Company
Founders Fund
Founders Fund, venture capital firm founded by Peter Thiel.
- Founded
- 2005
- HQ
- San Francisco, CA
- Status
- private (VC firm)
Verified profile
1
Sources on record
0
Tracked changes
Updated recently
Last verified change
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Data & sources
- Web sources1
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Relationships
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.
Recent coverage
Founders Fund in third-party press
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- mature
- Counterparty risk class
- low
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Partnerships (1)
- Gecko Robotics Series D (2025) with Gecko Robotics, Cox Enterprises, USIT, XN, Y Combinatorinvestment
Sources (1)
Common questions
- What is Founders Fund?
- Founders Fund, venture capital firm founded by Peter Thiel.
- Where is Founders Fund based?
- Founders Fund is based in San Francisco, CA.
- When was Founders Fund founded?
- Founders Fund was founded in 2005.
- What does Founders Fund make?
- Founders Fund has no robot models recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Founders Fund builds physical robots.
- Is Founders Fund safe?
- Founders Fund has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.
Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-03
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-07-03
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
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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.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/founders-fund.md
- RSS feed: /companies/founders-fund/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/99701be5-12f5-485b-9e9f-6f36b85ced18
- Revision history: /companies/founders-fund/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
DEPLOY Intelligence Score
14.5/ 100
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
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Dimension breakdown
Safety Record
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Funding Health
IP Activity
Deployment Scale
Hiring Signal
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.
Last computed: Jul 3, 2026
Intelligence layer