# Social Capital

> Social Capital is a VC fund in Palo Alto backing Software and SaaS. See 390 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 390
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 28%
- Fund size: $600M
- Last fund: Sep 2018
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/social-capital-lp/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/socialcapital
- Website: http://www.socialcapital.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/socialcapitallp

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 forempowering brilliant entrepreneurs and breakthrough products.Founded in 2011, the company is based in Menlo Park, California, United States.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Social Capital. Shizune tracks 2 team members at Social Capital. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/social-capital?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$7M |
| Series A | $3.5M–$17M |
| Series B | $10M–$45M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 58 | 15% |
| SaaS | 32 | 8% |
| FinTech | 31 | 8% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 28 | 7% |
| Health Care | 27 | 7% |

292 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 131 | 34% |
| Series A | 81 | 21% |
| Series B | 41 | 11% |
| Series C | 28 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 27 | 7% |

19 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 200 | 51% |
| Canada | 10 | 3% |
| India | 7 | 2% |
| Brazil | 4 | 1% |
| Indonesia | 4 | 1% |

17 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chamath Palihapitiya | Founder and Chief Executive Officer | 99 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chamath-palihapitiya |
| Ray Ko | Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ray-ko |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Biz AI Last | 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 | ZeroBrush is a healthcare service company. | $10.8M | Series A | Sep 09, 2025 |  |
| Mast Reforestation | 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 | 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 | 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 | Tierra Biosciences is a synthetic biology company that accelerates the pace of discovery and enables the next generation of bio-based materials. Tierra’s first product, the Tierra Protein Platform, couples high-throughput protein manufacturing with the simplicity of e-commerce to make ordering custom proteins easier than ever before. By loweringthe traditional protein synthesis barrier, Tierra serves scientists looking to change the world with novel proteins. Led by a team of protein experts, this fast-growing company is transforming the way people discover, screen, and develop proteins for future bio-based products. For more information, visit tierrabiosciences.com. | $11.4M | Series A | Mar 12, 2024 |  |
| Focus | Focus, a SocialFi app from DeSo is the crypto social network. | $20M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 17, 2024 |  |
| Mitra Chem | 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 | 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 | Socmedias has an ultimate ways to buy and sell YouTube accounts. | $900K | Seed | Mar 09, 2023 |  |

10 of 390 investments shown.

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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 390 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 Social Capital's check size?

Social Capital typically joins rounds of $1M–$7M at Seed, $3.5M–$17M at Series A and $10M–$45M 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 Social Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Social Capital?

Public channels for Social Capital include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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