Companies funded by Founders Fund

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Meta· Menlo Park, California, United States
Meta's mission is to build the future of human connection and the technology that makes it possible. Our technologies help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive and intelligent experiences like virtual reality, wearables and AI to help build the next evolution in social technology.To help create a safe and respectful online space, we encourage constructive conversations on this page. Please note the following:• Start with an open mind. Whether you agree or disagree, engage with empathy.• Comments violating our Community Standards will be removed or hidden. Please treat everybody with respect.• Keep it constructive. Use your interactions here to learn about and grow your understanding of others.• Our moderators are here to uphold these guidelines for the benefit of everyone, every day.• If you are seeking support for issues related to your Facebook account, please reference our Help Center (https://www.facebook.com/help) or Help Community (https://www.facebook.com/help/community).For a full listing of our jobs, visit https://www.metacareers.com
- Post-IPO debt
- 163.9k employees
- Founded 2004
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Airbnb· San Francisco, California, United States
Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays, experiences and services that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.
- Post-IPO debt
- 72.2k employees
- Founded 2007
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Compass· New York, New York, United States
Compass is a real estate technology company with a powerful end-to-end platform that supports the entire buying and selling workflow. We deliver an incomparable experience to both agents and their clients all in service of the Compass mission: to help everyone find their place in the world. Founded in 2012 by Ori Allon and Robert Reffkin, 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 & Montecito, San Diego, Seattle & Eastside, Philadelphia, Connecticut, Westchester, Aspen, Boulder, Denver, Atlanta, Austin & Central Texas, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Nashville, and Lake Tahoe. Learn more and find your place at www.compass.com and www.compass.com/careers.Compass only reaches out to applicants from a @compass.com domain and does not prompt applicants to download software or files as part of its application process.
- Post-IPO debt
- 35.3k employees
- Founded 2012
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Lyft· San Francisco, California, United States
Whether it’s an everyday commute or a journey that changes everything, Lyft is driven by our purpose: to serve and connect. In 2012, Lyft was founded as one of the first ridesharing communities in the United States. Now, millions of drivers have chosen to earn on billions of rides. Lyft offers rideshare, bikes, and scooters all in one app — for a more connected world, with transportation for everyone.
- Post-IPO debt
- 28.5k employees
- Founded 2012
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SpaceX· Hawthorne, California, United States
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk to revolutionize space transportation, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary. SpaceX has gained worldwide attention for a series of historic milestones. It is the only private company ever to return a spacecraft from low-Earth orbit, which it first accomplished in December 2010. The company made history again in May 2012 when its Dragon spacecraft attached to the International Space Station, exchanged cargo payloads, and returned safely to Earth — a technically challenging feat previously accomplished only by governments. Since then Dragon has delivered cargo to and from the space station multiple times, providing regular cargo resupply missions for NASA.For more information, visit www.spacex.com.
- Post-IPO debt
- 20.6k employees
- Founded 2002

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Spotify· Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Deliver creativity to the world -- one note, one voice, one idea at a time.At Spotify, we focus relentlessly on building the best and most valuable experience available anywhere, enhancing every moment by connecting the world to the art and the creatives who shape it.Spotify transformed music listening forever when it launched in Sweden in 2008. Discover, manage and share over 70m tracks for free, or upgrade to Spotify Premium to access exclusive features including offline mode, improved sound quality, and an ad-free music listening experience. Today, Spotify is the most popular global audio streaming service with 365m users, including 165m subscribers across 178 markets. We are the largest driver of revenue to the music business today.
- Post-IPO equity
- 19.2k employees
- Founded 2006
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Canva· Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia
We're a global online visual communications platform on a mission to empower the world to design. Featuring a simple drag-and-drop user interface and a vast range of templates ranging from presentations, documents, websites, social media graphics, posters, apparel to videos, plus a huge library of fonts, stock photography, illustrations, video footage, and audio clips, anyone can take an idea and create something beautiful on Canva on any device, from anywhere in the world.Since our launch in 2013, we’ve had the crazy big goal of making design accessible to everyone. We were founded on the belief that people shouldn't need to understand complex software to unlock their creativity. We’re leveling the playing field and democratizing access to design and visual communication by empowering 100% of the world to communicate in a way that was once limited to the 1%. We've always had a deeper mission surrounding Canva — which we talk about as our 'simple' two-step plan: to build one of the world’s most valuable companies, and to do the most good we possibly can. We're committed to our core value of Being a Force for Good, so as the value of our company grows, so too does our ability to have a positive impact on the world.
- Secondary
- 18.4k employees
- Founded 2012
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Stripe· South San Francisco, California, United States
Stripe builds programmable financial services. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Headquartered in San Francisco and Dublin, the company aims to increase the GDP of the internet.
- Secondary
- 17k employees
- Founded 2010
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Nubank· São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Nu is one of the largest digital financial services platforms in the world, serving 135 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. The company has been leading an industry transformation by leveraging data and proprietary technology to develop innovative products and services.Guided by its mission to fight complexity and empower people, Nu caters to customers’ complete financial journey, promoting financial access and advancement with responsible lending and transparency. The company is powered by an efficient and scalable business model that combines low cost to serve with growing returns.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwwzcXK2PUo
- Post-IPO debt
- 13k employees
- Founded 2013
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OpenAI· San Francisco, California, United States
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit.To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership.At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
- Series unknown
- 10.5k employees
- Founded 2015

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