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Founders Fund portfolio in San Francisco

Contrarian venture firm investing in deeptech, defence, and breakthrough software. Filtered to companies headquartered in San Francisco.

Built from a search like: “Founders Fund-backed companies in San Francisco”

Ranked by current headcount across Founders Fund-backed companies in San Francisco. Refreshed daily.

  1. 1
    Airbnb· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 69.2k employees
    • Founded 2007
  2. 2
    Lyft· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 27.7k employees
    • Founded 2012
  3. 3
    Stripe· South San Francisco, California, United States
    • Secondary
    • 14.7k employees
    • Founded 2010
  4. 4
    OpenAI· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Series unknown
    • 7.8k employees
    • Founded 2015
  5. 5
    Rippling· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Series G
    • 7.2k employees
    • Founded 2016
  6. 6
    Scale AI· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Corporate
    • 6.5k employees
    • Founded 2016
  7. 7
    Turing· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Series E
    • 6.4k employees
    • Founded 2018
  8. 8
    Asana· San Francisco, California, United States
    • undisclosed
    • 4.2k employees
    • Founded 2008
  9. 9
    Postmates by Uber· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Private equity
    • 4.1k employees
    • Founded 2011
  10. 10
    Affirm· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 3k employees
    • Founded 2012
  11. 11
    Figma· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO equity
    • 2.9k employees
    • Founded 2012
  12. 12
    Zynga· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO equity
    • 2.8k employees
    • Founded 2007
  13. 13
    Flexport· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Convertible note
    • 2.8k employees
    • Founded 2013
  14. 14
    hims & hers· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 2k employees
    • Founded 2017
  15. 15
    Quince· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Series E
    • 1.8k employees
    • Founded 2018
  16. 16
    Taskrabbit· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Secondary
    • 1.8k employees
    • Founded 2008
  17. 17
    Planet· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 1.7k employees
    • Founded 2010
  18. 18
    Faire· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Secondary
    • 1.5k employees
    • Founded 2017
  19. 19
    LiveRamp· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Series C
    • 1.5k employees
    • Founded 2011
  20. 20
    Eco· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Series B
    • 1.4k employees
    • Founded 2018
  21. 21
    Modern Health· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Series D
    • 900 employees
    • Founded 2017
  22. 22
    ODF· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Seed
    • 831 employees
    • Founded 2019
  23. 23
    Bolt· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Secondary
    • 801 employees
    • Founded 2014
  24. 24
    Benchling· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Series F
    • 794 employees
    • Founded 2012
  25. 25
    Collective Health· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Series F
    • 783 employees
    • Founded 2013

Founders Fund portfolio companies in San Francisco

Founders Fund’s San Francisco portfolio is one of the most active recruiting pools in the market. The list above ranks Founders Fund-backed companies headquartered in San Francisco by current headcount, drawn from public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records. With 129 matching companies in our index, you can see exactly where the Founders Fund thesis has landed locally.

Founders Fund companies in San Franciscotend to attract a specific type of operator — a founder or early hire bought into both the firm’s thesis and the city’s ecosystem. That makes the engineers and designers at these companies particularly valuable signals.

Refolk lets you reach this pool. Ask for “Founders Fund companies in San Franciscohiring founding engineers” or “founders of Founders Fund-backed companies in San Francisco who left in the last year” and Refolk returns a ranked shortlist with evidence behind each match.

How this list is built

Refolk pulled companies whose disclosed Crunchbase investor list includes Founders Fund and whose HQ is in San Francisco, ranked them by current employee count, and kept those with at least 5 employees. The list refreshes once a day.

Last refreshed: Thu, 07 May 2026 06:09:16 GMT

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