Founders Fund

Founders Fund backs smart people solving difficult problems, investing across all stages, sectors, and geographies with a strong bias toward transformative, hard-technology companies. The firm was built on a contrarian premise — articulated in its manifesto 'What Happened to the Future?' — that venture capital had drifted toward incremental consumer-internet bets rather than the ambitious science and engineering breakthroughs that define civilizational progress. Founders Fund seeks to fund companies capable of defining or transforming entire sectors, placing high conviction in founders it deems deserving of trust, and is willing to back the same company across multiple funds. The firm's partners have themselves been founders and early employees at PayPal, Palantir, SpaceX, and Anduril, and the firm encourages partners to co-found or deeply embed in portfolio companies when that is the best path to returns.