Social Capital
VC Fund
Palo Alto, United States
Social Capital is a Menlo Park-based investment firm whose mission is to advance humanity by solving the world’s hardest problems. By harnessing technology to address core human needs, they aim to drive a bottom-up redistribution of power, capital and opportunity. To achieve this, they're building a new kind of company and a platform for empowering brilliant entrepreneurs and breakthrough products. Founded in 2011, the company is based in Menlo Park, California, United States.
- Total investments:
- 493
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 26%
- Fund size:
- $600M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Social Capital invests in
Stages Social Capital invests in
Countries Social Capital invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $850k–$6M
- Series A
- $3.5M–$20M
- Series B
- $9.7M–$46M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 73 (15%)
- SaaS 38 (8%)
- FinTech 35 (7%)
- Artificial Intelligence 33 (7%)
- Health Care 32 (6%)
Stage
- Seed 168 (34%)
- Series A 91 (18%)
- Series B 49 (10%)
- Series C 31 (6%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 17 (3%)
Country
- United States 247 (50%)
- Canada 10 (2%)
- India 7 (1%)
- Brazil 6 (1%)
- Indonesia 4 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Chamath Palihapitiya
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
|
Founder and Chief Executive Officer | Total investments: 106 | Find email | |
Ray Ko
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Are you ready to elevate your business efficiency and productivity? Say hello to Biz AI, your intelligent business assistant designed to streamline operations, boost productivity, and give you more time to focus on what matters most – growing your business. | $200K / Seed / Mar 01, 2026 | ||
| ZeroBrush develops an automated toothbrush designed with a custom-fit mouthpiece created from a 3D model of the user’s teeth. The product is engineered to clean all teeth simultaneously, aiming to improve coverage compared to traditional brushing methods. Its design targets hard-to-reach surfaces and works to reduce plaque buildup within a shortercleaning cycle. ZeroBrush incorporates technology intended to replicate a consistent level of cleaning for each tooth. The company focuses on oral care innovation through combining personalized dental fitting with automated brushing functionality. | $10.8M / Series A / Sep 09, 2025 | ||
| Mast Reforestation built the only vertically integrated solution to reforest the growing pool of millions of acres that have been damaged by wildfire. The company removes the financial, procedural, and seed supply barriers that typically stand in the way of getting reforestation done, which led to a large and growing project pipeline. It recentlyacquired two legacy businesses to become the largest seed and seedling vendor in the West, which is the primary bottleneck to reforestation. Mast is now executing on the project backlog by leveraging project finance to generate high-quality carbon removal credits for corporate buyers. | $25M / Series B / Feb 11, 2025 | ||
| Perimeter Medical Imaging is a privately held medical device company with offices in Toronto, Canada. Our executive team of medical device leaders holds an excellent track record of successfully building companies and improving outcomes for clinicians and patients. | $9.9M / Post-IPO Equity / Sep 10, 2024 | ||
| Eridan is building the world’s first digital sampling radio for 4G, 5G, and beyond. Eridan's unique transceiver architecture produces all sub-6GHz cellular signals at full transmit power, eliminating the need for linear power amplifiers. This fully digital wireless signal generation approach consumes 5-10x less power to transmit the sameamount of data. | Venture - Series Unknown / Sep 06, 2024 | ||
| Tierra Biosciences is an operator of a synthetic biology company intended to accelerate the pace of discovery to enable the next generation of bioengineered products. The company's protein platform leverages cell-free protein production and artificial intelligence and couples high-throughput protein manufacturing with the simplicity ofe-commerce. | $11.4M / Series A / Mar 12, 2024 | ||
| Focus, a SocialFi app from DeSo is the crypto social network. | $20M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 17, 2024 | ||
| Mitra Chem operates as a lithium-ion battery materials manufacturer. It innovates and commercializes iron-based cathode materials to enable mass-market electrification in transportation and energy storage. The company is driven to industrialize these cathodes in purpose-built inflation reduction act-compliant facilities. | $40M / Series B / Aug 16, 2023 | ||
| Metalink is a private chat app that provides NFT collection. They also offer the punk owners to find and chat with other verified holders by simply connecting their wallet. | $6M / Seed / Mar 15, 2023 | ||
| Socmedias has an ultimate ways to buy and sell YouTube accounts. | $900K / Seed / Mar 09, 2023 | ||
| See all 493 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Social Capital invest in?
Social Capital invests primarily in Software, SaaS and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 493 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 Social Capital invest in?
Social Capital typically joins rounds of $850k–$6M at Seed, $3.5M–$20M at Series A and $9.7M–$46M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Social Capital's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Social Capital took part in.
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Who are the partners at Social Capital?
The team at Social Capital includes Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder and Chief Executive Officer) and Ray Ko (Partner). 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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