Founders Fund

Founders Fund, Inc. is a venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco, California, established in 2005. The firm specializes in investing across various stages, including seed, early, mid, and growth stages, with a focus on transformative technologies. Founders Fund targets a wide range of sectors, such as aerospace, artificial intelligence, advanced computing, biotechnology, cybersecurity, energy, fintech, and consumer internet. The firm aims to support companies that are developing revolutionary technologies and typically invests between $500,000 and $300 million in its portfolio companies. Founders Fund's partners have a strong background in technology, having been investors, founders, and early employees of notable technology companies, including PayPal. The firm seeks to make investments globally, emphasizing innovation and impact.

Gross, Lauren

Partner and COO

Lonsdale, Jeff

Managing Director, Asia

John Luttig

Principal

Mirzadegan, Amin

Principal

Scott Nolan

Partner

Luke Nosek

Managing Partner

Ruthven, Neil

CFO

Stephens, Trae

Partner

Ta, Napoleon

Partner

Matias Van Thienen

Principal

Past deals in Coworking

Campus

Series A in 2023
Campus is an accredited online community college that provides online learning services. It provides an online educational platform that prioritizes student success by offering live online and in-person associate degrees and certificate programs to help students have the facility of community college accessible across the country.

Traba

Series A in 2022
Traba is building a world where the global supply chain operates at peak efficiency. We connect industrial businesses with reliable workers to fill open shifts and empower both businesses and workers to reach their full productivity and potential.

PERCHWELL

Series A in 2021
Perchwell is a data and workflow platform for the residential real estate industry.

Rippling

Series C in 2021
Streamline your business with Rippling’s all-in-one platform for HR, IT, payroll, and spend management. Effortlessly manage the entire employee lifecycle, from hiring to benefits administration. Automate HR tasks, ensure compliance, and streamline approvals. Simplify IT with device management, software access, and compliance monitoring, all from one dashboard. Enjoy timely payroll, real-time financial visibility, and dynamic spend policies. Rippling empowers your business to save time, reduce costs, and enhance efficiency, allowing you to focus on growth. Experience the power of unified management with Rippling today.

Open

Series A in 2021
Shared mindful experiences to help friends be present together, on and offline.

The Org

Series B in 2021
The Org operates and manages an online platform that showcases public organizations. It provides assistance to companies that are hiring talent by showing off their teams. The Org was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, USA.

Bungalow

Series C in 2021
Bungalow is a residential real estate platform that provides renters with a more convenient, flexible, and communal living solution. It utilizes existing housing supply by signing long-term leases with homeowners, and offers multi-bedroom homes in some of the most desirable neighborhoods in cities throughout the United States. Bungalow offers private bedrooms with handpicked housemates in beautifully furnished homes across seven major cities. Each home comes furnished and includes wifi, utilities, housekeeping, and monthly community events for members. Andrew Collins and Justin McCarty founded Bungalow in 2016. Its headquarters is in San Francisco in California.

Traba

Seed Round in 2021
Traba is building a world where the global supply chain operates at peak efficiency. We connect industrial businesses with reliable workers to fill open shifts and empower both businesses and workers to reach their full productivity and potential.

Orbiit

Seed Round in 2021
Orbiit provides an AI-powered matchmaking engine for community managers. They connect members for 1:1 and small-group conversations based on their common interests and challenges in communities of any size. Orbiit's systematic engagement platform provides algorithmic matching, logistics, insights, and more to help community managers foster growth, and drive impact.

Push Party

Seed Round in 2020
Push Party is a new entrant to the exciting space of post-social digital campfires that rekindle a more intimate, authentic connection between users and the people they care about most.

Charma

Seed Round in 2020
Charma is a platform that helps improve team communication and accountability. The company's platform is a system for effective work relationships that improves the way managers and employees engage in the modern era.

Rippling

Series B in 2020
Streamline your business with Rippling’s all-in-one platform for HR, IT, payroll, and spend management. Effortlessly manage the entire employee lifecycle, from hiring to benefits administration. Automate HR tasks, ensure compliance, and streamline approvals. Simplify IT with device management, software access, and compliance monitoring, all from one dashboard. Enjoy timely payroll, real-time financial visibility, and dynamic spend policies. Rippling empowers your business to save time, reduce costs, and enhance efficiency, allowing you to focus on growth. Experience the power of unified management with Rippling today.
HelloOffice is a technology-powered commercial real estate brokerage helping companies search for office space in a smarter and faster way. The company pairs experienced brokers with easy to use software to give its clients the best service in the market.

The Org

Series A in 2020
The Org operates and manages an online platform that showcases public organizations. It provides assistance to companies that are hiring talent by showing off their teams. The Org was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, USA.

The Org

Series A in 2020
The Org operates and manages an online platform that showcases public organizations. It provides assistance to companies that are hiring talent by showing off their teams. The Org was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, USA.

Placement

Seed Round in 2019
Placement operates a platform that assists individuals in finding job opportunities in thriving urban areas. The company provides a range of services including career coaching, live workshops, and various tools aimed at reducing obstacles to geographic mobility. By facilitating job transitions, Placement enables users to advance their careers, achieve promotions, and develop leadership skills without incurring upfront costs. The platform emphasizes personalized support, offering real assistance from professionals to help users secure better job prospects and potentially increase their earnings significantly.

Bungalow

Series B in 2019
Bungalow is a residential real estate platform that provides renters with a more convenient, flexible, and communal living solution. It utilizes existing housing supply by signing long-term leases with homeowners, and offers multi-bedroom homes in some of the most desirable neighborhoods in cities throughout the United States. Bungalow offers private bedrooms with handpicked housemates in beautifully furnished homes across seven major cities. Each home comes furnished and includes wifi, utilities, housekeeping, and monthly community events for members. Andrew Collins and Justin McCarty founded Bungalow in 2016. Its headquarters is in San Francisco in California.

Raise Commercial Real Estate

Seed Round in 2019
HelloOffice is a technology-powered commercial real estate brokerage helping companies search for office space in a smarter and faster way. The company pairs experienced brokers with easy to use software to give its clients the best service in the market.

Koio

Series A in 2019
Koio Collective is a consumer goods company that offers calf-skin leathers and hand-finished footwear for gents and ladies. The company is driven by its mission is to create their personal dream shoe, one that would accompany them on any quest and adapt to any situation. The company was founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, United States.

The Org

Seed Round in 2019
The Org operates and manages an online platform that showcases public organizations. It provides assistance to companies that are hiring talent by showing off their teams. The Org was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, USA.

Orbiit

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Orbiit provides an AI-powered matchmaking engine for community managers. They connect members for 1:1 and small-group conversations based on their common interests and challenges in communities of any size. Orbiit's systematic engagement platform provides algorithmic matching, logistics, insights, and more to help community managers foster growth, and drive impact.

Asana

Series E in 2018
Asana is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of work management and productivity. It helps teams orchestrate their work, from small projects to strategic initiatives. Asana service is a web and mobile work management platform designed to help teams organize, track, and manage work. Teams can create projects, assign tasks, set deadlines, and communicate directly .

Bungalow

Series A in 2018
Bungalow is a residential real estate platform that provides renters with a more convenient, flexible, and communal living solution. It utilizes existing housing supply by signing long-term leases with homeowners, and offers multi-bedroom homes in some of the most desirable neighborhoods in cities throughout the United States. Bungalow offers private bedrooms with handpicked housemates in beautifully furnished homes across seven major cities. Each home comes furnished and includes wifi, utilities, housekeeping, and monthly community events for members. Andrew Collins and Justin McCarty founded Bungalow in 2016. Its headquarters is in San Francisco in California.

Asana

Series D in 2018
Asana is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of work management and productivity. It helps teams orchestrate their work, from small projects to strategic initiatives. Asana service is a web and mobile work management platform designed to help teams organize, track, and manage work. Teams can create projects, assign tasks, set deadlines, and communicate directly .

Wuu

Seed Round in 2016
Wuu is a social networking platform. Wuu has no ads, does not collect or sell user data, and is not affiliated with data miners or advertisers.

Compass

Series D in 2016
Compass is a real estate technology company that provides an online platform for buying, renting, and selling real estate assets. Its end-to-end platform supports the entire buying and selling workflow by pairing the industry’s top talent with technology to make the search and sell experience intelligent and seamless. Compass operates in 22+ regions across the United States including New York, Los Angeles, and Orange County, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Washington D.C., South Florida, The Hamptons, Santa Barbara and Montecito, San Diego, Seattle and Eastside, Philadelphia, Connecticut, Westchester, Aspen, Boulder, Denver, Atlanta, Austin, and Central Texas, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Nashville, and Lake Tahoe. The firm was founded in 2012 by Ugo Di Girolamo, Ori Allon, and Robert Reffkin in New York, New York.

Workframe

Series A in 2016
Workframe is the only workflow optimization solution purpose-built for the commercial real estate (CRE) industry. Our intuitive, web-based software application helps large corporate tenants, landlords, brokers and service providers gain unprecedented visibility into their workflow, and presents them with actionable data that can be leveraged to drive efficiency and cost savings.

Asana

Series C in 2016
Asana is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of work management and productivity. It helps teams orchestrate their work, from small projects to strategic initiatives. Asana service is a web and mobile work management platform designed to help teams organize, track, and manage work. Teams can create projects, assign tasks, set deadlines, and communicate directly .

Compass

Series C in 2015
Compass is a real estate technology company that provides an online platform for buying, renting, and selling real estate assets. Its end-to-end platform supports the entire buying and selling workflow by pairing the industry’s top talent with technology to make the search and sell experience intelligent and seamless. Compass operates in 22+ regions across the United States including New York, Los Angeles, and Orange County, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Washington D.C., South Florida, The Hamptons, Santa Barbara and Montecito, San Diego, Seattle and Eastside, Philadelphia, Connecticut, Westchester, Aspen, Boulder, Denver, Atlanta, Austin, and Central Texas, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Nashville, and Lake Tahoe. The firm was founded in 2012 by Ugo Di Girolamo, Ori Allon, and Robert Reffkin in New York, New York.

Compass

Series B in 2014
Compass is a real estate technology company that provides an online platform for buying, renting, and selling real estate assets. Its end-to-end platform supports the entire buying and selling workflow by pairing the industry’s top talent with technology to make the search and sell experience intelligent and seamless. Compass operates in 22+ regions across the United States including New York, Los Angeles, and Orange County, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Washington D.C., South Florida, The Hamptons, Santa Barbara and Montecito, San Diego, Seattle and Eastside, Philadelphia, Connecticut, Westchester, Aspen, Boulder, Denver, Atlanta, Austin, and Central Texas, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Nashville, and Lake Tahoe. The firm was founded in 2012 by Ugo Di Girolamo, Ori Allon, and Robert Reffkin in New York, New York.

Compass

Series A in 2013
Compass is a real estate technology company that provides an online platform for buying, renting, and selling real estate assets. Its end-to-end platform supports the entire buying and selling workflow by pairing the industry’s top talent with technology to make the search and sell experience intelligent and seamless. Compass operates in 22+ regions across the United States including New York, Los Angeles, and Orange County, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Washington D.C., South Florida, The Hamptons, Santa Barbara and Montecito, San Diego, Seattle and Eastside, Philadelphia, Connecticut, Westchester, Aspen, Boulder, Denver, Atlanta, Austin, and Central Texas, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Nashville, and Lake Tahoe. The firm was founded in 2012 by Ugo Di Girolamo, Ori Allon, and Robert Reffkin in New York, New York.

Compass

Seed Round in 2012
Compass is a real estate technology company that provides an online platform for buying, renting, and selling real estate assets. Its end-to-end platform supports the entire buying and selling workflow by pairing the industry’s top talent with technology to make the search and sell experience intelligent and seamless. Compass operates in 22+ regions across the United States including New York, Los Angeles, and Orange County, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Washington D.C., South Florida, The Hamptons, Santa Barbara and Montecito, San Diego, Seattle and Eastside, Philadelphia, Connecticut, Westchester, Aspen, Boulder, Denver, Atlanta, Austin, and Central Texas, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Nashville, and Lake Tahoe. The firm was founded in 2012 by Ugo Di Girolamo, Ori Allon, and Robert Reffkin in New York, New York.

Asana

Series B in 2012
Asana is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of work management and productivity. It helps teams orchestrate their work, from small projects to strategic initiatives. Asana service is a web and mobile work management platform designed to help teams organize, track, and manage work. Teams can create projects, assign tasks, set deadlines, and communicate directly .

Yammer

Series E in 2012
Yammer is an enterprise social network established to foster team collaboration, empower employees, and drive business transformation. It enables employees to collaborate in real time across departments, geographies, and business applications. It also helps them create groups to collaborate on projects and share and edit documents. The service of yammer.com can be accessed through the web, desktop and mobile devices including iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone, Android, and Blackberry, enabling a “virtual office” that employees can plug into while on-the-go. Additionally, Yammer can be easily integrated with other systems such as Microsoft SharePoint, creating a social layer across all enterprise applications. Yammer has secured more than 7 million users, including employees from 85 percent of the Fortune 500 companies. Founded in 2008, Yammer is now a part of Microsoft.

Yammer

Series C in 2010
Yammer is an enterprise social network established to foster team collaboration, empower employees, and drive business transformation. It enables employees to collaborate in real time across departments, geographies, and business applications. It also helps them create groups to collaborate on projects and share and edit documents. The service of yammer.com can be accessed through the web, desktop and mobile devices including iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone, Android, and Blackberry, enabling a “virtual office” that employees can plug into while on-the-go. Additionally, Yammer can be easily integrated with other systems such as Microsoft SharePoint, creating a social layer across all enterprise applications. Yammer has secured more than 7 million users, including employees from 85 percent of the Fortune 500 companies. Founded in 2008, Yammer is now a part of Microsoft.

Yammer

Series A in 2009
Yammer is an enterprise social network established to foster team collaboration, empower employees, and drive business transformation. It enables employees to collaborate in real time across departments, geographies, and business applications. It also helps them create groups to collaborate on projects and share and edit documents. The service of yammer.com can be accessed through the web, desktop and mobile devices including iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone, Android, and Blackberry, enabling a “virtual office” that employees can plug into while on-the-go. Additionally, Yammer can be easily integrated with other systems such as Microsoft SharePoint, creating a social layer across all enterprise applications. Yammer has secured more than 7 million users, including employees from 85 percent of the Fortune 500 companies. Founded in 2008, Yammer is now a part of Microsoft.
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