# Franklin Templeton

> Franklin Templeton is a VC fund in San Mateo backing Software and FinTech. See 224 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Mateo, United States
- Total investments: 224
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 22%
- Fund size: $85M
- Last fund: Sep 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/franklin-templeton-investments
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/FTI_US
- Website: http://www.franklintempleton.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/franklintempleton

Franklin Templeton is a VC fund in San Mateo focused on Software and FinTech. 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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$14M |
| Series A | $7M–$150M |
| Series B | $25M–$130M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 44 | 20% |
| FinTech | 40 | 18% |
| Financial Services | 33 | 15% |
| Biotechnology | 20 | 9% |
| SaaS | 19 | 8% |

201 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 24 | 11% |
| Series B | 21 | 9% |
| Seed | 18 | 8% |
| Series D | 18 | 8% |
| Series E | 18 | 8% |

18 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 128 | 57% |
| India | 6 | 3% |
| Singapore | 6 | 3% |
| Canada | 3 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 1% |

13 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Drew Carrington | Senior Vice President, Head of Institutional | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/drew-carrington-2877 |
| Jenny Johnson | President and CEO | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jenny-johnson-87bd |
| Mark C. Pigott | HR Supervisor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mark-c-pigott |
| Robert Stevenson | Research Analyst & Portfolio Manager | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robert-stevenson-7144 |
| Samuel Armacost | Member of Board of Directors | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/samuel-h-armacost |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Soter Insure | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Midas | Midas is a cryptocurrency application that allows users to sell and invest in cryptocurrency and tokens. | $50M | Series A | Mar 30, 2026 |  |
| Utexo | Utexo develops payment infrastructure that enables stablecoin transactions to settle directly on the Bitcoin network. The platform provides an API and related tools that allow payment operators, exchanges, wallets, and financial platforms to process USDT transfers through Bitcoin-based rails. Its system integrates technologies such as the LightningNetwork and the RGB protocol to support instant settlement, encrypted transaction execution, and predictable transaction costs. Utexo also offers cloud infrastructure and developer tools that manage routing, liquidity, and node operations required for stablecoin payments on Bitcoin. These services allow organizations to integrate Bitcoin-based stablecoin settlement into existing applications without operating or maintaining underlying blockchain infrastructure. | $7.5M | Seed | Mar 06, 2026 |  |

10 of 224 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Franklin Templeton invest in?

Franklin Templeton invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 224 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, $7M–$150M at Series A and $25M–$130M 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.

### How do I contact Franklin Templeton?

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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 22 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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