Founders Fund

Founders Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that backs science and technology companies across multiple stages, from seed to late-stage. It pursues transformative technologies and follows a founder-friendly investment approach that provides substantial support with minimal interference. The firm invests in ventures solving difficult problems across sectors such as aerospace and transportation, artificial intelligence, advanced computing, energy, healthcare, biotechnology, cybersecurity, fintech, consumer internet, software, robotics, and related technology fields. It has backed notable companies early, including SpaceX, Palantir, and Facebook, reflecting a history of partnering with ambitious founders to scale breakthrough technologies.

Lauren Gross

Partner and COO

Bridget Harris

Associate

Joey Krug

Partner

Jeffrey Lonsdale

Managing Director, Asia

John Luttig

Partner

Amin Mirzadegan

Partner

Scott Nolan

Partner

Keith Rabois

Partner

Neil Ruthven

CFO

Brian Singerman

Partner

Napoleon Ta

Partner

Peter Thiel

Managing Partner

Matias Van Thienen

Partner

Past deals in Virtualization

Altius Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2025
Altius Labs is focused on developing a modular execution stack that works without depending on virtual machines (VMs).

Virta Health

Series B in 2018
Virta Health is a San Francisco–based health technology company that specializes in treating type 2 diabetes through an online, physician-supported program. The company combines nutritional biochemistry, data science, and digital tools to deliver on-demand care via a continuous remote care platform, providing physicians and health coaches who guide patients to reduce blood sugar and lose weight without medications or surgery. Founded in 2014, Virta offers a treatment approach aimed at reversing type 2 diabetes and improving related metabolic and cardiovascular health.

Koality

Seed Round in 2013
Koality is a provider of a continuous integration platform designed to enhance software development processes. The platform focuses on parallelizing test suites, which helps in preventing broken builds and ensuring that tests run efficiently. By automatically distributing test tasks across available virtual machines, Koality effectively manages parallelization and reduces non-deterministic test results. This functionality offers engineering organizations robust, off-the-shelf testing capabilities, streamlining the development workflow while working securely behind firewalls.
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