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    Founders Circle Capital

    San Francisco, California, United StatesFounded 2012
    www.founderscircle.comLinkedIn
    Enterprise SoftwareSaaS

    Founders Circle Capital is a growth-stage venture capital firm that invests in people, providing flexible capital (including primary and secondary share purchases) to fast-growing, venture-backed companies. The firm also runs The Circle, a private leadership community for C-level executives at growth-stage and newly public companies.

    They made 1 investments in the last 12 months. Average disclosed round size is $134.0M (across 29 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    23

    Fund Size

    $355M

    Top Stage

    Series C

    Last 12 Mo

    0

    Team

    KL

    Ken Loveless

    Partner Co-Founder

    MJ

    Mike Jung

    Partner Co-Founder

    AB

    Andrew Boston

    Partner

    KG

    Kalee Gardella

    Partner C​hief Community Officer, The Circle

    ML

    Marilu Livermore

    Partner, Chief Operations & Growth Officer, The Circle

    OV

    Owen Van Arsdale

    Partner

    Ron Hirson

    Ron Hirson

    Venture Partner

    RM

    Ryan Morrison

    Partner

    AA

    Amy Aina

    Director of Executive Operations

    JC

    Jessica Crossfield

    Director of Venture Ecosystems

    CF

    Caroline Fairbank

    Investor

    DR

    Dominick Richiuso

    Investor

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    30 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    Ambience logoAmbienceSeries C$243MJul 2025
    CClear Finance Technology Corp.Unknown—Oct 2023
    Jasper logoJasperSeries D$125MOct 2022
    Multiverse logoMultiverseSeries D$220MJun 2022
    SeekOut logoSeekOutSeries C$115MJan 2022
    Hologram logoHologramSeries B$6.8MNov 2021
    Thumbtack logoThumbtackGrowth$275MJun 2021
    TThumbtack, Inc.Series G$275MJun 2021
    Clearco logoClearcoSeries C$100MApr 2021
    Next Insurance logoNext InsuranceGrowth$250MMar 2021
    MPL logoMPLSeries D$95MFeb 2021
    Databricks logoDatabricksSeries G$1BFeb 2021
    Sondermind logoSondermindSeries C$150MJan 2021
    Clearco logoClearcoSeries C$100MJan 2021
    Molekule logoMolekuleSeries C$58MFeb 2020
    Algolia logoAlgoliaSeries C$110MOct 2019
    Sun Basket logoSun BasketSeries E$30MMay 2019
    SSun BasketSeries E$30MMay 2019
    Splice logoSpliceSeries C$57.5MMar 2019
    SSun BasketSeries E$30MJan 2019
    Zola logoZolaSeries D$100MMay 2018
    Turo logoTuroSeries D$92MSep 2017
    Sun Basket logoSun BasketSeries C$9.2MMay 2017
    Sun Basket logoSun BasketSeries C$15MFeb 2017
    Anaplan logoAnaplanGrowth$90MJan 2016
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    Top Co-Investors

    Baillie Gifford6 shared
    Baseline Ventures5 shared
    Unilever Ventures4 shared
    August Capital4 shared
    Salesforce Ventures4 shared
    Tiger Global Management, LLC4 shared
    Premji Invest4 shared
    Harmony Partners4 shared
    PivotNorth Capital4 shared
    Relevance Ventures4 shared
    Sapphire Ventures4 shared
    Correlation Ventures3 shared
    Coatue Management LLC3 shared
    eCAPITAL Entrepreneurial Partners AG3 shared
    Blue Owl Capital3 shared
    G Squared3 shared
    Oak HC/FT3 shared
    Trinity Capital Inc.3 shared
    Lightspeed Venture Partners2 shared
    Founders Fund2 shared

    Last updated: 9 September 2026