Founders Fund

Founders Fund, established in 2005 and headquartered in San Francisco, is a venture capital firm that invests across various stages and sectors globally. It focuses on companies developing transformative technologies, with a particular interest in science and engineering ventures. These include consumer internet, biotechnology, aerospace and transportation, energy, artificial intelligence, and health. The firm's investment size ranges from $500,000 to $300 million, providing maximum support with minimum interference to its portfolio companies. Founders Fund is known for its founder-friendly approach and has been an early backer of prominent companies like SpaceX, Palantir, Facebook, and Airbnb.

Jennifer Campbell

Partner

Lauren Gross

Partner and COO

Bridget Harris

Associate

Sean Liu

Partner

Jeffrey Lonsdale

Managing Director, Asia

John Luttig

Partner

Amin Mirzadegan

Partner

Luke Nosek

Managing Partner

Stephen Oskoui

Venture Partner

Neil Ruthven

CFO

Eric Scott

Principal

Matias Van Thienen

Partner

Past deals in Credits and Lending

Roam

Series A in 2025
Roam is the platform for affordable home ownership. Roam helps homebuyers purchase their next home with a low-interest rate mortgage included.

Aven

Series D in 2024
Aven is a financial services company that specializes in providing the Aven HELOC Card, a unique product combining features of a credit card with those of a home equity line of credit (HELOC). This card enables users to access funds based on their home equity while offering the convenience of traditional credit card usage. The Aven HELOC Card is designed to provide lower interest rates compared to standard credit cards, making it an appealing option for individuals seeking more effective financial management. Users can make purchases and pay them off over time, potentially saving on interest costs by leveraging their home equity.

Roam

Seed Round in 2024
Roam is the platform for affordable home ownership. Roam helps homebuyers purchase their next home with a low-interest rate mortgage included.

Pomelo

Series A in 2024
Pomelo is a financial technology company focused on empowering immigrants by facilitating cost-effective international money transfers and credit building. The company's application enables users to send money to their families abroad without incurring fees, while also providing a secured credit card that allows users to deposit funds and establish a credit line. This dual functionality not only supports families in maintaining financial connections across borders but also assists users in building their credit history. Pomelo's commitment to financial empowerment and global connectivity is driven by a dedicated team of experienced founders and operators.

Roam

Seed Round in 2023
Roam is the platform for affordable home ownership. Roam helps homebuyers purchase their next home with a low-interest rate mortgage included.

Vontive

Series B in 2022
Vontive, established in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in developing and operating a digital platform that connects real estate investors with lenders. Its core offering is an embedded mortgage platform, empowering businesses serving real estate investors to launch their own investment-property mortgage services within a short timeframe. Vontive's platform integrates financial institutions through a debt marketplace, fostering new investment opportunities in the real estate sector. The company was founded by industry veterans with nearly four decades of experience in mortgage and financial services, including alumni from Freddie Mac and Palantir.

Nuvo

Seed Round in 2022
Nuvo is a modern trade credit platform for B2B commerce.

Even.com

Funding Round in 2020
Even.com is focused on enhancing financial resilience for employees, addressing the challenges faced by over half of Americans living paycheck to paycheck. The company develops a mobile budgeting application that automatically budgets upcoming bills, allowing users to manage their spending habits effectively. By partnering with employers, Even provides its services as a benefit, which not only supports employees in making ends meet, paying down debt, and saving money but also helps employers improve employee retention. The business operates transparently, ensuring that it profits only when its customers do. Even.com is based in Oakland, California, and Raleigh, North Carolina.

Blend

Series E in 2019
Blend is a digital lending platform based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2012 by Erin Collard, Eugene Marinelli, Nima Ghamsari, and Rosco Hill. The company provides a cloud-based software solution that simplifies the application process for mortgages, consumer loans, and deposit accounts. By optimizing the customer journey, Blend enables financial institutions to enhance their services from application to closing. Its platform is utilized by over 285 leading banks, including Wells Fargo and U.S. Bank, facilitating the processing of more than $4 billion in loans daily. The company's offerings include a suite of products that streamline the entire origination process and a Title segment designed to improve the title, settlement, and closing procedures for various mortgage-related products. Blend's focus is on helping lenders acquire more customers, increase productivity, and strengthen customer relationships.

Vontive

Series A in 2019
Vontive, established in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in developing and operating a digital platform that connects real estate investors with lenders. Its core offering is an embedded mortgage platform, empowering businesses serving real estate investors to launch their own investment-property mortgage services within a short timeframe. Vontive's platform integrates financial institutions through a debt marketplace, fostering new investment opportunities in the real estate sector. The company was founded by industry veterans with nearly four decades of experience in mortgage and financial services, including alumni from Freddie Mac and Palantir.

Scratch

Venture Round in 2018
Scratch Services, LLC, established in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in developing innovative loan servicing solutions. It offers a proprietary loan accounting system, payments infrastructure, and a user-friendly web application, all designed to enhance borrowers' understanding and management of their loans. Scratch aims to transform the debt experience by prioritizing the borrower's needs, ultimately improving repayment outcomes and fostering a more efficient service ecosystem for both borrowers and lenders.

Hearth

Seed Round in 2018
Hearth is a financial technology platform that supports home improvement contractors in growing and managing their businesses. The company offers a comprehensive suite of financial tools designed to facilitate business transactions, including financing advice, invoicing, payment collection, and insurance products. By enabling contractors to send quotes, contracts, invoices, and financing options from any location, Hearth streamlines the process of closing deals, ensuring a seamless experience for both contractors and clients.

Archblock

Seed Round in 2018
Archblock is a financial technology company that focuses on bridging institutional capital with decentralized finance (DeFi) through innovative web3-enabled products. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, Archblock operates the TrustToken platform, which facilitates the creation of asset-backed tokens for global trading. The company emphasizes transparency and accessibility in lending by connecting institutional lenders and fund managers to DeFi markets. Its offerings include a modular suite of tools that allows institutions to create and manage stablecoins, tokenize real-world assets, and securely manage portfolios. Archblock's platform ensures compliance with fiduciary responsibilities and provides a legal framework that enforces smart contract terms, thereby enhancing the integrity of financial transactions.

ComparaGuru

Series A in 2017
Coru is a platform that intelligently connects users with credit and insurance products employing the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

CompareEuropeGroup

Series A in 2017
CompareEuropeGroup Limited is a London-based company that operates online comparison platforms for financial, telecommunications, and utility products across Europe. Founded in 2015, the company focuses on helping consumers save time and money by providing a free and straightforward market comparison for over 600 products, including car insurance, personal loans, credit cards, and broadband subscriptions. The platforms are designed to be user-friendly, featuring a simple application process. CompareEuropeGroup emphasizes transparency, independence, and trust in its operations, with a commitment to creating convenient and comprehensive resources for consumers to make informed decisions.

Blend

Series C in 2016
Blend is a digital lending platform based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2012 by Erin Collard, Eugene Marinelli, Nima Ghamsari, and Rosco Hill. The company provides a cloud-based software solution that simplifies the application process for mortgages, consumer loans, and deposit accounts. By optimizing the customer journey, Blend enables financial institutions to enhance their services from application to closing. Its platform is utilized by over 285 leading banks, including Wells Fargo and U.S. Bank, facilitating the processing of more than $4 billion in loans daily. The company's offerings include a suite of products that streamline the entire origination process and a Title segment designed to improve the title, settlement, and closing procedures for various mortgage-related products. Blend's focus is on helping lenders acquire more customers, increase productivity, and strengthen customer relationships.

OnDeck

Series E in 2014
OnDeck is a technology-enabled financial platform founded in 2006 and headquartered in New York City. The company specializes in providing loan financing to small and medium-sized businesses, addressing the challenges they face in accessing capital. OnDeck employs proprietary software to analyze operational data from businesses, utilizing algorithms to determine loan eligibility based on actual performance rather than just personal credit scores. This innovative approach allows OnDeck to deliver a range of financing options, including short-term and unsecured loans, thereby enabling small businesses to secure the funds they need quickly and effectively. By focusing on performance-based assessments, OnDeck fills a critical gap in the market, offering credit solutions that traditional banks may not provide.

Able Lending

Series A in 2013
Able Lending, based in Austin, Texas, is a small business lender offering term loans, growth loans, and debt refinancing options. Its unique "Able Start" loan product enables businesses to access funding with support from friends, family, and fans, resulting in lower interest rates and significant savings. Able Lending aims to provide more than just loans, connecting entrepreneurs with additional capital, community resources, and expert advice to facilitate growth.

OnDeck

Series D in 2013
OnDeck is a technology-enabled financial platform founded in 2006 and headquartered in New York City. The company specializes in providing loan financing to small and medium-sized businesses, addressing the challenges they face in accessing capital. OnDeck employs proprietary software to analyze operational data from businesses, utilizing algorithms to determine loan eligibility based on actual performance rather than just personal credit scores. This innovative approach allows OnDeck to deliver a range of financing options, including short-term and unsecured loans, thereby enabling small businesses to secure the funds they need quickly and effectively. By focusing on performance-based assessments, OnDeck fills a critical gap in the market, offering credit solutions that traditional banks may not provide.

Wallaby Financial

Seed Round in 2012
Wallaby Financial is a technology company that specializes in optimizing credit card usage to maximize rewards and benefits for consumers. Through its Wallaby Engine, the company provides a range of products, including mobile applications for iPhone and Android, as well as a web-based service called WalletBoost. These tools help users identify the best credit cards to use based on rewards, credit limits, statement due dates, and various offers. Wallaby is also in the process of developing the Wallaby Card, which aims to simplify the rewards process by allowing consumers to maximize their benefits with a single swipe. Overall, Wallaby Financial focuses on enhancing the financial experience for users through innovative digital solutions.
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