Franklin Templeton
VC Fund
San Mateo, United States
Franklin Templeton is a VC fund in San Mateo focused on FinTech and Software. Franklin Templeton offers strategies in equity, fixed income, multi-asset, and digital assets. A significant portion of its offerings includes municipal bond management and tax-free income solutions designed for diverse financial goals. In addition to traditional asset management, the entity maintains a presence in private markets and alternativeinvestment vehicles. Its services also encompass the provision of fund commentary, performance metrics, and tax-related information to assist with portfolio oversight. The firm distributes research and market analysis to support investor decision-making within the global financial landscape.
- Total investments:
- 250
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 24%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Franklin Templeton invests in
Stages Franklin Templeton invests in
Countries Franklin Templeton invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 23 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $2M–$14M
- Series A
- $4.9M–$150M
- Series B
- $26M–$120M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 48 (19%)
- Software 48 (19%)
- Financial Services 46 (18%)
- Biotechnology 25 (10%)
- Blockchain 24 (10%)
Stage
- Series B 29 (12%)
- Series A 28 (11%)
- Seed 27 (11%)
- Series E 21 (8%)
- Post-IPO Equity 21 (8%)
Country
- United States 148 (59%)
- India 11 (4%)
- Singapore 7 (3%)
- United Arab Emirates 5 (2%)
- Canada 3 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Drew Carrington
Senior Vice President, Head of Institutional
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Senior Vice President, Head of Institutional | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Jenny Johnson
President and CEO
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President and CEO | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
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Mark C. Pigott
HR Supervisor
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HR Supervisor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Robert Stevenson
Research Analyst & Portfolio Manager
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Research Analyst & Portfolio Manager | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
Samuel Armacost
Member of Board of Directors
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Member of Board of Directors | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 23 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pine Labs offers a merchant platform that includes technology and financial solutions for merchants. These solutions are aimed at helping merchants in increasing their revenue and reducing cost, complexity, and risk.The company connects financial institutions and consumer brands to enable merchants to deliver value to their retail customers. Itpowers offline and online last-mile retail transactions, provides customer insights for targeted sales, and offers financial solutions. The company’s cloud-based platform powers 3,50,000+ POS terminals across 3700 cities and towns in India and Malaysia.Over 1,00,000 merchants across sectors - electronics, food and beverage, fashion, airlines, and more, use Pine Labs’ solutions. 15 major banks, 7 financial institutions, and 100+ brands are part of Pine Labs’ platform. | $97.6M / Post-IPO Secondary / Sep 22, 2026 | ||
| Meesho operates as an online reselling platform that enables anyone to start a business without investment. Meesho is a business platform trusted by more than 2.6 million resellers across India. The company was founded in 2015 by Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwa and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka. | $101.4M / Post-IPO Secondary / Aug 24, 2026 | ||
| Soter Insure is a provider of insurance products tailored to the digital asset economy. It provides the Web3 ecosystem with institutional-grade insurance for broader adoption against a lack of appropriate products and scarce capacity. | Series B / Jul 29, 2026 | ||
| Glacis Labs is a middleware protocol. It enables developers to control cross-chain risk. Glacis provides a plug-and-play solution that eliminates the research and decision-making process in cross-chain processes, simplifying interchain execution. | $6.8M / Seed / Jul 15, 2026 | ||
| Arvog is a finance and venture growth investment company that provides finance, forex, and leisure products and services. | $2.5M / Post-IPO Debt / Jul 01, 2026 | ||
| Lycia Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that focuses on developing technology that utilizes lysosome-targeting chimeras. The company was founded by Carolyn R. Bertozzi in 2019 and is based in San Diego, California, USA. | $75M / Series D / Jun 25, 2026 | ||
| Cambrian is an AI infrastructure protocol that creates quickly available financial insight from offchain and onchain data. A decentralized network of validators which catalog blockchain data and quickly extract offchain data powers Cambrian's capabilities. | $6M / Seed / Jun 24, 2026 | ||
| Stord is on a mission to migrate supply chains to the cloud—empowering brands to build sophisticated, agile, and integrated supply chains.Founded in 2015 and headquartered in the heart of Atlanta's vibrant tech community, Stord is pioneering the world's first Cloud Supply Chain. The Cloud Supply Chain is the convergence of the digitaland physical elements of logistics. With Stord's Cloud Supply Chain, businesses can build, expand, and optimize their physical supply chain operations across freight, warehousing, and fulfillment, with the speed, flexibility, and ease of modern cloud software. With a single integration, businesses achieve end-to-end visibility into their whole supply chains from a single dashboard and gain access to Stord's network of hundreds of warehouses, fulfillment centers, and carriers.They are a rapidly growing team that is backed by over $125M from leading investors such as Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, BOND, D1 Capital, and more (investors in Amazon, Google, Twitter, and more). They've received awards and recognition from TechCrunch, the Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, Fortune, Forbes, Inc., TAG, Atlanta Business Chronicle, and more.The future of supply chains is in the cloud. Come help us help businesses out-deliver their competition with the Cloud Supply Chain. | $250M / Series F / May 26, 2026 | ||
| Astranis develops small communications satellites designed for geostationary and other high Earth orbits. The company manufactures software-defined satellites used for broadband connectivity, government communications, navigation resilience, and space-based infrastructure applications. Its MicroGEO platform is built to provide dedicated satellitecapacity for telecommunications providers, enterprises, and public sector organizations serving remote or underserved regions. Astranis also develops satellite systems with onboard propulsion, radiation-hardened electronics, and configurable bandwidth management technologies for mission flexibility. The company operates across spacecraft design, satellite manufacturing, launch coordination, and in-orbit operations through integrated engineering and testing capabilities. Its satellite network solutions support internet connectivity, defense communications, and resilient positioning and navigation services for commercial and government customers. | $300M / Series E / May 06, 2026 | ||
| Saronic is building cutting-edge unmanned surface vehicles that enable maritime security and domain awareness by combining best-in-class hardware, software and artificial intelligence into one scalable, fully integrated platform. | $1.8B / Series D / Mar 31, 2026 | ||
| See all 250 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Franklin Templeton invest in?
Franklin Templeton invests primarily in FinTech, Software and Financial Services startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 250 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Franklin Templeton's check size?
Franklin Templeton typically joins rounds of $2M–$14M at Seed, $4.9M–$150M at Series A and $26M–$120M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Franklin Templeton participates in.
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Who are the partners at Franklin Templeton?
The team at Franklin Templeton includes Drew Carrington (Senior Vice President, Head of Institutional), Jenny Johnson (President and CEO) and Mark C. Pigott (HR Supervisor), among 23 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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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