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Felicis
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Menlo Park, California 20,849 followers
We back founders building iconic companies and invest directly in their growth to make them unbreakable.
About us
We back founders building iconic companies that transcend boundaries: we partner around the world, across sectors, and at various stages, primarily before success is obvious. We also invest directly in founders' growth by committing 1% on top of every first check we write towards personalized executive coaching, therapy and more. Felicis has backed more than 40 companies valued at $1B+ and more than 90 companies that have been acquired or gone public, including Shopify (IPO), Adyen (IPO), Credit Karma (acq by Intuit), Cruise (acq by GM), Ginkgo Bioworks (IPO), Guardant Health (IPO), Meraki (acq by Cisco) and Ring (acq by Amazon).
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- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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- Menlo Park, California
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- 2006
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- Venture Capital and Business Advisory
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Check out Wherobots’ 2024 recap on all their growth!
2024 has been an incredible year for Wherobots! We expanded our team, introduced a host of new features, welcomed numerous new customers, and, most importantly, stayed true to our vision. Remember that our vision is: "Planet Earth generates an immense volume of signals every second, captured by personal devices, autonomous vehicles, satellites, location-based services and more. Our vision is to empower organizations to effortlessly harness these signals, transforming them into actionable insights that drive daily decisions and strategies—impacting businesses, society, and human lives for a smarter, more connected world." Here is to more success in 2025!
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🚀 What dominated open source in 2024? We analyzed the most-starred projects launched by startups & here’s the TL;DR: 🔸 AI ruled as the top theme 🔸 AI-powered Dev Tools were a close 2nd 🔸 Python remained king 👑 🔸 🇺🇸 led in project launches, with 🇨🇳 next Open source is the backbone of innovation. 🌍💻 #OpenSource #AI https://lnkd.in/gG-kUhKh Top 20 Most Starred Open-Source Projects Launched by Startups in 2024 AI: xAI, InfiniFlow, HPC-AI Tech, Firecrawl, Black Forest Labs, Cinnamon AI, EXO Labs (We're hiring), OpenAI, ScrapeGraphAI, datalab.to, & Composio AI-enabled Dev Tools: Zed Industries, All Hands AI, Weights & Biases, Asterisk (YC S24), & Cline.bot Dev Tools: Astral & Puter Finance: Maybe Blockchain: Shardeum
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Founder @ Felicis | 11x Forbes Midas | 10 IPOs on investments | 4x NY Times Top 20 VC | Wharton Graduate Board | Semper Porro
Super excited that Felicis led the seed funding in General Proximity and proud to partner with Armand Cognetta - one of the most resilient and inspiring founders I met. We feel like induced proximity / proximity therapeutics is going to be one of the technologies that propels us towards novel cures for cancer and many other diseases. This cutting-edge approach will enable solutions to some of the most ambitious and consequential challenges in drug discovery, spearheading a bold new era of human healthspan and longevity extension. More on their funding in Axios: https://lnkd.in/gwxbVzeE
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Exciting milestone for Prenuvo - 100K scans! Also reduced prices for first responders, military and vets who have higher rates of cancer and trauma. We need to move away from reactive sickcare and towards approaches which prevent and catch things early. Rooting for Prenuvo and other preventative care pioneers!
In a Fast Company exclusive, Nate Berg covers our 100,000 Prenuvo scans milestone with a look back at the impact we’ve had so far, and a look forward to what the world could look like if our healthcare system were to be reimagined from the lens of proactive, rather than reactive, care. Over the years, we’ve helped detect serious conditions early, offered peace of mind to thousands, and uncovered insights that push the boundaries of proactive healthcare. 📊 A breakdown of what we’ve found: - 2.5-5% of patients have discovered a life-threatening finding - 49% of patients find something worth monitoring - 75% show signs of spinal degeneration—though not all experience symptoms We’re also proud to announce our new #WarriorsProgram, offering firefighters, police officers, military personnel, and veterans 20% off their Prenuvo scan. Screening starts at $799 for first responders, active duty military, and veterans of the armed forces - it’s our way of thanking those who face great health risks and put their lives on the line to protect ours. Read more about the impact we’re making via Nate Berg Fast Company: https://lnkd.in/e_9ukDKN #Prenuvo #WholeBodyMRI #ProactiveHealthcare
Prenuvo's controversial full-body MRI scans just got cheaper for some people
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Congrats to Felicis companies poolside and Letta, which were featured on TechCrunch's list of the 51 most disruptive startups of 2024! View the full list:
The 51 most disruptive startups of 2024 | TechCrunch
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Felicis GP Niki Pezeshki sat down with Nini Hamrick and Brett Granberg, co-founders who are transforming defense technology. After meeting at Stanford's GSB, they founded Vannevar Labs with a mission to support intelligence missions. The discussion explored: - Building impactful defense products - Structuring intelligence R&D teams - Creating strategic partnerships with the Department of Defense This excerpt features Nini sharing about the kind of person that thrives at Vannevar. Visit the link in the comments to watch the full talk. #DefenseTech #NationalSecurity
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Congrats to the Crusoe team on the Series D! Huge milestone and still early days. Chase Lochmiller Matthew DeNezza Cully Cavness Fiaz Mohamed
“The biggest risk with AI is that we don’t go big enough.” - Peter Thiel, Founders Fund. At Crusoe, we are making the promises of #AI a reality. Thrilled to announce our $600 million series D funding and general availability! https://lnkd.in/gkw_qfzj
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Congrats to Midi Health and Octave on making CB Insight's Digital Health 50 list for 2024! 🎉
Digital Health 50: The most promising digital health startups of 2024 - CB Insights Research
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Founder @ Felicis | 11x Forbes Midas | 10 IPOs on investments | 4x NY Times Top 20 VC | Wharton Graduate Board | Semper Porro
Super excited to announce that Felicis has invested in the latest round of Stainless (Kudos here go to Tobi Coker Coker and Dasha Maggio Maggio in our team) We are so impressed by Alex Rattray’s vision, and his ability to develop the most advanced platform in the world for building APIs. Not surprisingly some of the most critical and largest companies like OpenAI, Cloudflare and Anthropic love using Stainless to power their APIs. We’re excited to join our friends at A16Z, Sequoia, The General Partnership and more in supporting Stainless’ mission to improve the developer experience for building the APIs that power the future.
Stainless helps build SDKs for OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta | TechCrunch
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