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Founders Fund

We invest in smart people solving difficult problems.

About Founders Fund

Founders Fund, founded by Peter Thiel and others in 2005, makes contrarian bets on technically ambitious companies. Portfolio includes SpaceX, Palantir, Stripe, Anduril, Facebook, and Airbnb.

Investment profile

Founded: 2005
AUM: $11B+
Check size: $1M–$300M
Stages: seed, series a, series b, growth
Sectors: AI, Defense, Bio, Energy, Crypto
Portfolio in index: 21
Top categories: Other, SaaS, AI
Most active at: Series D, Series A, Series F
Top cities: San Francisco, New York, Hawthorne

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Partners

Peter Thiel
Founding Partner@peterthiel
Brian Singerman
General Partner@briansin
Keith Rabois
General Partner@rabois
Trae Stephens
General Partner@traestephens

Notable historical investments

Facebook
SpaceX
Palantir
Stripe

21 portfolio companies in the index

Rippling
Run your entire workforce from one platform.
Ramp
Time is money. Save both.
Faire
Online wholesale marketplace.
Function Health
100+ lab tests, twice a year.
Anduril Industries
Autonomous defense systems.
SpaceX
Making humanity multi-planetary.
Scale AI
Data labeling and evaluation for the AI era.
Crusoe Energy
Stranded-energy powered AI compute.
Cognition
Makers of Devin, the AI software engineer.
Retool
Build internal tools, remarkably fast.
Trade Republic
The home for your money.
Neuralink
Creating the future of brain–computer interfaces.
Impulse Space
In-space transportation for the next era.
Flexport
The platform for global trade.
Lattice
The people-management platform.
Hadrian
Autonomous factories for precision components.
Cognition
The world's first AI software engineer
Ramp
The finance automation platform built to save you money
NewLimit
Reversing biological aging with epigenetics
Density
Understand how your office space is actually used
Enode
One API to connect and control any energy device