Friends & Family Capital
VC Fund
Menlo Park, United States
Friends & Family Capital is a venture capital firm that backs entrepreneurs that transform big markets. The firm’s founding partners helped scale Palantir to $20 Billion (CFO from 2011 to 2017) and jointly backed over 20 Unicorn startups. Friends & Family Capital invests in business models that produce long-term and defensible compoundinggrowth and cash flow. Core investments include Airtable, Anduril, Facebook, Figure, Flexport, Gusto, Mosaic, Palantir, Robinhood, SpaceX, and Verkada. For more information, please see www.friendsandfamilycapital.com.
- Total investments:
- 81
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 6%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Friends & Family Capital invests in
Stages Friends & Family Capital invests in
Countries Friends & Family Capital invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
John Fogelsong
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 15 (19%)
- Artificial Intelligence 6 (7%)
- FinTech 5 (6%)
- Analytics 5 (6%)
- Enterprise Software 4 (5%)
Stage
- Series B 7 (9%)
- Series D 5 (6%)
- Series A 4 (5%)
- Series C 4 (5%)
- Series E 3 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Colin Anderson
Founding Partner
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Founding Partner | Total investments: 12 | Find email | |
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John Fogelsong
Founding Partner
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Founding Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Twenty Technologies
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Twenty Technologies builds cyber warfare software to automate and accelerate offensive cyber operations. | $100M / Series B / Jun 17, 2026 | |
Astranis
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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 | |
Zamp
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Zamp is the sales tax technology provider of solution that eliminates the need for you to manage the software. | $17M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 28, 2026 | |
Swarm Aero
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Swarm Aero is an aerospace and defense company that develops large-scale unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms to operate in coordinated drone swarms for defense, logistics, and sensing missions. The company builds large uncrewed aircraft and supporting software that allow multiple drones to collaborate and perform tasks as a coordinated networkrather than as independent vehicles. These systems use onboard computing, sensors, and artificial intelligence to enable autonomous flight behaviors and collective decision-making among groups of drones. The technology platform includes aircraft hardware, swarm coordination software, and command-and-control tools that allow operators to deploy and manage large numbers of drones. A swarm node architecture integrates edge computing and distributed sensors on each vehicle so that drones can communicate with one another, share environmental data, and adapt their behavior during missions. Through this system, operators can translate mission objectives into coordinated flight patterns and task assignments executed by the swarm.Swarm Aero’s aircraft and software systems support applications such as intelligence gathering, environmental monitoring, cargo delivery, communications relay, disaster response, and security operations. The platform is designed to enable operations in environments where communications may be limited or conditions change rapidly, allowing autonomous drones to coordinate actions and adjust routes in real time. | $35M / Series A / Mar 11, 2026 | |
Northslope
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Northslope develops mission-specific AI applications on the Palantir operating system for enterprise customers. The company designs applied AI software that runs on Palantir platforms, focusing on practical decision-support and workflow automation. Its applications serve enterprise users that rely on Palantir for data integration, analytics, andoperations. Northslope collaborates with Palantir as a Vanguard: Elite partner to expand AI-driven outcomes for customers. Solutions target organizations that want to operationalize AI on existing Palantir deployments across complex use cases. | $22M / Series A / Jan 29, 2026 | |
Valinor Enterprises
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Valinor Enterprises develops technology solutions addressing operational challenges for defense customers. | $54M / Series A / Jan 08, 2026 | |
Radiant
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Radiant is a technology company that develops portable nuclear microreactors designed to generate electricity and heat in a compact, factory-built form. The company’s flagship product, Kaleidos, is engineered to be transportable to customer sites and to replace traditional power sources such as diesel generators for applications including backuppower and continuous energy supply. Radiant manages design, assembly, fueling, and testing of its reactors with a focus on modular deployment and energy generation without on-site water requirements. It also undertakes infrastructure planning for reactor production facilities to support broader availability of its microreactors. Radiant engages with regulatory processes and industry partners to advance testing and commercialization of its nuclear energy solutions. | $300M / Series D / Dec 17, 2025 | |
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Twenty Technologies
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Twenty Technologies builds cyber warfare software to automate and accelerate offensive cyber operations. | $38M / Series A / Nov 20, 2025 | |
Numeric
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Numeric is an AI-native accounting automation platform designed to streamline and accelerate the month-end close process. It centralizes transaction data from ERPs, bank feeds, CSVs, and more, enabling real-time visibility into financial operations. Numeric automates account reconciliations, journal entries, and flux variance explanations byleveraging machine learning and AI. It provides a task-management workflow to manage close items, while its Analytics Suite supports detailed variance reporting, anomaly detection, and management reporting. The platform also supports cash management through automated matching of bank transactions to ledger entries. Numeric’s system aims to reduce manual accounting work, improve control, and surface meaningful financial insights. | $51M / Series B / Nov 19, 2025 | |
Maybern
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Maybern is a fintech company that focuses on transforming fund operations for private capital markets. It unifies financial and operational fund data into a singular platform to power accurate and standardized reporting, automate manual processes, and unlock real-time insights. The platform consolidates financial and operational fund data into asingle system, offering workflow automation, real-time reporting, and built-in audit controls. It is designed specifically for fund CFOs and their teams, enabling them to reduce manual tasks, mitigate risk from scattered spreadsheets, and spend more time on strategic decision-making. | $50M / Series B / Nov 13, 2025 | |
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What does Friends & Family Capital invest in?
Friends & Family Capital invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and FinTech startups, most often at Series B and Series D stage. Most of the 81 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The team at Friends & Family Capital includes Colin Anderson (Founding Partner) and John Fogelsong (Founding Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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