Founders Fund hires former OpenAI exec Ryan Beiermeister (and not because of her Mafia skills)
Ryan Beiermeister, who demonstrated cool analysis in the Founders Fund YouTube series “Mafia,” has joined the firm as a partner.
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Founders Fund launches game show starring Sam Altman, Palmer Luckey, and other tech elites
The debut episode, moderated by Founders Fund Chief Marketing Officer Mike Solana, included a star-studded cast of current tech luminaries.
Ex-Anduril engineer raises $42M to build the Amazon of composite parts
Layup Parts co-founder Zack Eakin has drawn on a motorsports background, and his experience working for Palmer Luckey and Elon Musk, to tackle making faster, cheaper, and better composites.
SpaceX backer 137 Ventures raises $700M for two growth-stage funds
VC firm 137 Ventures has raised over $700 million to back growth-stage startups. Its portfolio includes SpaceX, Anduril, Hadrian.
Physical Intelligence is reportedly in talks to raise $1 billion, again
The deal would effectively double the company’s $5.6 billion valuation in just four months.
Founders Fund nears $6B close for latest growth fund, sources say
The fresh fundraise comes less than a year after Founders Fund closed its third growth fund, a $4.6 billion vehicle intended primarily for follow-on investments in its successful late-stage companies.
Hardware testing startup Nominal hits $1B valuation, raises $155M in 10 months
Nominal provides hardware testing equipment to defense tech companies. Founders Fund led the preemptive deal.
With AI, investor loyalty is (almost) dead: at least a dozen OpenAI VCs now also back Anthropic
While some dual investors are understandable, others were more shocking, and signal the disregard of a longstanding ethical conflict-of-interest rule.
Anthropic raises another $30 billion in series G, with a new value of $380 billion
The chatbot maker has, once again, ramped up its valuation significantly.
Former Founders Fund VC Sam Blond launches AI sales startup to upend Salesforce
The startup, Monaco, has come out of stealth as an AI-native all-in-one CRM plus more system backed by names like the Collison brothers and Garry Tan.