Investments
819Portfolio Exits
137Funds
15Partners & Customers
1About Founders Fund
Founders Fund is a venture capital firm. It invests in science and technology companies. The firm invests at all stages across a wide variety of sectors, including aerospace, artificial intelligence, advanced computing, energy, health, and consumer Internet. It was founded in 2005 and is based in San Francisco, California.
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Latest Founders Fund News
Jun 2, 2023
Galvanik , a Los Angeles, CA-based provider of a cybersecurity solution for protecting industrial infrastructure against cyber attacks, raised $10M in Seed funding. The round saw particiapation from MaC Venture Capital, Founders Fund, Village Global, Countdown Capital, Hanover Technology Investment Management, Shrug Capital, 8090 Industries, and over 25 angel investors specializing in cybersecurity, manufacturing, finance, and defense. The company intends to use the funds to make additional core hires, and expand use of its initial product – an industrial-first Extended Detection & Response (XDR) platform – to additional advanced manufacturing and critical infrastructure facilities. Co-founded in 2021 by Joshua Steinman, Brandon Park, and Feliks Pleszczynski, Galvanick is building an industrial-first Extended Detection & Response (XDR) platform, which enables industrial companies to continuously monitor complex infrastructure against cyber attacks without hiring security teams, by synthesizing information from across an industrial environment, correlating it, and then providing actionable insights to operations, IT, and security teams in near-real-time to quickly understand the difference between, and context around, normal and malicious behavior. FinSMEs 02/06/2023
Founders Fund Investments
819 Investments
Founders Fund has made 819 investments. Their latest investment was in Galvanick as part of their Seed VC on June 6, 2023.
Founders Fund Investments Activity
Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
6/1/2023 | Seed VC | Galvanick | $10M | Yes | 8090 Industries, Countdown Capital, Founders Fund, HNVR Technology Investment Management, MaC Venture Capital, Shrug Capital, Undisclosed Angel Investors, and Village Global | 6 |
5/16/2023 | Series A | NewLimit | $60M | Yes | Dimension, Elad Gil, Founders Fund, Fred Ehrsam, Garry Tan, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Undisclosed Investors | 5 |
5/1/2023 | Series A | Campus | $29M | Yes | Bloomberg Beta, Dylan Field, Founders Fund, Jason Citron, Lachy Groom, Precursor Ventures, Reach Capital, Rethink Education, Sam Altman, and Undisclosed Investors | 3 |
4/29/2023 | Unattributed VC | |||||
3/28/2023 | Seed VC - II |
Date | 6/1/2023 | 5/16/2023 | 5/1/2023 | 4/29/2023 | 3/28/2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Round | Seed VC | Series A | Series A | Unattributed VC | Seed VC - II |
Company | Galvanick | NewLimit | Campus | ||
Amount | $10M | $60M | $29M | ||
New? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
Co-Investors | 8090 Industries, Countdown Capital, Founders Fund, HNVR Technology Investment Management, MaC Venture Capital, Shrug Capital, Undisclosed Angel Investors, and Village Global | Dimension, Elad Gil, Founders Fund, Fred Ehrsam, Garry Tan, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Undisclosed Investors | Bloomberg Beta, Dylan Field, Founders Fund, Jason Citron, Lachy Groom, Precursor Ventures, Reach Capital, Rethink Education, Sam Altman, and Undisclosed Investors | ||
Sources | 6 | 5 | 3 |
Founders Fund Portfolio Exits
137 Portfolio Exits
Founders Fund has 137 portfolio exits. Their latest portfolio exit was Bev on June 01, 2023.
Date | Exit | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Acquirer | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
6/1/2023 | Acquired | 3 | |||
5/17/2023 | Acquired - II | 1 | |||
2/23/2023 | Acq - Pending | 2 | |||
Date | 6/1/2023 | 5/17/2023 | 2/23/2023 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Exit | Acquired | Acquired - II | Acq - Pending | ||
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Valuation | |||||
Acquirer | |||||
Sources | 3 | 1 | 2 |
Founders Fund Fund History
15 Fund Histories
Founders Fund has 15 funds, including Founders Fund VIII.
Closing Date | Fund | Fund Type | Status | Amount | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
3/3/2022 | Founders Fund VIII | $1,900M | 2 | ||
3/3/2022 | Founders Growth Fund | $3,400M | 1 | ||
3/26/2020 | Founders Fund Growth Principals Fund | $101.54M | 1 | ||
2/19/2020 | Founders Fund Growth I | ||||
11/20/2019 | Founders Fund VII |
Closing Date | 3/3/2022 | 3/3/2022 | 3/26/2020 | 2/19/2020 | 11/20/2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fund | Founders Fund VIII | Founders Growth Fund | Founders Fund Growth Principals Fund | Founders Fund Growth I | Founders Fund VII |
Fund Type | |||||
Status | |||||
Amount | $1,900M | $3,400M | $101.54M | ||
Sources | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Founders Fund Partners & Customers
1 Partners and customers
Founders Fund has 1 strategic partners and customers. Founders Fund recently partnered with Silicon Valley Bank on .
Date | Type | Business Partner | Country | News Snippet | Sources |
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Vendor | United States | 1 |
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Country | United States |
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Sources | 1 |
Founders Fund Team
9 Team Members
Founders Fund has 9 team members, including , .
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