Founders Fund
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Founders Fund is a venture capital firm that invests at every stage in companies building revolutionary technologies. It has been investors, founders, and early employees of prominent technology companies. It has historically invested in a wide variety of sectors, including aerospace, artificial intelligence, advanced computing, energy, health, and consumer Internet.
- Total investments:
- 1072
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
- Fund size:
- $6B
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Founders Fund invests in
Stages Founders Fund invests in
Countries Founders Fund invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 15 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.7M–$14M
- Series A
- $5.5M–$50M
- Series B
- $15M–$100M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 169 (16%)
- Artificial Intelligence 83 (8%)
- Health Care 75 (7%)
- Information Technology 66 (6%)
- Financial Services 64 (6%)
Stage
- Series A 255 (24%)
- Seed 221 (21%)
- Series B 164 (15%)
- Series C 97 (9%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 60 (6%)
Country
- United States 505 (47%)
- United Kingdom 13 (1%)
- Germany 7 (1%)
- Brazil 6 (1%)
- Mexico 6 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Delian Asparouhov
Principal
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Principal | Total investments: 34 | Find email | |
John Luttig
Principal
|
Principal | Total investments: 13 | Find email | |
Napoleon Ta
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 15 | Find email | |
Amin Mirzadegan
Principal
|
Principal | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Brian Singerman
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 43 | Find email | |
| See all 15 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ramp is a financial technology company that develops software for corporate spend management, finance operations, and business payments. The company provides an integrated platform that combines corporate cards, expense management, accounts payable automation, procurement, travel booking, reimbursements, treasury services, and accountingautomation. Its software is designed to help organizations manage business spending, streamline financial workflows, and centralize finance operations within a single system. The platform enables businesses to issue and manage corporate cards, process vendor payments, track expenses, handle employee reimbursements, and automate accounting processes. It also incorporates artificial intelligence capabilities that assist with receipt matching, transaction categorization, policy enforcement, approval workflows, and financial reporting. These features are intended to reduce manual administrative work and improve visibility into organizational spending. | $1.9B / Series G / Oct 09, 2026 | ||
| Multiply Labs manufactures personalized pharmaceutical capsules that are tailor-made to the unique needs of each patient. Multiply Labs’ product is enabled by the combination of pharmaceutical science with robotics technology. The company has built and operates a unique robotic pharmaceutical manufacturing facility. Multiply Labs is the firstcompany ever to bring to the market 3D printed capsules. | $75M / Series B / Oct 06, 2026 | ||
| Anvil provides a decentralized finance protocol that enables users and applications to manage collateral and issue credit backed by digital assets. The platform offers a secure vault for holding collateral and tooling for allocating assets into collateral pools. Anvil supports creation and management of onchain letters of credit as fully secured financial guarantees for different applications. Users interact with the protocol through a web interface that connects to their digital wallets and relevant smart contracts. The protocol is intended for organizations and individuals seeking predictable, programmable credit arrangements and collateralized transactions in onchain finance. | $5M / Oct 06, 2026 | ||
| Biossil is an applied AI drug discovery platform to create specialized treatments for distinct patients. | $153M / Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 28, 2026 | ||
| EnduroSat designs and engineers spacecraft for business applications and space exploration missions. The company focuses on swarm/constellation satellite applications. EnduroSat builds customized satellites and providing complete support service for full-cycle missions. | $205M / Series C / Sep 16, 2026 | ||
| Covenant is a global defense technology company that builds long-range precision strike weapons for the United States and its allies. The company's flagship weapon system, Anthem, combines a heavy payload and long range at a fraction of the cost of comparable legacy systems. | $250M / Series A / Sep 09, 2026 | ||
| Cognition develops artificial intelligence systems for software engineering and code automation. The company operates Devin, an AI software engineer that plans, writes, tests, debugs, and deploys code through integrated development workflows. Its platform works with existing development tools and codebases to support engineering tasks acrossapplication development, maintenance, and issue resolution. Cognition also provides tools that assist teams with system design, technical workflows, and collaborative coding processes. The company focuses on AI agents that automate repetitive engineering work while supporting software teams in managing complex development tasks. | $2B / Series E / Sep 08, 2026 | ||
| Crusoe is on a mission to help the oil industry reduce routine flaring of natural gas. They are passionate about creating solutions that benefit the environment, local communities, and energy producers.Crusoe Energy Systems provides oil and gas companies with a fast, low cost and simple solution to natural gas flaring. As the energy industrystruggles with pipeline constraints and increasing regulations around flaring and combusting, Crusoe is here to help. Their service lets operators preserve or regain regulatory compliance, maintain existing production and facilitate future development. | $3.9B / Series F / Sep 03, 2026 | ||
| Regent develops an electric boat-flying machine for coastal transportation. The company designs and manufactures electric flying machines that will transport commercial passengers. The vehicle, known as a seaglider, is a wing-in-ground-effect craft that operates a few meters above the water's surface and combines an airplane's high speedwith a boat's low operating cost. Seagliders are designed to travel at speeds of up to 180 mph (290 km/h) with a range suitable for regional trips, connecting coastal cities and islands. The company aims to revolutionize regional transportation by creating fast, efficient, and sustainable seagliders that connect coastal communities. | $120M / Series B / Aug 27, 2026 | ||
| Voya Energy is an energy management company that has developed technology to transform high-energy recycled metals into a safe fuel. | $35M / Series A / Aug 26, 2026 | ||
| See all 1072 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Founders Fund invest in?
Founders Fund invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Health Care startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 1,072 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Founders Fund invest in?
Founders Fund typically joins rounds of $1.7M–$14M at Seed, $5.5M–$50M at Series A and $15M–$100M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Founders Fund's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Founders Fund took part in.
How do I contact Founders Fund?
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Who are the partners at Founders Fund?
The team at Founders Fund includes Delian Asparouhov (Principal), John Luttig (Principal) and Napoleon Ta (Partner), among 15 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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