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Friends & Family Capital
Venture capital · United States · North America
Friends & Family Capital is a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley founded by former Palantir CFO Colin Anderson and second-generation venture capitalist John Fogelsong. It invests in founders from their earliest days and provides operational and financial expertise to help them build finance teams, operations, and fundraising processes.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsdefenseenterprise softwarefintechspacecybersecurityai
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Or find every investor that fitsFriends & Family Capital lists 27 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 11 funding rounds, 2 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Series B, 46% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (42%), Enterprise Software (12%) and Industrial & Manufacturing (10%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Fifth Down Capital, Founders Fund and XYZ.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Friends & Family 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 Friends & Family Capital's whole history. Rounds on record name 11 companies; its own site lists 27. 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 | 36% |
| Series B | 46% |
| Growth | 18% |
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 | 4 | 0 |
| '26 | 7 | 2 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 63th | 27 companies |
| Recent activity | 93th | 8 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 90th | 19% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 76th | 42% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 42% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 12% | 8% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 10% | 7% |
| Cybersecurity | 10% | 4% |
| Fintech | 8% | 12% |
| Legal & Compliance | 4% | 2% |
| Consumer | 2% | 3% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 2% | 15% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Fifth Down Capital | 9 |
| Founders Fund | 9 |
| XYZ | 7 |
| 137 Ventures | 6 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 5 |
| Ethos VC | 5 |
| Felicis | 5 |
| Sequoia Capital | 5 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers2696%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company14%
- 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 togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Fifth Down Capital
Compare Friends & Family 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 Friends & Family Capital| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Oct 2026 | Series A | |
| 12 Aug 2026 | Series B | |
| 17 Jun 2026 | Series B | |
| 6 May 2026 | Series C+ | |
| 10 Mar 2026 | Series A | |
| 29 Jan 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 8 Jan 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 19 Nov 2025 | Series B |
Round details for Friends & Family Capital
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Friends & Family Capital's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
27 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 | ||
| Altana AI is an AI-powered network for trusted trade | AI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Anduril Industries specializes in advanced autonomous systems for defense and commercial mission sets. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Astranis designs, manufactures, tests, and operates geostationary orbit satellites for commercial and government customers. | Space & DefenseAI & Machine Learning | May 2026Series C+ | Page + round | |
| Cyera provides a platform for data, identity, and AI security | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Ditto develops products for resilient edge device connectivity and edge-native systems | Industrial & ManufacturingConsumer | Mar 2025Series B | Funding round | |
| Figure provides lending services, including home equity lines of credit and crypto-backed loans. | FintechLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| Flexport provides freight forwarding and supply chain services to its customers. | Legal & ComplianceIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Gecko Robotics develops and uses AI and robotic tools to inspect and maintain critical infrastructure | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Alembic develops and provides an enterprise causal AI platform for businesses to make informed decisions based on cause and effect analysis. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Nov 2025Series B | Funding round | |
| Portfolio page | ||||
FintechHuman Resources | Portfolio page | |||
| Northslope builds AI application layers for Palantir AIP, including supply chain control towers and utilization review summarization tools | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Jan 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Numeric provides infrastructure for finance teams to manage close, revenue recognition, and cash management with their ERP or as a full replacement. | FintechEnterprise Software | Nov 2025Series B | Funding round | |
| Oxide Computer Company provides an integrated platform for compute, storage, networking, and software solutions | Enterprise SoftwareCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Palantir develops and provides software platforms to help organizations implement solutions to complex problems. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Peregrine provides a platform that transforms disconnected data into complete operational context for organizations, particularly in public safety and law enforcement. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Mar 2025Series C+ | Page + round | |
| Radiant develops and manufactures nuclear microreactors for commercial and government customers. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Robinhood provides a platform for trading and investing in stocks, ETFs, crypto, options, and futures. | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Portfolio page | ||
| SpaceX develops and launches rockets and spacecraft, and provides satellite internet services. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 13 Nov 2026- Site
- fafc.com
- Last read
- 13 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 4 Mar 2025
- Companies checked
- 27
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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