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Founders Fund — 2018 Investments

23 investments dated 2018 · listed companies and verified rows first · show all

Asanaasana.comin𝕏NYSE; LTSE: ASANNov 2018 · $75M

Asana is a collaborative work management platform that helps teams align work to goals, coordinate tasks, and automate processes using AI-powered workflows.

Enterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkMarketing TechSaaSSan Francisco, US

Dustin Moskovitz(Founder)inJustin Rosenstein(Founder)inTim Wan(Executive Officer)inEve Saltman(Executive Officer)inDan Rogers(Chief Executive Officer and Director)Aziz Megji(Chief Financial Officer)in

Co-investors8VCAndreessen HorowitzG SquaredinfoShareKapor CapitalLead Edge Capital+13 more

Adentroadentro.cominAug 2018

Adentro is a physical identity and measurement platform that uses a business's existing guest WiFi access points to turn anonymous foot traffic into customer profiles, power automated win-back marketing, and measure which ads drove in-store visits via its Walk-Through Rate metric.

AdTechData & InfrastructureMarketing TechRetail TechSaaSSan Francisco, US

Jack Abraham(Co-founder; CEO 2012–2018, then Executive Chairman; board member)inTom O'Brien(Co-founder; SVP Sales (2013–2018))Ben Matlin(Chief Executive Officer)Nat Brogadir(President)

BoardPeter Thiel(Director)inJoe Lonsdale(Director)in

Board seatNapoleon Ta· per SEC Form D

Co-investorsAshton KutcherAtomicBain Capital VenturesFelicis VenturesFirst Round CapitalKevin Durant+6 more

BoldEndboldend.comJun 2018

Carlsbad, US

Jon Miller(Executive Officer, Director)Russell Braden(Executive Officer, Director)Anthony Clark(Executive Officer, Director)

Co-investorsRiphean InvestmentsSyn Ventures Seed Management Llc

Bungalowbungalow.comin𝕏Aug 2018 · $14M

Bungalow offers a rental platform that helps renters find furnished rooms and homes with roommate matching, flexible leases, and cleaning services, while providing homeowners and single-family rental (SFR) investors with property management and technology tools.

ConsumerMarketplacesPropTechSaaS

Andrew Collins(Founder)inJustin McCarty(Founder)

Co-investorsA-Rod CorpAtomicCoatue ManagementFlex Capital PartnersFlucas VenturesGaingels+6 more

Cobaltcobalt.ioin𝕏Mar 2018 · $13M

Cobalt provides penetration testing as a service (PTaaS) and offensive security testing for enterprises, offering both on-demand pentests and continuous testing programs enhanced with AI-powered vulnerability detection.

CybersecurityEnergyEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSilicon Valley, US

Jacob Hansen(Founder)inChristian Hansen(Founder)inEsben Friis-Jensen(Founder)Jakob Storm(Founder)in

Co-investors500 GlobalbyFounderseLab VenturesHighland EuropeKima VenturesPlug and Play Ventures+7 more

Cobaltcobaltid.comMar 2018 · $13M

Cobalt maps networks of beneficial owners and entity relationships to identify fraud rings, shell structures, and coordinated schemes that evade detection.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintech

Co-investors2048 VenturesNycaNyca PartnersBloomberg BetaPromus VenturesSequoia Capital+1 more

Cobaltcobalt.pein𝕏Mar 2018 · $13M

Cobalt provides portfolio monitoring and data analytics software for private capital fund managers across venture, buyout, growth equity, infrastructure, and other investment strategies.

Data & InfrastructureFintechSaaSBoston, US

Jason Weinstein(Chief Executive Officer)Emily Monaghan(Chief Technology Officer / Chief Product Officer)

Co-investorsFINTOP CapitalTechstarsValia VenturesBloomberg BetaSequoia CapitalStorm Ventures

Cobaltcobaltlp.com𝕏Mar 2018 · $13M

Cobalt LP provides technology solutions and data platforms for investors in private markets, offering investment diligence tools, fund analytics, and portfolio monitoring.

Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS

Co-investorsHamilton LaneBloomberg BetaPromus VenturesSequoia CapitalStorm Ventures

Cobaltcobaltintl.cominMar 2018 · $13M

Cobalt International is an oil exploration, development, and production company.

Energy

Co-investorsAzimuth Capital ManagementBloomberg BetaHighland EuropePromus VenturesSequoia CapitalStorm Ventures

Cobalt Roboticscobaltrobotics.comin𝕏Jan 2018 · $13M

Cobalt Robotics provides an AI-powered physical security monitoring platform that connects access control systems, video feeds, and edge devices to automate incident investigation and response for enterprise security operations centers.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwarePalo Alto, US

Erik Schluntz(Founder)inTravis Deyle(Founder)inKen Wolff(Chief Executive Officer)in

Co-investorsBloomberg BetaCoatue ManagementComet LabsFlucas VenturesGaingelsGen Capital+4 more

CTRL Labsctrl-labs.comJun 2018 · $620MAcquired

New York startup building non-invasive neural interface wristbands to control computers, acquired by Facebook in 2019.

Patrick Kaifosh(Founder)Thomas Reardon(Founder)Tim Machado(Founder)

Co-investorsBreyer CapitalGV (Google Ventures)Lux CapitalMatrixSpark CapitalAmazon Alexa Fund+2 more

Deliverrdeliverr.com𝕏Oct 2018acquired by Shopify · May 2022

Deliverr was an e-commerce fulfillment startup offering fast, Amazon Prime-like two-day delivery for merchants selling on marketplaces like Shopify, Walmart, and eBay via a distributed network of warehouses.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLogistics & Supply ChainSaaSSan Francisco, US

Michael Krakaris(Founder)inDavid C. Petersen(Founder)inHarish Abbott(Founder)Ryan Petersen(Founder)in

Co-investors8VCActivant CapitalAlumni VenturesKrillion VenturesNFI Ventures, LLC9Yards Capital+32 more

Drivetimedrivetime.fminNov 2018

San Francisco company building hands-free, voice-controlled trivia games that drivers play with their voices while commuting.

Niko Vuori(Founder & CEO)

Co-investorsCanaan PartnersThe Chernin Group (TCG Crypto)Alexa FundAmazon Alexa FundFelicis VenturesFuel Capital+5 more

Handshakehandshake.orgin𝕏Aug 2018

Handshake is a decentralized, peer-to-peer naming and certificate authority protocol that serves as an alternative to centralized DNS systems and certificate authorities.

Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools

Joseph Poon(Co-Founder / Protocol Developer)Andrew Lee(Co-Founder)Christopher Jeffrey(Co-Founder / CTO)Tieshun Roquerre(CEO, Namebase (leading Handshake domain registrar/exchange))

BoardMike Duboe(Venture Partner, Greylock Partners (investor listed on Greylock's Handshake portfolio page))in

Co-investors0 Venturesa16z cryptoAmentum Investment ManagementAusum VenturesD1 VenturesDraper Associates+16 more

Indee Labsindeelabs.comin𝕏Seed · May 2018 · $3M

Indee Labs develops Hydropore™, a non-viral microfluidic technology for delivering molecules, nucleic acids, proteins, and gene-editing complexes into immune cells for engineered cell therapy research and manufacturing.

BiotechDeep TechHealthtechMedical DevicesSan Francisco, US

Ryan Pawell(CEO)inAdrian Lievano(Bioengineer)Amy Twite,Eva Welles(HR Consultant)

Co-investorsJude GomilaPioneerSOSVY CombinatorBroadOak Capital PartnersMain Sequence Ventures

Knewtonknewton.comin𝕏Jul 2018

Knewton Alta provides adaptive courseware for higher education that personalizes learning content and assessments based on real-time student performance data.

AI & Machine LearningEdTechNew York, US

Jose Ferreira(Founder)David Liu(Executive Officer, Director)in

BoardHiro Tamura(Director)inRob Stavis(Director)inKevin Comolli(Director)Amish Jani(Director)in

Co-investorsAtomicoBessemer Venture PartnersMosaic VenturesAccelAccel-KKRFirstMark Capital

Naked Labsnakedlabs.cominAug 2018 · $14M

Redwood City, US

Farhad Farahbakhshian(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)

Co-investorsFirst Generation CapitalInnolinks VenturesRuvento Ventures Pte Ltd.Lumia CapitalNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)Seabed VC

Practice Fusionpracticefusion.comin𝕏Jan 2018

Practice Fusion provides a cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) platform for medical practices, with integrated medical billing, e-prescribing, and patient engagement tools.

Digital HealthHealthtechSaaSSan Francisco, US

Ryan Howard(Executive Officer, Director)in

BoardMark Goines(Director)Beth Seidenberg(Director)inMichael Harden(Director)Cora Tellez(Director)

Co-investorsBand of AngelsCanvas VenturesLongitude CapitalWestern Technology InvestmentArtis VenturesDeerfield Management Company+6 more

Tagomitagomi.com𝕏Seed · May 2018 · $16Macquired by Coinbase · May 2020

Coinbase Prime is a prime brokerage platform for institutional crypto that combines execution, financing, custody, futures, and staking in one system.

Crypto & Web3Enterprise SoftwareFintechSan Francisco, US

Greg Tusar(Founder)inMarc Bhargava(Founder)inJennifer Campbell(Founder)

BoardNapolean Ta(Director)Craig Shapiro(Director)

Co-investorsAbstract VenturesBlockchain CoinvestorsBoxGroupDigital Currency GroupFabric VenturesGalaxy Ventures+4 more

Weights & Biaseswandb.aiin𝕏May 2018Acquired

Weights & Biases is an AI developer platform that enables teams to build, train, and monitor AI agents, applications, and models with tools for experiment tracking, model management, and agent evaluation.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsSan Francisco, US

Shawn Lewis(Founder)inLukas Biewald(Founder)inChris Van Pelt(Founder)inMariah Nagy(Executive Officer)inYan-David Erlich(Executive Officer)inCameron Kinloch(Executive Officer)in

Co-investorsAIX VenturesBond Capital ManagementBrighter CapitalBrilliant Phoenix CapitalCoatue ManagementDiagram Capital+42 more

Other

Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.

Athletic MediaPlethoraYear & Day

Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.