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Bio

Professional summary

Amin Mirzadegan is a partner at Founders Fund, where he has worked on investments across stages including Ramp, Stripe, Ohalo, and Netic. Before Founders Fund, he was an investor at General Atlantic. He received a BA in Economics from Yale.

Notable companies

Selected portfolio companies the partner has backed

RampStripeOhaloNetic

Background

Career, education, and skills

Career history

  • Founders FundPartner
  • General AtlanticInvestor

Education

  • Yale UniversityBA in Economics

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Brian Singerman

Brian Singerman

Partner Emeritus

Founders Fund

Partner Emeritus at Founders Fund; backed Affirm, Oscar, Oculus, Postmates, Stemcentrx, and Anduril.

BiotechnologyDefense techFrontier technologyHealthcareRobotics
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Delian Asparouhov

Partner

Founders Fund

Delian Asparouhov is a Partner at Founders Fund and President and Co-Founder of Varda Space Industries. His profile centers on frontier technology, space manufacturing, and companies that bridge technology and national capability.

Frontier techSpace
Jennifer Campbell

Jennifer Campbell

Partner

Founders Fund

Founders Fund partner and Tagomi co-founder investing as an early-stage generalist.

CryptoEarly stageFintechGeneralistPre-seedSeed
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Joey Krug

Partner

Founders Fund

Founders Fund crypto partner; ex-Pantera Co-CIO and co-founder of Augur and Eco.

BlockchainCryptoDeveloper toolsEarly stageFintechWeb3
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John Luttig

Partner

Founders Fund

John Luttig is a Partner at Founders Fund who has worked on investments including Scale AI, Rippling, OpenAI, Figma, Cognition, Newfront Insurance, Flock Safety, Tagomi, and Loop Logistics.

EnterpriseFintech
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Lauren Gross

Partner & COO

Founders Fund

Founders Fund Partner & COO leading operations, fundraising, LPs, and strategic firm decisions.

FinanceFirm operationsFundraisingLegalLimited partnersStrategic investments
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Matias Van Thienen

Partner

Founders Fund

Growth and international investing partner backing SpaceX, Stripe, Ramp, Rippling, Figma, and Scale.

AIEnterprise softwareFintechGrowthInternationalMarketplaces
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Michael Solana

Chief Marketing Officer

Founders Fund

Founders Fund CMO and Pirate Wires founder focused on tech, politics, culture, and firm programming.

BrandEventsMarketingMediaTechnology culture
NT

Napoleon Ta

Partner

Founders Fund

Napoleon Ta is a Partner at Founders Fund focused on growth investing. Public investor databases associate him with later-stage and breakout technology companies, including enterprise and AI-related investments.

EnterpriseGrowth investing
PT

Peter Thiel

Partner

Founders Fund

Peter Thiel is a Partner at Founders Fund and a prominent entrepreneur and investor. He co-founded PayPal and Palantir, made the first outside investment in Facebook, and helped build Founders Fund's contrarian technology investing identity.

Firm leadershipFrontier technology
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Scott Nolan

Partner

Founders Fund

Scott Nolan is a Partner at Founders Fund focused on mission-driven founders rearchitecting industries through engineering-heavy companies. He was previously an early SpaceX employee working on Falcon and Dragon systems.

Deep techIndustrials
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Sean Liu

Partner

Founders Fund

Sean Liu is a Partner at Founders Fund and former CFO of Solugen, with prior investment and operating experience at Silver Lake, Google, Vy Capital, and SoftBank.