Founders Fund portfolio AI companies

Contrarian venture firm investing in deeptech, defence, and breakthrough software. Filtered to companies in AI.

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Ranked by current headcount across Founders Fund-backed AI companies. Refreshed daily.

1
Google DeepMind· London, England, United Kingdom
- Series A
- 8.3k employees
- Founded 2010
2
OpenAI· San Francisco, California, United States
- Series unknown
- 7.8k employees
- Founded 2015
3
Natera· Austin, Texas, United States
- Post-IPO equity
- 5.7k employees
- Founded 2004
4
Anthropic
- Series G
- 5.3k employees
- Founded 2021
5
Neuralink· Fremont, California, United States
- Series unknown
- 628 employees
- Founded 2016
6
AbCellera· Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Grant
- 579 employees
- Founded 2012
7
Freenome· Brisbane, California, United States
- Corporate
- 390 employees
- Founded 2014
8
Ultima Genomics· Fremont, California, United States
- Series unknown
- 303 employees
- Founded 2016
9
Emerald Cloud Lab· Austin, Texas, United States
- Series B
- 184 employees
- Founded 2010
10
Synthego· Menlo Park, California, United States
- Series E
- 167 employees
- Founded 2012
11
Alloy Therapeutics, Inc.· Lexington, Massachusetts, United States
- Series D
- 135 employees
- Founded 2017
12
MyOme· Palo Alto, California, United States
- Series B
- 77 employees
- Founded 2017
13
Emulate, Inc.· Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Series F
- 76 employees
- Founded 2014
14
Compass Therapeutics Inc.· Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Post-IPO equity
- 52 employees
- Founded 2014
15
NewLimit· South San Francisco, California, United States
- Convertible note
- 50 employees
- Founded 2022
16
Hoxton Farms· London, England, United Kingdom
- Series unknown
- 49 employees
- Founded 2020
17
Bolt· Berkeley, California, United States
- Post-IPO equity
- 45 employees
- Founded 2009
18
Neurotrack· Redwood City, California, United States
- Series unknown
- 42 employees
- Founded 2012
19
Notable· Foster City, California, United States
- Series B
- 29 employees
- Founded 2014
20
Strateos· Menlo Park, California, United States
- Series B
- 27 employees
- Founded 2019
21
Modumetal, Inc.· Seattle, Washington, United States
- Series unknown
- 26 employees
- Founded 2007
22
Contraline· Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
- Series A
- 23 employees
- Founded 2015
23
Immusoft· Seattle, Washington, United States
- Grant
- 22 employees
- Founded 2009
24
A.D.A.M. Innovations (formerly Genesis Healthcare – GeneLife)· Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Series unknown
- 22 employees
- Founded 2004
25
Rational Vaccines· Woburn, Massachusetts, United States
- Grant
- 12 employees
- Founded 2015

Founders Fund’s AI portfolio

The list above ranks Founders Fund-backed AI companies by current headcount, drawn from public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records. 29 matching companies in our index give you a quick read on where Founders Fund has gone deepest in the AI space.

Founders Fund’s AI bets tend to share a thesis. The engineers, ML researchers, and founders inside these companies are often building the same primitives — and they show up in AI talent pools across the next decade.

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