Investing Profile

Ryan Petersen

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Partner at Founders Fund
foundersfund.com/team/ryan-pe...San Francisco Bay Area
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Networks Ryan is a member of
University of California, Berkeley Network
251 CONNECTIONS
Columbia University - Columbia Business School Network
73 CONNECTIONS
Y Combinator Network
48 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
Founders Fund Partner
Investment Range
$500K - $150.0M
Sweet Spot
$5.0M
Investments On Record
57
Current Fund Size
$3B

Ryan Petersen is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Ryan Petersen's Investments On Record (53)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Teleport
SeedOct 2022$9M
$180M
Co-investors: Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures), Mary D'Onofrio (Bessemer Venture Partners), Matt Koran (Insight Partners), Steve Vassallo (Foundation Capital), Kishore Ganji (Astir Ventures), Bucky Moore (Kleiner Perkins), Cyan Banister (Long Journey Ventures), Turner Novak (Banana Capital), Kunal Shah, Jaan Tallinn, Scott Banister, Louis Beryl, Josh Mohrer, Dan Romero
TruckSmarter
Series BSep 2022$25M
$25M
Co-investors: Matias Van Thienen (Founders Fund), Ajay Agarwal (Bain Capital Ventures), Tony Xu, Jett McCandless
Better Stack
Series AJul 2022$19M
$29M
Co-investors: Lachy Groom (LGF), Carl Fritjofsson (Creandum), Michael Stoppelman, Zachary Sims, Aaron Levie, Kulpreet Singh
Repool
SeedJun 2022$4M
$4M
Co-investors: Nadia Asoyan (One Way Ventures), Saurabh Gupta (DST Global), Henry de Zoete, Pedro Franceschi, Matteo Franceschetti, Philippe Teixeira da Mota, Oliver Jung, Immad Akhund, Tanooj Luthra, David Petersen
Pulley
SeedJun 2022$4M
$54M
Co-investors: Seth Berman (Susa Ventures), Jordan Angelos (Ribbit Capital), Avichal Garg (Electric Capital), Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures), Jack Altman (Alt Capital), Kathleen Estreich (MKT1 Capital), Linda Xie (Scalar Capital), Jean-Denis Greze (Plaid), Nat Friedman (C2 Investment), Derrick Li, Chase Gilbert, Matt Macinnis, Elad Gil, Parker Conrad
Primer
Series AApr 2022$15M
$350M
Co-investors: Sonali De Rycker (Accel), Guillaume Cabane (Sequoia Capital), Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures), Samir Kaul (Khosla Ventures), Katie Haun (Haun Ventures), Zach Klein (Founder Collective), Rich Levandov (Avalon Ventures), Lee Fixel (Addition), Zavain Dar (Dimension Capital), Mike Marg (Craft Ventures), Kyle Tibbitts (Paradox Capital), Jason Franklin (XStarPartners), Peter Tague (In-Q-Tel), Roy Luo (ICONIQ Capital), Tommy Leep (Jetstream), Naval Ravikant (The Hit Forge), Cyan Banister (Long Journey Ventures), Kiha Lee (Primer Sazze Partners), Lachy Groom (LGF), Omar El-Ayat, Guillaume Lestrade, David Mytton, Young Song, Ron Pragides, Oleg Rogynskyy, Anna Yuan, Amjad Masad, Tobias Lutke, Julie Zhuo, Tony Xu, Sam Altman
SESO
Series AApr 2022$25M
$56M
Co-investors: Pete Flint (NFX), Mary Meeker (Bond), Elizabeth Weil (Scribble Ventures), Patrick Elyas, Karim Atiyeh, Ron Pragides
Luminai
Series AApr 2022$16M
$19M
Co-investors: Nicolas Dessaigne (Y Combinator), Alex Bouaziz (Sarona Ventures), Maria Salamanca (Ulu Ventures), Mathilde Collin, Shishir Mehrotra, Arash Ferdowsi

Ryan Petersen's Experience

CEO Flexport.com2013 - Present

Ryan Petersen's Education

Y Combinator
Columbia University - Columbia Business School MBA Marketing, General Management, Entrepreneurship
University of California, Berkeley BA Economics