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
253 CONNECTIONS
Columbia University - Columbia Business School Network
74 CONNECTIONS
Y Combinator Network
49 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
Founders Fund Partner
Investment Range
$500K - $150.0M
Sweet Spot
$5.0M
Investments On Record
59
Current Fund Size
$3B

Ryan Petersen is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Ryan Petersen's Investments On Record (54)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Little Umbrella
SeedJan 2025$2M
$2M
Co-investors: Joshua Lu (Andreessen Horowitz), Jim Payne (Breakpoint Capital), Marco DeMiroz (The Venture Reality Fund), Mark Pincus
Teleport
SeedOct 2022$9M
$180M
Co-investors: Matt Koran (Insight Partners), Mary D'Onofrio (Bessemer Venture Partners), Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures), Edward Lando (Pareto Holdings), Steve Vassallo (Foundation Capital), Kishore Ganji (Astir Ventures), Bucky Moore (Kleiner Perkins), Cyan Banister (Long Journey Ventures), Turner Novak (Banana Capital), Dan Romero, Josh Mohrer, Kunal Shah, Louis Beryl, Jaan Tallinn, Scott Banister
TruckSmarter
Series BSep 2022$25M
$25M
Co-investors: Ajay Agarwal (Bain Capital Ventures), Matias Van Thienen (Founders Fund), Jett McCandless, Tony Xu
Better Stack
Series AJul 2022$19M
$29M
Co-investors: Lachy Groom (LGF), Carl Fritjofsson (Creandum), Zachary Sims, Aaron Levie, Kulpreet Singh, Michael Stoppelman
Repool
SeedJun 2022$4M
$4M
Co-investors: Nadia Asoyan (One Way Ventures), Saurabh Gupta (DST Global), Matteo Franceschetti, David Petersen, Pedro Franceschi, Tanooj Luthra, Immad Akhund, Oliver Jung, Philippe Teixeira da Mota, Henry de Zoete
Pulley
SeedJun 2022$4M
$54M
Co-investors: Avichal Garg (Electric Capital), Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures), Seth Berman (Susa Ventures), Jordan Angelos (Ribbit Capital), Linda Xie (Scalar Capital), Jean-Denis Greze (Plaid), Nat Friedman (C2 Investment), Jack Altman (Alt Capital), Kathleen Estreich (MKT1 Capital), Elad Gil, Derrick Li, Parker Conrad, Matt Macinnis, Chase Gilbert
Primer
Series AApr 2022$15M
$350M
Co-investors: Sonali De Rycker (Accel), Zach Klein (Founder Collective), Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures), Guillaume Cabane (Sequoia Capital), Katie Haun (Haun Ventures), Samir Kaul (Khosla Ventures), Zavain Dar (Dimension Capital), minju lee (11), Jason Franklin (XStarPartners), Rich Levandov (Avalon Ventures), Lee Fixel (Addition), 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), Mike Marg (Craft Ventures), Kyle Tibbitts (Paradox Capital), Young Song, Omar El-Ayat, Amjad Masad, Tobias Lutke, Julie Zhuo, Tony Xu, Sam Altman, Guillaume Lestrade, David Mytton, Oleg Rogynskyy, Anna Yuan
SESO
Series AApr 2022$25M
$56M
Co-investors: Pete Flint (NFX), Elizabeth Weil (Scribble Ventures), Mary Meeker (Bond), Karim Atiyeh, Patrick Elyas

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