| Website | foundersfund.com |
| Blog | foundersfund.com/... |
| @foundersfund | |
| Employees | |
| Description | Multi-Stage Venture Capital |
| Total | $1.15B |
| Founders Fund III, 2010 | $250M |
| Founders Fund II, 2007 | $220M |
| Founders Fund I, 2005 | $50M |
| Founders Fund IV, 12/11 | $625M |
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.
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| ooma | 1/12 | Unattributed | $17.3M | 2 |
| PharmacoFore | 12/11 | Series A | $10M | 1 |
| 100Plus | 11/11 | Unattributed | $500k | 1 |
| Clickable | 10/11 | Series C | $12M | 4 |
| Knewton | 10/11 | Series D | $33M | 5 |
| Airtime | 10/11 | Series A | $8.3M | 14 |
| BillGuard | 10/11 | Series B | $10M | 8 |
| Practice Fusion | 9/11 | Unattributed | $6M | 9 |
| Rapleaf | 9/11 | Unattributed | $1M | 5 |
| Moat | 8/11 | Angel | $1.5M | 7 |
| Azumio | 7/11 | Series A | $2.5M | 3 |
| Quid | 7/11 | Series C | $10M | 6 |
| OcuSpec | 6/11 | Seed | $1.3M | 5 |
| Ostrovok | 5/11 | Series A | $13.6M | 14 |
| 140 Proof | 4/11 | Series B | $2.5M | 4 |
| Practice Fusion | 4/11 | Series B | $23M | 5 |
| Topsy | 3/11 | Series C | $15M | 5 |
| Lumier | 3/11 | Angel | $350k | 7 |
| Inigral | 2/11 | Series B | $4M | 3 |
| Lascaux Co. | 12/10 | Grant | $100k | 1 |
| Yammer | 11/10 | Series C | $25M | 4 |
| Space Exploration Technologies | 11/10 | Series C | $50M | 3 |
| Estately | 11/10 | Angel | $800k | 5 |
| Path | 11/10 | Angel | $2.5M | 27 |
| Causes | 10/10 | Series C | $9M | 2 |
| bitly | 10/10 | Series B | $10M | 10 |
| Votizen | 9/10 | Unattributed | $1.5M | 13 |
| HipChat | 8/10 | Angel | $100k | 3 |
| fflick | 8/10 | Angel | 2 | |
| ZocDoc | 7/10 | Series B | $15M | 3 |
| Palantir Technologies | 6/10 | Series D | $90M | 6 |
| SendGrid | 4/10 | Series A | $5M | 10 |
| Worldly Developments | 3/10 | Seed | $800k | 14 |
| Spotify | 2/10 | Series C | €11.6M | 2 |
| YouNoodle | 1/10 | Series A | 3 | |
| Quantcast | 1/10 | Series C | $27.5M | 4 |
| CarWoo! | 1/10 | Seed | $300k | 12 |
| Twilio | 12/09 | Series A | $3.7M | 6 |
| Credit Karma | 11/09 | Series A | $2.5M | 5 |
| Mint.com | 8/09 | Series C | $14M | 6 |
| CoTweet | 7/09 | Series A | $1.1M | 6 |
| OLX | 5/09 | Series C | $5M | 5 |
| Yammer | 1/09 | Series A | $5M | 2 |
| Geni | 1/09 | Series C | $5M | 2 |
| Topsy | 12/08 | Series B | $11M | 4 |
| ooma | 9/08 | Series C | $16M | 6 |
| Raptr | 9/08 | Series A | $9M | 2 |
| Space Exploration Technologies | 8/08 | Series A | $20M | 1 |
| Clickable | 7/08 | Series B | $14.5M | 3 |
| Frogmetrics | 6/08 | Unattributed | 4 | |
| Social Gaming Network | 5/08 | Series A | $15M | 4 |
| OLX | 4/08 | Series B | $13.5M | 4 |
| Zivity | 3/08 | Series A | $7M | 2 |
| Causes | 3/08 | Series B | $5M | 1 |
| Gowalla | 2/08 | Series A | $2M | 2 |
| Quantcast | 1/08 | Series B | $20M | 2 |
| SmartDrive Systems | 11/07 | Series D | $46M | 6 |
| Inigral | 11/07 | Seed | $580k | 1 |
| OLX | 9/07 | Series A | $10M | 4 |
| Rapleaf | 6/07 | Series B | 2 | |
| Powerset | 6/07 | Series A | $12.5M | 5 |
| Quantcast | 3/07 | Series A | $5.7M | 2 |
| SmartDrive Systems | 1/07 | Series C | 4 | |
| Geni | 1/07 | Series A | $1.5M | 1 |
| Causes | 1/07 | Series A | $2.35M | 4 |
| ooma | 12/06 | Series B | $18M | 5 |
| Slide | 11/06 | Series C | $20M | 4 |
| Engage | 7/06 | Series A | $5M | 3 |
| 4/06 | Series B | $27.5M | 3 | |
| Slide | 7/05 | Series B | $8M | 2 |
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