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Felicis
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Menlo Park, California 18,487 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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http://www.felicis.com
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- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Menlo Park, California
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- Partnership
- Founded
- 2006
- Specialties
- Venture Capital and Business Advisory
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2460 Sand Hill Rd
Suite 100
Menlo Park, California 94025, US
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Today, Dedrone announced their latest airspace security solution, DedroneOnTheMove. In an era where drone threats are increasingly prevalent, DedroneOTM is a game-changer in ensuring agile vehicle protection and mission success against UAS. #counterdrone #airspacesecurity #dronedefense
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Live from Felicis Fellows Build Day Thank you to our partners at Amazon Web Services (AWS), OpenAI, and Deep Infra Inc. for supporting us on this one!
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Excited to host an event on June 20th in SF alongside Max Mullen for future founders / builders! We will have 30 ppl that are at breakout companies and thinking about either starting something or joining an early stage startup in the next 1-2 years, in addition to a few folks that have successfully made the leap in recent years. There are ** 2 ** spots left - message me for details if interested Felicis Nancy Wang
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The inaugural cohort of Felicis fellows has been having enlightening conversations with founders about what it takes to build an AI-native company. Featuring Harrison Chase (LangChain), Jerry Liu (LlamaIndex, Beyang Liu (Sourcegraph), Lukas Biewald (Weights & Biases), Isaac Evans (Semgrep), and Bogdan Gaza and Ari Morcos (Datology), and more!
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The biggest mistake enterprises make when trying to modernize their data stack: 1) Not improving data quality and monitoring 2) Not treating data as a product Felicis GP Astasia Myers shared more about how enterprises can improve their approach to data with Runtime. Read the full piece here: https://lnkd.in/eYmVH7dz #data
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Closing Day 2 of Felicis Fellows in AI with a dinner at AGI House. Thanks to Mike Knoop and François Chollet for a great discussion about their Arcprize challenge, and thanks to Anish Agarwal, Zayd Enam, and Josh Payne for sharing their founder journey stories with the Fellows. Also, a big thanks to our Hosts Rocky Yu and Henry (Hezheng) Yin. What a great evening! Laura Buhler, James Detweiler, Gabriella G.
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The Felicis Fellows in AI are here and learning from great AI founders!
Day 1 of 5 of our Felicis Fellows Week is wrapped! We’re hosting 14 entrepreneurial AI researchers for the week and bringing in over 20 AI founders to mentor and inspire. Big thanks to Seth Forsgren, Michelle Delcambre, Beyang Liu, Piero Molino, Astasia Myers, Danny S. Dang, and Anthony Goldbloom
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We love backing bold ideas at the earliest stages.
There’s never been a more exciting time to start a business. Here are seven ideas we’ve backed at the seed stage, in just the last six months: 👁️ Computer-vision models capable of running on any device. 🔒 Access control for AI ☁️ Next gen build platform 🌳 A generative 3D-world foundation model 💊 Two in biotech - frontier approaches in oncology 🎓 AI platform for increasing math scores across the US Reach out if you’re thinking of something ambitious!
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Felicis Operating Partner Michelle Delcambre recently appeared on the HR Heretics podcast with Nolan Church and Kelli Dragovich. The episode is a must-listen for founders thinking about how to build the best team and a high-performing culture. Listen to the full conversation on: - Apple: https://lnkd.in/ghx4cDMc - Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gz2HKiB5 - YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gAt9ReZ2 #founder #culture