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Founders Fund
San Francisco venture capital firm co-founded by Peter Thiel that has become a lead or co-lead investor across several of the AI economy's highest-profile private companies, including Anduril, Anthropic and OpenAI.
San Francisco venture capital firm co-founded by Peter Thiel that has become a lead or co-lead investor across several of the AI economy's highest-profile private companies, including Anduril, Anthropic and OpenAI.
Founders Fund deployed its prior $4.6B fund in under a year, largely on outsized checks into Anduril, Anthropic and OpenAI -- a small number of massive, concentrated bets rather than a broad portfolio, reflecting how much capital frontier AI and defense-tech companies now require per round.
Earns management fees and carried interest on the venture funds it raises from its own limited-partner investors.
United States
Financial and investment. The investors and financial firms whose capital is funding the AI buildout. These companies don't build AI technology themselves — they supply the enormous amounts of money it takes to build everything else on this map.
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Connections (5)
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Current relationships (1)
Source: 2026-06-12 · reviewed 2026-09-24
Evidence: Secondary reporting (unconfirmed by primary parties) · Reported operating
Limits: The report does not state Founders Fund's current ownership percentage, how much it has sold, or whether it holds Class A or other shares. Valuation figures quoted in such coverage are estimates, not disclosed holdings.
Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Valor, and the biggest VC winners from SpaceX's IPO ↗Dated or announced (4)
Source: 2026-02-12 · reviewed 2026-09-21
Evidence: Primary-source statement · Completed funding round, February 2026
Limits: Anthropic's announcement does not disclose individual investors' specific check sizes.
Anthropic raises $30B Series G at $380B post-money valuation ↗Source: 2025-06-05 · reviewed 2026-09-21
Evidence: Secondary reporting (unconfirmed by primary parties) · Completed funding round, June 2025
Limits: Deal-term figures come from press reporting rather than a joint Founders Fund/Anduril statement; Founders Fund's own portfolio page confirms Anduril as a holding but does not disclose amount, date or valuation.
With massive funding round and $31 billion valuation, Anduril is nearing the size of defense industry giants ↗Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-21
Evidence: Primary-source statement · Ongoing portfolio holding, multiple rounds
Limits: The portfolio page does not disclose specific round dates or amounts; per-round detail was not independently verified for this record.
Founders Fund portfolio ↗Source: Source undated · reviewed 2026-09-21
Evidence: Primary-source statement · Ongoing portfolio holding
Limits: The portfolio page does not disclose investment date, amount or current stake size; Founders Fund was an early, well-known Palantir backer but this record does not establish a current ownership percentage.
Founders Fund portfolio ↗Inclusion in this database is not an endorsement of a company or its securities. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell anything, and none of it is individualized investment advice. See the disclosures. Data: AI Map v3.22, released .