About Us
While our venture experience is deep, what truly sets us apart is that we have founded and grown our own companies. We understand why people choose to start companies instead of pursuing the anonymous safety of working for others and the challenges and rewards that come with such pursuit.
We have been through every stage of the start-up process, from inception to IPO, and commit the full range of our experience as well as our financial resources to ensure that our companies succeed.
- May 23, 2013 Lyft Raises $60 Million As Ride Sharing Competition Heats Up Forbes
- May 1, 2013 Inside The Company That’s Producing The Most Realistic Fake Eggs You’ll Ever Eat Fast Company
- March 4, 2013 Leap Motion Raises $30 Million for ‘Minority Report’ Controls Bloomberg
- August 3, 2012 NASA Selects SpaceX to Return Americans to Space The Wall Street Journal
- June 25, 2012 With $1.2 Billion Yammer Buy, Microsoft’s Social Enterprise Strategy Takes Shape TechCrunch
- June 15, 2012 Microsoft to Buy Yammer The Wall Street Journal
- June 14, 2012 Syncapse To Acquire Clickable Syncapse
- June 14, 2012 The Climate Corporation Raises $50M For Big Data Driven Weather Insurance TechCrunch
- May 25, 2012 SpaceX makes breakthrough for commercial space travel Washington Post
- May 22, 2012 SpaceX launches historic mission to space station LA Times
- May 9, 2012 Four Things to Get Right When Starting a Company Harvard Business Review
- March 12, 2012 Peter Thiel to Teach Startup Course at Stanford Business Week
- April 25, 2012 Founders Fund: Staging the Most Exclusive Tech Conference Ever? Inc
- March 6, 2012 Partner Ken Howery Selected as 2012 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader World Economic Forum
- February 23, 2012 2011 TechFellow Award Winners Announced Market Watch
- February 23, 2012 Founders Fund Backs “Facebook for scientists” The Financial Times
- February 10, 2012 Investing in the Fountain of Youth CNBC
- January 30, 2012 Just How Risky Is Entrepreneurship, Really? Harvard Business Review
- January 27, 2012 Knewton CEO Comments on Founders Fund Business Insider
- January 26, 2012 Nominate a TechFellow TechCrunch
- January 18, 2012 Harvard Business Review names Founders Fund philosophy to 2012 Harvard Business Review
