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Investor portfolio, from our funding record
Firm assets $58.9B (Form ADV private fund gross assets, 2025-12, SEC Form ADV (filed Mar 2026)): all strategies, not money invested in space.
Counted rounds
11
Led
5
6 as participant
Companies
7
Disclosed round value
$1.28B
11 of 11 rounds disclosed; whole rounds, not this investor's share
First deal
2018-12-01
Planet Labs
Latest deal
2026-09-30
Varda Space Industries
Founders Fund appears on 11 counted private space funding rounds in our records, into 7 companies: recorded as lead on 5 and as a participant on 6.
The earliest is Planet Labs on 1 December 2018; the latest is Varda Space Industries on 30 September 2026.
11 of the 11 rounds disclosed a size, together $1.28B. That is the size of the rounds Founders Fund took part in, not the amount Founders Fund invested: we hold no per-investor allocations and do not estimate them.
The investor most often on the same counted rounds as Founders Fund is Lux Capital, on 5 rounds.
9 other recorded transactions naming Founders Fund are not counted in this portfolio; each is listed separately with the class that keeps it out (companies not classed as space: 9).
Private funding rounds into space companies that name Founders Fund as lead or participant, newest first, each with its source. Round size is the whole round; a blank size was never disclosed and is not estimated.
| Stage | Rounds |
|---|---|
| Seed | 5 |
| Series B | 1 |
| Series C | 1 |
| Series D and later | 3 |
| Other or unlabelled private round | 1 |
| Sector | Rounds |
|---|---|
| Manufacturing | 5 |
| Infrastructure | 3 |
| Analytics | 2 |
| Ground segment | 1 |
Investors named on the same counted rounds, by the number of rounds shared.
Showing the 10 most frequent of 23 co-investors. The full list is part of a SpaceNexus Research seat.
Other recorded transactions that name Founders Fund. Each class below is kept out of every figure on this page by the same rule our quarterly funding editions use; they are listed so nothing is hidden.
| Date | Company | Class | Role | Round size | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hadrian | Private rounds and grants into companies not classed as space (defense and other cross-domain companies without a space subsector) | Participant | $131M | PR Newswire (opens the source for this round) | |
| Hadrian | Private rounds and grants into companies not classed as space (defense and other cross-domain companies without a space subsector) | Lead | $260M | CNBC (opens the source for this round) | |
| Anduril IndustriesRecorded as Series G | Private rounds and grants into companies not classed as space (defense and other cross-domain companies without a space subsector) | Lead | $2.50B | TechCrunch (opens the source for this round) | |
| Anduril IndustriesRecorded as Series F | Private rounds and grants into companies not classed as space (defense and other cross-domain companies without a space subsector) | Lead | $1.50B | CNBC (opens the source for this round) | |
| Hadrian | Private rounds and grants into companies not classed as space (defense and other cross-domain companies without a space subsector) | Participant | $97.8M | TechCrunch (amount: SEC Form D equity sold) (opens the source for this round) | |
| Anduril IndustriesRecorded as Series E | Private rounds and grants into companies not classed as space (defense and other cross-domain companies without a space subsector) | Participant | $1.48B | Defense News (opens the source for this round) | |
| Anduril IndustriesRecorded as Series D | Private rounds and grants into companies not classed as space (defense and other cross-domain companies without a space subsector) | Participant | $450M | SiliconANGLE (opens the source for this round) | |
| Hadrian | Private rounds and grants into companies not classed as space (defense and other cross-domain companies without a space subsector) | Participant | $9.5M | dot.LA (opens the source for this round) | |
| Anduril Industries | Private rounds and grants into companies not classed as space (defense and other cross-domain companies without a space subsector) | Participant | $200M | FedScoop (opens the source for this round) |
Showing the 10 most recent of 11 counted rounds. The full list and its CSV and JSON export are part of a SpaceNexus Research seat; the figures above are computed from every row. What a Research seat covers.
Rounds come from company announcements, regulatory filings and press reports. Amounts, valuations and investors are as reported and may be incomplete or later revised. Not investment advice, and not an offer or solicitation for any security. Full disclaimer
| Year | Rounds |
|---|
| 2026 | 2 |
| 2025 | 3 |
| 2024 | 3 |
| 2022 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 |