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title: "Founders Fund: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "Founders Fund is an American venture capital fund founded in 2005 based in San Francisco. The fund has roughly $17 billion in total assets under management as of 2025."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-founders-fund
type: Organization
wikidata: Q1439864
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founders_Fund
website: http://www.foundersfund.com
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Founders Fund

> Founders Fund is an American venture capital fund founded in 2005 based in San Francisco. The fund has roughly $17 billion in total assets under management as of 2025.

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## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Country: United States
- Founded: 2005-01-01
- Headquarters: San Francisco
- Status: private
- Website: http://www.foundersfund.com

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/foundersfund
- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-founders-fund
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/foundersfund

## Key people

- Ken Howery, founder (American venture capitalist and US ambassador)
- Luke Nosek, founder (American businessman)
- Brian Singerman, founder (American businessman)
- Peter Thiel, founder (German-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist (born 1967))

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Founders Fund, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-founders-fund#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1439864, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founders_Fund
- Filings: SEC EDGAR, https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001004705

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