Companies funded by Founders Fund
Contrarian venture firm investing in deeptech, defence, and breakthrough software.
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Ranked by current headcount across companies in Founders Fund's disclosed portfolio. Refreshed daily.
- 1Meta· Menlo Park, California, United States
- Post-IPO debt
- 160.2k employees
- Founded 2014
- 2Airbnb· San Francisco, California, United States
- Post-IPO debt
- 68.6k employees
- Founded 2007
- 3Compass· New York, New York, United States
- Post-IPO debt
- 35.1k employees
- Founded 2012
- 4Lyft· San Francisco, California, United States
- Post-IPO debt
- 28.1k employees
- Founded 2012
- 5SpaceX· Hawthorne, California, United States
- Secondary
- 19.5k employees
- Founded 2002
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Founders Fund’s portfolio is a curated bet on the next wave of category-defining companies. The list above ranks Founders Fund-backed companies by current headcount, drawn from public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records. With 514 matching companies in our index, the depth of senior engineers, founders, and operators is significant.
Founders Fund’s companies tend to share a profile - strong technical founders, fresh capital, and access to the Founders Fund network. Hiring from these companies often means hiring from one of the most curated talent pools in tech.
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