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Founders Fund

Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm formed in 2005 and has roughly $12 billion in total assets under management as of 2023.[1] Founders Fund was the first institutional investor in Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Palantir Technologies, and early investor in Facebook.[2][3][4] The firm's partners have been founders, early employees and investors at companies including PayPal, Palantir Technologies, Anduril Industries and SpaceX.[5]

Company type

Venture fund

July 2005

Letterman Digital Arts Center
San Francisco, California, U.S.

US$11 billion (2022)

founder and former CEO and chairman of PayPal[17]

Peter Thiel

creator of iGoogle[17]

Brian Singerman

As of winter 2023, the firm had thirteen Partners:


Former partners include:

Investments[edit]

Founders Fund is a generalist firm investing in companies across all sectors, stages and geographies.


The firm's investments include Airbnb, Armada,[25] DeepMind, Lyft, Facebook, Flexport, Palantir Technologies, SpaceX, Spotify, Stripe, Wish, Neuralink, Nubank, and Twilio.[26]

(official website)

Founders Fund