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Founders Fund is a San Francisco venture capital firm, co-founded by Peter Thiel, that invests across stages in technology and deep-tech companies including AI, defense, and space.
Founded 2005San Francisco, California
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newest first- Jul 16, 2026FUNDINGFounders Fund Hires Ex-OpenAI Exec Ryan Beiermeister→
- Jul 7, 2026FUNDINGFounders Fund's One-Year Sprint From $4.6B to $6B$4.6B to $6B in about a year→
- Jun 26, 2026FUNDINGDefense Startup Stark Raises $569M Led by Founders Fund and Sequoia$569M→
- Jun 20, 2026FUNDINGFounders Fund Makes an Outlier Bet on Humanely Killed FishOutlier bet→
- Jun 17, 2026FUNDINGHydra Host Raises $100M Series A -- Founders Fund and Nvidia Back Bare-Metal GPU Infra$100M→
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Founders Fund Hires Ex-OpenAI Exec Ryan Beiermeister
Founders Fund hired former OpenAI executive Ryan Beiermeister, adding frontier-lab operating experience to its investing team as top venture firms compete aggressively to poach talent directly out of leading AI labs.
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Founders Fund's One-Year Sprint From $4.6B to $6B
FUNDING$4.6B to $6B in about a year
Founders Fund's One-Year Sprint From $4.6B to $6B
Founders Fund closed a record $6 billion fourth growth fund in May 2026, barely a year after its $4.6 billion third growth fund, as mega-managers keep out-raising and out-deploying everyone else.
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Defense Startup Stark Raises $569M Led by Founders Fund and Sequoia
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Defense Startup Stark Raises $569M Led by Founders Fund and Sequoia
Berlin-based defense-technology startup Stark raised roughly $569 million in a round led by Founders Fund and Sequoia Capital, one of the largest European defense-tech financings on record. The deal underscores how aggressively top US venture firms are now backing European defense as the continent rearms and attritable autonomous systems reshape the battlefield.
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Founders Fund Makes an Outlier Bet on Humanely Killed Fish
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Founders Fund Makes an Outlier Bet on Humanely Killed Fish
Founders Fund backed a startup working on humane fish-harvesting technology -- a deliberately contrarian, non-AI wager from one of tech's most aggressive funds. It's a reminder that even in an AI-saturated cycle, top firms still hunt for asymmetric bets in overlooked physical-world categories.
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Hydra Host Raises $100M Series A -- Founders Fund and Nvidia Back Bare-Metal GPU Infra
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Hydra Host Raises $100M Series A -- Founders Fund and Nvidia Back Bare-Metal GPU Infra
Hydra Host raised a $100M Series A led by Kindred Ventures, with ARK, Founders Fund, and Nvidia participating, to scale its bare-metal GPU platform. The round is a bet that the AI buildout still needs new ways to provision and access compute, not just more chips.