.3M From Andreessen And Others To Build An "Affordable Kinect" (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  49. Austin-based Portalarium Secures Funds From London-based m8 Capital For Mobile Social Games (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  50. Ostrovok Raises $13.6M in Series A Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  51. 140 Proof Closes $2.5M Series B Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  52. Free Electronic Medical Records Service Practice Fusion Raises $23 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  53. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  54. Secretive Seattle Startup Lumier Co. Raises Top Tier Angel Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  55. Inigral Raises $4m in Series B Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
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  57. Enterprise Social Networking Platform Yammer Grabs $25 Million In New Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  58. Investors Throw Another $50 Million Into SpaceX (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  59. Estately Raises $800K; Now Allows Users To Search For Homes Based On School Districts (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  61. Causes Raises Another $9 Million To Help Spread Philanthropy Online (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  62. Bit.ly Raises $10 Million Series B, Still Growing Like Crazy (technews-vn.blogspot.com) []
  63. Votizen Raises $1.5 Million To Make Sure Government Representatives Hear Your Voice (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  64. HipChat raises funding for better business chatting (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
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  66. Khosla Ventures And Founders Fund Invest $15M In Health Appointment Platform ZocDoc (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  67. Palantir: The Next Billion-Dollar Company Raises $90 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  68. SendGrid Raises $5 Million, Sends A Bajillion E-mails (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  72. Quantcast Raises $27.5 Million Third Round Led By Cisco (paidcontent.org) [edit]
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  74. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  75. Credit Karma Raises $2.5 Million To Take The Mystery Out Of Credit Scores (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  76. Personal Finance Startup Mint Raises $14 Million (techcrunch.com) []
  77. View my * My Posts * Facebook * Twitter * Friendfeed * LinkedIn * Digg * CoTweet Now in Public Beta; Get the Same Twitter CRM Tools as Big Brands (mashable.com) [edit]
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  79. Craigslist Competitor OLX Scores $5 Million For Online Classifieds (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  80. Geni Gets Another $5 Million for Social Networking and Genealogy Site: What About Yammer? (readwriteweb.com) [edit]
  81. Yammer Raises $5 Million For Workgroup Micro-Messaging (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  82. Topsy Bets On Real-Time Twitter Search With $15M Backing (blogs.wsj.com) [edit]
  83. Ooma gets $16M in 3rd round (washington.bizjournals.com) [edit]
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  86. Clickable Raises $14.5 Million More For Online Ad Management (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  87. FF Investment Frogmetrics (foundersfund.com) [edit]
  88. Paidcontent article (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  89. International Classifieds Site OLX Raises $13.5 Million Funding (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  90. No Longer Under Age: Zivity Takes $7 Million In Venture Financing For Adult Content Social Network (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  91. Project Agape Raises $5 Million Second Round For Online Social Activism (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  92. Social Gamer AlamoFire Gets $2 Million First Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  93. Quantcast Closes $20 million Series B (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  94. FleetOwner (fleetowner.com) [edit]
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  97. Rapleaf Secures Venture Capital Funding (rapleaf.com) [edit]
  98. powerset.com [edit]
  99. Quantcast, traffic measuring company, raises about $5.7M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  100. Clarium Ventures (clariumventures.net) [edit]
  101. Project Agape, formerly known as Philotic, raises $2.35M, for good causes (venturebeat.com) [edit]
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