Founders Fund

Founders Fund, Inc. is a venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco, California, established in 2005. The firm specializes in investing across various stages, including seed, early, mid, and growth stages, with a focus on transformative technologies. Founders Fund targets a wide range of sectors, such as aerospace, artificial intelligence, advanced computing, biotechnology, cybersecurity, energy, fintech, and consumer internet. The firm aims to support companies that are developing revolutionary technologies and typically invests between $500,000 and $300 million in its portfolio companies. Founders Fund's partners have a strong background in technology, having been investors, founders, and early employees of notable technology companies, including PayPal. The firm seeks to make investments globally, emphasizing innovation and impact.

Delian Asparouhov

Principal

Leigh Marie Braswell

Principal

Lauren Gross

Partner and COO

Jeffrey Lonsdale

Managing Director, Asia

John Luttig

Principal

Amin Mirzadegan

Principal

Scott Nolan

Partner

Luke Nosek

Managing Partner

Neil Ruthven

CFO

Brian Singerman

Partner

Napoleon Ta

Partner

Matias Van Thienen

Principal

Past deals in PaaS

Caldera

Series A in 2024
Caldera offers a no-code Web3 infrastructure platform to help developers spin up layer-2 blockchains. It allows users to create, launch, and manage customizable blockchain rollups. It also provides customizable fee structures, or the removal of transaction fees entirely, generating project revenue via transaction, bridge fees, or MEV, and adding support for other programming languages.

Neon

Series B in 2023
Neon is a cloud-native, fully managed Postgres as a service. By separating storage from computing, Neon offers autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage to give developers a simple, reliable, and powerful experience. Neon aims to provide a highly performant and cost-effective database infrastructure by leveraging cloud-native technologies and innovative architectural features.

Hathora

Seed Round in 2023
Hathora is a developer of a multiplayer gaming development framework that aims to simplify the process of building and launching online games. The company provides a cloud platform that supports the deployment and scaling of game servers globally. Its offerings include features such as autoscaling, multi-region deployments, monitoring analytics, and migration management. This allows developers to concentrate on the specific functionalities of their games while the Hathora framework handles the underlying infrastructure and necessary abstractions for prototyping and scaling. By streamlining these processes, Hathora enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of game development.

Neon

Series A in 2022
Neon is a cloud-native, fully managed Postgres as a service. By separating storage from computing, Neon offers autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage to give developers a simple, reliable, and powerful experience. Neon aims to provide a highly performant and cost-effective database infrastructure by leveraging cloud-native technologies and innovative architectural features.

Hydra Host

Seed Round in 2022
Hydra Host is a technology company that provides a marketplace for computing resources, aggregating a network of independent data centers into a single dashboard and API. It specializes in cross-cloud infrastructure, focusing on privacy and security for multi-headed applications. By eliminating single points of failure, Hydra Host enhances the security and resilience of its clients' infrastructure, offering features such as redundancy, disaster recovery, and a distributed content delivery network. Its platform is designed to ensure end-to-end encrypted networking, effectively shielding clients' systems from potential attackers while facilitating reliable and secure operations.
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