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Founders Circle Capital
Venture capital · San Francisco, CA, United States · North America
Founders Circle Capital is a venture firm for growth-stage companies that packages primary and secondary financings, including employee liquidity programs and tender offers. It also runs a private leadership community called The Circle and publishes guidance on liquidity structures, 409A valuations and related tax issues.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsgrowth stagesecondaryemployee liquiditytender offerscommunityleadership
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Or find every investor that fitsFounders Circle Capital lists 78 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 3 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Series B, 67% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (19%), Enterprise Software (15%) and Cybersecurity (11%). 94% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Kleiner Perkins, Sapphire Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Founders Circle Capital, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Founders Circle Capital's whole history. Rounds on record name 3 companies; its own site lists 78. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 0% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 67% |
| Growth | 33% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 3 | 0 |
| '26 | 0 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 93th | 78 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 53th | 1% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 13th | 19% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 70th | 4 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 19% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 15% | 8% |
| Cybersecurity | 11% | 4% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 10% | 15% |
| Fintech | 10% | 12% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 6% | 6% |
| Consumer | 5% | 3% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 3% | 7% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Kleiner Perkins | 15 |
| Sapphire Ventures | 15 |
| Bessemer Venture Partners | 14 |
| Accel | 13 |
| Salesforce Ventures | 13 |
| Sequoia Capital | 13 |
| SV Angel | 12 |
| Cross Creek | 11 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers7495%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company45%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Founders Circle Capital head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Founders Circle Capital| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Jul 2025 | Series B | |
| 1 Jul 2025 | Series C+ |
Round details for Founders Circle Capital
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Founders Circle Capital's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
78 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airtable provides a platform for building custom applications and workflows | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Akasa builds AI for the hardest work in the revenue cycle, specifically for health systems to get full credit for the care they deliver. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | |||
| Ambience Healthcare provides AI solutions for healthcare systems to improve clinical, quality, and financial outcomes. | Healthcare & Biotech | Jul 2025Series C+ | Funding round | |
| Anaplan provides decision infrastructure and planning solutions for businesses | FintechEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| AppDynamics optimizes apps with full-stack insight | Enterprise SoftwareCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Armada provides ruggedized modular data centers and edge computing hardware and software for deploying GPU infrastructure in remote and demanding environments. | Enterprise SoftwareIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Attentive provides an AI-powered SMS and email marketing platform for businesses. | E-commerce & MarketplacesMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Auth0 provides authentication and identity management services for businesses and developers | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Bark delivers dog toys, treats, and other products to customers through a subscription service. | E-commerce & MarketplacesConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Baseten brings inference, training, and execution together on one platform to power companies | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Carbon provides 3D printing services and additive manufacturing solutions. | Industrial & ManufacturingHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| ClickHouse develops and provides a fast open-source OLAP database for real-time analytics. | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Confluent provides a data streaming platform for businesses to manage and process real-time data | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Cribl helps enterprises turn telemetry from a fragmented operational burden into a shared, reusable foundation for modern IT, security, and AI-driven operations | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Databricks provides a unified platform for data, analytics, and AI. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Deel provides global payroll, compliance, HR solutions, and other related services to companies. | FintechHuman Resources | Portfolio page | ||
| Degreed provides a learning and upskilling platform with AI-powered solutions for workforce development | EducationHuman Resources | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- founderscircle.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 1 Jul 2025
- Companies checked
- 78
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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