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The Presidio of San Francisco
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The Founders Fund

Founders Fund is a venture capital firm in San Francisco that focuses on early-stage technology investments in the $500K-$5M range. It also operates FF Angel LLC, a seed fund that invests in the $50K-250K range; and jointly with Accel and Facebook it operates fbFund, a micro-seed fund that invests in Facebook-related startups.

In December 2007 the fund closed a $220 million second fund.

Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
Credit Karma 11/09Series A$2.5M5
Mint.com 8/09Series C$14M6
CoTweet 7/09Series A$1.1M6
OLX 5/09Series C$5M5
Twilio 3/09Seed5
Geni 1/09Series C$5M2
Yammer 1/09Series A$5M2
CrowdFlower 2009Unattributed$1.2M8
Topsy 12/08Series B$11M4
ooma 9/08Series C$16M6
Raptr 9/08Series A$9M2
SpaceX 8/08Series A$20M1
Clickable 7/08Series B$14.5M3
Frogmetrics 6/08Unattributed3
Social Gaming Network 5/08Series A$15M4
OLX 4/08Series B$13.5M4
Causes 3/08Series B$5M1
Zivity 3/08Series B$7M2
Alamofire 2/08Series A$2M2
Quantcast 1/08Series B$20M2
Inigral 11/07Seed$580k1
OLX 9/07Series A$10M4
Powerset 6/07Series A$12.5M5
Quantcast 3/07Series A$5.7M2
Geni 1/07Series A$1.5M1
Causes 1/07Series A$2.35M2
ooma 12/06Series B$18M5
Slide 11/06Series C$20M4
Engage 7/06Series A$5M4
Facebook 4/06Series B$27.5M3
Slide 7/05Series B$8M2
YouNoodle 3/03Series A$20k3
Rapleaf Series A2

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Added: 1/30/09

Sources

  1. Credit Karma Raises $2.5 Million To Take The Mystery Out Of Credit Scores (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. Personal Finance Startup Mint Raises $14 Million (techcrunch.com) []
  3. 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]
  4. Craigslist Competitor OLX Scores $5 Million For Online Classifieds (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  5. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  6. Geni Gets Another $5 Million for Social Networking and Genealogy Site: What About Yammer? (readwriteweb.com) [edit]
  7. Yammer Raises $5 Million For Workgroup Micro-Messaging (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  8. Crowdflower Communication [edit]
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  10. Ooma gets $16M in 3rd round (washington.bizjournals.com) [edit]
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  12. spacex.com [edit]
  13. Clickable Raises $14.5 Million More For Online Ad Management (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  14. FF Investment Frogmetrics (foundersfund.com) [edit]
  15. Paidcontent article (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  16. International Classifieds Site OLX Raises $13.5 Million Funding (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  17. Project Agape Raises $5 Million Second Round For Online Social Activism (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  18. Adult Social Net Zivity Raises $7 Million Second Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  19. Social Gamer AlamoFire Gets $2 Million First Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  20. Quantcast Closes $20 million Series B (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  21. pehub.com [edit]
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  23. powerset.com [edit]
  24. Quantcast, traffic measuring company, raises about $5.7M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
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  26. Project Agape, formerly known as Philotic, raises $2.35M, for good causes (venturebeat.com) [edit]
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  28. techcrunch.com []
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  30. Facebook Funding (facebook.com) []
  31. mashable.com []
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