51 Founders Backed by Founders Fund (2026)

Founders Fund founders (51)

Founders Fund founders covers 51 founders on Varda, AfterHour and AirGarage and 47 other companies. The most common sectors are AI Infrastructure (8), Robotics (7) and Fintech (6). Members are based in 28 cities, led by San Francisco, CA (14), El Segundo, CA (4) and Miami, FL (3). The remaining members span Biotech (5), SaaS (5), Developer Tools (3), Media (3), Aerospace (2), Climate (2), Healthtech (2) and Logistics (2) and 5 further sectors. Companies represented include Altius Labs, Amca, Anduril Industries, Arena, ARQ, Asana, Ataraxis, Aven, Biosphere, Bonfire Studios, BuildOps and Cognition, plus 35 more. Every founder below links to a profile with their company, backers, and the filings behind each round.

• Founders listed: 51
• Companies represented: 50
• Top sector: AI Infrastructure (8 founders)
• Top location: San Francisco, CA (14 founders)
• Sectors represented: 16
• Locations represented: 28

• Alexandr Wang — Scale AI
• Alex Karp — Palantir Technologies
• Alok Chanani — BuildOps
• Amir Diba — ARQ
• Amjad Masad — Replit
• Anit Chakraborty — Altius Labs
• Anup Ghosh — ThreatMate
• Aravind Srinivas — Perplexity AI
• Ben Wiley — David AI
• Brian Heligman — Biosphere
• Brian Schimpf — Anduril Industries
• Chris Power — Hadrian
• Curtis Lary — Hextronics
• Danny Goodman — Swarm Aero
• Delian Asparouhov — Varda
• Dustin Moskovitz — Asana
• Elon Musk — SpaceX
• Erik Palitsch — Freeform
• Filip Aronshtein — Dirac
• Jai Malik — Amca
• Jan Witowski — Ataraxis
• Jonathan Steckbeck — Peptilogics
• Jonathon Barkl — AirGarage
• Jordan Black — Senra Systems
• Joseph Perla — Turntable Labs
• Joubin Mirzadegan — Roadrunner
• Kevin Xu — AfterHour
• Laura Deming — Until Labs
• Mark Stokes — Magdrive
• Mati Staniszewski — ElevenLabs
• Matt McKinney — Loop
• Max Brodeur-Urbas — Gumloop
• Mayank Banerjee — Even
• Melisa Tokmak — Netic
• Michael Mac-Vicar — Enter
• Mike Shebat — Traba
• Mikus Opelts — Giraffe360
• Molly Yang — Hgen
• Nicholas Carpenter — Bonfire Studios
• Patrick Collison — Stripe
• Pratap Ranade — Arena
• Sadi Khan — Aven
• Saif Khawaja — Shinkei Systems
• Sam Altman — OpenAI
• Sam Blond — Monaco
• Shehzan Maredia — Lava
• Steven Eidelman — Modern Animal
• Suraj Kumar — Swish Club
• Tony McLaughlin — Ubyx
• Walden Yan — Cognition
• Will Bruey — Varda

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Narrow Founders Fund founders

• Founders Fund · San Francisco, CA (13 founders)
• Founders Fund · AI Infrastructure (9 founders)
• Founders Fund · Robotics (7 founders)
• Founders Fund · Fintech (6 founders)
• Founders Fund · Biotech (5 founders)
• Founders Fund · Miami, FL (4 founders)
• Founders Fund · SaaS (4 founders)
• Founders Fund · El Segundo, CA (4 founders)
• Founders Fund · Developer Tools (3 founders)
• Founders Fund · Media (3 founders)
• Founders Fund · New York, NY (3 founders)

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• Correlation Ventures (31 founders)
• Lerer Hippeau (31 founders)
• Upfront Ventures (31 founders)
• Bain Capital (30 founders)
• Tiger Global Management (30 founders)
• Wellington Management (30 founders)
• Initialized Capital (30 founders)
• Greycroft (30 founders)
• Founder Collective (29 founders)
• General Atlantic (29 founders)
• Goldman Sachs (29 founders)
• Uncork Capital (29 founders)
• Crosslink Capital (28 founders)
• Meritech Capital Partners (28 founders)
• Polaris Partners (28 founders)
• IVP (27 founders)
• U.S. Venture Partners (27 founders)
• Flybridge (27 founders)
• Sierra Ventures (27 founders)
• Headline (27 founders)
• Liquid 2 Ventures (26 founders)
• Maveron (25 founders)
• Benchmark (25 founders)
• HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds) (25 founders)

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