Felicis Ventures
Menlo Park, California · Invests in US; North America; Europe; LATAM; Asia; MENA; Africa · Website
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🔒 $•• – $••Thesis
Back founders building iconic companies that transcend boundaries. We invest directly in their growth to make them unbreakable. Founded on principle that luck isn't made, it's engineered. Founders are our customer, not LPs. We always vote shares with founders and provide 1% non-dilutive founder development capital alongside every first check.
Likely not a fit for
Non-technical teams in enterprise/infrastructure. Passive investor model. Investments made without conviction in space or team.
How they invest
- Lead or follow
- Leads or follows
- Typical decision
- ~1 week
- Warm intro
- Not required
- Involvement
- Takes a board seat
- Fund status
- Actively deploying
- Assets under mgmt
- $900M
- Decision process
- Partnership vote
Partners & team
17 contacts on file
Portfolio
Weights & Biases provides tools for tracking experiments, optimizing hyperparameters, and visualizing data in machine learning workflows.
Verkada is the market leader in cloud-based video security and access control, helping organizations centralize and scale their security with a software-first approach.
Ginkgo Bioworks is a biotechnology company that designs custom microbes for a variety of applications, including pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and industrial processes.
Guardant Health is focused on conquering cancer through data-driven insights and precision oncology, offering blood tests that provide critical information for patients at all stages of cancer.
Crusoe Energy provides renewable-powered AI infrastructure, focusing on managed inference services for AI workloads.
Vannevar Labs builds AI systems for defense, focusing on battlefield information dominance, homeland security, and intelligent statecraft to ensure national security and strategic deterrence.
Runway is a mobile release management platform that provides tools for automating and managing mobile application releases, ensuring efficient collaboration and rollout management for mobile teams.
Prenuvo is a leader in proactive whole-body MRI screening, dedicated to transforming healthcare from reactive 'sick-care' to proactive health care. Their award-winning whole body scan is fast, safe, and non-invasive, enabling early detection of conditions such as cancer and aneurysms, while providing comprehensive health insights through advanced imaging technology.
Coalition is the world's first Active Insurance provider designed to help prevent digital risk before it strikes. By combining comprehensive insurance coverage and cybersecurity tools, Coalition helps businesses manage and mitigate potential cyber attacks.
MotherDuck is a serverless data warehouse built on DuckDB, designed to provide analytics solutions for data teams, software engineers, and data scientists, enabling them to query data easily using SQL or natural language.
Guild is a community management platform designed to build engaged and unified communities with over 100 integrations, allowing for automated scaling from 100 to 1 million members.
Tines is an intelligent workflow platform that combines AI, automation, and integration to enhance organizational efficiency and security.
Recent activity
- May 2026
DeepInfra
Series B · Investor
- May 2026
Fractile
Series B · Investor
- Apr 2026
Dreambase
Seed · Lead
- Apr 2026
Blomma
Seed · Lead
- Feb 2026
Mercor
Series B · Investor
- Feb 2026
RapidFort
Series A · Investor
- Jan 2026
Recursive Intelligence
Series A · Investor
- Dec 2025
Midi Health
Seed · Investor
Felicis Ventures in the news
FinSMEs
Endurance Energy Raises $54M in Series A Funding
2 months ago
Forbes
Aydin Senkut
3 months ago
FinSMEs
Dreambase Raises $3.7M in Seed Funding
4 months ago
Tracxn
1329 Venture Capital Funds in Singapore (Apr, 2026)
4 months ago
Moneycontrol.com
AI pioneers back startup building models to predict events
4 months ago
Bloomberg.com
AI Pioneers Back Startup Building Models to Predict Events
4 months ago
Newcomer | Substack
Capital-Intensive 'Coconut' Rounds Upend the Traditional Venture Funding Model
6 months ago
Ventureburn
Entire Raises $60M Seed at $300M Valuation
6 months ago
Crunchbase News
Why Felicis’ Newest Partner Focuses On Community Building To Win AI Deals At Seed
10 months ago
TechCrunch
Mercor quintuples valuation to $10B with $350M Series C
10 months ago
Capital Brief
RecordPoint acquires Blackbird-backed Redactive as founders plot new AI venture
10 months ago
bloomberg.com
Watch Felicis Ventures Raises Its Largest Fund
Jun 2025
Tech in Asia
VC firm Felicis Ventures raises $900m
Jun 2025
Fortune
Exclusive: Felicis has raised $900 million tenth fund
Jun 2025
Axios
Exclusive: Elisa Schreiber departs Greylock for Felicis Ventures
Apr 2025
Business Insider
Felicis Ventures leads $10 million round in AI startup MemGPT at a $70 million valuation, sources say
Aug 2024
Venture Capital Journal
New Felicis venture partner Nancy Wang points start-ups toward AWS
Oct 2022
PR Newswire
Disco Raises $20M Series A led by Felicis Ventures to Unify the Next Generation of Online Merchants
Mar 2022
Venture Capital Journal
Felicis adds Storm to team
Aug 2021
WSJ
Felicis Ventures Raises $510 Million Fund
Mar 2020
Forbes
Felicis Ventures Pushes Limits On Promise Not To Vote Against Founders With New $200 Million Fund
Apr 2016
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