Overview
Founders Fund is a venture capital firm founded by Peter Thiel in 2005, investing in defense, AI, and frontier technology. Known for early investments in Facebook, SpaceX, Palantir, and Anduril. Based in San Francisco.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
HQ
Founded
Founder
Notable investments
Focus
Data & sources
Web sources
1
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Partnerships
Every company Founders Fund has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Charge Robotics1× joint3 total
- 2Cox Enterprises1× joint1 total
- 3Gecko Robotics1× joint4 total
- 4USIT1× joint1 total
- 5XN1× joint1 total
- 6Y Combinator1× joint3 total
Most recent
- Gecko Robotics Series D (2025)2025-06-12with Gecko Roboticsoperating
Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Peter Thiel Founderreported, not verified
Founders (1)
Safety record
No incidents on record for Founders Fund.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Founders Fund in third-party press
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- mature
- Counterparty risk class
- low
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
2 total · 1 operating · 1 just announced
Every company Founders Fund has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- Gecko Robotics Series D (2025)2025-06-12with Gecko Roboticsoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1Charge Robotics1× joint3 total
- 2Cox Enterprises1× joint1 total
- 3Gecko Robotics1× joint4 total
- 4USIT1× joint1 total
- 5XN1× joint1 total
- 6Y Combinator1× joint3 total
Timeline
Every recorded move in Founders Fund’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
PartnershipGecko Robotics Series D (2025)
2025-06-12Gecko Robotics raised a $125 million Series D (announced June 12, 2025) at a $1.25 billion valuation, reaching unicorn status; led by Cox Enterprises, with continuing investors USIT, XN, Founders Fund, and Y Combinator.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 25, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (1)
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
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Methodology surface for Founders Fund.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Founders Fund from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Crusoe Raises $3.9 Billion as OpenAI’s Stargate Partner Hits a $30.9 Billion Valuation
Crusoe, the U.S. data center developer, has just announced a $3.9 billion Series F funding round that lifts its post-money valuation to $30.9 billion. The oversubscribed round was…
Crusoe: KI-Rechenzentrumsbetreiber steigt auf 31 Milliarden Dollar Bewertung
Der US-Rechenzentrumsbetreiber Crusoe hat soeben eine Series-F-Finanzierungsrunde über 3,9 Milliarden US-Dollar bekanntgegeben. Die Bewertung steigt damit auf 30,9 Milliarden…
Pulley, a Carta rival, is shutting down
Cap table management platform Pulley, backed by General Catalyst, Stripe, and Founders Fund, announced that it's closing shop in December.
How Fortell is using AI (and $163M) to crack a hearing aid monopoly
“Why do I have to beg my grandparents to put on their hearing aids, but no one has ever needed to ask me to put on my glasses?” That’s the question that drove Matthew de Jonge to…
Why Thrive, Founders Fund, and Antonio Gracias are betting on hearing aids
“Why do I have to beg my grandparents to put on their hearing aids, but no one has ever needed to ask me to put on my glasses?” That’s the question that drove Matthew de Jonge to…
Cognition Secures $2B at $48B Valuation as AI Coding Race Intensifies
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Venture Capital & Startup Funding Roundup, August 13, 2026: Blackstone, Coatue, Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital, Thiel Capital & More
Venture dollars are again clustering around AI and infrastructure. Today’s biggest deal saw Databricks haul in a record-breaking $5 billion at a $190 billion valuation. That…
State Affairs Raises $70 Million To Advance Policy And Regulatory Intelligence Platform
State Affairs announced $70 million in total funding to accelerate its AI-powered intelligence platform for policy and regulatory markets. Investors in the funding include…
The Space Boom's Biggest Bottleneck
Money is flooding into the space economy, from SpaceX's record IPO to Blue Origin's first outside fundraising effort. But while capital is abundant, rocket launches are not.…
Exclusive: No More Side Hustles: Why AI Startup Omnea Will Give Employees $250K To Openly Plan Their Next Startup
Omnea, a London-based artificial intelligence software company that helps businesses manage their supplier spending, is challenging traditional venture models with the launch of…
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Heat Index
Serious54/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place Founders Fund against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 2, 2026